Art and Politics: Prometheus Bound and the Delphic Festivals
2024; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 118; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/clw.2024.a944555
ISSN1558-9234
Autores Tópico(s)Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
ResumoABSTRACT: This essay explores Aeschylus’ tragedy Prometheus Bound within the context of its performance at the 1927 and 1930 Delphic Festivals organized by Eva and Angelos Sikelianos. The Sikelianoses hoped that the enduring ruins and natural landscape of Delphi would provide a foundation for their spiritual project— though the engagement of the Greek government put those goals in tension with political demands. At a time when a sense of autochthony or origin continues to invigorate political struggles over geographic landscapes, this essay provides a timely meditation upon the limits of landscape to be mapped to a spiritual or political project.
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