The 2022 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series - The City as Stage: Theatricality and Illusion in the Postclassical Greek Polis

Case Western Reserve University

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• Date Monday, November 14, 2022
• Time 5:00PM - 8:00PM
• Location Clark Hall Room 206
  11130 Bellflower Road ,

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This series of lectures surveys the various areas of public life in which one may observe theatrical behavior, illusions, and fictions and places this phenomenon in the context of important cultural and political developments: the unprecedented diffusion of theatrical performances and the advancement of the art of acing; the importance of theatricality, body language, and emotion in oratory; and the complex negotiations between partners in asymmetrical relations (elite and people, kings and cities, emperors and subjects). It is argued that in a world characterized by inequality, exaggerated and staged behavior the illusion of equality, solidarity, and some sort of people’s power; in a changing world, theatricality and fictions created the illusion of continuity. Chaniotis is a Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

FREE/Registration requested at bakernord.case.edu