TABLE OF CONTENTS

Ι. ON STAGE AND SCREEN

ANASTASIA SIOPSI
Ancient Greek Images in Modern Greek Frames: Readings of Antiquity in Music for Productions of Ancient Dramas and Comedies in Twentieth-Century Greece

MANOLIS SEIRAGAKIS
Rebetiko and Aristophanes: The Music Composed by Theofrastos Sakellaridis for The Ecclesiazusae (1904, Nea Skēnē, Athens, Greece)

ANDRIANA SOULELE
Writing Music for Ancient Greek Tragedy’s Stagings in France and in Greece in the Twentieth Century: The Use of the Voice in Pierre Boulez’s Orestie (1955) and Jani Christou’s The Persians (1965)

NICK POULAKIS
Spotting Amazons, Scoring Demigods: Television, Music and the Reception of Greek Antiquity

ΙΙ. CHOREOGRAPHING THE PAST

GEORGIA PETROUDI
Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé: Surpassing Obstacles

DOMINIQUE ESCANDE
The Classical Ideal Revisited: Albert Roussel’s Bacchus and Ariadne, Op.43

IΙΙ. FEMALE FIGURES IN THE OPERA

JAMES WILLIAM SOBASKIE
The Audacity of Pénélope: A Modern Reimagination of Homer’s Heroine

ISAVELLA STAVRIDOU
The Transformation of Antique Mythical Female Figures in Early Twentieth-Century Opera

IV. LITERARY PERSPECTIVES

ANA STEFANOVIĆ
Berlioz’s LesTroyens: Nostalgia for the Antique Past

CHRISTOPH FLAMM
Masks and Realities: Greek Mythology in Russian Symbolism

V. THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY

AGAMEMNON TENTES
Archaic Modes’ of Receiving Antiquity by the Great Theōrētikon of Music by Chrysanthos from Madytos

ANA PETROV
A Dionysian Aspect of Rationalisation in Music. A Trace of Nietzsche in Max Weber’s Musikstudie

VI. ECHOS IN GREEK FOLK MUSIC

MARIA HNARAKI
Zeus Performed: Greek Mytho-Musicologies

HARIKLEIA TSOKANI–HARIS SARRIS
Cyclicity in Ecstatic Experience: Neo-Platonic Philosophy and Modern Practice

VII. MODERN GREEK RECEPTIONS

ALEXANDROS CHARKIOLAKIS
The Promethean Myth as a Political Statement

DEMOSTHENES FISTOURIS
The Opera Amphitryon by Georgios Sklavos: A First Musical Analysis

VALIA CHRISTOPOULOU
Modernism and Greek Antiquity in the Work of Yorgos Sicilianos

MAGDALINI KALOPANA
The Reception of Greek Antiquity in the Music of Dimitris Dragatakis

VIII. INSPIRING EASTERN EUROPE

ANNA DALOS
Nausicaa, Sappho and Other Women in Love: Zoltán Kodály’s Reception of Greek Antiquity (1906–1932)

ÁKOS WINDHAGER
Pan Goes Marching in Style Hongrois: An Intertextual Analysis of The Death of Pan by Edmund Mihalovich

SRĐAN ATANASOVSKI
Imagining the Sound of the ‘Serbian Sparta’

MELITA MILIN
Approaches to Ancient Greek Mythology in Contemporary Serbian Music: Ideological Contexts