TY - BOOK AU - Leontis,Artemis TI - Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins SN - 9780691187907 AV - GV1785.S5543 U1 - 792.8/028/092 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - Dance KW - Greece KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Dancers KW - United States KW - Biography KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women KW - bisacsh KW - Aestheticism KW - Alice Pike Barney KW - Americans KW - Anachronism KW - Ancient Greece KW - Angelos Sikelianos KW - Archaeology KW - Autobiography KW - Bayreuth KW - Benaki Museum KW - Bryn Mawr College KW - Byzantine music KW - Classicism KW - Classics KW - Clothing KW - Colette KW - Costume KW - Culture of Greece KW - Curator KW - Dithyramb KW - Edith Hamilton KW - Federal Theatre Project KW - French fashion KW - Greek art KW - Greek chorus KW - Greek dress KW - Greek mythology KW - Greek tragedy KW - Greeks KW - Isadora Duncan KW - Jews KW - Kostis Palamas KW - Lecture KW - Lesbian KW - Literature KW - Miss Porter's School KW - Modern Greek KW - Modernity KW - Mount Parnassus KW - Mrs KW - Music Is KW - Mycenae KW - Natalie Clifford Barney KW - Newspaper KW - Open letter KW - Orientalism KW - Philosopher KW - Playwright KW - Poetry KW - Politician KW - Prometheus Bound KW - Provincetown Players KW - Publication KW - Raymond Duncan KW - Residence KW - Sarah Bernhardt KW - Seminar KW - Singing KW - Smith College KW - Sophocles KW - Superiority (short story) KW - Susan Glaspell KW - Ted Shawn KW - The Persians KW - The Suppliants (Aeschylus) KW - Theatre of ancient Greece KW - To Life KW - Tunic KW - Two Women KW - Writing N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chronology --; CHAPTER 1. Sapphic Performances --; CHAPTER 2. Weaving --; CHAPTER 3. Patron of Byzantine Music --; CHAPTER 4. Drama --; CHAPTER 5. Writing --; EPILOGUE. Recollecting a Life --; Appendix: Cast of Characters --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874–1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer’s most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a creative engagement with the ancients. Along the way, she crossed paths with other seminal modern artists such as Natalie Clifford Barney, Renée Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Richard Strauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, and Ted Shawn.Brilliant and gorgeous, with floor-length auburn hair, Palmer was a wealthy New York debutante who studied Greek at Bryn Mawr College before turning her back on conventional society to live a lesbian life in Paris. She later followed Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora) and his wife to Greece and married the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos in 1907. With single-minded purpose, Palmer re-created ancient art forms, staging Greek tragedy with her own choreography, costumes, and even music. Having exhausted her inheritance, she returned to the United States in 1933, was blacklisted for criticizing American imperialism during the Cold War, and was barred from returning to Greece until just before her death.Drawing on hundreds of newly discovered letters and featuring many previously unpublished photographs, this biography vividly re-creates the unforgettable story of a remarkable nonconformist whom one contemporary described as “the only ancient Greek I ever knew.” UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691187907?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691187907 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691187907/original ER -