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17: - Entertainment

from Part IV - Institutions and Activities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2022

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Marcus Rautman
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Sarah Bassett
Sarah Bassett
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Indiana University
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Summary

Chapter 17, “Entertainment,” considers Constantinople as a nexus of social space, civic ceremony, commercial entertainment, and endless diversion where streets and plazas were regularly taken over by processions, churches and monasteries were filled with clergy and worshipers, and competitive games and performances took place in the open-air hippodrome.

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The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople , pp. 277 - 292
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Boeck, E., “The Power of Amusement and the Amusement of Power: The Princely Frescoes of St Sophia, Kiev, and their Connections to the Byzantine World,” in Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After, ed. Alexiou, M. and Cairns, D. (Edinburgh, 2017), 243–62.Google Scholar
Cameron, A., Porphyrius the Charioteer (Oxford, 1973).Google Scholar
Cameron, A., Circus Factions: Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium (Oxford, 1976).Google Scholar
Dagron, G., L’hippodrome de Constantinople: Jeux, peuple et politique (Paris, 2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pitarakis, B., ed., Hippodrom/Atmeydanı: İstanbul’un Tarih Sahnesi [Hippodrome/Atmeydani: A Stage for Istanbul’s History] (Istanbul, 2010).Google Scholar
Puchner, W., “Acting in the Byzantine Theater: Evidence and Problems,” in Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, ed. Easterling, P. and Hall, E. (Cambridge, 2002), 304–24.Google Scholar
Puk, A., Das römische Spielewesen in der Spätantike (Berlin, 2014).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roueché, Ch., “Entertainments, Theatre, and Hippodrome,” in Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, ed. Jeffreys, E., Haldon, J., and Cormack, R. (Oxford, 2008), 677–84.Google Scholar

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  • Entertainment
  • Edited by Sarah Bassett, Indiana University
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
  • Online publication: 17 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108632614.022
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  • Edited by Sarah Bassett, Indiana University
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  • Entertainment
  • Edited by Sarah Bassett, Indiana University
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
  • Online publication: 17 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108632614.022
Available formats
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