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28 de jul. de 2020 · This 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.
Eva Palmer-Sikelianos (1874–1952), along with her husband, the poet Angehlos Sikelianos, founded the first modern Delphic Festival in 1927 in an effort to revive the Ancient Greek rites that took place on that spot over 2,500 years before. She invited “overseers of culture” from around the globe to convene in the holy city of Delphi for a reenactment of the performance of Prometheus ...
Abstract. This chapter tracks Eva Palmer Sikelianos's involvement with Sappho's poetry. To study how her reading of Sappho “implicated” or involved her in Sappho's poetic corpus on both a physical and literary level, it pays attention to Eva's hair, dress, and gestures; the photographs for which she posed; the letters she wrote; and the ways in which these different media delivered the ...
Photograph of Eva Palmer Sikelianos from Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins by Artemis Leontis. I was introduced to Eva Palmer while researching the life of Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos. Palmer, an American actor and philhellene, was married to Sikelianos from 1907 to 1934, and shared his dream of reviving the Delphic plays.
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 ...
Evelina "Eva" Palmer-Sikelianos fue actriz, bailarina, musicóloga y textilista estadounidense experta en temas de la Grecia antigua. La vida y sus esfuerzos artísticos se cruzaron con numerosos artistas a lo largo de su vida. Se inspiró o inspiró a los bailarines Isadora Duncan y Ted Shawn, la escritora Colette, la poeta Natalie Barney y la actriz Sarah Bernhardt.
This 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 ...
