The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Background reading

Ancient History & Culture
This database provides a balanced, global view of the ancient world as it explores six ancient centers of civilization—Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia, spanning the period from the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago through 1522 CE.

Comotti, Giovanni. Music in Greek and Roman Culture. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. In CATNYP | In LEO

Easterling, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. Cambridge University Press, 1997. In CATNYP | In LEO

Freeman, Charles. Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 1996. In CATNYP | In LEO

Hadas, Moses. Introduction to Classical Drama. New York: Bantam Books, Inc. 1966.

Kendall, Elizabeth. Where She Danced: the Birth of American Art-dance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. In CATNYP

Landels, John G. Music in Ancient Greece and Rome. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. In CATNYP | In LEO

Many additional studies of Hellenic culture as well as American experimental dance, music and theater can be found in the circulating and research collections of The New York Public Library.