The project of creating the European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama (Arc-Net) started in 1995, under the coordination of Professor Oliver Taplin, Magdalen College, Oxford University (GB) and Professor Platon Mavromoustakos, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Athens (GR)
In the plenary session of the Network members, in June 2023, it was decided to transfer the Network to the School of Drama, AUTH, after Prof. Mavromoustakos’ joining the School’s Staff, in March 2023.
Arc-Net aims to establish an expansion and a re-orientation of the academic community as well as to improve the traditional methods of teaching ancient drama, by creating new activities of an interdisciplinary and comparative nature. The main goal is to promote and carry out scholarly work, by initiating and coordinating comparative analyses, concerning the role and function of ancient drama and theatre in Europe. By analyzing the artistic forms and moral views expressed in editions as well as in public performances of ancient drama and its adaptations, recreations and new versions, the scholars and students in the Arc-Net will be able to trace, not only the importance of common heritage in the shaping of a European identity, but also the differences between local (national or other geographic cultural areas) cultural identities.
See more at the Network’s site: https://www.arc-net.org
