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Orientalism and the reception of powerful women from the ancient world /

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"Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek-Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly derives from ancient (Roman) and modern stereotypes:...

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Other Authors: Carlà-Uhink, Filippo (Editor), Wieber, Anja (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2020].
Series:Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual and performing arts.
Subjects:
Women in popular culture > History.
Orientalism > Social aspects.
Orientalism > History.
Femmes dans la culture populaire > Histoire.
Orientalisme > Aspect social.
Orientalisme > Histoire.
Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
Art > Criticism & Theory.
Art > History > Ancient & Classical.
Orientalism
Orientalism > Social aspects
Women in popular culture
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Filippo Carlà-Uhink & Anja Wieber
  • Semiramide in India. The Reception of an Ancient Oriental Warrior Queen in Baroque Opera / Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
  • Carian Queens from the Orient to Greece and Back: The Reception of Artemisia I and Artemisia II / Irene Berti
  • The Persian Boy, the Bactrian Girl and the Man from Macedon - Gender and Orientalisms in Mary Renault's Alexander the Great-Trilogy / Ann-Cathrin Harders
  • Drypetis in Fact and (Fan) Fiction / Sabine Müller
  • Exotic, Erotic, Heroic? Women of Carthage in Western Imagination / Marta Garia Morcillo
  • In the Name of Cleopatra: Emma Hamilton and Catherine Stepney Make Their Mark / Mary Hamer
  • Colon(ial)izing Fulvia: (Re)Presenting the Military Woman in History, Fiction, and Art / Peter Keegan
  • The Oriental Empresses of Rome. Severan Women in Literature and the Performative Arts / Martijn Icks
  • The Palmyrene Queen Zenobia in Syrian TV - Inverting Orientalism for Modern Nationhood? / Anja Wieber
  • The Dark Gaze of Galla Placidia / Christopher Bishop
  • Theodora A.P. (After Procopius) / Theodora A.S. (After Sardou): Metamorphoses of an Empress / Filippo Carlà-Uhink
  • From Historical Enigma to Modern Role Model: The Reception of Sāsānid Queen Šīrīn in Contemporary Iranian Cinema / Irene Madreiter
  • Instead of a Conclusion: Gynaecocracy in the Orient, Oriental Seclusion in the Occident / Beate Wagner-Hasel.