Orientalism and the reception of powerful women from the ancient world /
"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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
[2020].
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| Series: | Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual and performing arts.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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