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