Orientalism and the reception of powerful women from the ancient world

Weitere Verfasser: Carlà-Uhink, Filippo , [HerausgeberIn]
Wieber-Scariot, Anja , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Umfang/Format: x, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual and performing arts
ISBN: 1350050105
9781350050105
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Parallelausgabe: Ebook version : | ISSN: 9781350050129
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.