Powerful women in the ancient world : perception and (self)presentation : proceedings of the 8th Melammu Workshop, Kassel, 30 January - 1 February 2019

Körperschaft: Melammu Workshop Kassel, Germany)
Weitere Verfasser: Dross-Krüpe, Kerstin
Fink, Sebastian
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Münster : Zaphon, 2021
Umfang/Format: 586 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Schriftenreihe: Melammu workshops and monographs 4.
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Parallelausgabe: e-book version | ISSN: 9783963271397
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Powerful women in the ancient world in the light of the sources
  • Innana and En-ḫedu-ana: mutual empowerment and the myth Innana conquers Ur /
  • Annette Zgoll
  • The many lives of Enheduana : identity, authorship, and the "world's first poet" /
  • Gina Konstantopoulos
  • Šamḫat : deconstructing temple prostitution one woman at a time /
  • Nicole Brisch
  • Hatshepsut : the feminine Horus and daughter of Amun on the throne of Atum /
  • David A. Warburton
  • Bathsheba and beyond : harem politics in the ancient near east /
  • Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
  • The agency of female prophets in the Bible : independent or instrumental? prophetic or political? /
  • Martti Nissinen
  • Women at the heart of the tribal system in the book of Genesis /
  • Stéphanie Anthonioz
  • Between a queen and an ordinary woman : on Laodice and the representation of women in cuneiform sources in the Hellenistic period /
  • Paola Corò
  • Antigone : political power and resonance /
  • Claudia Horst
  • Mighty, but quiet? Elpinice between conflicting priorities in interpretations and sources /
  • Florian Krüpe
  • On a dynastic mission : Olympias and Kleopatra, agents of their house /
  • Sabine Müller
  • (Re)taking Halikarnassos : Ada, Alexander the Great and Karian queenship /
  • Timothy Howe
  • A Meroitic ruling queen of the late 1st cent. BC-early 1st cent. AD /
  • Josefine Kuckertz
  • Cornelia : a powerful woman /
  • Kordula Schnegg
  • Domum servavit, lanam fecit : Livia and the rewriting of the female model in the Augustan age /
  • Francesca Rohr Vio
  • Iulia maior on the move : exemplum licentiae and euergetis /
  • Christiane Kunst
  • Der Tod Messalinas : Folge sexueller Libertinage oder Machtkalkül? /
  • Helmuth Schneider
  • Feminine, influential and different? : the presentation of Julia domna /
  • Brigitte Truschnegg
  • Zenobia of Palmyra : a female Roman ruler in times of crisis /
  • Udo Hartmann
  • "Earthly yoke"? : the estate of Valeria Melania /
  • Ireneusz Milewski
  • Shirin in context : female agency and the wives of the Sasanian king Khosrow Parviz /
  • Ewan Short,
  • Eve MacDonald
  • Powerful women in the ancient world in modern thought
  • Cleopatra as a strong woman in modern times : a less negative episode in a disfigured tradition? /
  • François De Callataÿ
  • Rome herself : female characters in Günther Birkenfeld's Augustus novels (1934-1984) /
  • Martin Lidner
  • Depicting the Palmyrene queen Zenobia : from baroque "femmes fortes" to modern comic books /
  • Anja Wieber.