Overview

This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power in reception. Such universal themes dictated plots and characters of myth and drama, but also served to portray historical figures, events and places from Classical history. Their changing reception and reinterpretation across time has created stereotypes, models of virtue or immoral conduct, that blend the original features from the ancient world with a diverse range of visual and performing arts of the modern era.The volume deconstructs these traditions and shows how arts of different periods interlink to form and transmit these images to modern audiences and viewers. Drawing on contributions from across Europe and the United States, a trademark of the book is the inclusive treatment of all the arts beyond the traditional limits of academic disciplines.

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Author:   Dr Silke Knippschild (University of Bristol, UK) ,  Dr Marta Garcia Morcillo (University of Roehampton, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.549kg
ISBN:  

9781474223799

ISBN 10:   1474223796
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   26 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction \ Part 1: Ancient Western Asia \ 1. Woman on top? Women's suffrage and the power of the 'oriental woman' - Silke Knippschild \ 2. Power, sin and seduction in Babylon - the case of Verdi's Nabucco - Michael Seymour \ 3. Jewel-in-the-belly-button orientalism in Oliver Stone's Alexander - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones \ Part 2: Greece \ 4. Helen, Penelope and Dido in Rossi's Odissea and Eneide - Martin Winkler \ 5. Dark ladies, bad girls, demon queens: female power and seduction from Greek tragedy to pop culture - Martina Treu \ 6. Trojan lovers and warriors - Eric Shanower \ 7. Film genres in cinematic adaptations of Greek tragedy - Pantelis Michelakis \ 8. Circe in literature and art of the Renaissance - Irene Berti \ 9. The erotics of power in Coca's Ifigenia - Maite Clavo \ 10. 'Prince of painters': the grimacing mask of power and seduction in Aristophanes' The Assemblywomen - Maddalena Giovannelli and Andrea Capra \ 11. Myth and tragedy in opera staging in the 21st century - Montserrat Reig and Jesus Carruesco \ 12. Isadora Duncan, Russian ballet and the seduction of Minoan Crete - Nicoletta Momigliano \ 13. Nelly and the nudes on the Athenian Acropolis in the Fascist era - Constantina Katsari \ 14. The lure of the hermaphrodite for the English Aesthetes - Charlotte Ribeyrol \ Part 3: Rome \ 15. The stolen seduction - Oscar Lapena \ 16. The great seducer - Cleopatra, queen and sex symbol - Francisco Pina Polo \ 17. Seduced, defeated and forever damned - Marc Antony in post-Classical imagery - Marta Garcia Morcillo \ 18. Caligula in pop culture - Martin Lindner \ 19. The reputation of Agrippina the Younger - Mary R. McHugh \ 20. Hadrian, Antinous and the power of seduction - Charo Rivera \ 21. Saint or prostitute? - the reception of empress Theodora - Filippo Carla \ 22. History, moral and power - the ancient world in 19th century Spanish art - Antonio Dupla \ Conclusion

Reviews

Readers interested in the future of reception studies should bookmark the Project's webpage and stay tuned. -- Genevieve S. Gessert, Hood College, USA Bryn Mawr Classical Review This is an exceptionally lively and thought-provoking collection by an international team of scholars from the Imagines research project. The case studies bring evidence from an impressive range of examples into dialogue with the central themes of seduction and power, revealing in the process how power is itself a seductive force. Every reader will encounter something new. The editors' concluding discussion explores how the individual essays combine to provide a map of the relationships between antiquity and the histories of the visual and performing arts. -- Lorna Hardwick, The Open University, UK Seduction challenges conventional relations of power, thus undermining tradition and leading to unexpected turns and dramas. This explains the fascination with this subject throughout the centuries. Some of the ancient seduction stories and their reception studied in this volume are familiar, others are not, but all of them are interesting. By focusing on the relation between seduction and power this volume makes an original contribution not only to reception studies but also to the diachronic study of gender and emotion. -- Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Classics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA Silke Knippschild and Marta Garcia Morcillo have brought together a remarkable company of leading scholars and inspiring new voices who explore how the persistent liaison between seduction and power is richly exposed in modern receptions of the myths, histories, and images emanating from the ancient world. In case studies extending from the Renaissance to the present day, in a variety of media from the performing and visual arts, the contributors to this volume reveal with compelling clarity and scholarly insight how the power of seduction continues to be wielded by ancient cultures, as their essays unpack the enduring fascination exerted by the charismatic men and alluring women of antiquity upon later artists and performers. This impressive collection represents an important contribution to the field of reception studies, since it offers an unfettered glimpse into our own fantasies and projections about the power and eroticism so often and so intimately linked with the ancient world. -- Monica S. Cyrino, Professor of Classics, University of New Mexico, USA This collection of essays is the second publication to emerge from the innovative Imagines Project, a think tank of European scholars and practitioners devoted to the study of classical reception in the diverse media of the visual and performing arts. The impact and importance of the volume must instead be considered in conjunction with the entire output of the Imagines Project. . The fact that reception organically inspires innovative delivery strategies testifies to the seductive nature of the subject matter and the methodologies for its study, and to the powerful potential of the Imagines Project. Readers interested in the future of reception studies should bookmark the Project's webpage and stay tuned. -- Genevieve S. Gessert Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Readers interested in the future of reception studies should bookmark the Project's webpage and stay tuned. -- Genevieve S. Gessert, Hood College, USA Bryn Mawr Classical Review This is an exceptionally lively and thought-provoking collection by an international team of scholars from the Imagines research project. The case studies bring evidence from an impressive range of examples into dialogue with the central themes of seduction and power, revealing in the process how power is itself a seductive force. Every reader will encounter something new. The editors' concluding discussion explores how the individual essays combine to provide a map of the relationships between antiquity and the histories of the visual and performing arts. -- Lorna Hardwick, The Open University, UK Seduction challenges conventional relations of power, thus undermining tradition and leading to unexpected turns and dramas. This explains the fascination with this subject throughout the centuries. Some of the ancient seduction stories and their reception studied in this volume are familiar, others are not, but all of them are interesting. By focusing on the relation between seduction and power this volume makes an original contribution not only to reception studies but also to the diachronic study of gender and emotion. -- Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Classics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA Silke Knippschild and Marta Garc a Morcillo have brought together a remarkable company of leading scholars and inspiring new voices who explore how the persistent liaison between seduction and power is richly exposed in modern receptions of the myths, histories, and images emanating from the ancient world. In case studies extending from the Renaissance to the present day, in a variety of media from the performing and visual arts, the contributors to this volume reveal with compelling clarity and scholarly insight how the power of seduction continues to be wielded by ancient cultures, as their essays unpack the enduring fascination exerted by the charismatic men and alluring women of antiquity upon later artists and performers. This impressive collection represents an important contribution to the field of reception studies, since it offers an unfettered glimpse into our own fantasies and projections about the power and eroticism so often and so intimately linked with the ancient world. -- Monica S. Cyrino, Professor of Classics, University of New Mexico, USA This collection of essays is the second publication to emerge from the innovative Imagines Project, a think tank of European scholars and practitioners devoted to the study of classical reception in the diverse media of the visual and performing arts. The impact and importance of the volume must instead be considered in conjunction with the entire output of the Imagines Project. . The fact that reception organically inspires innovative delivery strategies testifies to the seductive nature of the subject matter and the methodologies for its study, and to the powerful potential of the Imagines Project. Readers interested in the future of reception studies should bookmark the Project's webpage and stay tuned. -- Genevieve S. Gessert Bryn Mawr Classical Review

This is an exceptionally lively and thought-provoking collection by an international team of scholars from the Imagines research project. The case studies bring evidence from an impressive range of examples into dialogue with the central themes of seduction and power, revealing in the process how power is itself a seductive force. Every reader will encounter something new. The editors' concluding discussion explores how the individual essays combine to provide a map of the relationships between antiquity and the histories of the visual and performing arts. -- Lorna Hardwick, The Open University, UK Seduction challenges conventional relations of power, thus undermining tradition and leading to unexpected turns and dramas. This explains the fascination with this subject throughout the centuries. Some of the ancient seduction stories and their reception studied in this volume are familiar, others are not, but all of them are interesting. By focusing on the relation between seduction and power this volume makes an original contribution not only to reception studies but also to the diachronic study of gender and emotion. -- Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Classics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA Silke Knippschild and Marta Garc a Morcillo have brought together a remarkable company of leading scholars and inspiring new voices who explore how the persistent liaison between seduction and power is richly exposed in modern receptions of the myths, histories, and images emanating from the ancient world. In case studies extending from the Renaissance to the present day, in a variety of media from the performing and visual arts, the contributors to this volume reveal with compelling clarity and scholarly insight how the power of seduction continues to be wielded by ancient cultures, as their essays unpack the enduring fascination exerted by the charismatic men and alluring women of antiquity upon later artists and performers. This impressive collection represents an important contribution to the field of reception studies, since it offers an unfettered glimpse into our own fantasies and projections about the power and eroticism so often and so intimately linked with the ancient world. -- Monica S. Cyrino, Professor of Classics, University of New Mexico, USA

Author Information

Silke Knippschild is senior lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. Marta Garcia Morcillo is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Wales, UK.

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