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Author | : Angela Giallongo |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2018-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1527512134 |
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This book provides an exploration of the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It reveals how snakes and the gelid eyes of Medusa—the archetypical snake-woman—have reverberated across the visual arts and written sources throughout the ages in association with negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame. The outcomes and implications of the disturbing correlation between the dangerous female gaze, the malignitas of the snake and the lethal power of menstruation that have been woven through the fabric of the Western imaginary are analysed here. This analysis reveals an intriguing history of female reptilian hybrids—from the pleasing Minoan snake goddesses to the depressing Gorgon, Echidna, Amazons, Eve, Melusine, Basilisk, Poison-Damsel, Catoblepas and Sadako/Samara—and gives the reader an opportunity to explore things that never happened but have always been.
Author | : Kenneth D. S. Lapatin |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780618144754 |
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An archaeological detective story investigates one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art, a gold and ivory statuette, exposing this piece as an invention of the early 20th century and exploring the reasons behind this brilliant forgery.
Author | : Kenneth Lapatin |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2003-12-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780306813283 |
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Not only is one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art-the celebrated gold and ivory statuette of the Snake Goddess-almost certainly modern, but Minoan civilization as it has been popularly imagined is largely an invention of the early twentieth century. This is Kenneth Lapatin's startling conclusion in Mysteries of the Snake Goddess-a brilliant investigation into the true origins of the celebrated Bronze Age artifact, and into the fascinating world of archaeologists, adventurers, and artisans that converged in Crete at the turn of the twentieth century. Including characters from Sir Arthur Evans, legendary excavator of the Palace of Minos at Knossos, who was driven to discover a sophisticated early European civilization to rival that of the Orient, to his principal restorer Swiss painter Emil Gillieron, who out of handfuls of fragments fashioned a picture of Minoan life that conformed to contemporary taste, this is a riveting tale of archeological discovery.
Author | : Barbara Freitag |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2005-08-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134282494 |
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A study of the mysterious stone carvings of naked females exposing their genitals on medieval churches all over the British Isles.
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Total Pages | : 996 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Medicine |
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Author | : Edward J. Watts |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190659149 |
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A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her great skill in mathematics and philosophy redefined the intellectual life of her home city of Alexandria. Her talent as a teacher enabled her to assemble a circle of dedicated male students. Her devotion to public service made her a force for peace and good government in a city that struggled to maintain trust and cooperation between pagans and Christians. Despite these successes, Hypatia fought countless small battles to live the public and intellectual life that she wanted. This book rediscovers the life Hypatia led, the unique challenges she faced as a woman who succeeded spectacularly in a man's world, and the tragic story of the events that led to her tragic murder.
Author | : Aby Warburg |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art, Renaissance |
ISBN | : 9780892365371 |
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A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
Author | : Richard Howard Stamelman |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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Author | : A. Leo Oppenheim |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022617767X |
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"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
Author | : Dudley Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Druids and Druidism |
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