Seduction and Power
Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts
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Seduction and Power
Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts
About This Book
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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- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- 1 Seduction and Power: An Introduction Marta GarcĂa Morcillo and Silke Knippschild
- 2 Power and Seduction in Babylon: Verdiâs Nabucco Michael Seymour
- 3 âGo East Young Man!â Jewel-in-the-Bellybutton-Orientalism in Oliver Stoneâs Alexander Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- 4 Modern Dance and the Seduction of Minoan Crete Nicoletta Momigliano
- 5 Trojan Lovers and Warriors: The Power of Seduction in Age of Bronze Eric Shanower
- 6 Dark Ladies, Bad Girls, Demon Queens: Female Power andSeduction from Greek Tragedy to Pop Culture Martina Treu
- 7 The Eroticism of Power in Jordi Cocaâs IfigĂšnia (2009) Maite Clavo
- 8 âPrince of Paintersâ: The Grimacing Mask of Power and Seduction in Aristophanesâ Assemblywomen Andrea Capra and Maddalena Giovannelli
- 9 Redefining Catharsis in Opera: The Power of Music in BirtwistleâsThe Minotaur and AmargĂłsâ EurĂdice y los tĂteres de Caronte JesĂșs Carruesco and Montserrat Reig
- 10 The Self in Conflict with Itself : A Heraclitean Theme in Eliotâs The Cocktail Party James H. Lesher
- 11 Three Queens: Helen, Penelope and Dido in Franco Rossiâs Odissea and Eneide Martin M. Winkler
- 12 Claudia Quinta and Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica : Exempla virtutis in Vienna under Leopold I (1657â1705) Pepa Castillo
- 13 The Stolen Seduction: The Image of Spartacus in Riccardo Fredaâs Spartaco, gladiatore della Tracia Ăscar Lapeña Marchena
- 14 The Great Seducer: Cleopatra, Queen and Sex Symbol Francisco Pina Polo
- 15 Seduced, Defeated and Forever Damned: Mark Antony in Post-Classical Imagination Marta GarcĂa Morcillo
- 16 Power Beyond Measure - Caligula, Corruption and Pop Culture Martin Lindner
- 17 Constantia Memoriae : The Reputation of Agrippina the Younger Mary R. McHugh
- 18 Prostitute, Saint, Pin-Up, Revolutionary: The Reception of Theodora in Twentieth-Century Italy Filippo Carla
- 19 The Spell of Antinous in Renaissance Art : The Jonah Statue in Santa Maria del Popolo Rosario Rovira Guardiola
- 20 History, Moral and Power : The Ancient World in Nineteenth-Century Spanish History Painting Antonio DuplĂĄ
- 21 The Lure of the Hermaphrodite in the Poetry and Painting of the English Aesthetes Charlotte Ribeyrol
- 22 Seduction and Power in Postclassical Reception: Traditions and Trends Silke Knippschild
- Bibliography
- Index