Seduction and Power - Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts

Informationen zum Autor Silke Knippschild is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Bristol, UK. Her main research interests lie in the field of cross-cultural influences between ancient western Asia, Greece and Rome. Marta Garcia Morcillo is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Roehampton, UK. She co-edited the volume Hellas on Screen: Cinematic Receptions of Ancient History, Literature and Myth which was published in 2008. Zusammenfassung Presents research in Classical Reception Studies. This title 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.

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• Authors: Silke Knippschild, Silke (EDT)/ Morcillo Knippschild, Marta Garcia Morcillo, Marta Garcia Knippschild Morcillo
• Assisted by: Silke Knippschild (Editor), Marta Garcia Morcillo (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2013
• EAN: 9781441177469
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-7746-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Dance, HISTORY / Ancient / General, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, Theatre Studies, History of Art, Other performing arts, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE