Amazons in the Digital Era - The Reception of the Warrior Woman Image

For more than 3,000 years the Amazons have been a recognised symbol in myth and history, text and image. The contributions in this volume focus in on how this symbolism has shaped and been shaped through the lens of classical reception. From Wonder Woman to the Ukraine War, in genres as varied as videogames and documentary film, the diversity and power of the Amazonian image is notable. Over time they have become paradigms for the defence of women in a global society and icons of feminism and LGBTQIA+. Divided into three parts, this book considers how the Amazon image has at different times and in different contexts been marginalised, put on a pedestal and globalised. For the first time case studies are taken from across media and lived history to compare and contrast modern frameworks with each other and with the ''original'' Amazon iconography. What emerges is a concept of ''the Amazon'' as a modern paradigm that speaks as strongly to today''s diverse society as it did to the ancients.

Product details

• Authors: Arturo Sanchez Sanz
• Assisted by: Arturo Sánchez Sanz (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.09.2025
• EAN: 9781350462175
• ISBN: 978-1-350-46217-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Film, TV & radio, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient warfare, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Historical, Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction