Postcolonial Amazons - Female Masculinity Courage in Ancient Greek Sanskrit Literature

Zusatztext The book is well researched, and one of its great strengths is its extensive use of material evidence in addition to literary texts ... Penrose's book will now be required reading for anyone interested in Amazons or women at war generally. Informationen zum Autor Walter D. Penrose, Jr. is an Associate Professor of History at San Diego State University. He earned his doctorate at the City University of New York Graduate Center with a dissertation entitled 'Bold with the Bow and Arrow: Amazons and the Ethnic Gendering of Martial Prowess in Ancient Greek and Asian Cultures'. He specializes in the history of gender and sexuality in ancient Greek, Hellenistic, and South Asian contexts and has also published articles on gender, sexuality, and disability in the ancient Mediterranean, as well as on Sappho in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Klappentext Scholars have long been divided over whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Postcolonial Amazons offers a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in antiquity, bridging the gap between myth and reality by expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype to include the real female warriors of the ancient world. Zusammenfassung Scholars have long been divided over whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Postcolonial Amazons offers a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in antiquity, bridging the gap between myth and reality by expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype to include the real female warriors of the ancient world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Frontmatter List of figures List of abbreviations 0: Introduction 1: Female masculinity and courage in ancient Greek thought 2: Orientalized Amazons: from imagined to historical warrior women 3: Postcolonial Amazons: decentering Athenian perspectives to rethink warrior women and matriarchy 4: Greek and Persian warrior queens: Herodotus' Artemisia in ethnic perspective 5: Hellenistic warrior queens: from the battlefield to the throne 6: Civilized "Amazons": women bodyguards and hunters in ancient India and Persia 7: Epilogue Endmatter Select bibliography Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Jr. Penrose, Walter Duvall Penrose
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2016
• EAN: 9780199533374
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953337-4
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Sanskrit, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Gender studies, gender groups, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity, Amazons of Greek legend