Ancient Greek Women in Film

Ancient Greek Women in Film
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Publisher : Classical Presences
Total Pages : 391
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ISBN-10 : 9780199678921
ISBN-13 : 0199678928
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Ancient Greek Women in Film by : Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos

This volume examines cinematic representations of ancient Greek women from the realms of myth and history. It discusses how these female figures are resurrected on the big screen by different filmmakers during different historical moments, and are therefore embedded within a narrative which serves various purposes, depending on the director of the film, its screenwriters, the studio, the country of its origin, and the sociopolitical context at the time of its production. Using a diverse array of hermeneutic approaches (such as gender theory, feminist criticism, psychoanalysis, viewer-response theory, and personal voice criticism), the essays aim to cast light on cinema's investments in the classical past and decode the mechanisms whereby the women under examination are extracted from their original context and are brought to life to serve as vehicles for the articulation of modern ideas, concerns, and cultural trends. The volume thus aims to investigate not only how antiquity on the screen depicts, and in this process distorts, compresses, contests, and revises, antiquity on the page but also, more crucially, why the medium follows such eclectic representational strategies vis-à-vis the classical world.

Pandora's Jar

Pandora's Jar
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9780063139473
ISBN-13 : 0063139472
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Pandora's Jar by : Natalie Haynes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek mythology from Helen of Troy to Pandora and the Amazons to Medea. The tellers of Greek myths—historically men—have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role, women are often portrayed as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil—like Pandora, the woman of eternal scorn and damnation whose curiosity is tasked with causing all the world’s suffering and wickedness when she opened that forbidden box. But, as Natalie Haynes reveals, in ancient Greek myths there was no box. It was a jar . . . which is far more likely to tip over. In Pandora’s Jar, the broadcaster, writer, stand-up comedian, and passionate classicist turns the tables, putting the women of the Greek myths on an equal footing with the men. With wit, humor, and savvy, Haynes revolutionizes our understanding of epic poems, stories, and plays, resurrecting them from a woman’s perspective and tracing the origins of their mythic female characters. She looks at women such as Jocasta, Oedipus’ mother-turned-lover-and-wife (turned Freudian sticking point), at once the cleverest person in the story and yet often unnoticed. She considers Helen of Troy, whose marriage to Paris “caused” the Trojan war—a somewhat uneven response to her decision to leave her husband for another man. She demonstrates how the vilified Medea was like an ancient Beyonce—getting her revenge on the man who hurt and betrayed her, if by extreme measures. And she turns her eye to Medusa, the original monstered woman, whose stare turned men to stone, but who wasn’t always a monster, and had her hair turned to snakes as punishment for being raped. Pandora’s Jar brings nuance and care to the millennia-old myths and legends and asks the question: Why are we so quick to villainize these women in the first place—and so eager to accept the stories we’ve been told?

Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film

Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 612
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ISBN-10 : 9789004686823
ISBN-13 : 9004686827
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film by :

Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film is the first volume exclusively dedicated to the study of a theme that informs virtually every reimagining of the classical world on the big screen: armed conflict. Through a vast array of case studies, from the silent era to recent years, the collection traces cinema’s enduring fascination with battles and violence in antiquity and explores the reasons, both synchronic and diachronic, for the central place that war occupies in celluloid Greece and Rome. Situating films in their artistic, economic, and sociopolitical context, the essays cast light on the industrial mechanisms through which the ancient battlefield is refashioned in cinema and investigate why the medium adopts a revisionist approach to textual and visual sources.

Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World

Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World
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Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9781914535239
ISBN-13 : 1914535235
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World by : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's history has been little studied. In this collection of new studies by an international team, ancient visual evidence from vase-painting and sculpture is used extensively alongside Greek literature to reconstruct how women of the Greek world were perceived, and also, in important ways, how they lived.

Lysistrata

Lysistrata
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 64
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ISBN-10 : NWU:35556023394745
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Lysistrata by : Aristophanes

Athletries

Athletries
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015056504940
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Athletries by : Anne C. Reese

From women bull-jumping in Minoan Crete and ancient Sparta -- where girls wrestled in the nude alongside boys -- to women competing in full armour in chariot races, this book presents ancient women as much more than sisters, wives, and mothers. Focusing on an area that has long been dominated by men, this book documents women's participation in the ancient Greek world of sports in an effort to reconstruct and present a full and equitable picture of women in history as capable, independent thinkers and valuable contributors to ancient Greek society. Included is a complete list gathered from ancient texts, inscriptions, art, and artefacts of women winners and the festivals and events in which they were victorious.

Women in Ancient Greece

Women in Ancient Greece
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9781441179630
ISBN-13 : 1441179631
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Women in Ancient Greece by : Bonnie MacLachlan

A rich collection of source material on women in the ancient Greek world including literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, and papyri and inscriptions.

Gods and Robots

Gods and Robots
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9780691202266
ISBN-13 : 0691202265
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Gods and Robots by : Adrienne Mayor

Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.

Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema

Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 361
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780198029786
ISBN-13 : 0198029780
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema by : Martin M. Winkler

Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it required reading for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to text and image, and for anyone interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture.

Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9780190263539
ISBN-13 : 0190263539
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Helen of Troy by : Ruby Blondell

Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective for reconsidering aspects of our own.