Description: Powerful Women in the Ancient World : Perception and (Self) Presentation: Proceedings of the 8th Melammu Workshop, Kassel, 30 January - 1 February 2019, Hardcover by Dross-krupe, Kerstin (EDT); Fink, Sebastian (EDT), ISBN 3963271388, ISBN-13 9783963271380, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The present volume focuses on powerful women in the ancient world and not only taking an exceptionally broad temporal and geographical scope, but also combining contributions on the portrayal of powerful ancient women in cuneiform texts and classical sources. In doing so, it aims at bringing together both a "western" and "eastern" perspective on the remembrance of these exceptional women and likewise at making the Self-presentation of these women as well as their discursive/narrative treatment by (later, male) outsiders the centre of attention. Power is understood in its broadest sense - not only real political and formal power, but also more informal concepts of power, such as relations of dependence and superiority in private, in the religious or economic spheres, taking into account that the latter forms of power can nevertheless influence the exercise of formal power. Thus, both actual female rulers and women who pulled strings from behind the scenes - at least according to their presentation in the sources - are gathered here. The key questions the contributors to this volume ask are: What information does a close and critical reading of the available sources provide about their actual radius of action and their social and economic status? Were these women considered role models (and if so when and by whom)? What do these details tell us about different gender roles in the Classical and Mesopotamian worlds? How (and possibly why) where the attitudes towards women different? In particular, the contributions focus on Innana, Enheduana, and Shamhat from the Ancient Near East, Hatshepsut and Amanishakheto from Egypt, Bathsheba, female prophets, and women at the heart of the tribal system from the Biblical World, and Ada, Antigone, Cleopatra, Cornelia, Elpinice, Iulia maior, Julia Domna, Livia, Messalina, Olympias, Shirin, Valeria Melania, and Zenobia of Palmyra in classical and modern sources.
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Book Title: Powerful Women in the Ancient World : Perception and (Self) Prese
Number of Pages: 586 Pages
Publication Name: Powerful Women in the Ancient World : Perception and (Self) Presentation
Language: Eng,Ger
Publisher: Zaphon
Subject: Ancient / General, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Publication Year: 2021
Item Weight: 42.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Sebastian Fink
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.6 in
Series: Melammu Workshops and Monographs
Format: Hardcover