Powerful women in the ancient world: perception and (self)presentation : proceedings of the 8th Melammu Workshop, Kassel, 30 January - 1 February 2019
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Droß-Krüpe / Fink: Preface and Acknowledgements -- Zgoll: Innana and En-ḫedu-ana: Mutual Empowerment and the Myth INNANA CONQUERS UR -- Konstantopoulos: The Many Lives of Enheduana: Identity, Authorship, and the "World's First Poet" -- Brisch: Šamḫat: Dec...
| Summary: | Intro -- Table of Contents -- Droß-Krüpe / Fink: Preface and Acknowledgements -- Zgoll: Innana and En-ḫedu-ana: Mutual Empowerment and the Myth INNANA CONQUERS UR -- Konstantopoulos: The Many Lives of Enheduana: Identity, Authorship, and the "World's First Poet" -- Brisch: Šamḫat: Deconstructing Temple Prostitution One Woman at a Time -- Warburton: Hatshepsut: The Feminine Horus and Daughter of Amun on the Throne of Atum -- Llewellyn-Jones: Bathsheba and Beyond: Harem Politics in the Ancient Near East -- Nissinen: The Agency of Female Prophets in the Bible: Independent or Instrumental? Prophetic or Political? -- Anthonioz: Women at the Heart of the Tribal System in the Book of Genesis -- Corò: Between a Queen and an Ordinary Woman: On Laodice and the Representation of Women in Cuneiform Sources in the Hellenistic Period -- Horst: Antigone: Political Power and Resonance -- Krüpe: Mighty, but quiet? Elpinice between Conflicting Priorities in Interpretations and Sources -- Müller: On a Dynastic Mission: Olympias and Kleopatra, Agents of their House -- Howe: (Re)Taking Halikarnassos: Ada, Alexander the Great and Karian Queenship -- Kuckertz: Amanishakheto: A Meroitic Ruling Queen of the Late 1st Cent. BC / Early 1st Cent. AD -- Schnegg: Cornelia: A Powerful Woman -- Rohr Vio: Domum servavit, lanam fecit: Livia and the Rewriting of the Female Model in the Augustan Age -- Kunst: Iulia maior on the Move: exemplum licentiae and euergetis -- Schneider: Der Tod Messalinas: Folge sexueller Libertinage oder Machtkalkül? -- Truschnegg: Feminine, influential and different? The Presentation of Julia Domna -- Hartmann: Zenobia of Palmyra: A Female Roman Ruler in Times of Crisis -- Milewski: "Earthly yoke"? The Estate of Valeria Melania -- Short / MacDonald: Shirin in Context: Female Agency and the Wives of the Sasanian King Khosrow Parviz. "The 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."--Publisher description |
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| Item Description: | "This volume is the result of the 8th Melammu Workshop "(Self-)Presentation and Perception of Powerful Women in the Ancient World" that took place in Kassel from January 30th to February 1st 2019" (Preface and Acknowledgements) Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| ISBN: | 3963271396 |