Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek-Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she a... Lees meer

Representations of Classical Greece in Theme Parks

Filippo Carlà-Uhink

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• Theme park studies is a growing field in social and cultural studies. Nonetheless, until now little attention has been dedicated to the choice of the ... Lees meer

Women in Classical Video Games

• Paperback | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the discipli... Lees meer

Women in Classical Video Games

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the discipli... Lees meer

Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• This book demonstrates the rich and varied ways in which heavy metal music draws on the ancient Greek and Roman world. Contributors examine bands from... Lees meer

The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• When thinking about the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel's haunting words resound like an echo of the sea and its millenary history. From Prehistory unt... Lees meer

Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence - from war to slavery, rape and m... Lees meer

A Homeric Catalogue of Shapes

Charlayn Von Solms

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• In the popular imagination, Homer as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, epitomises poetic genius. So, when scholars proposed that the Homeric epics ... Lees meer

Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity

Marco Benoît Carbone

• Paperback | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• Turning to a region of South Italy associated with Greater Greece and the geographies of Homer's Odyssey , Marco Benoît Carbone delivers a historical ... Lees meer

Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engag... Lees meer

Classical Antiquity in Video Games

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• From gaming consoles to smartphones, video games are everywhere today, including those set in historical times and particularly in the ancient world. ... Lees meer

Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames

Ross Clare

• Paperback | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• This volume presents an original framework for the study of video games that use visual materials and narrative conventions from ancient Greece and Ro... Lees meer

Pompeii in the Visual and Performing Arts

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• This volume examines the influence that Pompeii and, to a lesser extent, Herculaneum had on the visual and performing arts in Spain and countries acro... Lees meer

The Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media

Gregory N Daugherty

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• This study examines the reception of Cleopatra from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day as it has been reflected in popular culture i... Lees meer

Art Nouveau and the Classical Tradition

Richard Warren

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• Art Nouveau was a style for a new age, but it was also one that continued to look back to the past. This new study shows how in expressing many of the... Lees meer

The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts

• Paperback | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing | nr. 2
• When thinking about the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel's haunting words resound like an echo of the sea and its millenary history. From Prehistory unt... Lees meer

Art Nouveau and the Classical Tradition

Richard Warren

• Paperback | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing | nr. 1
• Art Nouveau was a style for a new age, but it was also one that continued to look back to the past. This new study shows how in expressing many of the... Lees meer

The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination

• Paperback | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiqu... Lees meer

Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity

Marco Benoît Carbone

• Hardcover | Engels | Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing
• Turning to a region of South Italy associated with Greater Greece and the geographies of Homer's Odyssey , Marco Benoît Carbone delivers a historical ... Lees meer