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Signs of Cleopatra
Mary Hamer
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Description for Signs of Cleopatra
Paperback. This book examines the making of the popular Cleopatra, part myth part history, through a detailed analysis of the way that artists and authors have portrayed the queen from her own day down to the present day. Num Pages: 192 pages, 33 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 376.
Cleopatra has been dead for twenty centuries, but her name still resonates in the west. Her story has the status of a foundation myth. As such, artists of all periods have drawn on it in order to raise questions concerned with the world in which they found themselves living.This study chooses a number of key occasions from European history on which writers and painters re-imagined Cleopatra. In doing so Mary Hamer takes the reader on a pleasurable intellectual treasure hunt through the ages. In addition, by restoring these works to their original context – political, philosophical and aesthetic – the ... Read more
Cleopatra has been dead for twenty centuries, but her name still resonates in the west. Her story has the status of a foundation myth. As such, artists of all periods have drawn on it in order to raise questions concerned with the world in which they found themselves living.This study chooses a number of key occasions from European history on which writers and painters re-imagined Cleopatra. In doing so Mary Hamer takes the reader on a pleasurable intellectual treasure hunt through the ages. In addition, by restoring these works to their original context – political, philosophical and aesthetic – the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859898096
SKU
V9780859898096
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About Mary Hamer
Mary Hamer is a Fellow of the DuBois Institute, Harvard. She has published widely on literary and cultural history including work on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Anthony Trollope and Cleopatra. She was involved in curating the British Museum’s exhibition on Cleopatra and has appeared on Woman’s Hour.
Reviews for Signs of Cleopatra
Mary Hamer has written a fascinating study of politics and desire, authority and sexuality, through the protean figure of Cleopatra. Barbara Johnson An example of the best kind of research on a female figure whose resonance in myth/history carries a weight of baggage that needs feminist investigation. Naomi Segal, University of London The book is far stronger than ... Read more