TY - JOUR A1 - Wieber, Anja ED - Ambühl, Annemarie T1 - Die palmyrenische Königin Zenobia als Werbeikone für Seife JF - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture N2 - This article analyses, as an example of the advertising of cosmetic products, a campaign launched by the US-American company “Johnson Soap” for their product, the facial soap “Palmolive”. Examining its ads of 1911 in which certain ancient exempla are employed, it becomes clear that the Palmyrene queen Zenobia and with her the semi-historical Semiramis and the more mythical Dido are aligned to the “1001 Nights” character Scheherazade. Since they are jointly labelled as “historically famous oriental queens” and because of the reference to Zenobia’s white skin, they fall into the fantasy of fair-skinned harem women and evoke thoughts of all the pleasures and comforts of the luxurious Orient. To the modern female customer of 1900 (well steeped in the knowledge of those ancient characters) Zenobia and the other exempla should serve as celebrities worth emulating. Above all they are deemed to be beautiful, and experts in cosmetics which would guarantee the effect of the product they are standing for. A finding that proves to be valid even in an advertising concept of today for the Syrian-German “Zhenobya-soap”. KW - Zenobia KW - classical reception KW - advertising (cosmetics, USA, ca. 1900) KW - orientalism KW - racist subtext KW - Dido KW - Semiramis KW - Scheherazade KW - Cleopatra Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.169 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 11 SP - 277 EP - 323 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Adrian A1 - Werner, Eva ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Geschlechterverhältnisse im Dialog BT - Ein Interview mit Katharina Wesselmann über Die abgetrennte Zunge JF - thersites 16 N2 - Die abgetrennte Zunge by Katharina Wesselmann deals with gender and power relations in ancient literature and beyond. It has received widespread attention, particularly in popular media. In this interview, thersites examines the book from an academic perspective. We talk to Katharina Wesselmann about the reactions to her work, her methodology and her conclusions. The primary focus of this interview is on what ancient texts may tell us about today’s gender issues and vice versa – it, thus, entails a broader discussion about modern Classics. KW - gender studies KW - classical reception KW - classics in popular culture Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol16.216 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 16 SP - 128 EP - 138 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Briand, Michel ED - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Le Laocoon en icône queer et camp BT - Enjeux esthétiques, culturels, politiques JF - thersites 13: Antiquipop – Chefs d’œuvres revisités N2 - The Laocoön group, a famous source of inspiration for modern artists and a crucial masterpiece for historians of art and philosophers, is also a popular figure in queer contemporary art and culture, both distorted and celebrated through camp performative devices. After remarks about 1. “queer gaze” and the complex relation of queer or LGBTQIA+ culture and politics to the dialectics of kitsch/camp and classical / contemporary / pop art, and 2. (not straight but) queer classics, using “anachronisme raisonné” (Loraux”) and “écart” (Dupont), this article focuses on case studies from the 2010’s: 1. The untold gay history of Vatican guided tour; the music video Falling, by the “queer cowboy” Drew Beckman. 2. Paintings by Richard Wallace (esp. Laocoön); photographic series of Danil Golovkin (Modern Heroes : Photographing Bodybuilders in the Digital Age), 3. Julien Servy (Collages : Photo vs. Statues) ; the design firm modern8 (for the 2017 Utah Pride Festival). 4. The indigenous Canadian artist Kent Monkman, who, in paintings (The Academy), performances, installations, altogether stages and questions the violence of historical and cultural colonization and its impact on issues of gender and identity, and promotes dynamic interactions of aesthetics and politics, as well of pathos and camp. KW - anachronism KW - camp KW - classical reception KW - gay KW - Danil Golovkin KW - Laocoon KW - Kent Monkman KW - queer KW - Richard Wallace Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol13.133 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2021 IS - 13 SP - 1 EP - 42 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Keen, Tony ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Legolas in Troy BT - The influence of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome JF - thersites 15 N2 - The Lord of the Rings movies were a cinematic phenomenon, extremely popular. They are not often considered as works of Classical Reception. These films’ influence on subsequent ancient world movies has been understudied, and undervalued. A common model of cinematic Greece and Rome in the twenty-first century looks solely back to Gladiator. Undoubtedly Gladiator, and its commercial success, is important to how ancient world movies developed; but focussing solely on Gladiator does not explain a move away from Roman history towards Greek mythology, culminating in a flurry of movies about Greek mythological heroes. Lord of the Rings is an overlooked factor. Already in Troy two LOTR stars are in key roles, and the battle scenes seek to imitate those of Jackson’s trilogy. 300 mythologizes far beyond Frank Miller’s graphic novel, adding several monsters; LOTR’s influence is at play here. LOTR’s influence was one factor in a complex process that saw ancient world movies change in the twentyfirst century. LOTR fed into an atmosphere that moved ancient world movies towards Greece, away from Rome, through promoting the appeal of a combination of epic and the fantastic. KW - classical movies KW - Lord of the Rings KW - classical reception KW - Peter Jackson KW - fantasy movies Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.223 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 285 EP - 313 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Düvel, Pia A1 - Ehmig, Ulrike A1 - McCall, Jeremiah A1 - Unceta Gómez, Luis A1 - Bakogianni, Anastasia A1 - Fischer, Jens A1 - Serrano Lozano, David A1 - Ambühl, Annemarie A1 - Matz, Alicia A1 - Brinker, Wolfram A1 - Mach, Jonas Konstantin A1 - Mancini, Mattia A1 - Werner, Eva ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Spring Issue T2 - thersites KW - history textbooks KW - textbook research KW - historical consciousness KW - Spartacus KW - slavery KW - history teaching KW - Anfänge der systematischen lateinische Epigraphik KW - Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum KW - Archiv KW - Reproduktion von Inschriften KW - history KW - video games KW - agents KW - historiography KW - Jonathan Muroya KW - Greek mythology KW - classical reception KW - cartoons Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol18 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2024 IS - 18 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wöhrle, Georg ED - Ambühl, Annemarie T1 - Sängers Glück BT - zu Reinhard Meys Lied Ich wollte wie Orpheus singen JF - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture N2 - The German singer-songwriter Reinhard Mey, although not pretending to be a second Orpheus, nevertheless appears to be very familiar with classical myth. KW - classical reception KW - Orpheus KW - Reinhard Mey Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.171 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 11 SP - 357 EP - 361 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Matz, Alicia A1 - Paprocki, Maciej ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - There and Back Again: Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity JF - thersites 15 N2 - The following introduction sketches the status questionis of the research on the influence of Greco-Roman antiquity on the works of Tolkien and provides details about the volume’s theoretical impetus and its broad themes. The editors discuss Tolkien’s complicated and indirect relationship with classical models, underscoring certain emergent themes in volume’s contributions, such as decline, multifocal reception and relationship with nature. KW - Tolkien KW - classical reception Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.228 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - i EP - xii ER -