TY  - CHAP
A1  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
A1  - Wieber, Anja
T1  - Introduction
T2  - Orientalism and the reception of powerful women from the ancient world
N2  - In 1932, Grace Harriet Macurdy, Professor of Greek at Vassar College, wrote about Cleopatra’s and Marc Antony’s lifestyle in Egypt: In a manner of living as though taken from the Arabian Nights Entertainment, they gambled, drank, hunted and fished together, and wandered about Alexandria by night in disguise.  .  . Even Macurdy – the author of a pioneering study on Hellenistic queens and ‘woman-power’, in which she stressed the necessity of evaluating powerful women by the same standards as their male counterparts – could not avoid using an Orientalist flair when describing the most famous Ptolemaic queen. It is the aim of this book to show that Macurdy was and is anything but alone, and that discourses and images developed by the Orientalist imagination have dominated the ways in which powerful ancient women have been represented in modern reception. The reason for this, we argue, is...
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-1-3500-5011-2
SN  - 978-1-3500-7741-6
SN  - 978-1-3500-5010-5
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350077416
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
A1  - Wieber, Anja
T1  - Introduction
T2  - Orientalism and the reception of powerful women from the ancient world
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-1-3500-5010-5
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350077416.0006
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
PB  - Bloomsbury
CY  - London
ER  - 
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  - Annemarie, Ambühl
A1  - Weiss, Irene M.
A1  - Schierl, Petra
A1  - Schmitzer, Ulrich
A1  - Kirichenko, Alexander
A1  - Heinemann, Matthias
A1  - Weiß, Adrian
A1  - Esposito, Paolo
A1  - Grewing, Farouk F.
A1  - Merli, Elena
A1  - Feichtinger, Barbara
A1  - Seng, Helmut
A1  - Wieber, Anja
A1  - Schollmeyer, Patrick
A1  - Kranzdorf, Anna
A1  - Werner, Eva
A1  - Wöhrle, Georg
A1  - Brinker, Wolfram
A1  - Di Rocco, Emilia
A1  - Wesselmann, Katharina
A1  - Löbcke, Konrad
A1  - Benedetti, Ginevra
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - tessellae  –  Birthday Issue for  Christine Walde
T2  - thersites
N2  - This special birthday issue for Christine Walde, co-founder and co-editor of thersites, features contributions from colleagues and friends. The articles, essays, and book reviews, centering around the honoranda’s research interests as well as focusing on core topics of thersites, form a thematically varied mosaic (tessellae): innovative constructions of literary genres and poetics (especially bucolic, elegy, epic, and epigram), images of the city of Rome and its counterparts, sleep and dreams, history of classical scholarship, gender studies, and classical reception studies.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
ER  -