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  - 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  - 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  -