TY - JOUR A1 - Ursin, Frank ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - „The mother of chemical peeling“ – Oder: Wie Kleopatra zum Bad in Eselsmilch kam JF - thersites 12 N2 - Application areas and drugs of Egyptian, Greek and Roman medi-cine are popular references of research in the field of recent aes-thetic dermatology. There, Cleopatra VII is referred to as “mother of chemical peeling” because she is said to have bathed in donkey’s milk. Although extremely popular, there is no ancient source sup-porting Cleopatra’s bath in milk. Nevertheless, Poppaea Sabina, the second wife of Emperor Nero, is said to has bathed in donkey’s milk to beautify her skin. The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the genesis and develop-ment of the modern myth of Cleopatra bathing in donkey’s milk. The origin of this myth can be traced back to the cinema of the 1930s. The result is that in the person of the actress Claudette Colbert her two roles as Cleopatra and Poppaea converged. This convergence was the basis for the popularization of the milk bath by the Cleopat-ra movie of 1963 with Elizabeth Taylor. KW - Cleopatra VII KW - Poppaea Sabina KW - cinema KW - advertisement KW - ass’s milk KW - dermatology KW - history of medicine Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol12.95 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 12 SP - 38 EP - 70 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brück, Alexander ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - „Rom lernt von den Griechen, Europa von Rom" BT - Fremdheit und Eurozentrismus in lateinischen Lehrwerken JF - thersites 14 N2 - Given the immense ethnic and cultural diversity as well as the vast geographical dimensions of the Roman Empire, the teaching of Roman antiquity comprises an enormous potential to deal with the increasing heterogeneity in German-speaking classrooms. This article aims to show how the majority of contemporaneous Latin textbooks, however, fail to use this potential by being limited to mono-perspective and Eurocentric approaches to the ancient world. In spite of didactical claims to foster students’ intercultural competence, most of the textbooks depict the city of Rome as an ethnically and culturally homogeneous sphere. At the same time, they present the Roman Empire nearly exclusively from the perspective of representatives of Italian-born, powerful upper-class families firmly connected to ‘Roman’ culture. In doing so, the Latin textbooks falsify the ancient historical realities and deprive students of the perspectives of figures like provincials or slaves. Furthermore, the textbooks’ narrative scope clearly focusses on Rome and Greece, still paying noticeable attention to West-European provinces, with the African and Asian ones being remarkably excluded. Only few exceptions among the textbooks apply alternative approaches which allow students to engage with the Roman Empire’s intercultural dynamics in a more differentiated and multi-perspective way. KW - Latin textbooks KW - ethnic diversity KW - intercultural competence KW - Eurocentrism in Graeco-Roman studies KW - Roman provinces Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol14.198 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 14 SP - 41 EP - 102 ER - TY - THES A1 - Rupp, Michael T1 - „Probably the Finest Organisation of its Kind“ T1 - „Probably the Finest Organisation of its Kind“ BT - öffentliche und fachöffentliche Diskurse über Nachrichtendienste in Großbritannien 1900 – 1939 BT - public and expert discourses on intelligence in Great Britain 1900 – 1939 N2 - Die Entstehung der modernen britischen Nachrichtendienstarchitektur fiel in die erste Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Zeitgleich erfuhr die britische Gesellschaft eine nie dagewesene Demokratisierung. Die Arbeit versucht darzulegen, wie auch vermeintlich arkane Bereiche staatlichen Handelns in öffentliche Aushandlungsprozesse eingebettet sind und rekonstruiert deshalb erstmals systematisch öffentliche und fachöffentliche Diskurse über Nachrichtendienste Großbritanniens im Zeitalter der Weltkriege. N2 - The modern British intelligence system emerged in the first half of the 20th century. During the same period, British society experienced an unparralelled democratisation. This thesis seeks to demonstrate, how seemingly arcane fields of statal activity – such as intelligence – are embedded in processess of public bargaining. Thus the thesis systematically reconstructs discourses on British intelligence within the public and expert sphere in the age of world wars. KW - Nachrichtendienste KW - Großbritannien KW - Öffentlichkeit KW - intelligence KW - Great Britain KW - public Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-429851 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kotowski, Elke-Vera T1 - „Heimat“-Objekte BT - Digitale Reise in eine analoge Welt der deutsch-jüdischen Immigration in Lateinamerika JF - Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte N2 - Bei ihrer zumeist erzwungenen Emigration aus der deutschsprachigen Heimat nach Lateinamerika konnten bei weitem nicht alle ihren gesamten Hausstand mit in das neue Heimatland nehmen. Vielmehr war es der Mehrzahl der Emigranten nicht möglich, mehr als ein paar Kofffer aus ihrem alten Leben in das neue zu retten. Verkauft oder beschlagnahmt, vieles musste zurückbleiben, was über Jahre die Wohnungen und Häuser der deutschen Juden gefüllt hatte. Das Wenige, was doch mitgenommen werden konnte, hatte somit umso mehr persönlichen Wert für den Besitzer. Was also hatten die deutsch-jüdischen Emigranten und Exilanten in ihren Kofffern und weshalb waren gerade diese Objekte für sie bedeutend genug, um sie auf den beschwerlichen Weg über den Atlantik und auf einen neuen Kontinent in eine unbekannte Zukunft mitzunehmen?Eine Antwort auf diese Frage können die Objekte selbst geben, welche bis heute in den Familien der einstigen Emigranten aufbewahrt und benutzt werden. Sie repräsentieren die verlorene Heimat, ein Stück Geschichte des Ursprungslandes und der eigenen Familie. Diese Gegenstände sind mehr als nur Gebrauchsobjekte, welche ihren monetären Wert hatten und daher nicht zurückgelassen werden sollten. Es sind vielmehr Träger von gegebenen und zugeschriebenen Bedeutungen und Erinnerungen an Heimat, die ihnen anhaften und über Generationen hinweg weitergegeben und in ihrem Sym-bolgehalt ergänzt und erweitert werden. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/15700739-07004004 SN - 0044-3441 VL - 70 IS - 4 SP - 324 EP - 347 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kranzdorf, Anna A1 - Werner, Eva ED - Ambühl, Annemarie T1 - „An Herrn Prof. A. Wlosok“ BT - über eine der ersten Latinistikprofessorinnen im deutschsprachigen Raum – eine Spurensuche im Jahr 2020 JF - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture N2 - In contrast to other European countries, female professors of Classical Philology have been severely underrepresented in Germany. This article wants to shed light on Antonie Wlosok (1930–2013), the first or second woman to hold a Chair of Classical Philology in Germany. How can Wlosok’s work at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz be described, considering especially the very male-dominated academic world? Based on testimonials from the university archives and selected publications, this essay aims to give insights to this question, highlighting current debates about women in academia. KW - Antonie Wlosok KW - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz KW - history of women in academia KW - Gender Studies KW - history of classical philology Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.165 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 11 SP - 343 EP - 356 ER - TY - THES A1 - Brandt, Christopher Georg T1 - “… when the legend becomes fact …” BT - Geschichtsdidaktische Überlegungen zur Medialität, Authentizität und Narrativität des historischen Spielfilms N2 - Der historische Spielfilm zählt zu den populärsten Formen geschichtskultureller Artikulation. Als solche ist er Gegenstand kontroverser Diskussionen über einen angemessenen didaktischen Umgang. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist es das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit, ein integratives, theoretisch und empirisch abgesichertes Analysemodell zu entwickeln, das nach den Tiefenstrukturen historischen Erzählens im Medium des Spielfilms fragt und dabei unterschiedliche Erscheinungsformen historischer Spielfilme berücksichtigt. Die Überlegungen bewegen sich deshalb in einem interdisziplinären Spannungsfeld von Theorien zum historischen Erzählen und Konzepten der Literatur- und Filmwissenschaft. Die Diskussion und Synthese dieser unterschiedlichen Konzepte geht dabei – auf der Grundlage einer großen Materialbasis – vom Gegenstand aus und ist induktiv angelegt. Als Orientierung für die praktische Arbeit werden am Ende der einzelnen Kapitel Toolkits entwickelt, die zu einer vertieften Auseinandersetzung mit historischen Spielfilmen anregen sollen. KW - historischer Spielfilm KW - Geschichtsunterricht KW - Narrativität KW - Authentizität KW - Medialität Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-410441 SN - 978-3-86956-429-6 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - “Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy” BT - Preface JF - thersites 13: Antiquipop – Chefs d’œuvres revisités N2 - A quote from Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk, 1996) may seem unusual for a Classicist. Nevertheless, this famous sentence summarises the contents of this special issue of thersites perfectly. As specialists in classical reception frequently witness, there is a sort of déjà-vu effect when it comes to the presence of Antiquity within popular culture. In 2019, to try to better understand the phenomenon, Antiquipop invited researchers to take an interest in the construction and semantic path of these “masterpieces” in contemporary popular culture, with a particular focus on the 21st century. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol13.191 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2021 IS - 13 SP - i EP - v ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Julius Lucas T1 - ‘To grab, when the grabbing begins’ BT - German foreign and colonial policy during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894/95 and the Triple Intervention of 1895 JF - The international history review N2 - The Sino-Japanese War of 1894/95 is usually only briefly mentioned in studies on diplomatic history. Especially the war's impact on Wilhelmine foreign and world policy (Weltpolitik) has been largely neglected. However, the events in East Asia had a profound influence on the political leadership in Berlin. The Wilhelmstrasse's attitude towards the conflict changed rapidly when the course of the war in Northeast Asia made a collapse of the Qing Empire increasingly likely. Afraid of the prospect of being left empty handed in an upcoming scramble for China, German diplomacy got active in early 1895. Driven by a hectic activism which soon should become a dominant feature of Weltpolitik, Berlin concluded an ad-hoc alliance with St. Petersburg and Paris. In April 1895, this unlikely coalition intervened against Tokyo. While the Triple Intervention served primarily Russia's interest to maintain the status quo on the Chinese mainland, Germany aimed at the acquisition of a military and commercial base in Northeast Asia. Driven by public opinion, the naval leadership and the Emperor Wilhelm II., the formerly neutral and reserved German diplomacy changed towards an aggressive and unstable imperialist policy, which ultimately resulted in the acquisition of Qingdao in November 1897. KW - Imperial Germany KW - diplomacy KW - imperialism (Sino-Japanese War) Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2021.1909101 SN - 0707-5332 SN - 1949-6540 VL - 44 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 20 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - New York, NY [u.a.] ER - TY - GEN A1 - Brendel, Heiko T1 - ‘Hasty observations’? BT - Geographical field research and intercultural encounters in the Austro- Hungarian occupied Western Balkans, 1916–1918 T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Philosophische Reihe N2 - This article examines geographical field research in Albania and Montenegro under Austro-Hungarian occupation, which lasted from 1916 to 1918. It focusses on one of the most important German-speaking geographers of the early 20 th century, Eugen Oberhummer (1859–1944), a pupil of Friedrich Ratzel, the founder of German geo-politics. In 1917 and 1918, Oberhummer went on two expeditions to Montenegro and Albania during the First World War. He already had travelled in four continents and vaguely knew the Western Balkans from an expedition in 1907. It will be argued that the actual situation in Albania and Montenegro did not alter, but did rather reinforce Oberhummer’s attitudes and opinions on the ‘other’ he encountered. Thus, the two war expeditions – Oberhummer primarily met high-ranking Austro-Hungarian officials and only few locals – confirmed his expectations basing on his ‘Ratzelian’ theoretical conceptions. It will further be argued that – in contrast to the much younger and less experienced ‘scholars-at-arms’ of the expedition of 1916 – war and violence were of secondary relevance for the well-travelled and renowned professor of geography in his late 50s. Neither in Oberhummer’s articles nor in his diaries the war and the occupation of Albania and Montenegro made up an important part. In Oberhummer’s ‘Ratzelian’ view, humans could not change or over-come the basic features of geography, as humans were clearly subordinated to the elemental forces of geography. People, over generations, adapted to geography, not the other way round. The on-going First World War was an opportunity for Oberhummer to travel to Albania and Montenegro, but the guerrilla warfare in large parts of Montenegro, the violence against the civilian population, and the fighting at the Albanian front were of secondary relevance and interest for him. Nevertheless, what Oberhummer observed offers great insights into the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Montenegro and Albania from the perspective of a renowned and – given the general circumstances – pleasantly relaxed Ratzelian geographer at the height of his academic career. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 166 KW - Albania KW - Montenegro KW - Austro-Hungarian occupation 1916–1918 KW - geographical field research KW - Eugen Oberhummer KW - Friedrich Ratzel Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-435000 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 166 SP - 184 EP - 208 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Skibinski, Connie ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - ‘Crazy Man-Killing Monsters’ BT - The Inimical Portrayal of the Amazons in Supernatural’s ‘Slice Girls’ JF - thersites 17 N2 - The Amazons have a long legacy in literature and the visual arts, extending from antiquity to the present day. Prior scholarship tends to treat the Amazons as hostile ‘Other’ figures, embodying the antithesis of Greco-Roman cultural norms. Recently, scholars have begun to examine positive portrayals of Amazons in contemporary media, as role models and heroic figures. However, there is a dearth of scholarship examining the Amazons’ inherently multifaceted nature, and their subsequent polarised reception in popular media. This article builds upon the large body of scholarship on contemporary Amazon narratives, in which the figures of Wonder Woman and Xena, Warrior Princess dominate scholarly discourse. These ‘modern Amazon’ figures epitomise the dominant contemporary trend of portraying Amazons as strong female role models and feminist icons. To highlight the complexity of the Amazon image in contemporary media, this article examines the representation of the Amazons in the Supernatural episode ‘Slice Girls’ (S7 E13, 2012), where their portrayal as hostile, monstrous figures diverges greatly from the positive characterisation of Wonder Woman and Xena. I also consider the show’s engagement with ancient written sources, to examine how the writers draw upon the motifs of ancient Amazon narratives when crafting their unique Amazon characters. By contrasting the Amazons of ‘Slice Girls’ to contemporary figures and ancient narratives, this article examines how factors such as feminist ideology, narrative story arcs, characters’/audience’s perspectives and male bias shape the representation of Amazons post-antiquity. KW - Amazons KW - Warrior women KW - Classical reception KW - Supernatural KW - Monsters Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.240 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 183 EP - 211 ER -