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„The mother of chemical peeling“ – Oder: Wie Kleopatra zum Bad in Eselsmilch kam
- 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.
Author details: | Frank UrsinORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol12.95 |
ISSN: | 2364-7612 |
Title of parent work (German): | thersites 12 |
Editor(s): | Christian Rollinger |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | German |
Date of first publication: | 2021/02/22 |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2021/04/20 |
Tag: | Cleopatra VII; Poppaea Sabina; advertisement; ass’s milk; cinema; dermatology; history of medicine |
Volume: | 2020 |
Issue: | 12 |
Number of pages: | 33 |
First page: | 38 |
Last Page: | 70 |
Source: | thersites 12 (2020). - 38-70 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut |
DDC classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Zeitschriften / thersites, ISSN 2364-7612 / thersites Vol. 12 |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |