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Introduction
(2020)
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...
The Tetrarchy as Ideology
(2023)
Der vorliegende Band enthält sämtliche Impulsvorträge der Lateintage von 2018 bis 2020. Zum Thema „Im Schatten der Gesellschaft? Roms Umgang mit sozialen Randgruppen“ sprachen 2018 Meike Rühl und Nicola Hömke. Unter der Überschrift „Im Zentrum der Macht: Forum Romanum“ beleuchteten Jon Albers, Filippo Carlà-Uhink und Jan Reimann 2019 jenen wirkmächtigen Ort in seinen verschiedenen Facetten näher. 2020 gab Holger Sonnabend Lateinschülern einen Einblick in das Thema „Nero – Kaiser und Künstler“. Die Vorträge sind in der Reihenfolge abgedruckt, in der sie auf dem jeweiligen Lateintag gehalten wurden.
Introduction
(2022)