The Historical Enigma Of The Snake Woman From Antiquity To The 21st Century

Author : Angela Giallongo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527512134
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Enigma of the Snake Woman from Antiquity to the 21st Century written by Angela Giallongo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an exploration of the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It reveals how snakes and the gelid eyes of Medusa—the archetypical snake-woman—have reverberated across the visual arts and written sources throughout the ages in association with negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame. The outcomes and implications of the disturbing correlation between the dangerous female gaze, the malignitas of the snake and the lethal power of menstruation that have been woven through the fabric of the Western imaginary are analysed here. This analysis reveals an intriguing history of female reptilian hybrids—from the pleasing Minoan snake goddesses to the depressing Gorgon, Echidna, Amazons, Eve, Melusine, Basilisk, Poison-Damsel, Catoblepas and Sadako/Samara—and gives the reader an opportunity to explore things that never happened but have always been.

Author : Kenneth D. S. Lapatin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618144754
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysteries of the Snake Goddess written by Kenneth D. S. Lapatin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeological detective story investigates one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art, a gold and ivory statuette, exposing this piece as an invention of the early 20th century and exploring the reasons behind this brilliant forgery.

Author : Barbara Freitag
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134282494
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sheela-na-gigs written by Barbara Freitag and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the mysterious stone carvings of naked females exposing their genitals on medieval churches all over the British Isles.

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Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Author : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190659149
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hypatia written by Edward J. Watts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her great skill in mathematics and philosophy redefined the intellectual life of her home city of Alexandria. Her talent as a teacher enabled her to assemble a circle of dedicated male students. Her devotion to public service made her a force for peace and good government in a city that struggled to maintain trust and cooperation between pagans and Christians. Despite these successes, Hypatia fought countless small battles to live the public and intellectual life that she wanted. This book rediscovers the life Hypatia led, the unique challenges she faced as a woman who succeeded spectacularly in a man's world, and the tragic story of the events that led to her tragic murder.

Author : Aby Warburg
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892365371
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity written by Aby Warburg and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.

Author : Richard Howard Stamelman
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfume written by Richard Howard Stamelman and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617767X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Mesopotamia written by A. Leo Oppenheim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.

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Total Pages : 840 pages
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Author : Dudley Wright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
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Download or read book Druidism, the Ancient Faith of Britain written by Dudley Wright and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: