Based on a conference held at the University of Bristol in September, 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Seduction and power: an introduction / Marta García Morcillo and Silke Knippschild -- Power and seduction in Babylon: Verdi's Nabucco / Michael Seymour -- "Go east young man!" jewel-in-the-bellybutton Orientalism in Oliver Stone's Alexander / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Modern dance and the seduction of Minoan Crete / Nicoletta Momigliano -- Trojan lovers and warriors: the power of seduction in age of bronze / Eric Shanower -- Dark ladies, bad girls, demon queens. Female power and seduction from Greek tragedy to pop culture / Martina Treu -- The eroticism of power in Jordi Coca's Ifigènia (2009) / Maite Clavo -- "Prince of painters": the grimacing mask of power and seduction in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen / Andrea Capra and Maddalena Giovanelli -- Redefining catharsis in opera: the power of music in Birtwistle's The minotaur and Amargós' Eurídice y los títeres de Caronte / Jesús Carruesco and Montserrat Reig -- The self in conflict with itself: a heraclitean theme in Eliot's The cocktail party / James H. Lesher -- Three queens: Helen, Penelope, and Dido in Franco Rossi's Odissea and Eneide / Martin M. Winkler -- Claudia quinta and publius cornelius scipio nasica: exempla virtutis in Vienna under Leopold I (1657-1705) / Pepa Castillo -- The stolen seduction: Spartaco, gladiatore della Tracia (Riccardo Freda, Italy 1953) / Oscar Lapeña -- The great seducer: Cleopatra, queen and sex symbol / Francisco Pina Polo -- Seduced, defeated and forever damned: Marc Antony and post-classical imagination / Marta García Morcillo -- Power beyond measure: Caligula, corruption and pop culture / Martin Lindner -- Constantia Memoriae: the reputation of Agrippina the Younger / Mary R. McHugh -- Prostitute, saint, pin-up, revolutionary: the reception of Theodora in 20th-Century Italy / Filippo Carlà -- The spell of Antinous in Renaissance art: the Jonah statue in Santa Maria del Popolo / Rosario Rovira Guardiola -- History, moral and power: the ancient world in 19th century Spanish history painting / Antonio Duplá -- The lure of the Hermaphrodite in the poetry and painting of the English aesthetes / Charlotte Ribeyrol -- Nude on the Acropolis / Constantina Katsari -- Seduction and power in classical receptions: traditions and trends / Silke Knippschild.
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