Seduction and Power

Silke Knippschild is senior lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. Marta Garcia Morcillo is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Wales, UK.

Introduction / Part 1: Ancient Western Asia / 1. Woman on top? Women's suffrage and the power of the 'oriental woman' - Silke Knippschild / 2. Power, sin and seduction in Babylon - the case of Verdi's Nabucco - Michael Seymour / 3. Jewel-in-the-belly-button orientalism in Oliver Stone's Alexander - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones / Part 2: Greece / 4. Helen, Penelope and Dido in Rossi's Odissea and Eneide - Martin Winkler / 5. Dark ladies, bad girls, demon queens: female power and seduction from Greek tragedy to pop culture - Martina Treu / 6. Trojan lovers and warriors - Eric Shanower / 7. Film genres in cinematic adaptations of Greek tragedy - Pantelis Michelakis / 8. Circe in literature and art of the Renaissance - Irene Berti / 9. The erotics of power in Coca's Ifigenia - Maite Clavo / 10. 'Prince of painters': the grimacing mask of power and seduction in Aristophanes' The Assemblywomen - Maddalena Giovannelli and Andrea Capra / 11. Myth and tragedy in opera staging in the 21st century - Montserrat Reig and Jesus Carruesco / 12. Isadora Duncan, Russian ballet and the seduction of Minoan Crete - Nicoletta Momigliano / 13. Nelly and the nudes on the Athenian Acropolis in the Fascist era - Constantina Katsari / 14. The lure of the hermaphrodite for the English Aesthetes - Charlotte Ribeyrol / Part 3: Rome / 15. The stolen seduction - Oscar Lapena / 16. The great seducer - Cleopatra, queen and sex symbol - Francisco Pina Polo / 17. Seduced, defeated and forever damned - Marc Antony in post-Classical imagery - Marta Garcia Morcillo / 18. Caligula in pop culture - Martin Lindner / 19. The reputation of Agrippina the Younger - Mary R. McHugh / 20. Hadrian, Antinous and the power of seduction - Charo Rivera / 21. Saint or prostitute? - the reception of empress Theodora - Filippo Carla / 22. History, moral and power - the ancient world in 19th century Spanish art - Antonio Dupla / Conclusion