Ebook: Seduction and power: antiquity in the visual and performing arts

This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power in reception. Such universal themes dictated plots and characters of myth and drama, but also served to portray historical figures, events and places from Classical history. Their changing reception and reinterpretation across time has created stereotypes, models of virtue or immoral conduct, that blend the original features from the ancient world with a diverse range of visual and performing arts of the modern era. The volume deconstructs these traditions and shows how arts of different periods interlink to form and transmit these images to modern audiences and viewers. Drawing on contributions from across Europe and the United States, a trademark of the book is the inclusive treatment of all the arts beyond the traditional limits of academic disciplines.;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.