Powerful women in the ancient world : perception and (self)presentation : proceedings of the 8th Melammu Workshop, Kassel, 30 January - 1 February 2019 / edited by Kerstin Droß-Krüpe and Sebastian Fink.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Dross-Krüpe, Kerstin, editor.

Fink, Sebastian, editor.

Conference Name:

(Self-)Presentation and Perception of Powerful Women in the Ancient World (Workshop) (2019 : Kassel, Germany)

Series:

Melammu workshops and monographs ; 4.

Melammu Workshops and Monographs ; 4

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Women--History--To 500--Congresses.

Women.

Civilization, Ancient--Congresses.

Civilization, Ancient.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

586 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Münster : Zaphon, 2021.

Language Note:

Texts largely in English, one in German.

Summary:

"The volume focuses on powerful women in the ancient world and not only taking an exceptionally broad temporal and geographical scope, but also combining contributions on the portrayal of powerful ancient women in cuneiform texts and classical sources. In doing so, it aims at bringing together both a 'western' and 'eastern' perspective on the remembrance of these exceptional women and likewise at making the Self-presentation of these women as well as their discursive/narrative treatment by (later, male) outsiders the centre of attention. Power is understood in its broadest sense -- not only real political and formal power, but also more informal concepts of power, such as relations of dependence and superiority in private, in the religious or economic spheres, taking into account that the latter forms of power can nevertheless influence the exercise of formal power. Thus, both actual female rulers and women who pulled strings from behind the scenes-- at least according to their presentation in the sources-- are gathered here. The key questions the contributors to this volume ask are: What information does a close and critical reading of the available sources provide about their actual radius of action and their social and economic status? Were these women considered role models (and if so when and by whom)? What do these details tell us about different gender roles in the Classical and Mesopotamian worlds? How (and possibly why) where the attitudes towards women different? In particular, the contributions focus on Innana, Enheduana, and Shamhat from the Ancient Near East, Hatshepsut and Amanishakheto from Egypt, Bathsheba, female prophets, and women at the heart of the tribal system from the Biblical World, and Ada, Antigone, Cleopatra, Cornelia, Elpinice, Iulia maior, Julia Domna, Livia, Messalina, Olympias, Shirin, Valeria Melania, and Zenobia of Palmyra in classical and modern sources."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Powerful women in the ancient world in the light of the sources

Innana and En-ḫedu-ana: mutual empowerment and the myth Innana conquers Ur / Annette Zgoll

The many lives of Enheduana : identity, authorship, and the "world's first poet" / Gina Konstantopoulos

Šamḫat : deconstructing temple prostitution one woman at a time / Nicole Brisch

Hatshepsut : the feminine Horus and daughter of Amun on the throne of Atum / David A. Warburton

Bathsheba and beyond : harem politics in the ancient near east / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

The agency of female prophets in the Bible : independent or instrumental? prophetic or political? / Martti Nissinen

Women at the heart of the tribal system in the book of Genesis / Stéphanie Anthonioz

Between a queen and an ordinary woman : on Laodice and the representation of women in cuneiform sources in the Hellenistic period / Paola Corò

Antigone : political power and resonance / Claudia Horstentation in the sources

are gathered here. The key questions the contributors to this volume ask are: What information does a close and critical reading of the available sources provide about their actual radius of action and their social and economic status? Were these women considered role models (and if so when and by whom)? What do these details tell us about different gender roles in the Classical and Mesopotamian worlds? How (and possibly why) where the attitudes towards women different? In particular, the contributions focus on Innana, Enheduana, and Shamhat from the Ancient Near East, Hatshepsut and Amanishakheto from Egypt, Bathsheba, female prophets, and women at the heart of the tribal system from the Biblical World, and Ada, Antigone, Cleopatra, Cornelia, Elpinice, Iulia maior, Julia Domna, Livia, Messalina, Olympias, Shirin, Valeria Melania, and Zenobia of Palmyra in classical and modern sources."

Publisher description. Mighty, but quiet? Elpinice between conflicting priorities in interpretations and sources / Florian Krüpe

On a dynastic mission : Olympias and Kleopatra, agents of their house / Sabine Müller

(Re)taking Halikarnassos : Ada, Alexander the Great and Karian queenship / Timothy Howe

A Meroitic ruling queen of the late 1st cent. BC-early 1st cent. AD / Josefine Kuckertz

Cornelia : a powerful woman / Kordula Schnegg

Domum servavit, lanam fecit : Livia and the rewriting of the female model in the Augustan age / Francesca Rohr Vio

Iulia maior on the move : exemplum licentiae and euergetis / Christiane Kunst

Der Tod Messalinas : Folge sexueller Libertinage oder Machtkalkül? / Helmuth Schneider

Feminine, influential and different? : the presentation of Julia domna / Brigitte Truschnegg

Zenobia of Palmyra : a female Roman ruler in times of crisis / Udo Hartmann

"Earthly yoke"? : the estate of Valeria Melaniastentation in the sources

Publisher description. Ireneusz Milewski

Shirin in context : female agency and the wives of the Sasanian king Khosrow Parviz / Ewan Short, Eve MacDonald

Powerful women in the ancient world in modern thought

Cleopatra as a strong woman in modern times : a less negative episode in a disfigured tradition? / François De Callataÿ

Rome herself : female characters in Günther Birkenfeld's Augustus novels (1934-1984) / Martin Lidner

Depicting the Palmyrene queen Zenobia : from baroque "femmes fortes" to modern comic books / Anja Wieber.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783963271380

3963271388

OCLC:

1266213542