De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt Ancient Magic and the Supernatural in the Moder... av Dr Filippo Carl-Uhink, Irene Berti (häftad).
Köp båda 2 för 1131 krWhy is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a GreekMacedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly derive...
To what extent did mythological figures such as Circe and Medea influence the representation of the powerful oriental enchantress in modern Western art? What role did the ancient gods and heroes play in the construction of the imaginary worlds of ...
An enjoyable study of both the cultural phenomenon of the theme park and the ways in which the idea of ancient Greece finds its way into contemporary visual culture. * Greece & Rome * This is the first book-length study of Greek mythology as theme park entertainment in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It shows not only that certain themes and visual cues have global reach, but also that individual parks reflect local conditions cultural, economic, and political. -- Dunstan Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Latin Literature, University of Kent, UK
Filippo Carl -Uhink is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
List of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Representing History in the Theme Park: The Case of Ancient Greece 2. German Philhellenism in the Theme Park 3. Spain, Ancient Greece, and the Land of Myths 4. Ancient Greece, the United States of America and the Theme Park 5. The Far East, Ancient Greece, and the Theme Park 6. Ancient Greece in France The World of a Gallic Warrior 7. Greece In the Form of a Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index