Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World by

Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World

Imagines - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing

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Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek-Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly deriv...

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