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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 derives from ancient
(Roman) and modern stereotypes: both the Orient and the idea of a
woman in power are signs, in the Western tradition, of 'otherness'
- and in this sense they can easily overlap and interchange. This
volume investigates how ancient women, and particularly powerful
women, such as queens and empresses, have been re-imagined in
Western (and not only Western) arts; highlights how this
re-imagination and re-visualization is, more often than not, the
product of Orientalist stereotypes - even when dealing with women
who had nothing to do with Eastern regions; and compares these
images with examples of Eastern gaze on the same women. Through the
chapters in this volume, readers will discover the similarities and
differences in the ways in which women in power were and still are
described and decried by their opponents.
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