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Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art : Women, Agency, and the Trojan War

by: Mangieri, A.F.

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Category: Greek Pottery – Painting – Terracottas
Code: 27167
ISBN-13: 9780367787189 / 978-0-367-78718-9
ISBN-10: 0367787180 / 0-367-78718-0
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2021
Publication Place: London
Binding: Paper
Pages: 222
Book Condition: New
Comments: First Published 2018 / Routledge Research in Gender and Art

Book Description
The Trojan War begins and ends with the sacrifice of a virgin princess. The gruesome killing of a woman must have captivated ancient people because the myth of the sacrificial virgin resonates powerfully in the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. Most scholars agree that the Greeks and Romans did not practice human sacrifice, so why then do the myths of virgin sacrifice appear persistently in art and literature for over a millennium? Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art: Women, Agency, and the Trojan War seeks to answer this question.
This book tells the stories of the sacrificial maidens in order to help the reader discover the meanings bound up in these myths for historical people. In exploring the representations of Iphigeneia and Polyxena in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art, this book offers a broader cultural history that reveals what people in the ancient world were seeking in these stories. The result is an interdisciplinary study that offers new interpretations on the meaning of the sacrificial virgin as a cultural and ideological construction. This is the first book-length study of virgin sacrifice in ancient art and the first to provide an interpretive framework within which to understand its imagery.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents

 

Acknowledgements

 

List of Figures

 

List of Abbreviations

 

Chapter 1: Introduction: Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art and Society

 

Just a Man?s World? The Patriarchal, Monolithic Male Gaze

 

The Public and Private ?Lives? of Iphigeneia and Polyxena

 

Organization of the Study

 

Chapter 2: What Makes a Virgin Sacrifice?

 

Towards a Definition of Virgin Sacrifice

 

Killing a Woman: Terminology and Relation to Animal Sacrifice

 

Traditions of Human Sacrifice in the Near East

 

Jephthah?s Daughter: Virgin Sacrifice in the Bible

 

Chapter 3: The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia

 

Iphigeneia in Greek Art

 

Iphigeneia in Etruscan Art

 

Iphigeneia in Roman Art

 

Chapter 4: The Sacrifice of Polyxena

 

Polyxena in Greek Art

 

Polyxena in Etruscan Art

 

Polyxena in Roman Art

 

Chapter 5: War and Womanhood: Virgin Sacrifice and the Trojan War

 

The Sacrificial Virgins and Helen of Troy

 

The Brygos Painter?s Louvre Iliupersis Cup

 

Iconographic Ambiguity: Who is Represented?

 

Between Sisters: Kassandra and Polyxena

 

The Sacrificial Virgin in Iliupersis Tableaux

 

Polyxena and Troilos

 

The Heroines Pyxis in London: The Art of Pairing Women

 

The Trojan War on Italian Soil: Resonances in the Roman World

 

Virgin Bodies: Framing The Trojan War

 

Beyond the Trojan War: The Defiant Antigone

 

Mythological Women, Representation, and Womanhood

 

Chapter 6: The Sacrificial Virgins and Female Agency

 

Consent, Resistance, and the Measure of a Maiden

 

Agency and Context in Etruscan and Roman Art

 

Polyxena the Aristocrat: Agency, War, and Tripods

 

Victims and Rebels: Recovering Ancient Women?s Resistance

 

Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Princess and the Knife

 

The "Afterlives" of Iphigeneia and Polyxena: Their Legacy

 

After the Sacrifice and Further Questions

 

Conclusion

 

Bibliography

 

Catalogue of Representations of Iphigeneia and Polyxena in Greek, Etruscan, and

 

Roman Art

 

General Index

 
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Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art : Women, Agency, and the Trojan War

by: Mangieri, A.F.

  • ISBN-13: 9780367787189 / 978-0-367-78718-9
  • ISBN-03: 0367787180 / 0-367-78718-0
  • Routledge, London, 2021

Price: 49,00 EURO

1 copy in stock