ISBN:
9780199533374
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 317 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Uniform Title:
Bold with the bow and arrow
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Penrose, Walter Duvall Postcolonial amazons
Dissertation note:
Dissertation City University of New York 2006
DDC:
398.352
Keywords:
Amazons in literature
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Greek literature History and criticism
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Sanskrit literature History and criticism To 1500
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Amazons
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
;
Amazone
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Mut
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Geschlechterrolle
;
Griechisch
;
Literatur
;
Amazone
;
Mut
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Sanskrit
;
Literatur
;
Griechenland
;
Amazone
;
Griechenland
;
Griechisch
;
Literatur
;
Sanskrit
;
Mut
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Amazone
Abstract:
Introduction -- Female masculinity and courage in ancient Greek thought -- Orientalized Amazons: from imagined to historical warrior women -- Postcolonial Amazons: decentering Athenian perspectives to rethink warrior women and matriarchy -- Greek and Persian warrior queens: Herodotus' Artemisia in ethnic perspective -- Hellenistic warrior queens: from the battlefield to the throne -- Civilized "Amazons": women bodyguards and hunters in ancient India and Persia -- Epilogue
Note:
Überarbeitete Version der Dissertation, erschienen unter dem Titel: Bold with the bow and arrow: Amazons and the ethnic gendering of martial prowess in ancient Greek and Asian cultures
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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"This book is a significant revision of my 2006 doctoral dissertation, "Bold with the bow and arrow: Amazons and the ethnic gendering of martial prowess in ancient Greek and Asian cultures"" (Preface)
