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Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback in good condition (see photos).Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, better known as Augustus, was the first Roman emperor and is one of the most iconic figures in world history. Two thousand years after his death, Augustus remains a strong presence in modern culture. The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus examines the meanings and significances of Augustus in Western literary and popular culture, from the 1960s until the turn of the millennium. Drawing on the theoretical background of semiotics and classical reception studies, Elina Pyy investigates the representation of Augustus in the postmodern novels of Kurt Vonnegut and Christoph Ransmayr, as well as in the genre of historical fiction, and in screen representations from both sides of the Atlantic. Scrutinizing what Caesar Augustus stood for in the postmodern world, and the main factors that influenced (and still influence) the modern reader's interpretation of him, this book is grounded on the premise that the past, being a system of signs based on our culturally shared understanding of them, is continuously created and reconstructed by the modern audience. Arguing that the 'many faces of the emperor' can be considered to be reactions to contemporary cultural, socio-political or emotional needs, The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus shows how his character was recurrently utilized to explain and understand the ways in which the discourses of power, liberty, oppression and humanity operated in the postmodern world. Copyright © Bloomsbury Publishing (UK). …

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Condition: NEW. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2025 9788854916425 Acta Instituti romani Finlandiae 53 1458 N vol.: 1, N pag.: 309, W: 21, Illustr.: COL + B/N "In the past thirty years, the study of gender-based violence has established itself as a legitimate course of inquiry in the field of Classics and Ancient History. While pioneering studies touching upon the theme were already written in the 1970s and the 1980s,1 a particularly crucial period for "ancient rape studies" was the 1990s an important decade for the development of ancient gender studies as a whole. In the aftermath of second-wave feminism and in the grip of the "postfeminist" cultural shift, numerous scholars, in particular in the Anglo-American research sphere, started asking questions about the intimate connection between sexuality, power, and violence in the ancient sources and societies." (from the introduction) Pyy, Elina.…

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Soft cover. Condition: New. 303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. Based on the proceedings of the conference "Ancient rape cultures" held at the Finnish Institute in Rome, October 27-28, 2022. Contents: Introduction: Elina Pyy Rape in Greek Culture and Thought Suzanne Lynch, Rape Culture in Classical Athens Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Taking Thratta's Cherry: The Rape of Enslaved Domestic Laborers in Aristophanes Brian McPhee, Rape Normalization and Menandrian Apologetics in Callimachus' Acontius and Cydippe Rape Narratives in Roman Literature Simona Martorana, Medusa in Ovid's Metamorphoses: Refracted Rapes Ben Jerue, An Ancient Greek Custom? Reading the Rape of the Sabine Women in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 2, 30 Ash Finn, Sexual Violence and the So-called 'Gains of Vengeance' in Ancient Rome Imperial Ideology and Colonial Discourses Eleanor Newman, The Sexual Exploitation of African Males in Roman Material Culture Antti Lampinen, Boudica's Daughters: Conquest and Rape in the Ancient Roman Discourse Francesca Bellei, Donna or domina? Manipulating Italia's gender from ancient Rome to 19th-century Italian colonialism Revolutions of Rape Culture in Late Antiquity Judith Evans-Grubbs, Rape and the Christian Virgin: St. Thekla's Power against Sexual Assault Alexander Thies, For the Good of the Empire: A Wedding in Milan, Imperial Succession, and the Creation of Ritualised Rape Culture in the Late Antique Court Biblical Receptions Louis Zweig, Listening for Dinah in Abelard's Planctus and Other Latin Poems Chris Greenough, Sexual Violence Against Men in the Bible Ancient rape Cultures on the Contemporary Screen Briana King, From Antiquity to Screen: Sexual Violence in Greco-Roman Art and its Modern Representations in Caligula (1979) and Spartacus (2010-2013) Elina Pyy, Ovid's Pygmalion and Daphne Myths in 21st-Century Body Horror Film: Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In and Lim Woo-Seong's Vegetarian List of contributors.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, better known as Augustus, was the first Roman emperor and is one of the most iconic figures in world history. Two thousand years after his death, Augustus remains a strong presence in modern culture. The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus examines the meanings and significances of Augustus in Western literary and popular culture, from the 1960s until the turn of the millennium. Drawing on the theoretical background of semiotics and classical reception studies, Elina Pyy investigates the representation of Augustus in the postmodern novels of Kurt Vonnegut and Christoph Ransmayr, as well as in the genre of historical fiction, and in screen representations from both sides of the Atlantic.Scrutinizing what Caesar Augustus stood for in the postmodern world, and the main factors that influenced (and still influence) the modern reader's interpretation of him, this book is grounded on the premise that the past, being a system of signs based on our culturally shared understanding of them, is continuously created and reconstructed by the modern audience. Arguing that the 'many faces of the emperor' can be considered to be reactions to contemporary cultural, socio-political or emotional needs, The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus shows how his character was recurrently utilized to explain and understand the ways in which the discourses of power, liberty, oppression and humanity operated in the postmodern world.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorElina Pyy, Ph.D. (2014, University of Helsinki) is the vice director of the Finnish Institute in Rome. She has published several articles on gender and identity in Roman literature, as well as the monograph The Semi.

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