Description: Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art : Women, Agency, and the Trojan War, Hardcover by Mangieri, Anthony F., ISBN 0415301351, ISBN-13 9780415301350, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art : Women, Agency, and the Trojan
Number of Pages: 222 Pages
Publication Name: Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art : Women, Agency, and the Trojan War
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Ancient / General, Miscellaneous, History / Ancient & Classical, History / General
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Language Course
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Author: Anthony F. Mangieri
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Art, History
Item Width: 7.1 in
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Art Ser.
Format: Hardcover
