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Item Number: 101565
Title: Starke Frauen
Author: Wünsche, Raimund (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783933200129
Description: München: Staatliche Antikensammlung u. Glyptothek, 2008. 30cm., pbk., 392pp., 640 illus., many in color. German text. Publisher's summary: The mythology and history of the ancient world tell of many female persons who exhibit great strength. In this context it is the goddesses who should be mentioned first. They are not however a subject of this exhibition, as the ancient goddesses are by nature superhumanly strong: they are for ever young and immortal. Also of only marginal interest for us are the numerous women of ancient history who can be regarded as ‘strong’ in the present day meaning of the word: queens who carry out great deeds, priests, poets, influential married women or courtesans. Their lives have been only fragmentarily handed down to us and cannot be credibly reconstructed. Our ‘strong women’ derive from mythology and not from historical reality. They are sometimes distinguished by special, sometimes less than positive, characteristics or by an unusual life for a woman. Mythology often takes the ‘strength’ of these women to the extreme and elevates their fate beyond that of the individual to the realm of the exemplary and eternally valid. This is why the women of mythology were not only continually redefined and enriched in the ancient world, but over the centuries inspired western poets, artists and composers to new creations and interpretations. The endurance of these myths is illustrated by selected masterpieces of western art in the companion book to this exhibition.
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