Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art : Women, Agency, and the Trojan War / Anthony F. Mangieri.

• 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 -- 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 -- The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia -- Iphigeneia in Greek Art -- Iphigeneia in Etruscan Art -- Iphigeneia in Roman Art -- The Sacrifice of Polyxena -- Polyxena in Greek Art -- Polyxena in Etruscan Art -- Polyxena in Roman Art -- 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 -- 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 -- Conclusion: The Princess and the Knife -- The "Afterlives" of Iphigeneia and Polyxena: Their Legacy -- After the Sacrifice and Further Questions -- Conclusion.

• 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. Book jacket. 

Ämnesord

Women in art.  (LCSH)

Human sacrifice in art.  (LCSH)

Sacrifice of virgins.  (LCSH)

Women  -- History -- To 500. (LCSH)

Art, Classical  -- Themes, motives. (LCSH)

Trojan War  -- Art and the war. (LCSH)

Femmes dans l'art.  (Vedettes-matière)

Sacrifice humain dans l'art.  (Vedettes-matière)

Sacrifice des vierges.  (Vedettes-matière)

Femmes  -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 500. (Vedettes-matière)

Art antique  -- Thèmes, motifs. (Vedettes-matière)

Art and war.  (fast)

Human sacrifice in art.  (fast)

Sacrifice of virgins.  (fast)

Women.  (fast)

Women in art.  (fast)

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Art, Classical  -- Themes, motives. (fast)

Women  -- History -- To 500. (nli)

Art, Classical  -- Themes, motives. (nli)

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Polyxena (Greek mythology)  -- Art. (nli)

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Iphigenia (Mythological character) -- art.

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