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The Woman and the Dragon in Premodern Art / Sharon Khalifa-Gueta.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048555505
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.9/47 23/eng/20231004
LOC classification:
  • N7745.D73 K43 2023
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Dragon -- 2. The Cave and the Womb: The Myth of Cadmus and the Myth of Apollo and Python -- 3. Eligible Wives and Monstrous Women: Andromeda and Medusa -- 4. Medea – The Holy Woman and the Witch -- 5. Eve and Lilith – Christianizing the Great Goddess and the Dragon -- 6. Saint Margaret – Taming the Dragon -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The motif of the woman and the dragon has been prevalent in Western art since antiquity, yet has hitherto remained understudied, and artworks featuring this motif in Western Mediterranean cultures have been examined primarily in relation to the topos of the male dragon-slayer. This book analyzes artistic images of women and dragons over an extensive period, from Classical Greece and Rome (with forays to Egypt and Mesopotamia) to the early modern period in Western Europe. The unique methodology employed in the study of this motif reveals its sacred core, as well as its relationship to rituals of fertility and oracular knowledge, to the liminal realm between life and death, and to the symbolism of Great Mother goddesses. At the same time, the images explored throughout expose stereotypes and biases against women in unusual positions of power, which were embedded in the motif and persisted in Western European art.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Dragon -- 2. The Cave and the Womb: The Myth of Cadmus and the Myth of Apollo and Python -- 3. Eligible Wives and Monstrous Women: Andromeda and Medusa -- 4. Medea – The Holy Woman and the Witch -- 5. Eve and Lilith – Christianizing the Great Goddess and the Dragon -- 6. Saint Margaret – Taming the Dragon -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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The motif of the woman and the dragon has been prevalent in Western art since antiquity, yet has hitherto remained understudied, and artworks featuring this motif in Western Mediterranean cultures have been examined primarily in relation to the topos of the male dragon-slayer. This book analyzes artistic images of women and dragons over an extensive period, from Classical Greece and Rome (with forays to Egypt and Mesopotamia) to the early modern period in Western Europe. The unique methodology employed in the study of this motif reveals its sacred core, as well as its relationship to rituals of fertility and oracular knowledge, to the liminal realm between life and death, and to the symbolism of Great Mother goddesses. At the same time, the images explored throughout expose stereotypes and biases against women in unusual positions of power, which were embedded in the motif and persisted in Western European art.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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