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“In the Head of the Worthiest Women”: Amazon Queens and Performing Heroines in Jacobean Court Masques

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De Benedictis M.

Gender Studies

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2012

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vol. 11

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issue 1

51-67

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Queen Anne of Denmark’s role - as actress and patroness - in emancipating womanliness onstage by direct performance is strictly connected to the emerging trend of fashioning masques in the early Jacobean court. My paper will focus on the connection/contamination of this dramatic phenomenon with the current imagery of acting warlike heroines, conflicting Anne’s policy for entertainments with masculine and royal anxieties

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AMAZONS AS ROLE MODELS?

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WENSKUS O.

Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies

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2013

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vol. 5

21-43

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It is a moot point whether the Greeks would have developed myths about Amazons even if they had never heard about female warriors. Be that as it may, their mythical Amazons fulfill several ideological functions. The most important of those is probably to represent an unnatural menace which has been successfully defeated by the Greeks. However, there is no denying that from the late sixth century onwards the Greek depiction of Amazons, on vases or in writing, has often (but not always) been influenced by their knowledge of Sarmatian mounted archeresses, at least some of whom were almost certainly also warriors. Yet it is naive to say that the Greeks were right all the time, that Amazons did exist and that they had a wonderful time killing enemies and living a life characterised by companionship, fulfilled sexuality and gender equalitiy. The Amazons constructed by Adrienne Mayor resemble the heroines of Klingon legend told by Klingons in the Star Trek spin offs.

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Amazonki - mit czy reminiscencja zwyczajów koczowników

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Janik P.

Studia Azjatystyczne

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2017

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issue 3

61-76

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There is evidence (archaeological, historical, linguistic, iconographic, ethnological and other mentioned in this article) to show that the formation of the myth of the Amazons could be a result of observations of habits of Iranian nomads who used to live in the areas of the northern coast of the Black Sea and Central Asia in Antiquity. Some datum indicates that women from these communities (as in many other groups of nomads) had a much higher social status than in many settled communities such as the ancient Greeks and Romans. Women in the Iranianspeaking nomadic communities were likely to participate in hunting and, to some limited extent, in fighting. In addition, some of them might have become the heads o f these groups as queens (that is not as wives of kings but as independent rulers). All o f it influenced the imagination of people from Greek culture who had met the nomads. Stories about these warrior women spread into Greek ecumene, increasingly evolving and subject to distortion, thus affecting the myth of the Amazons. The Amazons in Greek mythology and art often have nomadic features - they ride on horseback, wear bows and “Scythian” costumes and weapons. Tales of warlike women did not only contribute to the mythology of the ancient world, but they were inherited by Turkic-speaking groups and are still present in the culture of Iran.

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Scythian female warriors in the south of Eastern Europe

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Fialko E.

Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia

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2017

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vol. 22

29-47

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The article is devoted to the funerary complexes of Scythian female warriors in the territory of the European Scythia. Types and sizes of graves, as well as the nature of the funeral rite of Amazons correspond to Scythian canons and de facto do not differ from men’s graves The analysis of the funerary inventory allows us to date them within the second half of the 7th till the 2nd centuries BC.

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Adaptace pověsti o dívčí válce v české humanistické literatuře

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Storchová L.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2019

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vol. 67

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issue 6

849-875

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This study follows the ways in which humanist literature dealt with the subject of what was known as the Maidens’ War, i.e. the mythological conflict between women and men before the arrival of Christianity, as referred to in Czech medieval chronicles. The author bases herself on concepts of historical narrativism and asks what role the representation of this was played in humanist stories of Czech history and their ideological elements (e.g. in narratives on the emergence of the monarchical form of government). She also focuses on ideas prevalent at that time on various types of femininity, gender order and its disruption and the concept of the „virago“, i.e. the defeminized virginal individual gifted with male virtues. The author shows how the story of the Maidens’ War was dependent upon strategies of obtaining patronage, primarily at court, as well as on the individual and collective self-presentation of scholars. She deals with the differences between the rendition of this mythological conflict in Latin and in the vernacular languages, where e.g. the comical with a sexual subtext is much more common.

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Studie sleduje, jak bylo v humanistické literatuře traktováno téma tzv. dívčí války, tedy mytologického konfliktu mezi muži a ženami v období před příchodem křesťanství, o které se zmiňují již české středověké kroniky. Autorka navazuje na koncepty historického narativismu a ptá se, jakou roli hrála reprezentace této války v humanistických příbězích českých dějin a jejich ideologických prvcích (např. ve vyprávění o vzniku monarchické formy vlády). Dále se soustřeďuje na dobové představy o různých typech femininity, genderovém řádu a jeho narušení, stejně jako na koncept „virago“ tedy defeminizovaného panenského individua nadaného mužnými ctnostmi. Autorka ukazuje, jak byl příběh o dívčí válce navázán na strategie získávání mecenátu, především dvorského, a na individuální a kolektivní sebeprezentace učenců. Zabývá rozdíly mezi ztvárnněním tohoto mytologického konfliktu v latině a vernakulárních jazycích, kde se mnohe více uplatnila např. komika se sexuálním podtextem.

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Amazonki w "Historia adversus paganos" Orozjusza. Dzieje recepcji i reinterpretacji mitu

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Suski R.

Czasopismo Naukowe Instytutu Studiów Kobiecych

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2021

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issue 1(10)

9-35

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Opowieść o Amazonkach zawarta w Historia adversus paganos Orozjusza nie mówi nic o nich, ale pokazuje sposób patrzenia na rzeczywistość jej autora. Orozjusz wierzył w istnienie królestwa Amazonek. Poświęcił im sporo miejsca, gdyż postrzegał je jako krewne Gotów. Chciał pokazać, że rzeczywistość jego chrześcijańskich czasów nie jest gorsza niż pogańska przeszłość. Orozjusz streszczał Epitome Justyna. Niektóre imiona królowych Amazonek brzmią u niego inaczej niż u jego źródła. W wypadku królowej Sinope trudno powiedzieć, skąd zaczerpnął on to imię.

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The story of the Amazons contained in the Historia adversus paganos of Orosius says nothing about the Amazons, but shows the mentality of the author of this work. Orosius believed in the existence of the kingdom of Amazons. He devoted a lot of space to the Amazons, because he saw them as relatives of the Goths. He wanted to show that the reality of his Christian’s times was no worse than the pagan’s past. Orosius summarized Epitome of Justin. Some names of queens of Amazons are different in Historia adversus paganus than in his source. In the case of Queen Sinope, it’s hard to say why.

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The place of the legend of Alexander of Macedon in the larger context of the Old Romanian literature

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Ionescu D.-T.

In Gremium. Studia nad Historią, Kulturą i Polityką

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2019

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vol. 13

7-25

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The main aim of this quite a short study was to complete the essential image of Alexander of Macedon as he appears through the pages of the Romanian Alexandria, with an overview on the so-called Old Romanian “popular” literature: somehow the true essence of this hero (Alexander of Macedon) and of his legend had eluded me many times. Compared with the Romanian History of Troy, so faithful still to Homer and his epigonoi, the Romanian Alexandria seems to the untrained reader of old Romanian literature (like the author of these lines confesses to be) a collection of wild fantasy stories. This article tries to highlight the place of this tale about Alexander the Great (his legendary story) in the larger context of the popular Old Romanian literature and the stories of some of its manuscripts and early printed versions, stories which are sometimes even stranger than the tale of the main character of the legend, Alexander himself.

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Głównym celem tego krótkiego badania jest ukazanie ogólnego wizerunku Aleksandra Macedońskiego, jaki wyłania się z treści rzymskiej Aleksandrii z jednoczesnym przeglądem tzw. starorzymskiej literatury „ludowej”: w jakiś sposób istota tego bohatera (Aleksandra Macedońskiego) i jego legendy wielokrotnie mi umykała. W porównaniu do rzymskiej Historii Troi, wciąż tak wiernej Homerowi i jego epigonoi, rzymska Aleksandria wydaje się niewprawionemu czytelnikowi literatury starorzymskiej (do bycia którym przyznaje się autor tych słów) kolekcją burzliwych, fantastycznych historii. Niniejszy artykuł stara się podkreślić miejsce tej opowieści o Aleksandrze Wielkim (jego legendarnej historii) w szerszym kontekście starorzymskiej literatury ludowej i historii zawartych w niektórych jej rękopisach i wczesnych starodrukach, historii, które czasami są nawet dziwniejsze niż opowieść o głównym bohaterze tej legendy, o samym Aleksandrze.

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