In the conventionalized Mediterranean world in which Racine sets Bérénice, Rome is the very embodiment of order, energy, and virtue, while the Orient stands for formlessness, passivity, and emptiness. The Orient, like Africa or the newly-discovered Americas, is merely a particular case of what we call the 'exotic,' or that which is not us. The structures of the exotic world being incomprehensible to us, it is for our purposes structureless. The absence of apparent form can be exhilarating or terrifying; ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Literary Analyses
1975 - University of Toronto Press | University of Toronto Quarterly
Eva Anagnostou‐Laoutides, Michael B. Charles,
... 5 Presumably aware of the Roman dislike for Cleopatra and her most recent incarnation, Titus dismissed Berenice6 and then went on to rule as the “amor ac deliciae generis humani” (“the love and delight of the human race,” Suet. Tit. 1.1). Titus’s separation from Berenice and his change of character have been systematically ...
Tópico(s): Biblical Studies and Interpretation
2015 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Arethusa
... two of his earliest dramatic monologues, "Antony to Cleopatra" and "Mithridates Presenting Berenice with the Cup of Poison," both of which ... has made for their relationship, and subtly demands Cleopatra's continued devotion to him. Similarly, at the brink of his defeat by Pompey, Mithridates insists tiiat his lover Berenice follow him to the grave by drinking poison. ... into his own verse. Antony, for example, tells Cleopatra that "I sought I saw, I heard but thee" (Une 29), ironically echoing her former lover's famous "I came, I saw, I conquered."1 Similarly, Mithridates proclaims to Berenice, "FiU high die bowl! die draught is thine!" ( ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Literary Studies
1999 - Canadian Population Society; University of Alberta, Population Research Laboratory | Victorian review
... of a portico, the silhouette of some queen, Cleopatra or Arsinoe or a Berenice counting her locks… it is now a little ...
Tópico(s): Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
1988 - Cambridge University Press | Diogenes
... s and Clayman’s monographsnow appear)wasdevoted to Cleopatra VII.Thatwastheendofthe dynastic line; as both Arsinoë II and Berenice II demonstrate, family-orientated power 378 BOOK REVIEWS ...
Tópico(s): Classical Antiquity Studies
2015 - Classical Association of the Middle West and South | The Classical Journal
... to the king’s widowhood. The death of Cleopatra Tryphaena, Ptolemy XII’s only known official wife, has been placed in 69-68 BC, while his youngest child was born in 59 to an unknown woman. Ptolemy died in 51. The inscription was dated 59/58-52/51. But traces of the reappearance of Tryphaena during the kings’s exile (58-55) – together with Berenice, the only legitimate daughter – implies that Tryphaena was ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Literary Studies
2021 - Edizioni Ca’ Foscari | Axon
... McAuley add their study of Cleopatra Thea and Cleopatra III to a growing corpus on earlier Ptolemies that includes works on Ptolemy I by Worthington, Berenice II by Clayman, and Arsinoë II by Carney. ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Literary Studies
2023 - Johns Hopkins University Press | The Classical World