Seduction and Power: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts

These twenty-two essays cover a wide range of material, including that on Verdi, Oliver Stone, Minoan Crete, Trojan lovers and warriors, the eroticism of power in events of 2009, Cleopatra as queen of the sex symbols, the history of seductive painting in Spain in the nineteenth century, and seduction and power in the postclassical era. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)