01147nam a22002057a 4500 20250922134533.0 250922b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780859898263 hbk hbk 932.02109 HAM Hamer, Mary Signs Of Cleopatra : reading an icon historically 2nd ed. Exeter University Of Exeter Press 2008 xx, 172 p. : ill. 24 cm. Bib and Ref The purpose of this book is to raise questions about how these images of a dead Egyptian queen were read. Through careful analysis Hamer traces attempts to manipulate attitudes to women and power, women and sexuality and to desire itself. In the case of Tiepolo’s Cleopatra, for example, the Queen embodies the desire for knowledge; in post-Revolutionary France, she symbolises political freedom. In the new introductory essay we discover that Cleopatra’s role as a focus for cultural debate continues, and that, as previously, much is at stake: it is now the question of her race that is highly contested. History ENGLISH 588781 588781 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL 7B 2025-09-22 0 932.02109 HAM 465209 2025-09-22 13:51:30 2025-09-22 ENGLISH