She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon

摘要: Since antiquity, the she-wolf has served as potent symbol of Rome. For more than two thousand years, legendary animal that rescued Romulus and Remus been subject historical political accounts, literary treatments in poetry prose, visual representations every medium. In She-Wolf: The Story a Roman Icon, Cristina Mazzoni examines evolution western history, art, literature, from antiquity to contemporary times. Used, for example, an icon imperial power, papal authority, distance between present past, also allegory greed, good politics, excessive female sexuality, and, most recently, modern, multi-cultural engagingly analyzes various role guises over time first comprehensive study any language on this subject.