History of Art and Visual Culture

HAVC155 Constructing Cleopatra: Power, Sexuality, and Femininity Across the Ages

The construction of female identity and the production of history through the myth of Cleopatra. Critical analysis of archeological data and ancient sources, later sculptures and paintings, and contemporary films, movies posters, Internet sites, advertisements, comics, games, dolls, and household objects.

Credits

5

General Education Code

IM

Instructor

Maria Evangelatou