Daughters of Ares: The Iconography of Amazons
Conference Year
January 2019
Abstract
This interpretive historical survey of the cultural history of the Amazonian myth begins with its visual and literary conception of Greek origin and culminates in contemporary American popular entertainment. Using cultural poetics, the iconography of the Amazons will be examined in the context of the society in which the myth is used and adapted.
Primary Faculty Mentor Name
Angeline Chiu
Status
Undergraduate
Student College
College of Arts and Sciences
Program/Major
Classics/Classical Civilization
Second Program/Major
Anthropology
Primary Research Category
Arts & Humanities
Daughters of Ares: The Iconography of Amazons
This interpretive historical survey of the cultural history of the Amazonian myth begins with its visual and literary conception of Greek origin and culminates in contemporary American popular entertainment. Using cultural poetics, the iconography of the Amazons will be examined in the context of the society in which the myth is used and adapted.