The Iconography of Mark Antony
Published Jan 21, 2009 · R. Kelly
Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
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Abstract
The story of the lives and deaths of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and her lover, the Roman triumvir Marcus Antonius, have been the subject of considerable mythologisation in the two millennia since their suicides at Alexandria. In recent years, some scholars have noted that the image of Cleopatra has been used, in various texts, to perform cultural anxieties about the meaning of acceptable womanhood. However, whilst there is some evidence (albeit problematic) that the screen Cleopatras of the past forty years have been subject to a recuperation of sorts, there has been no similar recuperation or critical analysis of the image of Antonius (or Antony). This paper seeks to outline the key recurring features of the diverse screen representations of Antony, and to analyse their function in exploring cultural anxieties about acceptable masculinity.
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