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Les femmes puissantes ne vous font pas peur ? Vous êtes plutôt du genre « épée, cheval et ceinture en or » ? Alors ce thread, rédigé par @MathieuS31, est fait pour vous.

On revient pour vous sur les représentations de l’#Amazone dans la culture populaire. #classicalReception
Mais avant de rentrer dans le détail, revenons sur les traits culturels, sociaux et physiques qui les caractérisaient dans l’Antiquité, chez ceux qui ont le plus parlé d’elles : les Grecs et les Romains.

#OùSontLesSources ?
Les auteurs anciens les plus bavards sur le sujet sont Hérodote, Apollodore, Diodore de Sicile, Strabon, Quinte-Curce, Quintus de Smyrne. #NameDropping
Ils ont participé à la création de l’image de l’Amazone telle qu’on la connaît aujourd’hui.
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So it appears Christopher Nolan was influenced by the mysterious Roman “Sator Square” when writing his new film Tenet. These palindromic word-squares have been found across the Roman world. The villain in “Tenet” is even named Sator! #classicalreception ImageImage
The famous Cirencester Roman acrostic or "Sator square", now in @CoriniumMuseum. The squares have been interpreted as magical symbols, covert Christian codes or perhaps just amusing word games. ImageImage
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I give you a small thread on a, possibly overlooked, piece of #ClassicalReception in late 19th century Italy.

Some may have stumbled upon the notice of the rediscovery of an honorific shield for national hero Giuseppe #Garibaldi
The shield was kept at the Rome's Museo del Risorgimento from where it disappeared in 2000 and was now found in a private dwelling.

theguardian.com/world/2019/dec…
A few facts: this is a bronze shiled of some 50kg and measuring 118cm in diameter according to press releases. Dedicated by Sicilian cities in 1878 it features a small imago clipeata of Garibaldi's, and various references to his campaign for Italy's national unity.
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