{"product_id":"the-sight-of-semiramis-medieval-and-early-modern-narratives-of-the-babylonian-queen-volume-487-9780866985420","title":"The Sight of Semiramis: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Babylonian Queen: Volume 487","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alison L. Beringer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Diodorus Siculus's first-century BCE account and extending to early modern German \u003ci\u003eMeisterlieder\u003c\/i\u003e, this book explores the plethora of narratives about the ancient Babylonian queen Semiramis. The selected texts, most from continental Europe, cover a range of genres and languages. Organized thematically around issues of visual communication -- acts of seeing and being seen -- this study highlights the narrative fluidity in the matière de Sémiramide, ultimately revealing a figure of excess and surplus that defies classification and categorization. In its thematic focus, this study also draws on the competitive yet complementary relationship between the visual and the verbal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47780466491543,"sku":"9780866985420","price":5373.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780866985420.webp?v=1778045502","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-sight-of-semiramis-medieval-and-early-modern-narratives-of-the-babylonian-queen-volume-487-9780866985420","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}