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Illustration of the woman of Thebez dropping the millstone on Abimelech, from Charles Foster, The Story of the Bible, 1884. The woman of Thebez is a character in the Hebrew Bible, appearing in the Book of Judges. She dropped a millstone from a wall in order to kill Abimelech. Abimlech had laid siege to Thebez and entered the city. The residents ...
1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani (adapting Merian's engraving); Timoclea pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well.. Timoclea or Timocleia of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Τιμοκλεία) is a woman whose story is told by Plutarch in his Life of Alexander, and at greater length in his Mulierum virtutes ("Virtues of Women").
de Thèbes means "of Thebes" in French, which refers to the city of Thebes in ancient Egypt.The name was suggested by French writer and playwright Alexandre Dumas fils to Anne-Victorine Savigny with inspiration from his psychological drama La Route de Thèbes about a mysterious woman, which was his final work and was never finished.
Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product, such as a book (often on a dust jacket), magazine, newspaper , comic book, video game , music album , CD, videotape, DVD, or podcast. Cover art can include various things such as logos, symbols, images, colors, or anything that ...
The term "maenads" also refers to women in mythology who resisted the worship of Dionysus and were driven mad by him, forced against their will to participate in often horrific rites. The doubting women of Thebes, the prototypical maenads or "mad women", left their homes to live in the wilds of the nearby mountain Cithaeron.
[2] [5] [6] Though the clinch cover usually features a white, heterosexual couple, the style has been used for other book pairings as well. Author Ann Allen Shockley utilized a clinch cover for her 1974 interracial lesbian romance novel Loving Her , and author Beverly Jenkins frequently uses clinch covers for her black romance novels.
Forty women appear on the cover of British Vogue's March issue, from Miley Cyrus to Oprah and Jane Fonda. See the cover and other pics from the eventful shoot. Jane Fonda, Oprah and 38 more iconic ...
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