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Observations and context

Miriam Schapiro creates the femmage category, a collage style that uses materials, objects and craft techniques culturally identified with women.

Judy Chicago creates The Dinner Party, a ceremonial table. On each side of the triangular table there are 13 porcelain place settings, embroidered tablecloths and the names of the 39 guests, including Sappho, Aspasia, Theodora and Hypatia. On the white tiles under the table, the names of 999 other women are inscribed including Erinna, Cleobulina, Theano, Julia Domna, Clodia, an many other Greek and Roman women.

Eleanor Antin also dynamites, with fine irony, the idealised constructions of feminity in the collective imagination that the classical world has transferred to our days.

The photograph is part of a work from the series entitled Helen's Odyssey, from 2007. There is another version of the photograph entitled Judgment of Paris (after Rubens) - Light Helen.

The photograph was part of the major exhibition at the British Museum in London, Troy: Myth and Reality, held from 21-22-2019 to 08-03-2020.

Since 2001, she has completed three series of allegorical photographs based on Roman life: The Last Days of Pompeii, Roman Allegories and Helen's Odyssey.

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Activity to reinforce a well-known myth and its interpretation through works of art.   

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