![]() ![]() This treatment rendered Parsondes more effeminate than his rival, and was perceived as a woman when presented to King Artæs’ ambassador. A rival Parsondes sought to seize Nanarus’ political office, saying, “I thought myself more worthy of the honour, for I am more manly…than you.” The code-switching gender challenger Nanarus swore revenge on Parsondes, had his would-be usurper captured, and subjected him to the daily punishment of being shaved, exfoliated, bathed, anointed with perfumes, and put into makeup and a woman’s hair style popular at the time. ![]() Nanarus is described as “very effeminate,” shaving his body, and wearing cosmetics and perfumes intended for use among women. In the 1865 classic The Book of Perfume, Eugène Rimmel-perfumer, scholar, and interestingly the inventor of the first non-toxic mascara-tells of a governor in ancient Babylon named Nanarus. ![]() Panel chairs: Debra Parr and Gwenn-Aël Lynnįellow panelists: Lydia Brawner, Jim Drobnick, and Dorothée King Panel: Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance Presented at the College Art Association, Los Angeles, 2018 Perfume as Institutional Analysis and Queer Transgression ![]()
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