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BiCo Classics Senior Seminar

2022-2023

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BiCo Classics Senior Seminar BiCo Classics Senior Seminar

Layla Fistos

Layla’s Categorized Bibliography

October 21, 2022November 4, 2022 Layla FistosAssignments, Categorized Bibliography

Demonization and Chaos: This category provides with information on demonization and the idea of chaos in ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Bergmann, Claudia D. Childbirth As a Metaphor for Crisis: Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and […]

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Layla’s Thesis Portrait

October 7, 2022October 7, 2022 Layla FistosThesis Portrait, Uncategorized

This is the general argument that my thesis will make: An analysis of these womb amulets shows that wombs were imagined to have agencies of movement, consumption/desire, and smell. At the same time, the users sought to exercise proactive and […]

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Layla’s Questions Please

September 16, 2022 Layla FistosQuestions Please

My project explores the personification of the uterus on ancient magical womb amulets and adjacent medical and magical sources from the Greco-Roman and Egyptian traditions. I attempt to define that personification by delineating what the womb can do, its agency, […]

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Layla’s Thesis Idea: “What’s up with those magic wombs?” Exploring agency in ancient magical womb amulets.

September 1, 2022September 2, 2022 Layla FistosThesis Idea
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Senior Seminar

CSTS 398
Friday 1:30-4:00pm
VCAM 102

Convener
Prof. Matthew C. Farmer
mfarmer@haverford.edu
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Research Librarians
Margaret Schaus
mschaus@haverford.edu
Camilla MacKay
cmackay@brynmawr.edu
Laura Surtees
lsurtees@brynmawr.edu

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