Primary Sources Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Read: Last of the Women’s Plays; the plot focuses on the protagonist Praxagora as she leads the women of Athens to disguise themselves as men and take over the Assembly. Like in Lysistrata, I will focus on the traits that allow this female protagonist’s plan to succeed. This text is important …
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Hannah Kolzer’s Categorized Bibliography
Primary Sources Unfortunately, there are not a lot of helpful commentaries about the Thebaid. Most of the ones that exist are single book commentaries—I’ll add those to this list as I decide which sections I’ll be examining in the thesis. I’m relying on the Loeb texts for the Latin and the translation by Joyce because …
Alexander’s Categorized Bibliography
Category: Background: Dogs in War (1) Forster, E. S. 1941. “Dogs in Ancient Warfare”. Greece & Rome. 10. 30: 114-17. Forster includes a list of citations of historical moments in which dogs were used in warfare. This is a great source for framing dogs in the Ancient Greek world from a military perspective. Category: Background: …
George’s Categorised Bibliography
So for my categorized bibliography there were three major categories that I think things fit into: Texts on homosexuality in the period the Priapea come from. Texts on homosexual themes in/surrounding the Priapea. Texts on the Priapea which do not necessarily talk about homosexuality. Texts on homosexuality and related subject areas in the period the …
Layla’s 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 1QH XI, 1-18. Berlin/Boston, GERMANY: De Gruyter, Inc., 2008. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brynmawr/detail.action?docID=429277. The idea that birth is …
Marion’s Thesis Portrait
As might be evident from my Categorized Bibliography, I decided this week that I would switch my thesis topic because I was having a hard time writing even short amounts about Patrick, so trying to write something much longer seemed like it would not go well. I went back to my other initial idea, which …
Marion’s Categorized Bibliography
Primary Sources Boniface, A Letter from Boniface to Lioba (742-46) Bugga, A letter from Bugga, abbess (c.720) Eangyth, A Letter from Eangyth, abbess (719-22) Ecburg, A Letter from Ecburg (716-20) Lioba, A letter from Lioba/Leobgytha/Leoba, abbess of Tauberbischofsheim (c.732) All of these are relatively short letters, which is why I have included several to work …
Claire’s categorized bibliography
Methodology (apart from the methodology built in to other sources) Honig, Bonnie. A Feminist Theory of Refusal. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021. Feminist methodology reading of Dionysiac text, applicable to Dionysiac hymns and more broadly as a way of feminist rereading Johnston, Sarah Iles. The Story of Myth. Harvard University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674989573. Creation …
Elise’s Categorized Bibliography
Primary sources The original texts I will be referencing Folengo Teofilo. Opus Merlini Cocaii Macaronicorum : Totam in Pristinam Formam Per Me Magistrum Acquarium Lodolam Optime Redactum. 1521. Folengo, Teofilo. “Merlini Cocai Poetae Mantvani Liber Macaronices Libri Xvii. Non Ante Impressi (1517 Edition).” Open Library, In Aedibus Alexandri Paganini. Inclito Lauredano Principe, 1 Jan. 1970, …
Rose’s Categorized Bibliography
Primary/Ancient Texts: Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Translated by Gregory Nagy. https://uh.edu/~cldue/texts/demeter.html. Ovid. 2004. Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation. Translated by David Raeburn. London: Penguin Classics. Will use the “Rape of Proserpina” myth in Book 5 (pp. 191-202) and the “Orpheus and Eurydice” myth in Book 10 (pp. 382-386). Vergil. 2001. Georgics: Book IV. Translated by …
