2022-2023
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
My categorized bibliography is below, but I wanted to provide a few notes on the categories/themes I mentioned that are related to history: Historiography: This refers to the act of doing/writing history (which is actually from the Greek words ἱστορία and γράφω). […]
