Past, Present, Future: Pathways to a More Connected Classics
By Hilary J.C. Lehmann
The ancient Greek and Roman worlds have a place in the psyche of the modern West, for better or for worse; it falls to professional classicists to attempt to curate the image Classics has in our culture. One important approach, put into practice by several online platforms, is to respond to the use of classical imagery by hate groups.
Mapping the Intersection of Greek and Jewish Identity in Josephus’ Against Apion
By Sarah Christine Teets
This paper demonstrates that intersectional feminist theory provides a valuable tool for mapping the paradox of identity presented in Josephus’ apologetic treatise Against Apion.
The Emancipation of the Soul: Gender and Body-Soul Dualism in Ancient Greek and Indian Philosophy.
By Elizabeth LaFray
In an effort to better understand constructions of gender in ancient Greece and ancient India, this paper will compare ideas about the female soul, self and body present in ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato’s, and early Indian philosophy. Using the comparative method, the paper will identify and analyze the parallel elements of the societies of the Aegean and South Asia, through the use of primary sources like ancient Greek philosophy and history, as well as ancient Indian texts like the Upaniṣads and the Mahābhārata.
The Sisters of Semonides' Wives: Rethinking Female–Animal Kinship
By Margaret Day
This paper argues that classical literature denies women access to the freedom human– animal kinship and transformation provide in non-Western traditions. Encounters with animals in Ovid and Apuleius, for example, reveal a deep-seated, uneasy recognition that our supposedly natural, “human” bodies are imperfect, flawed, and potentially non-human (Payne 2010, Gilhus 2006). With the mind of a bitch and the belly of a drone, Hesiod’s Pandora, our earliest female, is a fundamentally non-human creature who arrives not to help but to harm men (King 1998, Franco 2014).