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Abstract: Sappho, the late seventh or early sixth century bce Greek poet from Lesbos, is famous for singing of female same-sex love, particularly in songs where the poetic "I" powerfully describes her own homoerotic desire.1 In a recent discussion of a newly discovered Sapphic fragment in which the speaker complains to Kypris (Aphrodite) about her erotic suffering (P.Sapph. Obbink 21–29),2 Sandra Boehringer and Claude Calame claim that Sappho represents female homoeroticism as no different than any other form of love (2016.364):Nothing in the poems of Sappho leads us to believe that the poetess wants to express a difference in kind between eros as it develops between two women and eros between a man and a woman, let alone ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Our study of Theocritus's Idyll 2, or Pharmakeutria, used practice-based research to inform a staging of the work in 2019 with the title Love Magic. While the translator-director, Michael Ewans, investigated the recreation of Idyll 2 for a modern audience, the authors of this article, the dramaturge (Johnson) and research assistant (Kimball), concentrated on what such a process could reveal about both the ancient Greek magic contained in the text and its representation of the sorceress Simaitha. By experimenting with Ewans's emerging translation, developed in tandem with a workshopped performance that led to a professional production, the scholarly process of practice-based research provided nuanced understandings ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: While many of the details of the dream that opens Ennius's Annals remain obscure, the broad outline is generally agreed upon: Homer appears, recalls that after death he became a peacock (frag. 1.9.11: "memini me fiere pavom," "I remember becoming a peacock"), and then declares that his soul has been reborn in Ennius's body—all through the Pythagorean process of metempsychosis.1 That Homer speaks fragment 1.9.11 appears virtually uncontested,2 and many simply take for granted that Ennius claims to be Homer reincarnate or Homer redivivus.3 Certain elements of this reconstruction are in need of reevaluation. I will argue that, in the dream, Homer delivers a speech that triggers Ennius's memory of his past lives. This ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From the time when Danish film director and provocateur Lars von Trier released the film Dogville in 2003, it has engendered a lively scholarly conversation focused primarily on von Trier's commitment to the principles of Brechtian theater and Dogville's relation to contemporary American politics. Part of a never completed "U.S.A., Land of Opportunities" trilogy, Dogville appeared near the start of the 2003 Iraq War, leading many critics to read the film in the light of American foreign policy.2 This most certainly represents one facet of the film, as we shall see below. An aspect of the film that has received less attention is von Trier's preoccupation with Euripides' Medea.3 Euripides' tragedy, and themes drawn ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
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