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The Freedom Of Thought, In Dream-Life If Nowhere Else: Freud, Foucault, And Euripides, Sharon Sliwinski

Data and Test Instruments

This essay examines the “dead daughter in a box" dream, initially reported in Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), in order to explore two, related ideas: First, the dream is considered an exemplar of the work of symbolization, and in particular, a means for the dreamer to work through the fantasy of infanticide. Second, the dreamer’s disclosure of her dream is treated as an example of parrhesia – a particular speech act that Michel Foucault regarded as central to democracy. The overarching aim is to view dream-life as a quotidian and crucial site for the freedom of thought and speech.

From The Ptolemies To The Romaris. Political And Economic Change In Egypt, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

In an address at the Twelfth International Congress of Papyrology in 1968, the late Naphtali Lewis famously rejected the terrn·”Greco-Roman", specifically as used in studies of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. To support his position, one based, so he claimed, on substance not mere linguistic fussiness, he presented arguments against the then prevailing orthodoxy that the Roman replacement of the Ptolemies was characterized by ,essential continuity". Instead, according to Lewis, the changes wrought by the Romans were themselves ,more fundamental and sweeping" than previously thought. He returned to the same theme fifteen years later in Naples in his presidential address to …

Review Of Nicandro Di Colofone Nei Secoli Xvi-Xviii; Edizioni, Traduzioni, Commenti, By Livia Radici, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Figuring Out The Figurines Of The Ancient Near East, Stephanie Langin-Hooper

Art History Research

No abstract provided.

Hippokleides, 'The Dance,' And The Panathenaia, Brian M. Lavelle

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The dance scene in Herodotus (6.126-130) is fictitious and reflects Alcmeonid propaganda against Philaid Hippocleides, intended to embarrass a prominent enemy who may have been founder of the Greater Panathenaia.

"Go Back To Your Loom Dad": Weaving Nostos In The Twenty-First Century, Corinne Ondine Pache

Classical Studies Faculty Research

For centuries writers and artists have adapted and transformed Homer's Odyssey in endlessly inventive and surprising ways. Yet the disposition of genders in the poem is seldom altered from its ancient pattern: a man leaves, a woman stays at home and waits until he returns. In her 2007 play, Current Nobody, Melissa Gibson departs from this conventional fidelity to the ancient narrative by rewriting the Odyssey as a twenty-first century family story with a wandering wife and a husband who is left behind. In Gibson's playful tragicomedy, Pen, a female war photographer, leaves her husband, Od, and daughter Tel …

To Script Or Not To Script: Rethinking Pseudolus As Playwright, Christopher Bungard

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Christopher Bungard's contribution to Helios, 41(4).

A Blast From The Ancient Past: Using Digital Storytelling In ‘Roman Perspectives’, Christopher Bungard

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Christopher Bumgard's contribution to the CAMWS Annual Meeting: Waco, Texas. 2014.

Politicizing Apollo: Ovid's Commentary On Augustan Marriage Legislation In The Ars Amatoria And The Metamorphoses, Tara N. Godzich

Scripps Senior Theses

Augustan propaganda surrounding Apollo provided the perfect literary device through which Augustan poets could express their sentiments about the new regime. Augustus transformed Apollo from a relatively insignificant god in the Roman pantheon to his own multi-faceted god whose various attributes were meant to legitimize his new position within the Roman Empire. In this thesis I discuss how Ovid uses Augustus’ political affiliation with Apollo to comment on Augustan marriage legislation in two of his texts. In Ovid’s manual on seduction, the Ars Amatoria, he denies poetic inspiration from Apollo at the beginning of his work, preferring instead to …

Aesop And Animal Fable, Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

Classics Faculty Works

This chapter examines the tensions between the symbolic valence of anthropomorphic animals and authentic concerns about real animals in fables of ancient times. It provides an overview of sources and scholarly approach in this study of the Graeco-Latin fable and explores the boundaries between human and animal in early Greek fable-telling. This chapter suggests that the fable tradition occasionally eschews symbolism and anthropomorphism entirely, which reveals a deep and abiding interest in animal behaviour and in material that could be considered as natural history. It also mentions that the fable was linked to the lower classes and affiliated with slaves …

Sexuality And Textuality (Fall 2014), Robert D. Tobin

Syllabi

"Sexuality and Textuality" serves as an introduction to gay and lesbian literary studies and queer theory. It looks at questions of sexuality and literature in ancient and early modern texts (from the Hebrew, Greek and English traditions), as well as in modern texts (from German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and English traditions). In addition to literary texts, students will work with a number of cinematic representations of queer sexuality. Besides these primary texts, students will work with important secondary literature about sexuality."

A photo of this Fall 2014 class was taken as part of Professor Bob Tobin's ongoing class photo tradition.

Severan Marble Plan Of Rome Data Files, Justin St. P. Walsh

Art Faculty Data Sets

In its original state, the Severan Marble Plan of Rome, placed on the wall of the Temple of Peace between 203 and 211 CE, showed viewers the locations of buildings throughout Rome, and even the groundplan of each of those buildings. It is today an extraordinary piece of evidence for understanding the city in that time period, despite its ruinous state. It survives in over 1,100 fragments, representing only about 10% of its original surface area. To date, scholars have successfully placed only about 100 of those fragments with respect to the buildings they depict. Using GIS and CAD software, …

Athenian Black Glass Pottery: A View From The West, Justin St. P. Walsh, Carla Antonaccio

Art Faculty Articles and Research

Excavation of archaic Morgantina (c.700–450 BC), Sicily, has brought to light a significant pattern in the distribution of imported Greek pottery. This pattern, which shows a preference for imports with features that referred to metal vessels, is echoed at sites around the western Mediterranean. We argue that the preference for certain types was communicated back to Greek producers, and that it also reflects the particular local interests of non-Greeks, who associated metallic features not only with wealth, but also with their own ancestral traditions.

Recent Work On Tibullus, Erika Zimmerman Damer

Classical Studies Faculty Publications

This introduction provides an overview of Tibullus’ life, his poetry, and his style, and offers a bibliographical survey of emerging critical trends in interpreting this relatively neglected Roman elegist.

Canonical Heroes Redefined For Postmodern Readership, Catey Bayse

Senior Theses

"The 'hero' has figured as an important archetypal construction throughout literary history that has evolved over centuries. Instead of tracing the evolution of the hero chronologically, this essay will present a postmodern reading of the hero in John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Homer’s Iliad by rereading those texts through James Joyce’s Ulysses. Through this retrospective reading, heroic construction comes to mean something different than it does to classicists or Romanticists. In his construction of Leopold Bloom as the everyman, modern hero, Joyce is unconcerned with physical strength, youth, honor, virtue, lineage, or glory. Rather, Joyce constructs Bloom as a hero …

The Rock-Cut Room On The Acropolis At Golemo Gradište, Konjuh: Date And Purpose, Carolyn S. Snively

Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Faculty Publications

The anonymous city at the site of Golemo Gradište at the village of Konjuh, R. Macedonia, belongs to the period of Late Antiquity; the evidence indicates that it was founded in the 5th century. The lower town on the northern terrace was reconstructed, probably during the second quarter of the 6th century, but the inhabitants abandoned it, for the most part, later in that century and fled for refuge to the acropolis, where a settlement continued to exist into the early 7th century. Earlier material, beginning with the Late Neolithic and continuing sporadically through Bronze Age to Hellenistic, has been …

Bridges, H. Paul Brown

Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Faculty Publications

This entry discusses the linguistic (prosodic) features of the Ancient Greek poetic phenomenon of the metrical "bridge," a position in a line of verse where a word division is either disallowed or strongly disfavored.

The Myth Continues In Percy Jackson: A Look Into Mythology And Its Persistence Today, Maia Anne Swanson

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Review: Julia Kindt, Rethinking Greek Religion, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

There And Back Again: Temporary Immortality In The Mithras Liturgy, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.