Classics

Review Humanities, Multidisciplinary

'Dance against the void': Derek Jarman, dance, queer classical receptions

Marcus Bell

Summary: This article examines three pivotal moments in Derek Jarman's artistic career and proposes a new kinetic-temporal methodology for exploring reception based on the fleeting queer modalities of dance. It establishes connections between classical reception studies, queer theory, critical theory, and dance studies, and argues that despite challenging ideas of fixity or lineage, Jarman's works still resonate with the hierarchies of white supremacist Imperialism.

CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL (2023)

Article Humanities, Multidisciplinary

Medea/Media: a glitchy counterfactual

Mario Telo, Catherine Conybeare

Summary: This article provides a reading and analysis of James Ijames's new play "Media/Medea," which premiered in April 2023. The article explores the themes of irony, queer "authenticity," acting, and mothering in the play, especially focusing on the innovative concept of unfulfilled infanticide and its reflection on survival in an anti-Black world.

CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL (2023)

Article Classics

Steps towards inclusivity: modifying challenging content, navigating pedagogical materials and initiating student reflection within the Classics classroom

David Peddar

Summary: This paper describes the author's efforts to address the sensitivities in the Classics classroom, specifically focusing on a student who felt that her passion for the subject was not valued and that it was a field where only boys could succeed. The author discusses the actions taken to address this issue.

JOURNAL OF CLASSICS TEACHING (2023)

Article Humanities, Multidisciplinary

Forging lesbians: Sappho and The Songs of Bilitis

Cat Lambert

Summary: This paper complicates the narrative of Les Chansons de Bilitis as a rediscovery of lesbian literature by reframing it as part of a broader history of queer forgery. It also highlights the complex relationship between forging queer narratives and identities and colonialist and patriarchal power dynamics.

CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL (2023)

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Artfully False Duals in Empedocles' Painters Simile (fr. 23 DK) and the Hexameter Tradition

Leon Wash

Summary: This article presents evidence for false dual forms as a poetic license in the hexameter tradition, arguing against the belief that Empedocles' painters represent Love and Strife. Instead, it suggests that the painters are an indefinite plurality, challenging the new consensus. The duals in fr. 23 and 137 do seem to connect with Empedocles' golden age of Aphrodite.

SYMBOLAE OSLOENSES (2023)

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Gattungspoetik, Intra- und Intertextualität im zweiten Fabelbuch des Phaedrus

Heiko Ullrich

Summary: This essay attempts to show how Phaedrus develops a genre poetics of fables in the second book, frequently using intra- and intertextual references. It explores the production and reception conditions, differentiation from related genres, and the intention of the fable by reflecting on the relationship with contemporary plagiarists, the legendary model Aesop, satire and didactic poetry, the stylistic ideal of breuitas, and the deliberate ambiguity of individual texts. It reveals a distinctly pronounced ring composition and a rather pessimistic view in the first half of the fable book, which contrasts with a more optimistic attitude in the second half, thus balancing the reversed orientation of the optimistic prologue and the pessimistic epilogue.

SYMBOLAE OSLOENSES (2023)

Book Review Classics

Xenophon and the Athenian Democracy: The Education of an Elite Citizenry

Robert Holschuh Simmons

JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES (2023)

Book Review Classics

The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practices

Vassilis Petrakis, A. P. Judson

JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES (2023)

Book Review Classics

The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology

Norah Woodcock, S. Connell

JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES (2023)

Article Classics

HELLENISTIC WAR-ELEPHANTS AND THE USE OF ALCOHOL BEFORE BATTLE

Silvannen R. Gerrard

CLASSICAL QUARTERLY (2023)

Book Review Classics

Brill's Companion to Theocritus

Richard Rawles, P. Kyriakou, E. Sistakou, A. Rengakos

JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES (2023)

Article Classics

NE SPADONES FIANT: DOMITIAN'S EMASCULATION BAN

Juan P. Lewis

CLASSICAL QUARTERLY (2023)

Article Classics

Use of Open Access AI in teaching classical antiquity. A methodological proposal

Carlos Diaz-Sanchez, Diego Chapinal-Heras

Summary: This paper presents an innovative approach to teaching the Classical era at high school and university level using Open Access AI. It explains the growing interest in AI technology and its applications in philology, history, and related areas. The paper outlines the different steps of the proposal, which utilizes the Midjourney program, and discusses its pros and cons.

JOURNAL OF CLASSICS TEACHING (2023)

Article Classics

Teaching Classics as an applied subject

Alice Konig

Summary: This article discusses the opportunities and challenges of teaching Classics as an 'applied' subject. It emphasizes the importance of applying ancient resources, practices or ideas to address contemporary challenges and explores the impact of such courses on students' skill development and awareness, as well as their contribution to the future of Classics.

JOURNAL OF CLASSICS TEACHING (2023)

Book Review Classics

Xenophon's Socratic Works

Shane Brennan, D. m Johnson

JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES (2023)

Article Classics

THE SUPPRESSION OF THE DRUIDS IN CAESAR'S GALLIC WAR

Tyler Creer

CLASSICAL QUARTERLY (2023)

Article Classics

THREE PASSAGES OF ANCIENT PROLEGOMENA TO ARATUS

Oliver Thomas

CLASSICAL QUARTERLY (2023)

Book Review Classics

Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation: The Queen and Her Question

Benjamin Folit-Weinberg, J. Arft

JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES (2023)