Classics (Greek)
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Don't Throw Away that Shield! The Pseudo-Hesiodic Scutum Revisited. Victor Castellani, University of Denver
The mini-epic Shield of Heracles is a failed attempt at humor and sensationalism, defeated by its Pseudo-Hesiodic author’s tentative classicism. Nevertheless it reflects venerable traditions of epic parody and preserves interesting, possibly tendentious local variants of heroic and divine myth.
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Centaurs and the Monstrosity of Teaching. Brett Rogers, Gettysburg College
This paper examines the contradictory depictions of the centaur qua teacher in Greek literature. From Cheiron to Nessus in Sophocles’ Trachiniae, I argue that the centaur disrupts intrafamilial education, but exists to be replaced, enabling the development of civic education.
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The 'Other' Odyssean Weaver: Circe in Contemporary Poetry. Mary Economou Bailey, Ryerson University
Appropriating Circe’s myth in The Odyssey, contemporary poets such as Louise Gluck, Carol Ann Duffy, Sheila Russell and Margaret Atwood re-vision an alternate tale that debunks the heroic, exposes male/female inequality, dis/recovers identity and expresses the mythmaking process.
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