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This video includes photographs of Troezen. Topics include gender roles for humans and for gods, Amazons, foundational myths, Athens, nurse, trophos – breastfeeding, yearnings in myth and ritual, Where the Boys Are, Phaedra, Artemis, the menstrual cycle, Pentheus, Dionysus, Pausanias.
Recorded in Spring 2018 during v9 of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on Hours 20 and 21, and responses to the Discussion Questions.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and members of the HeroesX Team.
Mentioned in the discussion:
Helen Karydas: Eurykleia and her successors: female figures of authority in Greek poetics
rowman.com/ISBN/9780822630661/Eurykleia-and-Her-Successors-Female-Figures-of-Authority-in-Greek-Poetics
For the reference to the rush of wind in the uterus, see H24H 20§48 (in which Gregory Nagy pays tribute to the late Nicole Loraux on this subject), also §§54, 59.
This video includes photographs of Troezen. Topics include gender roles for humans and for gods, Amazons, foundational myths, Athens, nurse, trophos – breastfeeding, yearnings in myth and ritual, Where the Boys Are, Phaedra, Artemis, the menstrual cycle, Pentheus, Dionysus, Pausanias.
Recorded in Spring 2018 during v9 of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on Hours 20 and 21, and responses to the Discussion Questions.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and members of the HeroesX Team.
Mentioned in the discussion:
Helen Karydas: Eurykleia and her successors: female figures of authority in Greek poetics
rowman.com/ISBN/9780822630661/Eurykleia-and-Her-Successors-Female-Figures-of-Authority-in-Greek-Poetics
For the reference to the rush of wind in the uterus, see H24H 20§48 (in which Gregory Nagy pays tribute to the late Nicole Loraux on this subject), also §§54, 59.
