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From Medusa to Clytemnestra to Penelope, we see a new boom of retellings. But it is not new. What does this new generation of reimagined classics say about the moment we are in and the limitations of trend reimagining versus how we learn these stories in an academic setting?

Sources & Links:
qz.com/quartzy/1408600/the-medusa-statue-that-became-a-symbol-of-feminist-rage
nytimes.com/2020/10/13/arts/design/medusa-statue-manhattan.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_of_Paris
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture
lareviewofbooks.org/article/emily-wilson-on-porous-boundaries-and-the-world-of-homer
washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-first-english-translation-of-the-odyssey-by-a-woman-was-worth-the-wait/2017/11/16/692cdf82-c59a-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html

Music & Clips :

youtube.com/watch?v=kmcV90cya1Y
youtu.be/jvU4xWsN7-A

Now We Fight by Bonnie Grace
labour by Paris Paloma
Derry Girls
Hercules & Xena the Battle for Mount Olympus
Poison by Bell Biv DeVoe

Supplementary Reading Material:

(1) The Oedipus Complex, Antigone, and Electra: The Woman as Hero and Victim
Dorothy Willner
American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 58-78 (21 pages)
jstor.org/stable/675950

(2) Women in Greek Myth
MARY R. LEFKOWITZ
The American Scholar, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Spring 1985), pp. 207-219 (13 pages)
jstor.org/stable/41211188

(3) Greek Attitudes towards Women: The Mythological Evidence
P. Walcot
Greece & Rome, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Apr., 1984), pp. 37-47 (11 pages)
jstor.org/stable/642368

(4) Medusa and the Female Gaze
Susan R. Bowers
NWSA Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring, 1990), pp. 217-235 (19 pages)
jstor.org/stable/4316018

(5) Seclusion, Separation, and the Status of Women in Classical Athens
David Cohen
Greece & Rome, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Apr., 1989), pp. 3-15 (13 pages)
jstor.org/stable/643180