Tag: Classical Greece
Women prophets of the Ancient Mediterranean
What’s more dangerous than a woman who speaks for God? Jill Marshall delves into the world of the Ancient Mediterranean and its women prophets.
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Lilah Grace Canevaro examines how women in Homeric epic used objects and technology as a dangerous negotiation of agency within the gender constraints of their time.
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From 5th century BCE plays to their contemporary adaptions
In the lead up to a new adaptation of Aeschylus’s ‘The Oresteia’, Olga Taxidou reflects on the dangerous women of classical Greek theatre, and the changing treatment of these characters through the centuries.
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