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Me about to make a 10 page essay on Epic because of reasons

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Women in Classical Antiquity

Hey so I’ve compiled a list of sources I have used at some point or other and/or seen reccomended when it comes to the study of Women in Classical Antiquity. Feel free to add anything you have also found useful, though please try to keep it mainly to scholarly and balanced sources.

Historical Studies

New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World by Georgia Tsouvala, Ronnie Ancona

Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World by Jean Macintosh Turfa, Stephanie Lynn Budin

Women and Monarchy in Macedonia by Elizabeth Carney

Roman Women by Eve D'Ambra 

Women in Antiquity: New Assessments by Richard Hawley, et al.

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by Sheila Dillon, Sharon L. James

Pandora’s Daughters: The Role & Status of Women in Greek & Roman Antiquity by Mauren Fant, Mary Lefkowitz

Women in the Classical World: Image and Text by Elaine Fantham, et al.

Women in Greek Myth by Mary Lefkowitz

Women in Classical Antiquity: From Birth to Death by Laura K. McClure

Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity by Sarah Pomeroy

Spartan Women by Sarah Pomeroy

Women’s History and Ancient History by Sarah Pomeroy

Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra by Sarah Pomeroy

Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women by Amy Richland

The Women of Pliny’s Letters by Jo-Ann Shelton

Sourcebooks

Clodia: A Sourcebook by Julia Dyson Hejduk 

Cleopatra: A Sourcebook by Prudence J. Jones

Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation

by Mary Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant

Women in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook by Bonnie MacLachlan

Women in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Bonnie MacLachlan

Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook by Jane Rowlandson

Biographies

Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra by Nathanael J. Andrade

Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire by Anthony A. Barrett

Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome by Anthony A. Barrett

Sabina Augusta: An Imperial Journey by T. Corey Brennan 

Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life by Elizabeth Carney

Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power by Elizabeth Donnelly Carney

Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Carney

Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt by Dee L. Clayman

Cornelia: Mother of the Gracchi by Suzanne Dixon

Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska

Julia Augusti: The Emperor’s Daughter by Elaine Fantham

Clodia: A Sourcebook by Julia Dyson Hejduk

Faustina I and II: Imperial Women of the Golden Age by Barbara M. Levick

Julia Domna: Syrian Empress by Barbara Levick

Turia: A Roman Woman’s Civil War by Josiah Osgood

Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller

Cleopatra’s Daughter: and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Age by Duane W. Roller

Clodia Metelli: The Tribune’s Sister by Marilyn Berglund Skinner

Servilia and Her Family by Susan Treggiari

Terentia, Tullia and Publilia: The Women of Cicero’s Family by Susan Treggiari

Lectures, Documentaries, & Online Sources

Cleopatra: The Most Famous Woman of Classical Antiquity (Lecure by Dr. Duane Roller, 2021)

Lucretia and the Politics of Violence (Lecture by Dr. Mary Beard, 2019)

Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome (2013)

Virgil: Aeneid: Women (lecture by Llewelyn Morgan, 2012)

Women in Antiquity: An Online Resource for the Study of Women in the Ancient World

Women Who Made History: Cleopatra (2015)

Women’s Classical Caucus

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After watching the livestream realised that I misheard one of Penelope’s lines i quotes in this post. The correct lyric is: ”Only my husband knew that. So I guess it makes him YOU!”

Oh, and the livestream was amazing❤️

I was going to wait for the livestream...

Really, I was, but eventually I couldn't wait. Especially with all the spoilers all around. So my first reaktions is of the songs is:

The challenge: Anna Lea has an wonderful voice. She's perfect for Penelope. Strong, emotional but fierce. She and the song is made for each other. She is the wife who has been waiting for 20 years without giving up on her husband. But she's at her wits end. The vultures (suitors) are losing their patience and are closing in on her and her son. She's fighting with everything she have for her husband, her son and herself and now she's going to gamle everything on all all or nothing roll of the dice: Odysseus bow. Her desperation, her refusal to give up hope, her love and her fierceness is all combined in just one song. Queen.

Hold them down: Dark, twisted, cruel, soft and deceitfully seductive. Ayron Alexander gives once again such an amazing performance as Antonius. Softer than velvet, almost like a caress, but with such an darkness and cruel threat barely hidden under the honeyed tones. The lyrics gives me the shudders and goes under my skin.

Odysseus: Oh. My. GOD. SLAY KING!! Literally. The music gives me doomsday feelings. The king is back and have no more fucks to give. And no more mercy. I could write an essay on this song because it's utterly and completely magnificent. Which I might do in the future. The music, the lyrics, the performances. It's just... I lack words right now.

I can't help but wonder: The reunion of Odysseus and Telemachus. Seriously Jorge? You're sending your audience in a mind blowing blood lust induced frenzy à la Ares and then you follow it up with this?? Really, you don't have any consideration for our hearts? Obviously not and I love him for that. Even if you probably could hear my heart break a mile away. Odysseus finally got to meet his baby boy. All grown up but still his beloved child. And Telemachus, he has been waiting his whole life to meet his father. The man who he only know through legends and tales. And now he's finally there. And Telemachus is worried that he's not going to be good enough and Odysseus is so happy and proud over the young man who stands before him and I can't! Also, just one thing more, the way Odysseus voice changes. From the ruthless monster in the song before till the incredibly soft, thick with love and emotional delivery in "I can't help to wonder." Ok. Fine. One thing more. Athena!!! She's back!

Would you fall in love with me again: Also called, Odysseus is an idiot but he's Penelope's idiot. The way that he stands before her. So scared that after all the time and after all he has done that she's not going to be able to love him. He has changed. He has done unspeakable things. He's broken. He not the optimistic and happy young man who left 20 years ago. He is, as Zeus called him "A man full of shame". He has scarified his innocence, his morals, his mercy, his values, his friends. Just to be able to get home to his family. He can barely recognise himself. So how can he expect Penelope to still love him? To ever fall in love with him again. And Penelope won't have it. She. Don't. Care. She loves him. She will always love him. Her delivery of: "Only my husband knew that. What does it make of YOU?!" and Odysseus: "Penelope." His tone so full of wonder and reverence. Penelope "I will fall love with you over and over again. I don't care how, where or when." "Don't tell me your not the same person! You're always my husband!"

Jorge Rivera Herrans. You didn't disappoint.

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My father was a Holocaust survivor. He was the only one of his family to survive. Growing up, for as long as I can remember, he told me about the Menorah his family had before the war. It was silver, with palm trees and lions. He lost that Menorah of course, when the war came, along with his parents, brothers, sisters, everyone and everything else. He never stopped looking for another one like it. And then one day, decades after the war, he happened upon something while browsing a flea market in Warsaw. It was his Menorah. Not one that just looked like it, the genuine article, with his last name engraved in the back. Just like him, by some miracle, the Menorah had survived. It seems so unbelievable, but at the same time it's true. I simply wanted to share this story with all of you and yours and to wish EVERYONE (regardless of what traditions you follow) joy and happiness and most of all PEACE. And remember that miracles can happen.

Source: Eva Tenenbaum-Kirshenblatt

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I was going to wait for the livestream...

Really, I was, but eventually I couldn't wait. Especially with all the spoilers all around. So my first reaktions is of the songs is:

The challenge: Anna Lea has an wonderful voice. She's perfect for Penelope. Strong, emotional but fierce. She and the song is made for each other. She is the wife who has been waiting for 20 years without giving up on her husband. But she's at her wits end. The vultures (suitors) are losing their patience and are closing in on her and her son. She's fighting with everything she have for her husband, her son and herself and now she's going to gamle everything on all all or nothing roll of the dice: Odysseus bow. Her desperation, her refusal to give up hope, her love and her fierceness is all combined in just one song. Queen.

Hold them down: Dark, twisted, cruel, soft and deceitfully seductive. Ayron Alexander gives once again such an amazing performance as Antinous. Softer than velvet, almost like a caress, but with such an darkness and cruel threat barely hidden under the honeyed tones. The lyrics gives me the shudders and goes under my skin.

Odysseus: Oh. My. GOD. SLAY KING!! Literally. The music gives me doomsday feelings. The king is back and have no more fucks to give. And no more mercy. I could write an essay on this song because it's utterly and completely magnificent. Which I might do in the future. The music, the lyrics, the performances. It's just... I lack words right now.

I can't help but wonder: The reunion of Odysseus and Telemachus. Seriously Jorge? You're sending your audience in a mind blowing blood lust induced frenzy à la Ares and then you follow it up with this?? Really, you don't have any consideration for our hearts? Obviously not and I love him for that. Even if you probably could hear my heart break a mile away. Odysseus finally got to meet his baby boy. All grown up but still his beloved child. And Telemachus, he has been waiting his whole life to meet his father. The man who he only know through legends and tales. And now he's finally there. And Telemachus is worried that he's not going to be good enough and Odysseus is so happy and proud over the young man who stands before him and I can't! Also, just one thing more, the way Odysseus voice changes. From the ruthless monster in the song before till the incredibly soft, thick with love and emotional delivery in "I can't help to wonder." Ok. Fine. One thing more. Athena!!! She's back!

Would you fall in love with me again: Also called, Odysseus is an idiot but he's Penelope's idiot. The way that he stands before her. So scared that after all the time and after all he has done that she's not going to be able to love him. He has changed. He has done unspeakable things. He's broken. He not the optimistic and happy young man who left 20 years ago. He is, as Zeus called him "A man full of shame". He has scarified his innocence, his morals, his mercy, his values, his friends. Just to be able to get home to his family. He can barely recognise himself. So how can he expect Penelope to still love him? To ever fall in love with him again. And Penelope won't have it. She. Don't. Care. She loves him. She will always love him. Her delivery of: "Only my husband knew that. What does it make of YOU?!" and Odysseus: "Penelope." His tone so full of wonder and reverence. Penelope "I will fall love with you over and over again. I don't care how, where or when." "Don't tell me your not the same person! You're always my husband!"

Jorge Rivera Herrans. You didn't disappoint.

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Jorge: "Let's go to Ithaca for the the premiere of the Ithaca saga! What could be more fitting than to have the livestream for the final saga there?"

The cast of Epic: "Awesome idea! Lets go!"

Poseidon to Zeus: "You remember Odysseus?"

Zeus: "Yes?"

Poseidon: "A group of mortals have created a musical play about him and his journey to Ithaca... You and I are not portrayed in a flattering light... Now they're on their way to Ithaca for the premiere..."

Zeus, cracks his knuckles: "We will see about that."

Epic crew: Lets travel to Ithaca to livestream the premiere of "How Fucking Difficult it is to get to Ithaca" the Musical! What could go wrong?

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Jesus HUMBLED Himself. He went from commanding ANGELS to sleeping in the straw. From holding STARS to clutching Mary's finger. The PALM that held the universe took the NAIL of a soldier... and He did it just for YOU.

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Merry Christmas sleepyheads !

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daughter of sun

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good luck to anyone who struggles around the holidays. sending some love.

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ah, the 9th doctor. my one true roman empire

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fell off the face of the earth for a while ive been have an interesting couple of months. anyways i had an assignment where i needed to make an illustration based on phantom of the opera, i like how it turned out 👍

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Nothing is “TMI” for me. I’m nosy as shit. Tell me everything. Spare no detail.

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THE COVER IS OUT

ITS RED

IT MAKES SENSE BUT ITS RED AND I DIDNT EXPECT IT

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

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