Narratives of Time and Gender in Antiquity - Paperback

by Esther Eidinow (Editor), Lisa Maurizio (Editor)

This volume offers new insights into ancient figurations of temporality by focusing on the relationship between gender and time across a range of genres.

Author Biography

Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. She has particular interest in ancient Greek religion and magic, and her publications include Oracles, Curses, and Risk among the Ancient Greeks (2007), Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010), and Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2016). She is interested in using anthropological and cognitive approaches to ancient evidence, and is the co-founder and co-editor in chief of the Journal of Cognitive Historiography.

Lisa Maurizio is Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies at Bates College, Maine. She is interested in interplay between gender, oral poetry, and Greek religion, and she has published articles on Delphic divination as well as Classical Mythology in Context (2015). Her adaptations of Greek tragedies Tereus in Fragments and the Memory of Salt have been produced by the Animus Ensemble in Boston. She is currently working on a digital edition of Delphic oracles that acknowledges their oral composition and transmission.