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Next up is @harvardclassics' Miriam Kamil, whose talk is entitled "Straightening the Classics: The Censorship of Homoeroticism in the traditions of Sappho and Catullus." #teachancient #glassics #phdchat
M begins w some background information on Sappho and notes that, by the 19th c, sapphism becomes a synonym for lesbianism. There is an argument to be made that Sappho's homosexuality was censored even by her contemporaries. Stories started by comedians that she was a prostitute
M: Censoring of homoeroticism or usual attacks on women? Prevailing view now that Sappho's poems lost bc they were written in Aeolic dialect - fell out of favor and stopped being read. It's been suggested that suppression of Sappho's homoeroticism was to make her more "palatable"
Welcome to a special Hestia live tweet of @harvardclassics's GLassics workshop (2nd meeting), set up to create a safe space to discuss LGBTQ+ identity in classical texts. Today's workshop will focus on gay reception.
First up is Chris Cochran, who will be discussing "The Gay Reception of Petronius in the #metoo Era" #teachancient #glassics #phdchat
(Chris' introductory slide features the Norman Lindsay's "The Catamite" [1922])
(Chris' introductory slide features the Norman Lindsay's "The Catamite" [1922])
C starts with the scholarly reception of sexuality in Petronius. At the time, Sullivan 1968 seems to give "frank" discussion of bisexuality, 1 year before Stonewall and 10 years before Dover. Today, scholarship suffers from linguistic issues (e.g.: terms such as homosexuality,
