"A Penelopean Poetics looks at the relationship between gender ideology and the self-referential poetics of The Odyssey through the figure of Penelope. She is a cunning storyteller; her repeated reweavings of Laertes' shroud is a figurative replication of the process of oral poe…
"A Penelopean Poetics looks at the relationship between gender ideology and the self-referential poetics of The Odyssey through the figure of Penelope. She is a cunning storyteller; her repeated reweavings of Laertes' shroud is a figurative replication of the process of oral poe…
Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians, polytheists and monotheists alike. Finding it difficult to account for the prevalence of dream-divination, modern sc…