VI · 17 JUL · Friday
Movie Night & Closing
From the Odyssey
Companion Readings
- BOOK
Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
Two short lectures (~100 pages). Opens with Telemachus telling Penelope to shut up in Odyssey Book 1 — the first datable instance of public female silencing in Western literature. First lecture free at LRB: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n06/mary-beard/the-public-voice-of-women
- ESSAY
Madeline Miller, "On Women's Work, Translation, and Gender in The Odyssey"
Closing provocation — read the counter-reading before Nolan gives you the blockbuster.
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