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.