The iconoclast of Classics, Page duBois refuses to act as border
patrol for a sometimes fiercely protected traditional discipline.
Instead, she incorporates insights from postcolonial,
psychoanalytic, and postmodern theories into her nuanced close
readings of ancient Greek texts. Contemporary theory and ancient
texts are mutually transformed in the process. Out of Athens sets
ancient Greek culture next to the global ancient world of Vedic
India, the Han dynasty in China, and the empires that survived
Alexander the Great. DuBois also extends the range of classical
studies through illuminating transhistorical
juxtapositions-ancients brush elbows with Colette as she performs
as a mummy at the Moulin Rouge, or with Kirk Douglas as he appears
on the silver screen as Spartacus. She reads the poetry of Sappho,
the tattooed body of the sage Epimenides, as well as Athenian
tragedy, Buddhist texts set in a post-Alexandrian Bactria,
alongside the work of Judith Butler and Alain Badiou. Page duBois
establishes a daring agenda for the next generation of Classicists
and, for both the intimate friend of Greek texts and the freshly
arrived reader, makes ancient Greeks new.
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