Classical Presences
Series Editors: Lorna Hardwick, Professor of Classical Studies,
Open University, and James I. Porter, Professor of Greek, Latin,
and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
The texts, ideas, images, and material culture of ancient Greece
and Rome have always been crucial to attempts to appropriate the
past in order to authenticate the present. They underlie the
mapping of change and the assertion and challenging of values and
identities, old and new. Classical Presences brings the latest
scholarship to bear on the contexts, theory, and practice of such
use, and abuse, of the classical past.
Laughing with Medusa explores a series of inter-linking questions,
including: Does history's self-positioning as the successor of myth
result in the exclusion of alternative narratives of the past? How
does feminism exclude itself from certain historical discourses?
Why has psychoanalysis placed myth at the center of its
explorations of the modern subject? Why are the Muses feminine? Do
the categories of myth and politics intersect or are they mutually
exclusive? Does feminism's recourse to myth offer a script of
resistance or commit it to an ineffective utopianism? Covering a
wide range of subject areas including poetry, philosophy, science,
history, and psychoanalysis as well as classics, this book engages
with these questions from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. It
includes a specially commissioned work of fiction, "Iphigeneia's
Wedding," by the poet Elizabeth Cook.
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