Narratives of Time and Gender in Antiquity

Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. She has particular interest in ancient Greek religion and magic, and her publications include Oracles, Curses, and Risk among the Ancient Greeks (2007), Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010), and Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2016). She is interested in using anthropological and cognitive approaches to ancient evidence, and is the co-founder and co-editor in chief of the Journal of Cognitive Historiography. Lisa Maurizio is Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies at Bates College, Maine. She is interested in interplay between gender, oral poetry, and Greek religion, and she has published articles on Delphic divination as well as Classical Mythology in Context (2015). Her adaptations of Greek tragedies Tereus in Fragments and the Memory of Salt have been produced by the Animus Ensemble in Boston. She is currently working on a digital edition of Delphic oracles that acknowledges their oral composition and transmission.

1. Women’s Tangible Time: Perceptions of Continuity and Rupture in Female Temporality in Homer 2. Atalanta and Sappho: Women In and Out of Time 3. Feminizing aiōn ("Life" / "Lifetime") in Pindar’s Epinikians 4. Gendered Time and Narrative Structure in Herodotos’ Histories 5. Time and Gender in Epic Quests and Delphic Oracles 6. Gendered Patterns: Constructing Time in the Communities of Catullus 64 7. Delia’s Saturnian Day: Gender and Time in Tibullan Love Elegy 8. Eating up Time in Ovid’s Erysichthon Episode (Metamorphoses 8.738-878) 9. Telling Time with Epiphanius: Periodization and Metaphors of Genealogy and Gender in the Panarion 10.(En)Gendering Christian Time: Female Saints and Roman Martyrological Calendars