@brooding_bookcase It absolutely is! I'm particularly interested in Chronos in the Orphic theogonies
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Fiona Mitchell
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Monster enthusiast. Researcher on Greek myth and literature.
@EStenchman I don't work enough on Sparta to really have to deal with the modern mis-interpretation of the Spartans. My research is on a smattering of specific myth and literature topics. I imagine a Sparta specialist would have more issues with this sort of thing.
@EStenchman Tbh I almost never get any questions about Sparta
Question for those of you on here for longer than me:
When I open links to people/posts on other instances it always displays in dark mode. For vision reasons, I find this *extremely* hard to read. Can I change settings, or does the spread out nature of the servers prevent this?
So probably time for the introduction post...
I research Greek literature related things. I've spent a lot of time writing about monsters (mostly in this book: https://www.routledge.com/Monsters-in-Greek-Literature-Aberrant-Bodies-in-Ancient-Greek-Cosmogony/Mitchell/p/book/9780367556464).
I'm now mainly interested in time and its personification.
I'm an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham, but essentially an independent scholar.
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Monsters in Greek Literature: Aberrant Bodies in Ancient Greek Cosmogony, Ethnography, and Biology
Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and of the human world. This book provides an in-depth examination of the role of monstrosity in ancient Greek literature. In the past, monsters in this context have largely been treated as unimporta
@MastArchaeo I'm so impressed to see a whole object made out of Nålbinding. I tried it and got absolutely nowhere. Given how much time I have spent doing knitting and crochet it felt like a serious failure.
@FlintDibble Have you heard of a Classics/ancient lit equivalent? Looking to track down a few more of us...