Dawn Lavalle Norman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1483707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dawn Lavalle Norman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dawn Lavalle |
| FAMILY NAME | Norman |
| SIGNATURE | NORMAN D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Catholic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3354-1298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cultivating and Contesting the Spiritual Meaning of Male Hair
This thematic cluster aims to advance the methodology for hair interpretations in historical settings with attention to theories and practices specifically dedicated to male hair—which, despite recent interest, still remains relatively understudied—and via a focus on one particular and important axis of significance: religion. We address the grooming of male hair from late antique to early modern Europe, focusing especially on theories of differe…
The Spaces and Morals of Male Body Waxing in Clement of Alexandria and His Contemporaries
In Clement of Alexandria’s long section against false beauty in the Paedagogus , he gives his readers two passages that parody scenes of male body waxing. This article argues that the two passages represent different locations of waxing with different connotations about public display. The first, sharing a source with Athenaeus’s Deipnosophistae , represents body waxing as occurring in public shops, and laments the banal and money-grubbing aspect…
Mark’s Mothers and the Matronymic
This article argues that Mark uses matronymics, that is, identifying someone by the name of their mother, to construct female communities that resist Jesus’ message. This happens precisely twice in the Gospel of Mark, at Mk 6.3 (Jesus ‘the son of Mary’) and at Mk 6.22 (‘the daughter of Herodias’). Through comparison with other Greek uses of the matronymic, I will show that both scenes draw on the link between matronymics and female lines of autho…
Matronymics at Work
Using a matronymic alone was highly unusual in the ancient world. Gathering evidence from three texts from the second and third centuries CE from across confessional divides, I argue that it was a technique to express succession lines in certain female professions—there were simply very few of these in the ancient world. Two works of literature featuring the character of Thecla (the anonymous Act of Paul and Thecla and Methodius of Olympus’ Sympo…
Courtroom Rhetoric in Imperial and Late Antique Philosophical Dialogues
Because dialogue represents philosophy happening in the context of interpersonal relationships, it is a natural place to investigate power dynamics, both displays of power and displays of resistance. But in literature, unlike in life, the power dynamics are completely within the control of one person, the author, who can script the situation as he chooses. In this chapter, I argue that there was a change in the rules of comportment found in liter…
Contesting Aristotle
The contest over the resurrection of the body used the scientific authority of Aristotle as ammunition on both sides. Past scholars have read Methodius of Olympus as displaying an anti-Aristotelian bias. In contrast, through close reading of the entire text with attention to characterization and development of argument, I prove that Methodius of Olympus' dialogue the De Resurrectione utilizes Aristotelian biology as a morally neutral tool. To put…
Hypatia of Alexandria
Sixteen hundred years after her death (d. 415 CE), the legacy of Hypatia of Alexandria's life, teaching, and especially her violent demise, continue to influence modern culture. Through a series of focused articles, this volume takes a fresh look at the most well-known ancient female philosopher under three aspects: first, through the evidence provided by her most famous pupil, Synesius of Cyrene; next, by placing her in her late antique cultural…
Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia of Alexandria was remembered as an inspiring teacher of philosophy, a devoted pagan, and an important mathematician. While her violent death in 415 CE has brought her the most subsequent fame, she also lived an extraordinary life. This volume presents eleven original essays as well as new translations of all the primary sources on Hypatia.
The aesthetics of hope in late Greek Imperial literature Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the third century
This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized and takes as its prime example the understudied Christian writer Methodius of Olympus. Among his many works, this book focuses on his dialogic Symposium, a text which exposes an era's new concern…
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The aesthetics of hope in late Greek Imperial literature Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the third century
This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized and takes as its prime example the understudied Christian writer Methodius of Olympus. Among his many works, this book focuses on his dialogic Symposium, a text which exposes an era's new concern…
Hypatia of Alexandria
Sixteen hundred years after her death (d. 415 CE), the legacy of Hypatia of Alexandria's life, teaching, and especially her violent demise, continue to influence modern culture. Through a series of focused articles, this volume takes a fresh look at the most well-known ancient female philosopher under three aspects: first, through the evidence provided by her most famous pupil, Synesius of Cyrene; next, by placing her in her late antique cultural…
Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia of Alexandria was remembered as an inspiring teacher of philosophy, a devoted pagan, and an important mathematician. While her violent death in 415 CE has brought her the most subsequent fame, she also lived an extraordinary life. This volume presents eleven original essays as well as new translations of all the primary sources on Hypatia.
Contesting Aristotle
The contest over the resurrection of the body used the scientific authority of Aristotle as ammunition on both sides. Past scholars have read Methodius of Olympus as displaying an anti-Aristotelian bias. In contrast, through close reading of the entire text with attention to characterization and development of argument, I prove that Methodius of Olympus' dialogue the De Resurrectione utilizes Aristotelian biology as a morally neutral tool. To put…
Courtroom Rhetoric in Imperial and Late Antique Philosophical Dialogues
Because dialogue represents philosophy happening in the context of interpersonal relationships, it is a natural place to investigate power dynamics, both displays of power and displays of resistance. But in literature, unlike in life, the power dynamics are completely within the control of one person, the author, who can script the situation as he chooses. In this chapter, I argue that there was a change in the rules of comportment found in liter…
Matronymics at Work
Using a matronymic alone was highly unusual in the ancient world. Gathering evidence from three texts from the second and third centuries CE from across confessional divides, I argue that it was a technique to express succession lines in certain female professions—there were simply very few of these in the ancient world. Two works of literature featuring the character of Thecla (the anonymous Act of Paul and Thecla and Methodius of Olympus’ Sympo…
Cultivating and Contesting the Spiritual Meaning of Male Hair
This thematic cluster aims to advance the methodology for hair interpretations in historical settings with attention to theories and practices specifically dedicated to male hair—which, despite recent interest, still remains relatively understudied—and via a focus on one particular and important axis of significance: religion. We address the grooming of male hair from late antique to early modern Europe, focusing especially on theories of differe…
The Spaces and Morals of Male Body Waxing in Clement of Alexandria and His Contemporaries
In Clement of Alexandria’s long section against false beauty in the Paedagogus , he gives his readers two passages that parody scenes of male body waxing. This article argues that the two passages represent different locations of waxing with different connotations about public display. The first, sharing a source with Athenaeus’s Deipnosophistae , represents body waxing as occurring in public shops, and laments the banal and money-grubbing aspect…
Mark’s Mothers and the Matronymic
This article argues that Mark uses matronymics, that is, identifying someone by the name of their mother, to construct female communities that resist Jesus’ message. This happens precisely twice in the Gospel of Mark, at Mk 6.3 (Jesus ‘the son of Mary’) and at Mk 6.22 (‘the daughter of Herodias’). Through comparison with other Greek uses of the matronymic, I will show that both scenes draw on the link between matronymics and female lines of autho…
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