Denise Eileen Mccoskey
Biographic Data
| ID | 255060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denise Eileen Mccoskey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denise Eileen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccoskey |
| SIGNATURE | MCCOSKEY D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2914-5425 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity
The era generally referred to as antiquity lasted for thousands of years and was characterized by a diverse range of peoples and cultural systems. This volume explores some of the specific ways race was defined and mobilized by different groups—including the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Persians, and Ethiopians— as they came into contact with one another during this period. Key to this inquiry is the examination of institutions, such as religion an…
CHAPTER 15. The Great Escape
Latin Love Poetry
I hate and I love.' The Roman poet Catullus expressed the disorienting experience of being in love in a stark contradiction that has resonated across the centuries. While his description might seem to modern readers natural and spontaneous, it is actually a response planned with great care and artistry. It is that artistry, and the way in which Roman love poetry works, that this book explores. Focusing on Catullus and on the later genre of elegy …
Race
How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person’s physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising ethnic disparity. The colour of one’s skin lies at the foundation of racial variability today because it was used during the heyday of European exploration …
Gender at the crossroads of empire
This project began as an attempt to outline the role of women in Strabo's Geography ; or, to speak more geographically, it began with a desire to determine the place women occupy in Strabo's account of the world. Given that women (with a few notable exceptions) remain relatively muted in Strabo's overall landscape, the topic initially seemed a straightforward one. Yet in working systematically through the Geography it soon becomes evident that St…
Naming the fault in question
“I, whom she detested so bitterly”
Harriet Jacobs’ statement about her feelings for her “perversely vindictive mistress,” Mrs Flint (Gwin 1985b, 41), attests to the complexity of identifications that women, both slave and free, experienced in the American south during the period of slavery. Jacobs records with some degree of irony the pity she, as a slave, has felt for her free mistress, who has suffered from her husband’s indifference. The possible unity between the women, howeve…
The Gift of the Nile
Beginning with the work of Edward Said, many scholars in diverse disciplines have sought to unveil the specific processes by which Western civilization produced and maintained its fantasies about the East as its "Other." In The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, Phiroze Vasunia contributes well to this project by examining the specific role of Egypt in the ancient Greek imagination. Although there has recently been a…
Diaspora in the Reading of Jewish History, Identity, and Difference
Diaspora 12:3 2003 Diaspora in the Reading of Jewish History, Identity, and Difference1 Denise Eileen McCoskey Miami University of Ohio Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans. Erich S. Gruen. Cambridge , MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Identity is what you imagine yourself and the other to be; history and historiography is the writing of the narratives of that difference. —Sander Gilman, Jewish Frontiers (3) Introduction In recent years, cla…
Race Before 'Whiteness
This paper examines the models classical historians and papyrologists use to study Greek and Egyptian identity during the period of Greek occupation of Egypt (332-30 B.C.E.). Employing the concept of ethnicity, some scholars have recently emphasized the fl uidity with which identity seems to operate in colonial documents from the Ptolemaic period. In particular, scholars argue that these documents attest to the increasing ability of certain “nati…
Answering the Multicultural Imperative
Reading Cynthia and Sexual Difference in the Poems of Propertius
‘she is always and never the same’ (advertising slogan for ‘Contradiction’, a ‘fragrance for women’ by Calvin Klein, 1999) In the first poem of his second book, Propertius presents an emphatic declaration of his status as a love poet, slyly incorporating a detailed recusatio to Maecenas, who he claims has requested that he compose epic instead. Later in the poem, Propertius' preference for elegy over epic seems to be echoed by the predilections o…
Race
How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person’s physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising ethnic disparity. The colour of one’s skin lies at the foundation of racial variability today because it was used during the heyday of European exploration …
Naming the fault in question
A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity
The era generally referred to as antiquity lasted for thousands of years and was characterized by a diverse range of peoples and cultural systems. This volume explores some of the specific ways race was defined and mobilized by different groups—including the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Persians, and Ethiopians— as they came into contact with one another during this period. Key to this inquiry is the examination of institutions, such as religion an…
Race Before 'Whiteness
This paper examines the models classical historians and papyrologists use to study Greek and Egyptian identity during the period of Greek occupation of Egypt (332-30 B.C.E.). Employing the concept of ethnicity, some scholars have recently emphasized the fl uidity with which identity seems to operate in colonial documents from the Ptolemaic period. In particular, scholars argue that these documents attest to the increasing ability of certain “nati…
Reading Cynthia and Sexual Difference in the Poems of Propertius
‘she is always and never the same’ (advertising slogan for ‘Contradiction’, a ‘fragrance for women’ by Calvin Klein, 1999) In the first poem of his second book, Propertius presents an emphatic declaration of his status as a love poet, slyly incorporating a detailed recusatio to Maecenas, who he claims has requested that he compose epic instead. Later in the poem, Propertius' preference for elegy over epic seems to be echoed by the predilections o…
Answering the Multicultural Imperative
Reading Cynthia and Sexual Difference in the Poems of Propertius
‘she is always and never the same’ (advertising slogan for ‘Contradiction’, a ‘fragrance for women’ by Calvin Klein, 1999) In the first poem of his second book, Propertius presents an emphatic declaration of his status as a love poet, slyly incorporating a detailed recusatio to Maecenas, who he claims has requested that he compose epic instead. Later in the poem, Propertius' preference for elegy over epic seems to be echoed by the predilections o…
Race Before 'Whiteness
This paper examines the models classical historians and papyrologists use to study Greek and Egyptian identity during the period of Greek occupation of Egypt (332-30 B.C.E.). Employing the concept of ethnicity, some scholars have recently emphasized the fl uidity with which identity seems to operate in colonial documents from the Ptolemaic period. In particular, scholars argue that these documents attest to the increasing ability of certain “nati…
The Gift of the Nile
Beginning with the work of Edward Said, many scholars in diverse disciplines have sought to unveil the specific processes by which Western civilization produced and maintained its fantasies about the East as its "Other." In The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, Phiroze Vasunia contributes well to this project by examining the specific role of Egypt in the ancient Greek imagination. Although there has recently been a…
Diaspora in the Reading of Jewish History, Identity, and Difference
Diaspora 12:3 2003 Diaspora in the Reading of Jewish History, Identity, and Difference1 Denise Eileen McCoskey Miami University of Ohio Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans. Erich S. Gruen. Cambridge , MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Identity is what you imagine yourself and the other to be; history and historiography is the writing of the narratives of that difference. —Sander Gilman, Jewish Frontiers (3) Introduction In recent years, cla…
“I, whom she detested so bitterly”
Harriet Jacobs’ statement about her feelings for her “perversely vindictive mistress,” Mrs Flint (Gwin 1985b, 41), attests to the complexity of identifications that women, both slave and free, experienced in the American south during the period of slavery. Jacobs records with some degree of irony the pity she, as a slave, has felt for her free mistress, who has suffered from her husband’s indifference. The possible unity between the women, howeve…
Naming the fault in question
Gender at the crossroads of empire
This project began as an attempt to outline the role of women in Strabo's Geography ; or, to speak more geographically, it began with a desire to determine the place women occupy in Strabo's account of the world. Given that women (with a few notable exceptions) remain relatively muted in Strabo's overall landscape, the topic initially seemed a straightforward one. Yet in working systematically through the Geography it soon becomes evident that St…
Race
How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person’s physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising ethnic disparity. The colour of one’s skin lies at the foundation of racial variability today because it was used during the heyday of European exploration …
Latin Love Poetry
I hate and I love.' The Roman poet Catullus expressed the disorienting experience of being in love in a stark contradiction that has resonated across the centuries. While his description might seem to modern readers natural and spontaneous, it is actually a response planned with great care and artistry. It is that artistry, and the way in which Roman love poetry works, that this book explores. Focusing on Catullus and on the later genre of elegy …
CHAPTER 15. The Great Escape
A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity
The era generally referred to as antiquity lasted for thousands of years and was characterized by a diverse range of peoples and cultural systems. This volume explores some of the specific ways race was defined and mobilized by different groups—including the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Persians, and Ethiopians— as they came into contact with one another during this period. Key to this inquiry is the examination of institutions, such as religion an…
Classical Antiquity Studies (11 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Classics (5 works)