Clara Bosak-Schroeder
Biographic Data
| ID | 5166733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clara Bosak-Schroeder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clara |
| FAMILY NAME | Bosak-Schroeder |
| SIGNATURE | BOSAK-SCHROEDER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5902-2314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Tropical Turn
In The Tropical Turn, Sureshkumar Muthukumaran marshals a staggering range of textual and archaeological sources to investigate the spread of Indian plant species to the Mediterranean and Middle East beginning around 3000 BCE. Muthukumaran's command of the material, which ranges from Sanskrit poetry to Roman archeobotany, allows him to track plants across the linguistic and temporal borders that usually demarcate subdisciplines of ancient history…
Disability Studies and the Classical Body
Queer Reproductions in Vergil’s Georgics and Brian Britigan’s Golden
Pairing Vergil’s Latin poem, the Georgics, with Golden, a 2012 painting by Brian Britigan, I explore the sexualities and ecologies of animal bodies. First, I argue that Golden responds to the “bugonias” of the Georgics, scenes in which a dead ox spontaneously generates bees. Through the image of one species emerging from another Vergil and Britigan queer straight ideas of reproduction in different ways. Vergil’s queering is processual, describing…
Making Specimens in the Periplus of Hanno and its Imperial Tradition
The Periplus of Hanno is a short Greek description of Hanno’s voyage from Carthage along the west coast of Africa. In this article, I turn attention to Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, and Athenaeus’ reception of its final, infamous scene, in which Hanno kills and flays female “Gorillai” and brings their hairy skins back to Carthage. The Gorillai are called human beings (anthrōpoi) but also marked as nonhuman. Contrary to modern expectation, Roma…
The Religious Life of Greek Automata
This paper examines the religious lives of Greek automata. An automaton is an object that has been constructed to move on its own.1 I argue that ancient Greek automata at first had a solely magical life, later attained a mechanical life, and that this change from magical to mechanical allowed automata to proliferate in religious contexts. While automata were originally imagined as purely magical, the advent of advanced mechanics later in antiquit…
Making Specimens in the Periplus of Hanno and its Imperial Tradition
The Periplus of Hanno is a short Greek description of Hanno’s voyage from Carthage along the west coast of Africa. In this article, I turn attention to Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, and Athenaeus’ reception of its final, infamous scene, in which Hanno kills and flays female “Gorillai” and brings their hairy skins back to Carthage. The Gorillai are called human beings (anthrōpoi) but also marked as nonhuman. Contrary to modern expectation, Roma…
The Religious Life of Greek Automata
This paper examines the religious lives of Greek automata. An automaton is an object that has been constructed to move on its own.1 I argue that ancient Greek automata at first had a solely magical life, later attained a mechanical life, and that this change from magical to mechanical allowed automata to proliferate in religious contexts. While automata were originally imagined as purely magical, the advent of advanced mechanics later in antiquit…
Making Specimens in the Periplus of Hanno and its Imperial Tradition
The Periplus of Hanno is a short Greek description of Hanno’s voyage from Carthage along the west coast of Africa. In this article, I turn attention to Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, and Athenaeus’ reception of its final, infamous scene, in which Hanno kills and flays female “Gorillai” and brings their hairy skins back to Carthage. The Gorillai are called human beings (anthrōpoi) but also marked as nonhuman. Contrary to modern expectation, Roma…
Queer Reproductions in Vergil’s Georgics and Brian Britigan’s Golden
Pairing Vergil’s Latin poem, the Georgics, with Golden, a 2012 painting by Brian Britigan, I explore the sexualities and ecologies of animal bodies. First, I argue that Golden responds to the “bugonias” of the Georgics, scenes in which a dead ox spontaneously generates bees. Through the image of one species emerging from another Vergil and Britigan queer straight ideas of reproduction in different ways. Vergil’s queering is processual, describing…
Disability Studies and the Classical Body
The Tropical Turn
In The Tropical Turn, Sureshkumar Muthukumaran marshals a staggering range of textual and archaeological sources to investigate the spread of Indian plant species to the Mediterranean and Middle East beginning around 3000 BCE. Muthukumaran's command of the material, which ranges from Sanskrit poetry to Roman archeobotany, allows him to track plants across the linguistic and temporal borders that usually demarcate subdisciplines of ancient history…
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works)