Marguerite Johnson

Biographic Data

ID5636167
NAMEMarguerite Johnson
GIVEN NAMESMarguerite
FAMILY NAMEJohnson
SIGNATUREJOHNSON M
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Queensland
ORCID0000-0001-7619-9376
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Truth in the Late Foucault

    Christian Thrue Djurslev, Vernon L Provencal et al.BOOKTruth in the Late Foucault2024

    The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…

  • Baudelaire’s Paris Looking at Africa, and Vice Versa

    Open AccessAlistair Rolls, Marguerite JohnsonARTICLEDix-Neuf2024

    This article tests the textual differences between those of Baudelaire's poems that are typically considered ‘Parisian' or ‘foreign'. It argues that ‘La Belle Dorothée' is not only a poem about an African gaze on France, or indeed only a poem set in Africa, but that it can also be shown to represent an allegory for a Parisian view of self. The more overtly Parisian ‘À une passante’, for its part, glances at more than a poet struck down in Paris b…

  • Georges Cuvier’s Autopsy Report on Sara Baartman

    Marguerite Johnson, Alistair RollsARTICLETerrae Incognitae2023

    In the historical research on Sara Baartman, best known as the “Hottentot Venus,” references to and discussions of her autopsy report by Georges Cuvier have been based on the original French text, “Extrait d’observations faites sur le cadavre d’une femme connue à Paris et à Londres sous le nom de Vénus Hottentotte,” published in 1817. For scholars, students and the general public interested in the life of Baartman, an English translation of the a…

  • Bitchy ladies

    Open AccessMarguerite JohnsonARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2023References: 16

    In a revisionist historical environment in which scholars are increasingly invited to reconsider readings of classical texts from a philological perspective, or from an approach that privileges strict historicity, numerous interpretative possibilities present themselves. Working within such an environment, this study aims to delve into several literary expressions of domestic violence meted out to female slaves—explicitly, ornatrices—by female mi…

  • Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature

    Marguerite Johnson, Terry RyanBOOKSexuality in Greek and Roman…2022Cited by: 1

    This second edition includes an updated review of sexuality in Greece and Rome, an expanded bibliography and numerous new passages with original translations. This book provides readers with detailed information, notes, and original translated passages on the fascinating and multi-faceted theme of ancient sexuality. The sources range from the era of Homer and Hesiod through to the Graeco-Roman world of the Fourth Century CE and explore the divers…

  • Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature

    Marguerite Johnson, Terry RyanBOOKSexuality in Greek and Roman…2022Cited by: 2

    With numerous original translations of ancient poetry, inscriptions and documents, this volume is the first major sourcebook to explore the multifaceted nature of sexuality in antiquity." "Themes such as marriage, prostitution and same-sex attraction are presented comparatively, with material from Greece and Roman worlds shown side by side; this approach allows readers to interpret the written records with a full awareness of the different contex…

  • Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Sapphos in France, England, and the United States

    Open AccessMarguerite JohnsonCHAPTERCambridge Companion to Sappho2021

    Chapter 26 of The Cambridge Companion to Sappho examines the reception of Sappho’s poetry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, England, and the United States, examining figures such as Cicely Hamilton, Michael Field (Katharine Bradley/Edith Cooper), Renée Vivien, Natalie Barney,Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Samuel-Auguste André David Tissot, Sapphism, Honoré Daumier, …

  • Teaching entangled Australian sexual histories

    Open AccessJames Bennett, Marguerite JohnsonARTICLEHistory Compass2021References: 6

    This is an era of significant shifts in power dynamics pertaining to sexualities, the body and the law reflecting major changes in the socio‐political landscape, as evident in, for example, the #MeToo movement; inquiries into systemic child sexual abuse; and campaigns for equal rights, including marriage equality. This article examines the theme of controversies throughout history and provides a series of pedagogical examples drawn from the autho…

  • The Thucydidean Turn

    Benjamin Earley, Marguerite Johnson et al.BOOKThe Thucydidean Turn2020

    The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the twentieth century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, why, and when the Athenian historical came to occupy such a prominent position in political discourse in the US and Europe today. It argues that in the years before, during, and after the Great War Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War was mined for the ins…

  • Cassius Dio

    Jesper Majbom Madsen, Marguerite Johnson et al.BOOKCassius Dio2020

    This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was n…

  • Xenophon

    Fiona Hobden, Marguerite Johnson et al.BOOKXenophon2020

    This book offers a concise introduction to Xenophon, the Athenian historian, political thinker, moral philosopher and literary innovator who was also a pupil of Socrates, a military general on campaign in Persia, and an exile in residence in the Peloponnese during the late fifth and fourth centuries BC. Alive during one of the most turbulent periods in Greek history, Xenophon wrote extensively about the past and present. In doing so he not only i…

  • Antipodean Antiquities

    Jan Haywood, Emma Bridges et al.BOOKAntipodean Antiquities2019Cited by: 2

    "Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…

  • Porphyry and ‘Neopythagorean’ Exegesis in Cave of the Nymphs and Elsewhere

    Harold Tarrant, Marguerite JohnsonARTICLEMéthexis2018

    Porphyry’s position in the ancient hermeneutic tradition should be considered separately from his place in the Platonic tradition. He shows considerable respect for allegorizing interpreters with links to Pythagoreanism, particularly Numenius and Cronius, prominent sources in On the Cave of the Nymphs. The language of Homer’s Cave passage is demonstrably distinctive, resembling the Shield passage in the Iliad, and such as to suggest an ecphrasis …

  • Indigeneity and classical reception in The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

    Marguerite JohnsonARTICLEClassical Receptions Journal2013References: 3

    This article examines six plates depicting Indigenous peoples from the monograph entitled, The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (1789). It is the first piece of scholarship to study the specific artwork separately (as opposed to constituents in broader surveys), and provides an in-depth background to the origins of the plates, their design history, manufacture, contextual placement within the book, and public reception. The primary means …

  • Sappho

    Marguerite JohnsonBOOKSappho2007

    This series of short incisive books introduces major figures of the ancient world to the modern general reader, including the essentials of each subject's life, works, and significance for later western civilisation. In the newly created tradition of the "Ancients in Action" series, Marguerite Johnson has written a fascinating and accessible account of what remains of the life and works of the Greek poet, Sappho. Sappho's ancient biography is cov…

  • Off with the Pixies

    Marguerite JohnsonARTICLEClassics Ireland2006

  • Sexuality in Greek and Roman Literature and Society

    Marguerite Johnson, Terry RyanBOOKSexuality in Greek and Roman…2004

    This Sourcebook contains numerous original translations of ancient poetry, inscriptions and documents, all of which illuminate the multifaceted nature of sexuality in antiquity.The detailed introduction provides full social and historical context for the sources, and guides students on how to use the material most effectively. Themes such as marriage, prostitution and same-sex attraction are presented comparatively, with material from the Greek a…