Katherine Wasdin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5644769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Wasdin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Wasdin |
| SIGNATURE | WASDIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Concealed Kypris in the Iphigenia at Aulis
In their first stasimon, the chorus of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis (= IA ) praises ‘concealed Kypris’ as a marker of virtue for women (568–72): μέγα τι θηρεύειν ἀρετάν, γυναιξὶ μὲν κατὰ Κύ- πριν κρυπτάν, ἐν ἀνδράσι δ ̓ αὖ κόσμος ἐνὼν ὁ μυριοπλη- θὴς μείζω πόλιν αὔξει. It is something great to hunt for excellence. For women, it is according to concealed Kypris, and among men in turn manifold order being within makes the city grow greater
Conclusion
The conclusion opens with a demonstration of the shared vocabulary of weddings and seduction in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite . In this poem, Aphrodite seduces Anchises by pretending to be a bride. The hymn serves to introduce two categories central to the argument of this book: poetic interaction and cultural frameworks. This chapter summarizes the main arguments of the book by first demonstrating the divergent narrative forms of wedding poetry …
Catullan Women on the Threshold
This chapter demonstates that Catullus 61, a wedding poem, and Catullus 68, an account of an extramarital rendezvous, are best read in tandem. Both revolve around a woman who crosses over a threshold. In Catullus 61, the woman is a bride, but in Catullus 68, she is the speaker’s mistress. Other points of overlap include the presiding deities Cupid and Hymenaeus, specific lexical choices, terminology of licit and illicit laps, and the women’s spat…
Persuasive Violence
This chapter discusses the connection between sexual violence and persuasion, first by identifying a grouping of similar poems that narrate female defloration. Defloration poems displace accounts of violence onto female narrators and downplay them in the voices of the official (male) narrators. Such accounts are found in both wedding and erotic poetry, indicating a point of cultural overlap. Physical force does appear as eroticized titillation in…
Allusive Superstars
The evening star and its counterpart, the morning star, play important roles as generic markers in wedding poetry and love poetry. Poetic appearances of the stars commonly allude to at least one previous example, creating a chain of literary references across antiquity. These stars exert a powerful influence on human activities. In weddings, the evening star brings the bride to the groom, separates her from her family, and arouses mixed emotions …
Eros at Dusk
This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the ancient world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs both foreground ideas of persuasion and praise even though they differ dramatically in their participants and their outcomes. Furthermore, these texts mak…
Weaving Time
Weaving Time:Ariadne and the Argo in Catullus, C. 64 Katherine Wasdin (bio) The Latinate future, from the future participle of the verb 'to be', suggests what 'is about to be', that is, it sees the future as a modality of the present, and, in a way, as already existing (is about-to-be). Duncan Kennedy, Antiquity and the Meanings of Time I. Ordering Time A reader of Catullus's c. 64 is in for a perplexing, if captivating, experience. The poem, his…
The undead past in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School
Journal Article The undead past in Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School Get access Katherine Wasdin Katherine Wasdin *Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The George Washington University, 335 Phillips Hall, 801 22nd St, Washington, DC 20052 [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Classical Receptions Journal, Volume 9, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 268–286, htt…
Honorius Triumphant
Reception and the Classics
Eros at Dusk
This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the ancient world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs both foreground ideas of persuasion and praise even though they differ dramatically in their participants and their outcomes. Furthermore, these texts mak…
Weaving Time
Weaving Time:Ariadne and the Argo in Catullus, C. 64 Katherine Wasdin (bio) The Latinate future, from the future participle of the verb 'to be', suggests what 'is about to be', that is, it sees the future as a modality of the present, and, in a way, as already existing (is about-to-be). Duncan Kennedy, Antiquity and the Meanings of Time I. Ordering Time A reader of Catullus's c. 64 is in for a perplexing, if captivating, experience. The poem, his…
Honorius Triumphant
Reception and the Classics
Honorius Triumphant
The undead past in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School
Journal Article The undead past in Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School Get access Katherine Wasdin Katherine Wasdin *Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The George Washington University, 335 Phillips Hall, 801 22nd St, Washington, DC 20052 [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Classical Receptions Journal, Volume 9, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 268–286, htt…
Weaving Time
Weaving Time:Ariadne and the Argo in Catullus, C. 64 Katherine Wasdin (bio) The Latinate future, from the future participle of the verb 'to be', suggests what 'is about to be', that is, it sees the future as a modality of the present, and, in a way, as already existing (is about-to-be). Duncan Kennedy, Antiquity and the Meanings of Time I. Ordering Time A reader of Catullus's c. 64 is in for a perplexing, if captivating, experience. The poem, his…
Conclusion
The conclusion opens with a demonstration of the shared vocabulary of weddings and seduction in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite . In this poem, Aphrodite seduces Anchises by pretending to be a bride. The hymn serves to introduce two categories central to the argument of this book: poetic interaction and cultural frameworks. This chapter summarizes the main arguments of the book by first demonstrating the divergent narrative forms of wedding poetry …
Catullan Women on the Threshold
This chapter demonstates that Catullus 61, a wedding poem, and Catullus 68, an account of an extramarital rendezvous, are best read in tandem. Both revolve around a woman who crosses over a threshold. In Catullus 61, the woman is a bride, but in Catullus 68, she is the speaker’s mistress. Other points of overlap include the presiding deities Cupid and Hymenaeus, specific lexical choices, terminology of licit and illicit laps, and the women’s spat…
Persuasive Violence
This chapter discusses the connection between sexual violence and persuasion, first by identifying a grouping of similar poems that narrate female defloration. Defloration poems displace accounts of violence onto female narrators and downplay them in the voices of the official (male) narrators. Such accounts are found in both wedding and erotic poetry, indicating a point of cultural overlap. Physical force does appear as eroticized titillation in…
Allusive Superstars
The evening star and its counterpart, the morning star, play important roles as generic markers in wedding poetry and love poetry. Poetic appearances of the stars commonly allude to at least one previous example, creating a chain of literary references across antiquity. These stars exert a powerful influence on human activities. In weddings, the evening star brings the bride to the groom, separates her from her family, and arouses mixed emotions …
Eros at Dusk
This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the ancient world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs both foreground ideas of persuasion and praise even though they differ dramatically in their participants and their outcomes. Furthermore, these texts mak…
Concealed Kypris in the Iphigenia at Aulis
In their first stasimon, the chorus of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis (= IA ) praises ‘concealed Kypris’ as a marker of virtue for women (568–72): μέγα τι θηρεύειν ἀρετάν, γυναιξὶ μὲν κατὰ Κύ- πριν κρυπτάν, ἐν ἀνδράσι δ ̓ αὖ κόσμος ἐνὼν ὁ μυριοπλη- θὴς μείζω πόλιν αὔξει. It is something great to hunt for excellence. For women, it is according to concealed Kypris, and among men in turn manifold order being within makes the city grow greater
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