Dorota M Dutsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 9344904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorota M Dutsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorota M |
| FAMILY NAME | Dutsch |
| SIGNATURE | DUTSCH D M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between Utopia and History
Chapter I draws on Lucian’s Portraits to envision composite iconic figures that readers construct from other literary portraits. Ten “snapshots” provide raw material for such composite images of Pythagorean women. The snapshots are drawn from Pythagorean acousmata ; Plato’s dialogues, and the writings of Aristoxenus, Dicaearchus, Neanthes, and Timaeus of Tauromenium. These extracts cited in the works of Imperial writers are shaped by several comp…
Theophylact Simocatta, Theano to Eurydice
Zanetto 3 Θεανὼ Εὐρυδίκῃ Ὁ φυσικός σοι κόσμος παρῴχηκε , καὶ ῥυτίδων ἐγγὺς ἡ εὐπρέπεια · σὺ δὲ παραχαράττειν ἐπιχειρεῖς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπιπλάστῳ κόσμῳ τοὺς ἐραστὰς φενακίζουσα . πειθάρχει τῷ χρόνῳ , γραΐδιον · οὐ γὰρ εὐπρεπεῖς οἱ λειμῶνες ἐν μετοπώρῳ τοῖς ἄνθεσι . ...
Letters of Advice
S III 160, 162; T 115–16; Hercher 607 Μέλισσα Κλεαρέτα [χαίρειν ]. 1. Αὐτομάτως ἐμὶν φαίνῃ πλέονα τῶν καλῶν ἔχεν · τὸ γὰρ ἐσπουδασμένως ἐθέλεν τὺ ἀκοῦσαι περὶ γυναικὸς εὐκοσμί - ας καλὰν ἐλπίδα διδοῖ ὅτι μέλλεις πολιοῦσθαι κατ ’ ἀρε -...
Epilogue
The Epilogue turns briefly to Byzantine reception of Pythagorean women in five short witty letters composed in the persona of Theano. Theophylact Simocatta’s Theano to Eurydice is compared to four anonymous notes “by Theano”: (yet another) To Eurydice, To Timonides, To Eucleides , and To Rhodope , preserved in a one manuscript only, along with explicitly Christian texts. All five notes present Theano as an exemplar of ancient ethics and debate wh…
Treatises
T 142.17–145.6 ; Stob. Anth . 4.28.19 Hercher p. 688 (Mullach 2 p. 34) Περικτιόνης Πυθαγορείας ἐκ τοῦ Περὶ γυναικὸς ἁρμονίας . 1. 1 Τὴν ἁρμονίην γυναῖκα νώσασθαι δεῖ φρονήσιός τε καὶ σωφροσύνης πλείην · κάρτα γὰρ ψυχὴν πεπνῦσθαι δεῖ εἰς ἀρετήν , ὥστ...
Notes from Vaticanus Graecus 578
S 178 ̓Επιστολαὶ πρός τινας τῆς σοφωτάτης Θεανοῦς Letters to women from wisest Theano S VIII 178, 180 ; T 197; Hercher 606 No. 7 Εὐρυδίκῃ τῇ θαυμασίᾳ . Τίς λύπη κατέχει τὴν ψυχήν ; ἀθυμεῖ
Pictures from an Exhibition
Chapter II collects and analyses the Greek sayings that circulated under Theano’s name, and briefly discusses the Syriac collection. It situates Theano in the gallery of sages and clever women whose personae were represented and repeatedly performed through chreiai . Theano articulates her program within a greater network of sayings and anecdotes, including sayings of clever courtesans, Sappho, Diogenes, Herodotus, and Spartan women, to then be d…
Pythagorean Women Philosophers
Modern scholarly accounts of Greek philosophical history usually exclude women. And yet, from Dixaearchus of Messana to Diogenes Laertius, classical writers record the names of women philosophers from various schools. What is more, pseudonymous treatises and letters (likely dating after the first century CE) articulate the teachings of Pythagorean women. How can this literature inform our understanding of Greek intellectual history? To take these…
(Wo)men of Bacchus
This chapter is concerned with the instability of gender boundaries in comedy and with the gendering of instability in Roman culture. After a brief discussion of comedy's association of modus with masculinity, it turns to those instances in which the scripts of Plautus graft (allegedly) masculine attitudes onto feminine utterances or vice versa. The blending of genders in comedy is then compared with the rhetoric surrounding the suppression (in 1…
Father Tongue, Mother Tongue
Efforts to separate the speech of ‘the man himself’ from that of ‘unmanly’ others are implied in ancient rhetorical and philosophical treatises. This chapter traces such efforts from Donatus, through Cicero, to Aristotle and Plato, in an attempt to define the ontological status of feminine discourses in Roman comedy. The chôra, the indefinite (Derrida) and thus feminine (Kristeva, Irigaray) space of becoming in Plato's theory of creation emerges …
Epilogue
Of Pain and Laughter
Roman comedy uses various means to portray male and female suffering. In general — although there are some meaningful exceptions — loud weeping (indicative of all that is irrational and incoherent) is associated with female characters, while the use of interjections (indicative of greater self-control) is associated with male characters. The stereotypical routine of the comic maid also reveals a biased perception of female pain as disorderly and …
Plautus' Pharmacy
This chapter explores a register of speech that the 4th-century commentator Donatus called blanditia. A detailed analysis of the distribution of the lexical markers of this register (the modifier amabo and the address with mi/mea) in Terence and Plautus reveals that blanditia is primarily a discourse implying intimate connection. Such speech relies on an in-depth knowledge of the needs of others, or an illusion of such knowledge, which can be use…
Introduction
Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy
Ancient scholiasts and modern scholars have long been aware of a specialized feminine vocabulary (terms of endearment, a special word for 'please', and interjections) used by the authors of Roman comedy. This study investigates the cultural implications of these linguistic choices for female characters. Lexical mannerisms are, it emerges, only one manifestation of a larger tendency to portray women as disregarding of interpersonal boundaries and …
Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy
Ancient scholiasts and modern scholars have long been aware of a specialized feminine vocabulary (terms of endearment, a special word for 'please', and interjections) used by the authors of Roman comedy. This study investigates the cultural implications of these linguistic choices for female characters. Lexical mannerisms are, it emerges, only one manifestation of a larger tendency to portray women as disregarding of interpersonal boundaries and …
(Wo)men of Bacchus
This chapter is concerned with the instability of gender boundaries in comedy and with the gendering of instability in Roman culture. After a brief discussion of comedy's association of modus with masculinity, it turns to those instances in which the scripts of Plautus graft (allegedly) masculine attitudes onto feminine utterances or vice versa. The blending of genders in comedy is then compared with the rhetoric surrounding the suppression (in 1…
Father Tongue, Mother Tongue
Efforts to separate the speech of ‘the man himself’ from that of ‘unmanly’ others are implied in ancient rhetorical and philosophical treatises. This chapter traces such efforts from Donatus, through Cicero, to Aristotle and Plato, in an attempt to define the ontological status of feminine discourses in Roman comedy. The chôra, the indefinite (Derrida) and thus feminine (Kristeva, Irigaray) space of becoming in Plato's theory of creation emerges …
Epilogue
Of Pain and Laughter
Roman comedy uses various means to portray male and female suffering. In general — although there are some meaningful exceptions — loud weeping (indicative of all that is irrational and incoherent) is associated with female characters, while the use of interjections (indicative of greater self-control) is associated with male characters. The stereotypical routine of the comic maid also reveals a biased perception of female pain as disorderly and …
Plautus' Pharmacy
This chapter explores a register of speech that the 4th-century commentator Donatus called blanditia. A detailed analysis of the distribution of the lexical markers of this register (the modifier amabo and the address with mi/mea) in Terence and Plautus reveals that blanditia is primarily a discourse implying intimate connection. Such speech relies on an in-depth knowledge of the needs of others, or an illusion of such knowledge, which can be use…
Introduction
Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy
Ancient scholiasts and modern scholars have long been aware of a specialized feminine vocabulary (terms of endearment, a special word for 'please', and interjections) used by the authors of Roman comedy. This study investigates the cultural implications of these linguistic choices for female characters. Lexical mannerisms are, it emerges, only one manifestation of a larger tendency to portray women as disregarding of interpersonal boundaries and …
Between Utopia and History
Chapter I draws on Lucian’s Portraits to envision composite iconic figures that readers construct from other literary portraits. Ten “snapshots” provide raw material for such composite images of Pythagorean women. The snapshots are drawn from Pythagorean acousmata ; Plato’s dialogues, and the writings of Aristoxenus, Dicaearchus, Neanthes, and Timaeus of Tauromenium. These extracts cited in the works of Imperial writers are shaped by several comp…
Theophylact Simocatta, Theano to Eurydice
Zanetto 3 Θεανὼ Εὐρυδίκῃ Ὁ φυσικός σοι κόσμος παρῴχηκε , καὶ ῥυτίδων ἐγγὺς ἡ εὐπρέπεια · σὺ δὲ παραχαράττειν ἐπιχειρεῖς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπιπλάστῳ κόσμῳ τοὺς ἐραστὰς φενακίζουσα . πειθάρχει τῷ χρόνῳ , γραΐδιον · οὐ γὰρ εὐπρεπεῖς οἱ λειμῶνες ἐν μετοπώρῳ τοῖς ἄνθεσι . ...
Letters of Advice
S III 160, 162; T 115–16; Hercher 607 Μέλισσα Κλεαρέτα [χαίρειν ]. 1. Αὐτομάτως ἐμὶν φαίνῃ πλέονα τῶν καλῶν ἔχεν · τὸ γὰρ ἐσπουδασμένως ἐθέλεν τὺ ἀκοῦσαι περὶ γυναικὸς εὐκοσμί - ας καλὰν ἐλπίδα διδοῖ ὅτι μέλλεις πολιοῦσθαι κατ ’ ἀρε -...
Epilogue
The Epilogue turns briefly to Byzantine reception of Pythagorean women in five short witty letters composed in the persona of Theano. Theophylact Simocatta’s Theano to Eurydice is compared to four anonymous notes “by Theano”: (yet another) To Eurydice, To Timonides, To Eucleides , and To Rhodope , preserved in a one manuscript only, along with explicitly Christian texts. All five notes present Theano as an exemplar of ancient ethics and debate wh…
Treatises
T 142.17–145.6 ; Stob. Anth . 4.28.19 Hercher p. 688 (Mullach 2 p. 34) Περικτιόνης Πυθαγορείας ἐκ τοῦ Περὶ γυναικὸς ἁρμονίας . 1. 1 Τὴν ἁρμονίην γυναῖκα νώσασθαι δεῖ φρονήσιός τε καὶ σωφροσύνης πλείην · κάρτα γὰρ ψυχὴν πεπνῦσθαι δεῖ εἰς ἀρετήν , ὥστ...
Notes from Vaticanus Graecus 578
S 178 ̓Επιστολαὶ πρός τινας τῆς σοφωτάτης Θεανοῦς Letters to women from wisest Theano S VIII 178, 180 ; T 197; Hercher 606 No. 7 Εὐρυδίκῃ τῇ θαυμασίᾳ . Τίς λύπη κατέχει τὴν ψυχήν ; ἀθυμεῖ
Pictures from an Exhibition
Chapter II collects and analyses the Greek sayings that circulated under Theano’s name, and briefly discusses the Syriac collection. It situates Theano in the gallery of sages and clever women whose personae were represented and repeatedly performed through chreiai . Theano articulates her program within a greater network of sayings and anecdotes, including sayings of clever courtesans, Sappho, Diogenes, Herodotus, and Spartan women, to then be d…
Pythagorean Women Philosophers
Modern scholarly accounts of Greek philosophical history usually exclude women. And yet, from Dixaearchus of Messana to Diogenes Laertius, classical writers record the names of women philosophers from various schools. What is more, pseudonymous treatises and letters (likely dating after the first century CE) articulate the teachings of Pythagorean women. How can this literature inform our understanding of Greek intellectual history? To take these…
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