Moonianna and the Lost Chronicles of Sophia by Miranda Moondawn (2025)

The Birdcage of the Muses: Patronage of the Arts and Sciences at the Ptolemaic Imperial Court, 305-222 BCE. Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 17 (Leuven: Peeters, 2017)., 2017

In the third century BCE, the Ptolemaic imperial court at Alexandria was the unchallenged center of culture and learning of the Hellenistic world. Backed by the vast wealth and prestige of the Ptolemies, the city of Alexandria became the symbolic capital of the world (pun intended). Third-century Alexandria was the main hub of a global imperial network stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Black Sea. Many poets, philosophers, inventors, geographers, and other men of letters migrated to that center to enjoy the generous patronage of the Ptolemies and to acquire prestige by being associated with the royal city. The Hellenistic Age was a period of intensified globalization, and it was through the royal court that writers and scientists were able to gain access to the extensive elite networks that connected communities throughout the Mediterranean and beyond. Literary authors contributed to the growth of interconnectivity by creating a common ‘Hellenistic’ imperial culture and language, as well as through the expression of imperial themes in their work. Most notable among the latter was the idea that the civilized world was, or ought to be, a single peaceful oikoumene, of which Alexandria was the glorious, magnetic heart.

Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of Papyrology Lecce, 28th July - 3rd August 2019, 2022

This course aims to reveal the woman and her world or what the society claims to be this world through prose and poetry written in different historical periods in Greece. The works chosen are part of major contemporary Greek literature and interact with culture, history and social ideas of the country. They represent three different periods: the beginning of the 20 th century, the years of dictatorship (1967-1974) and the period after the dictatorship until today. They all have a big impact on Greek literature and they all have drawn the interest of excellent translators in English. The works are offering the opportunity to observe the changes in women' s position in Greece, and mostly to analyze major works examining the inner nature of the human being. The texts will be taught in English. No knowledge of Modern Greek is required. However, students with such knowledge are encouraged to study the text in Modern Greek, as well, since the chosen editions are bilingual.

Tomasz Mojsik, 2023

Epithets used to describe the Muses are an essential component of metapoetic language, starting as early as the time of Homer and Hesiod. However, it has never been a static phenomenon as the cultural transformations entailed the changes in the language describing the Muses. Its scope included physical appearance, ancestry, voice/sound, relations with the poet/musician and – a rather important aspect – geographical associations. Revealing traces of this imagery is not an easy task – we lack cult hymns, and in most literary works we encounter merely 2-3 epithets at the most. In this respect Ovid is exceptional. In his Metamorphoses (5,254-6,2), in the story of the contest between the Muses of Helicon and the false Pierides, the poet deploys a uniquely rich descriptive terminology concerning the Muses (Mnemonides, Thespiades, Aonides, Emathides, [Pierides], doctae sorores, etc.). In this article I look at the poet's choices in this story and analyze the origins, functions and connotations of the epithets and terms he uses.

East-West Cultural Passage, 2020

In the context of Modernism's constant return to the past that results in self-knowledge and innovation, certain women writers found Sappho's writings relevant for their own poetic endeavours. My article will mainly focus on the mythological aspects of both Sappho's and the modernist women's poetry. Invocations of and allusions to gods and goddesses and other mythical figures, which involve introspection and expressing certain erotic concerns in stylised ways, will be discussed in order to show how all these women poets innovated. and, in many different ways, significantly enriched the literature of their times. Critics have mainly focused on H.-D.'s poetry in relation to Sappho's, most likely because the modernist poet had also translated (or adapted, according to most scholars) a number of Sappho's poems. As regards other modernist women poets, such as, for instance, Amy Lowell or Marianne Moore, critics have refrained, for various reasons, from analysing their work in relation to Sappho's. There are very few critical accounts of Sappho's influence on their (and even H.-D.'s) poetry, and this article will, perforce, draw on these, but aims, all the while, to provide new and relevant insights.

In: The Muses and their Afterlife in post-Classical Europe, ed. by C. Wedepohl, K. Christian and C. Guest, Warburg Institute Colloquia Series. 2014, pp. 103-154

In Other Words the Journal For Literary Translators, 2010

... The autobiography of a Goddess. Autores: Priya Sarukkai Chabria; Localización: In other words: the journal for literary translators, ISSN 1361-911X, Nº. 35, 2010 , págs. 26-37. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...

The newest volume of Museikon, a journal of religious art and culture.

S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies, 2022

This article investigates the question of the influence ofGoddess feminism on children’s literature (picture books, earlyreaders, young readers, young adult) since its inception in the 1970s.A key finding is that in contrast to earlier decades, a variety ofchildren’s books featuring Goddesses and the Divine Feminine,mostly in the young readers and young adult categories, have beenpublished in the past 20 years. Apart from their appearanceconcurrently with the rise of Goddess feminism, a prominent featurethat is shared by many, but not all, of these works is the archetypalinterpretation of Goddess/es which views the Female Divine as asource of empowerment for women and girls.

Interpreting the Seventh Century BC. Tradition and Innovation (X. Charalambidou & C. Morgan eds.), Archaeolopress, Oxford, 2017, 382-392.

In this contribution I discuss what lyric poetry can contribute to our knowledge of the 7th century BC. After making some general remarks about its value as an historical source, I focus on what lyric poetry tells us about various forms of group identity related to, for instance, the polis community, gender, age, social class and supralocal collectives. Lyric poetry is generally thought to provide testimony to the ‘rise of the individual’, but I intend to show that ‘the rise of the community’ is a theme that is no less significant for lyric poets and their audiences, suggesting that the 7th century was instrumental for the conceptualization of these forms of shared identities.

International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 2017

This paper deals with the way the goddess(es) of ancient Crete and Greece are imagined and reappropriated in the feminist spirituality movement. It offers an overview over the different metamorphoses of these ancient goddesses in the twentieth century, and takes a closer look at the goddess-related work of Carol P. Christ.

A short essay from my dissertation on the ancient Greek feminine fertility cult called The Thesmophoria.

Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture. Mary Ann Beavis and Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, eds. (Lytle Creek, CA: Mago Books, 2018). ISBN-13: 978-1976331022; ISBN-10: 1976331021, 2018

My focus is on the Great Goddesses of Nature in ancient Greece; Artemis as Great Mother, Mistress of Animals, and Huntress; and the Relevance of Divine Mistresses of Nature, Plants, and Animals for Today's Ecological Crises. The purpose of my paper is to present a spiritual ecofeminist perspective, using the methodology of archaeomythology — a combination of archaeology, mythology, linguistics, history, and folklore — to study the Divine Mistresses of Nature, Plants, and Animals in Ancient Greece. I want to see how they might provide inspiration for us in solving the ecological crises that plague our planet now. A spiritual ecofeminist perspective seeks to discover the inter-relationships of women and the rest of nature, with an eye to seeing the spiritual significance of both, the spiritual significance of all. This may serve to help re-balance the over-emphasis on materialism in our increasingly dispirited societies

This essay in the light of the Catholic and Jewish Mystical thought explores the origins and spiritual meanings of the Ancient Greek concept of the Muses and its integration into our lives today.