Papers by Lora Holland Goldthwaite
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2020
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2019
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2020
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2020
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2020
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2021
American Journal of Archaeology, 2021
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome [Special Section: Gender, Representation, and Social History in the Ancient Mediterranean: Papers in Honor of Eve D'Ambra], 2023
This contribution aims to re-establish the ancient understanding of antlered Mediterranean deer a... more This contribution aims to re-establish the ancient understanding of antlered Mediterranean deer associated with Artemis in Greek myth as females. An analysis of Greek literary sources that unambiguously describe such deer illuminates a corpus of visual evidence that is collected here for the first time. Modern scientific studies have documented certain conditions under which female red, fallow, and roe deer can bear antlers and viable offspring. In their ancient context antlered females would have been considered marvelous and worthy of Artemis, as literary testimonia describe them. Piecemeal, the images of antlered females have been variously dismissed in the scholarship as an artist’s mistake, a misunderstanding, a deliberate inclusion of antlers to indicate species rather than gender, or thought to be a reference to female reindeer. Some literary references to antlered females have likewise been dismissed or ridiculed. My analysis rejects all these dismissals and argues that the antlered female Mediterranean deer is a rare but naturally occurring phenomenon and should be recognized as an enduring feature of Artemisian mythology from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, bringing into focus a new understanding of a body of ancient evidence that has been overlooked.
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2019
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2020
Etruscan News, Vol. 23 , 2021
A cultural response to language can be detected in the mythology concerning three pairs of male a... more A cultural response to language can be detected in the mythology concerning three pairs of male and female deities in Roman religion: Liber/Libera, Faunus/Fauna, and Janus/Jana. Their same-name status usually invokes the familial relationships of the agnatic nomenclatural system, that is, brother/sister and father/daughter. The interpretation of Liber/Libera and Faunus/Fauna as husband-wife pairs in some authors could be understood in terms of the same-name status of agnatic cousins; but such marriages are rarely attested. The unusual or even scandalous treatments of these same-name divine spouses in Latin literature are best understood in light of contemporary issues in Roman culture.
Collection Latomus, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, 2008
A study of CIL1(2).45, a mid-Republican dedication to the goddess Diana, made by a certain noutri... more A study of CIL1(2).45, a mid-Republican dedication to the goddess Diana, made by a certain noutrix Paperia at the sanctuary of Diana Nemorensis at the Lago di Nemi, Italy. This unique Republican attestation of a wet nurse has been used as evidence for a slave woman's prayer to Diana for a good milk supply, but the use of the nomen gentilicium, Paperia, suggests her status was freedwoman. This dedication has also been used as evidence for Diana as a goddess primarily of women's concerns, a 19th century idea not borne out by the epigraphical evidence. The use of a bronze spear point suggests instead that we look for another meaning for the dedication. In Roman culture the spear was a symbol of sovereignty. This article explores the links between this symbol and the association of Diana's cult in Republican Rome with both sovereignty and slavery, and concludes that Nurse Paperia's dedication may have been a thanks offering for her manumission, a symbol of her restoration to herself.
On Plautus' innovative treatment of the old woman/nurse figure in the Aulularia.
Religious and historical aspects of Euripides’ innovative aetiology for the cult of Medea’s child... more Religious and historical aspects of Euripides’ innovative aetiology for the cult of Medea’s children (Med. 1378–83) have been much discussed; less attention has been paid to Medea’s fear that an enemy might abuse her children’s corpses and tomb if she does not bury them in Hera Acraea’s precinct. An analysis of Medea’s enemies in the play, of the practice of tomb- and corpse-violation in Greek culture, and of how beliefs about the spirits of biaiothanatoi and elucidates this fear and sets it in its cultural context.
Plutarch draws Aemilius Paullus into the philosophical tradition both by assigning to him Pythago... more Plutarch draws Aemilius Paullus into the philosophical tradition both by assigning to him Pythagoras as an ancestor, and by his portrayal of the man as a type of Socrates through metaphorical imagery and anecdote. Especially pertinent are Aemilius' roles as helmsman,
religious leader, and charioteer in his conduct of the Battle of Pydna, the narration of which comprises the bulk of the Life. His depiction of Paullus as a philosopher statesman corresponds to Cicero's portrait of the man in the Somnium Scipionis in several important respects: his self-control, his religiosity, and his interest in instructing the youth. The subtlety of Plutarch's portrait reflects his own notion of paideia, and adds to the larger picture of his acknowledged interest in Socrates and Greek philosophy in general.
Transactions of the American Philological Association, Jan 1, 2003
This study explores the significance of Medea's conjugal family for the plot of the Medea. Both J... more This study explores the significance of Medea's conjugal family for the plot of the Medea. Both Jason and the royal family at Corinth belong to the House of Aeolus; coherent reference to this House is central to the play's mythological imagery. The House's mythography, of which the chorus shows awareness, involves an inherited curse associated with the Aeolid most closely connected with Corinth, namely, Sisyphus. The outcome of Medea's oath-invoked curse calling for the eradication of Jason's line is thus over-determined.
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Papers by Lora Holland Goldthwaite
religious leader, and charioteer in his conduct of the Battle of Pydna, the narration of which comprises the bulk of the Life. His depiction of Paullus as a philosopher statesman corresponds to Cicero's portrait of the man in the Somnium Scipionis in several important respects: his self-control, his religiosity, and his interest in instructing the youth. The subtlety of Plutarch's portrait reflects his own notion of paideia, and adds to the larger picture of his acknowledged interest in Socrates and Greek philosophy in general.
religious leader, and charioteer in his conduct of the Battle of Pydna, the narration of which comprises the bulk of the Life. His depiction of Paullus as a philosopher statesman corresponds to Cicero's portrait of the man in the Somnium Scipionis in several important respects: his self-control, his religiosity, and his interest in instructing the youth. The subtlety of Plutarch's portrait reflects his own notion of paideia, and adds to the larger picture of his acknowledged interest in Socrates and Greek philosophy in general.
The contents are arranged accordingly under three headings: (1) Greek philosophy, history, and historiography; (2) Latin literature, history, and historiography; and (3) Greco-Roman material culture, religion, and literature. These papers also coincide in myriad ways across the three headings, tracing themes such as friendship, leadership, and the reception of ideas in the arenas of philosophy, historiography, manuscript studies, poetry, medicine, art, and war. Within this delimited framework, the volume’s diversity of topics and approaches to a range of genres in the Greco-Roman world is intended both to appeal to the general scholar with varied interests and to offer students a wide scope through which to consider those genres.
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