Papers by Melissa Funke
De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
Euripides and Gender: The Difference the Fragments Make Melissa Karen Anne Funke Chair of the Sup... more Euripides and Gender: The Difference the Fragments Make Melissa Karen Anne Funke Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Ruby Blondell Department of Classics Research on gender in Greek tragedy has traditionally focused on the extant plays, with only sporadic recourse to discussion of the many fragmentary plays for which we have evidence. This project aims to perform an extensive study of the sixty-two fragmentary plays of Euripides in order to provide a picture of his presentation of gender that is as full as possible. Beginning with an overview of the history of the collection and transmission of the fragments and an introduction to the study of gender in tragedy and Euripides’ extant plays, this project takes up the contexts in which the fragments are found and the supplementary information on plot and character (known as testimonia) as a guide in its analysis of the fragments themselves. These contexts include the fifthcentury CE anthology of Stobaeus, who preserved over o...
Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook
Current studies on the topic of sexuality in the ancient Greek world tend to favour the active/pa... more Current studies on the topic of sexuality in the ancient Greek world tend to favour the active/passive paradigm of understanding sexual relations which was originally proposed in Kenneth Dover's Greek Homosexuality (1978) and Michel Foucault's three volume History of Sexuality (1978, 1985, and 1986). In Dover and Foucault, the sexual behaviour of the classical Athenian male takes primacy, so much so that the reader of either scholar can be left with the impression that the role of the active partner was available only to adult citizen males. AlciphrOn's Letters of Courtesans (Book 4 of his works) depict a group of desiring female subjects who demonstrate that sexual agency, the assumption of the active role in a sexual relationship, need not be the exclusively masculine phenomenon that Dover and Foucault describe. Letters of Courtesans prove that female sexuality can be portrayed as active and therefore that women in literature can be sexual agents. Additionally, these l...
The <i>Letters</i> of Alciphron, 2018
The preserved stage directions and the repetitions in the dialogue make possible a tentative reco... more The preserved stage directions and the repetitions in the dialogue make possible a tentative reconstruction of the mime’s narrative, the duping of a soldier and his parasite by two elderly domestic slaves.
American Journal of Philology
Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel, 2012
Phryne: A Life in Fragments by Melissa Funke
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Phryne: A Life in Fragments by Melissa Funke