拉德克利夫埃特蒙德
部门/ Subdepartment
教育
Ph.D.芝加哥大学
重点领域
Greek social and intellectual history, with particular focus on 神话, 宗教, 魔法, 和柏拉图哲学. 我发表了关于柏拉图的文章, on Orphica (including the mysterious gold tablets and the Derveni papyrus), on Greek imaginings of death and afterlife, and on the discourse of 魔法 in the ancient world. My current research interests include the afterlife, the history of myth interpretation, and the marginal categories of 魔法 and Orphism within Greek 宗教.
传记
个人陈述
I love teaching in the atmosphere of Bryn Mawr: the small community of earnest and eager graduate and undergraduate students, the faculty's mix of disciplines and perspectives, the fantastic resources for research, not to mention the idyllic setting and beautiful traditions that surround us all. My research and teaching interests center on Greek social and intellectual history, with particular focus on 神话, 宗教, 魔法, 和柏拉图哲学. I enjoy the opportunity to teach courses on some of the less familiar aspects of ancient Greek culture, such as ancient Greek ideas of sexuality, 魔法, 还有神秘的邪教, as well as courses on the language, 神话, and history of ancient Greece.
My current research interests include death and the afterlife in the Greek imagination, Plato and the history of myth interpretation, as well as the marginal categories of 魔法 and Orphism within Greek 宗教. 除了我的工作 Myths of the Underworld Journey, I have published a study entitled Redefining Ancient Orphism, in which I argue that it was not a coherent movement but a label given to a variety of religious practices that deliberately departed from the norm, elaborating on and altering traditional myths and rituals in innovative ways, while appealing to the authority of tradition by invoking the name of Orpheus, 最伟大的诗人. I have recently edited a volume of essays on Plato and the Power of Images, exploring the way Plato makes powerful use of various kinds of images, while at the same time mounting devastating critiques against the power of images. 我最近的一本书， 画下月亮, is a study of the discourse of 魔法 in the ancient Greco-Roman world, in which I survey the different things labeled as ‘魔法’, from curses and erotic spells to healing and divination, including such esoteric practices as astrology, 神通, 和炼金术.
In addition to scholarship here, I have been enjoying directing the Greek Plays on May Day and singing with the Bryn Mawr Renaissance Choir.
最近的出版物
- 画下月亮: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, Princeton University Press, 2019.
- Plato and the Power of Images, edited by Radcliffe Edmonds and 皮埃尔Destree, Brill, 2017.
- Redefining Ancient Orphism: A Study in Greek Religion, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- 俄耳甫斯金碑 and Greek Religion: Further Along the Path, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- “Misleading and Unclear to the Many: Allegory in the Derveni Papyrus and the Orphic Theogony of Hieronymus”, in The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, ed. Marco Antonio Santamaria, Brill (2019), pp. 77-99.
- “Deviant Origins: Hesiodic Theogony and the Orphica,” in 牛津赫西奥德手册, eds., A. 寂寞芳心 & S. Scully, Oxford University Press (2018), pp. 225-242.
- “Alcibiades the Profane: Images of the Mysteries in 柏拉图的 研讨会,” 柏拉图的 研讨会: 关键指南, ed. 皮埃尔Destree & Zina Giannopoulou, Cambridge University Press (2017), pp. 194-215.
- “When I walked the dark road of Hades: Orphic katabasis and the katabasis of Orpheus,” in Katábasis in Greek Literary Tradition and Religious Thought, ed. Bonnechere & Cursaru. Les Études经典 83 (2015), pp. 261-279.
- “Imagining the Afterlife in Greek Religion” in Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, eds. Eidinow,以斯帖 & Julia Kindt, Oxford University Press (2015), pp. 551-563.
