Female Form Podcast

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  • An archeologist, Martha is telling stories about powerful women coming from myths, legends, and history.
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  • Cassandra of Troy

    Cassandra of Troy
    Jun 28 2021
    Cassandra is the daughter of the Trojan king Priam and Queen Hecuba. Sister of Helenus, Paris, and Hector. We know she was the priestess of Apollo and she took a sacred vow of chastity to remain a virgin for life. The god Apollo cursed her with a gift of prophecy which always was accurate but no one would ever believe it or remember it after. This curse turned out to be an example of almost perfect cruelty.


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    SALAPATA, G. (2002) Myth into cult: Alexandra/Kassandra in Lakonia. Published in V.B. Gorman and E. Robinson (eds), Oikistes: Studies in Constitution, Colonies and Military Power in the Ancient World. Offered in Honor of A. J. Graham. Leiden: Brill (2002), pp. 131-159.
    KLEIBRINK, M. Cassandra on Seals. Ring stone images as self-representations: an example in B.J.L. van den Bercken, V.C.P. Baan (eds.), Papers on archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities 14, Leiden, pp. 31-47.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
    EDER, B. Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Amyklai and Amyklaion
    SCHEIN, S.The Cassandra Scene in Aeschylus Agamemnon. Greece & Rome 29 (1982) 11-16. Cambridge University Press
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    30 mins
  • Ishtar, Queen of Heaven and Earth

    Ishtar, Queen of Heaven and Earth
    Apr 13 2021
    The Mesopotamian goddess, Ishtar (Inanna) is the oldest female deity about whom written evidence exists. Ancient people worshipped her as the goddess of love and sexuality, fertility, war and warfare, prophecy, and justice. At the same time, she was the personification of Planet Venus, The Morning and Evening Star. As such, we know now that she affected other, later religions and we know her now in many different forms.

    SOURCES:
    - http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/kings-law-code-hammurabi/ (13.04.2021)
    - STUCKEY, J. H. (2011), Queen of Heaven and Earth: Inanna-Ishtar of Mesopotamia. Goddesses in World Culture: Volume 2, Eastern Mediterranenan and Europe
    - JOAN, E. (2018). 129. 1750, Hammurabian Dynasty, Babylon, Ishtar, and Inanna. Re-Genesis Encyclopedia: Synthesis of the Spiritual Dark– Motherline, Integral Research, Labyrinth Learning, and Eco–Thealogy. Part I. Revised Edition II, 2018. CIIS Library Database. (RGS.)
    - JABRE, C. The worship of the female deity: Ishtar-Inanna https://www.academia.edu/40018918/The_worship_of_the_female_deity_Ishtar_Inanna (13.04.2021)
    - READE, J (2005). The Ishtar Temple at Nineveh. Iraq, Vol. 67, No. 1, Nineveh. Papers of the 49th Rencontre AssyriologiqueInternationale, Part Two (Spring, 2005), pp. 347-390. British Institute for the Study of Iraq.
    - PONGRATS-LEISTEN, B. (2019). Ishtar Overthrows its Assailants': The Protective Forces Of Babylon's Ishtar Gate. A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate
    - KUIPER, K. (2011). Mesopotamia the World’s Earliest Civilization. The Britannica Guide to Ancient Civilizations.
    - https://www.penn.museum/ (13.04.2021)
    - Mark, J. J. (2010). Enheduanna - Poet, Priestess, Empire Builder. - --
    - https://www.worldhistory.org/article/190/enheduanna---poet-priestess-empire-builder/?visitCount=8&lastVisitDate=2021-3-15&pageViewCount=23 (13.04.2021)
    - Eahr, J. A. (2018). Ishtar Statue. Re-Genesis Encyclopedia: Synthesis of the Spiritual Dark– Motherline, Integral Research, Labyrinth Learning, and Eco–Thealogy. Part I. Revised Edition II, 2018. CIIS Library Database. (RGS.)
    - https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/ishtar (13.04.2021)
    - BLACK, J. and GREEN, A. (1992). Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia Illustrations by Tessa Rickards. British Museum Press
    - STUCKEY, J. H. (2006). Priestesses and "Sacred Prostitututes" in the ancient Near East. Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies
    - BENJAMIN, D. C. (2019). The Impact of Sargon & Enheduanna on Land Rights in Deuteronomy. Biblical Theology Bulletin
    - GARCIA-FENECH, G. (2014). From Babylon to Berlin: The rebirth of the Ishtar Gate. https://www.artstor.org/2014/03/27/the-rebirth-of-the-ishtar-gate/ (13.04.2021)
    - NEMET-NEJAT, K. R. (1998). Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
    - LLOYD, S. (1978) The Archaeology of Mesopotamia. From the Old Stone Age to the Persian Conquest
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    58 mins
  • Boudica, the Celtic Warrior Queen

    Boudica, the Celtic Warrior Queen
    Jan 22 2021
    Celtic Queen Boudica, known for initiating a rebellion against the Roman empire and its army. She destroyed three cities in ancient Britannia, today’s England. She decimated one legion along with its infantry before succumbing to a more organized army of Romans with a dramatic ending to her rebellion and to her story.

    Sources:
    - APOLLONIUS RHODIUS The Argonautica, translated by R.C. Seaton. 14.12.2020 https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L001.pdf
    - Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art
    - IvyPanda. (2019, October 27). The Medea Syndrome and How it Relates to Divorce in American Society. Retrieved from https://ivypanda.com/essays/the-medea-syndrome-and-how-it-relates-to-divorce-in-american-society/
    - TRAFFORD, A. 1994 THE MEDEA SYNDROME. 14.12.2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1994/11/08/the-medea-syndrome/551db74b-9055-4c00-be32-a1db0082e046/
    - Britannica. 14.12.2020 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Great-Dionysia
    - Wikipedia 14.12.2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysia
    - CHIARLONI, A. 2009. Imagesof Medea: From Ancient Ceramic Art to Eugène Delacroix In: Neulektüren
    – New Readings- https://medea.liebieghaus.de/en- VOUT, C. https://www.cambridgegreekplay.com/sites/www.cambridgegreekplay.com/files/documents/medea_at_pompeii.pdf
    - REBAUDO, L. 2013. The Underworld Painter and the Corinthian adventures of MedeaAn interpretation of the crater in Munich. 14.12.2020 http://www.engramma.it/eOS/index.php?id_articolo=1380
    - Medea 14.12.2020. http://www.eugenedelacroix.net/medea/
    - Metropolitan Museum 14.12.2020. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12651- --- TURKILSEN, Debbie. An Examination of Ancient Greek and Roman Witches throughout Literature. 30.10.2020. https://www.academia.edu/3672405/An_Examination_of_Ancient_Greek_and_Roman_Witches_throughout_Literature
    -STANLEY SPAETH, B. 2014. “From Goddess to Hag: The Greek and the Roman Witch in Classical Literature” in Dayna Kalleres and Kimberly Stratton, eds. Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014 forthcoming) 41-70.
    - PAVLOU, M. 2009. Reading Medea Through Her Veil in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius. Greece & Rome 56.2 (2009) 183-202- PORTER, J. 2020. Euripides' Medea- GORDEZIANI, L. 2018 . Medea in Herodotus. 2018, Proceedings of the International Conference "Medea in World Artistic Culture"
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    38 mins

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loved it

thank you for an informative and well sourced overview of cassandra, it was interesting and bery engaging

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