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#ClassicsTwitter #Homerists #Authors Lend me your ear:

Dudes, and I do mean dudes:

You shouldn't write about Homer and ignore scholarship by women.

You must not write on women in Homer and ignore or marginalize scholarship by women
If you write about the marginalization of women in Homer and you marginalize women who write about homer, then you have performed the same action as the Homeric tradition but even worse because you are writing about it.
Here's a non exhaustive list of women who have written great things about Homer and women in Homer

Lillian Doherty
Sheila Murnaghan
Patricia Marquardt
Helene Foley
Cristina Franco
Melissa Mueller
Ann Bergren
Marilyn Katz
Jenny Strauss Clay
Barbara Clayton
Laura Slatkin
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