Thread by @sentantiq

#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

Some other women who write on Homer

Alex Purves
Ruth Scodel
Deborah Beck
Andromach Karanika
Casey Due
Mary Ebbot
Maureen Alden
Hannah Roisman
Anne Amory
Sue Blundell
Anna Bonifazi
Colleen Chaston
Margalit Finkelberg
Carol Dougherty
Minna Skafte Jensen
Irene J. F. De Jong

Not done yet:
Corinne Pache
Emily Kearns
Stephanie West
Jessica Wissman
Michelle Zerba
Barbara Graziosi
Olga Levaniouk
Emily Austin
Nancy Felson-Rubin
Nina Hernandez
Hilary Mackie
Elizabeth Minchin
Victoria Pedrick
Rachel Knudsen

There is literally no fucking reason not to cite work by women when working on Homer and Greek poetry. If you don't cite their work it is not an accident.

I say this because i have in just one week reviewed a book by Homer on the Odyssey which prominently ignores 99% of women scholars and am currently eviscerating a manuscript that is nearly as bad.

I know I probably missed some great people, so just add to the list if you think of any.

In addition to F. Letoublon I also somehow forgot @ehauserwrites

Donna Wilson
Liz Irwin
Nancy Worman

Hilary mackie

Suzanne Lye

I also forgot:

Carolyn Higbie
Sarah Olsen
Rachel Lesser
Victoria Wohl
Mary Louis Lord