Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 1: Creation

22nd October 2017Minus Plato Today, Myths for Mutual PedagogyAnna Halprin, Apollonius of Rhodes, Aristophanes, Creation Myth, Enuma Elish, Genesis, Hesiod, Mythology, Myths for Mutual Pedagogy, Ovid, Phoenician cosmogonies, Theogony of Dunnu, VirgilMinus Plato

You are teaching a Classical Mythology class and you have reached the topic of “Creation Stories” (either this is early in the course or later, after “Epic Myths”). In today’s class you want to compare and contrast ancient Greek, Roman and Near-Eastern myths about the origins of the universe. You will discuss (and the students […]

You are not the Problem: Ketty La Rocca’s “Pandora”

10th October 2017Minus Plato TodayHesiod, Ketty La Rocca, Luce Irigaray, Pandora, Sigmund Freud, Vered Lev KenaanMinus Plato

Today some men told me “you are the problem” and suddenly I was transported back to Freud’s 1932 lecture on femininity: Throughout history people have knocked their heads against the riddle of femininity. Nor will you have escaped worrying over this problem – those of you who are men; to those of you who are […]