L+R Scholarship

Annas

“Seldom have the sexes been so segregated in every aspect of life…Women were not even the primary sex-objects for men. They had virtually no interaction with the social, political, or romantic lives of men.’“

Grube

“Homosexual love alone was generally regarded by the Greeks as fulfilling the highest desires of men.”

Freeman

“Throughout most of the Greek and Roman world, there was less tolerance for same-sex relations between women.”

Higgins (Sappho)

"I am fascinated by the way she takes on Homer - and subverts him"

Schoenbaechler (Sappho)

"For Sappho, being a girl gives a marriage a different perspective"

Poochigian (Sappho)

‘Sappho does not merely study experience in love and loss of others but actively participates.’

‘The private and specific becomes universal and generic’

Poochigian- Importance of Sappho

‘she gives a fully human voice to female desire for the first time in Western literature.’

K.J. Dover

“in praising the ability to resist temptation to bodily pleasure Plato was fully in accord with Greek moral tradition”

R. Kraut - Plato (Diotima)

“Diotima says nothing that even suggests that erôs can be a destructive force in human relationships”

Motto - Seneca

“regrading love, Seneca maintains that this emotion is honorable, that it should be indulged”

“true love is, in many ways, analogous to friendship”

Edwards - Seneca

“For Stoics, human happiness is wholly contingent on virtue, virtus.“

Wilson - Seneca

“Marriage was presented in his works as a feature of the ideal life.”

Gibson - Ovid

“Ovid uses humour as an effective tool for reinforcing the message of his poems”

Hall - Ovid

“Ovid isn’t writing to women, he’s mocking them. He’s writing to men and women are the butt of the joke.”

Bishop - Ovid

“The Ars Amatoria is about lust rather than lover”