Liz is in Canada and looking forward to Feminism and Classics VI!
Liz started following the work of Kelli Rudolph, University of Oxford, Philosophy.
Liz is delighted to share that the Fortunata article has appeared in the latest edition of Classical Quarterly!
Liz is delighted to share that the Fortunata article has appeared in the latest edition of Classical Quarterly!
Faculty Member, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity
Thesis Title: Seneca and the Ethics of the Family
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Dr. Leah Kronenberg
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About
My research focuses on the intersections between Latin literature, ancient philosophy and gender studies. In my dissertation, "The ethics of the family in Seneca", I argue for the centrality of the family, a topic which has been neglected in favour of friendship or autonomy, to Seneca’s philosophical corpus and to Roman Stoicism more broadly. I argue that Seneca’s model of familial relationships is central to his conception of how the Stoic sage attains virtue. I am currently working on a book grounded in this research. I am also working on a number of other projects relating to Seneca that have developed from this project, including an article which considers the interplay between narratives of exile and Stoic philosophy in the "De Consolatione Ad Polybium", and a piece on the use of reading as a consolatory strategy in Seneca and Roman culture more broadly.
In the longer term, I want to examine the ethics of the family in Seneca’s dramatic poetry. The central question for this project is whether the families in Seneca’s plays fail to provide their members with a firm grounding for virtue, and the reasons for and consequences of any such failure; the results of this work will further strengthen our understanding of both Seneca’s familial ethics and the tragedies themselves.
My wider research develops my interests in Latin literature and gender. My article “She’s Only A Bird In A Gilded Cage: Freedwomen At Trimalchio’s Dinner Party” argues for a more complex understanding of Fortunata, Trimalchio’s wife, than previous interpretations, guided by the unreliable narrator Encolpius, have allowed. I'm also working on articles examining gender, space and monsters in the Clash of the Titans films (1981 and 2010) and on the queering of antiquity in Hollywood cinema. As the beginnning of a future project, I am planning an article considering the eroticisation of knowledge in the Priapea.
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