https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1176 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1497 This article focuses on Simone Weil’s translation and reception of Homer’s Iliad. Some criitics have called it a misreading, but I contend that translation and reception comes in many forms and that it is a mistake to label non-literal translations as “misreadings.” My analysis of Weil’s Homer also focuses on how Weil’s writing about war is marked by her identity as a woman and a woman who is drawn to epic poetry. The article focuses on two episodes in the Iliad: Priam and Achilles in Book 24 and Lycaon and Achilles in Book 21. jeu., 04 janv. 2024 11:23:09 +0100 mer., 17 janv. 2024 10:08:46 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1497 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1269 This article lays out several feminist strategies for translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses, arguing that these enable translators to clear away the patriarchal bias that has influenced previous translations of this epic. Using the Callisto episode as a case study, I show how major English translations obscure sexual assault, mitigate the criminality of those who perpetrate rape, and assign modern gender expectations and stereotypes to the past. Through careful close reading, feminist translators can question longstanding assumptions about the text that have been inherited from one translator and scholar to the next. Feminist translation, moreover, illuminates how our own contemporary assumptions were not necessarily shared by Ovid and his culture. jeu., 08 déc. 2022 15:43:31 +0100 ven., 01 déc. 2023 10:58:11 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1269 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1168 This paper offers a close reading of the ancient Greek and Roman texts which Rachel Maines (The Technology of Orgasm, 1999) used as evidence for therapeutic masturbation in the ancient world, and thus presented as precursors for the vibrator. Examining the evidence of the Hippocratic corpus, Celsus, Soranus and Galen, it shows that the lines of transmission between the ancient sources, and in their later reception, are far more complex than her work suggests, and thus challenges her claims for the normality of massage to orgasm in Western medicine. While Maines herself has subsequently insisted that she proposed a ‘hypothesis’ rather than a ‘fact’, in the popular reception of her book this distinction has been almost entirely overlooked, leading to an obscuring of female agency – both as patients, and as healers. lun., 20 juin 2022 11:28:24 +0200 jeu., 12 oct. 2023 14:34:02 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1168