Join the Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Department’s critical issues discussion group’s second meeting. The discussion will focus on disability in the ancient world.
Readings are listed below in descending order of priority. Please focus on the starred readings, but do look at the others as your interests and time allow.
- **Rose, Martha Lynn. 2003. The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece. Ann Arbor. Pp. 1-28 – problems with applying modern concepts of “disability” to the ancient world; types of disability present in the ancient world
- **Garland, Robert. 1995. The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World. Ithaca. Pp. 28-44 – on the different experiences of the disabled in the ancient world
- **Brockliss, William H. G. forthcoming 2019. “Out of the Mix: Disability, Intimacy and the Homeric Poems.” – unless people are particularly interested in Homeric representations of disability, read pp. 1-4 only – gives a sense of different models of disability and their applicability to the ancient world
- Samama, E. 2013. “A King Walking with Pain? On the Textual and Iconographical Images of Philip II and Other Wounded Kings.” In C. Laes, C. F. Goodey and M. L. Rose eds., Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies A Capite ad Calcem. Leiden. 231-48. – involvement of physically disabled individuals in activities would be restricted to the nondisabled in the modern world
- Laes, Christian. 2018. Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World. Cambridge (= Beperkt? Gehandicapten in het Romeinse Rijk. Leuven, 2014). Pp. 37-79 – on mental and intellectual disability