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the whole “girlboss” and “reclaiming women’s voices” agenda is a tad heavy handed, but to be fair i spent the last year entrenched in these scholarly conversations, so perhaps it just feels redundant to me.
still i’d like to see more of a focus on the archaeology rather than all this preamble…
— Oct 08, 2025 05:54PM
still i’d like to see more of a focus on the archaeology rather than all this preamble…
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THESIS: “this is not a search for the real Penelope or the real Helen. They're male fictions, made up by a tradition of male poets telling stories about men [… it’s a search for] the real-life women who made up the history of the Late Bronze Age world - and whose stories came to be threaded into the myths and legends of women like Helen of Troy and Penelope that would be told for thousands of years.”
— Oct 07, 2025 06:02PM
