The clash of the sexes in Hesiod's Works and Days

In this paper I argue that Hesiod’s (predominantly negative) views on women in the Works and Days are inextricably linked with his persistent anxieties about life in the Iron Age. I hope to complement the existing scholarship on Hesiod’s approach to gender by pinpointing the ideal of self-sufficiency as a driving force behind Hesiod’s view of women, and by showing how gender in the Works and Days is framed in terms of balance. Hesiod’s suspicion of women in the Works and Days is driven both by concern for the productivity of the individual oikos and by a perceived imbalance between the sexes. Women can therefore be tolerated when they fulfil a low-risk role, or when the genders are in equilibrium. Further, I add to the scholarship on gender in the Works and Days by showing that this attitude to women can be traced in the Days section too: I argue for a link between the earlier and latter parts of the poem which has been mostly ignored

Linguistic Naturalism and Natural Style. From Varro and Cicero to Dionysius of Halicarnassus

NWO276-30-009Classics and Classical Civilizatio

Peace Historiography and the Competing Narratives of the 1993 Oslo Channel

This Policy Brief uses the case of Oslo as a platform to discuss “history wars” in a peace process, and in particular the dispute over the roles of different channels and initiatives, whether official “Track One” or unofficial “Track Two,” and actors, domestic or external, in the historiography and collective memory of peace agreements. It reviews the competing narratives surrounding the initiation of the Oslo channel, the internal historiographic disputes on each side (Israel and the PLO), the debate over the role of the Norwegians in Oslo, the way this role is reflected in the play and the film, and the Oslo narrative that developed within the Track Two community. The Policy Brief seeks to draw a connection between the field of peace studies in general, and Track Two diplomacy in particular, and the field of historiography and memory studies