Overview
Background
Marguerite Johnson is a cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, specialising in sexuality and gender, particularly in the poetry of Sappho, Catullus, and Ovid, as well as magical traditions in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. She also researches Classical Reception Studies, with a regular focus on Australia. In addition to ancient world studies, Marguerite is interested in sexual histories in modernity as well as magic in the west more broadly, especially the practices and art of Australian witch, Rosaleen Norton. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Availability
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Works
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2014
Journal Article
Memories of Erinna (after Erinna)
Johnson, Marguerite (2014). Memories of Erinna (after Erinna). Arion, 22 (1), 175-178.
2014
Journal Article
Review of The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature. Volume 3: 1660-1790
Johnson, Marguerite (2014). Review of The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature. Volume 3: 1660-1790. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
2014
Journal Article
Review of Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry
Johnson, Marguerite (2014). Review of Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
2014
Book Chapter
Masculinity and femininity in the Roman world
Johnson, Marguerite (2014). Masculinity and femininity in the Roman world. The Oxford encyclopedia of the bible and gender studies. (pp. 523-528) edited by Julia M. O’Brien. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2014
Journal Article
Boadicea and the British suffrage feminists
Johnson, Marguerite (2014). Boadicea and the British suffrage feminists. Outskirts: feminisms along the edge.
2013
Other Outputs
A clearer view on the healing power of the arts
Johnson, Marguerite and Lowry, Miranda (2013, 12 26). A clearer view on the healing power of the arts The Conversation
2013
Journal Article
Medea, Fitzgerald Gallery, New York City, 1966 (After Euripides and Bernard Safran)
Johnson, Marguerite (2013). Medea, Fitzgerald Gallery, New York City, 1966 (After Euripides and Bernard Safran). Arion - Journal of Humanities and the Classics, 20 (3), 97-105. doi: 10.2307/arion.20.3.0097
2013
Book Chapter
Introduction
Tarrant, Harold and Johnson, Marguerite (2013). Introduction. Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-educator. (pp. 1-6) edited by Marguerite Johnson and Harold Tarrant. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
2013
Journal Article
Classical Reception Studies: Some Pedagogical Considerations
Johnson, Marguerite (2013). Classical Reception Studies: Some Pedagogical Considerations. Classicum, 39 (2), 6-14.
2013
Book Chapter
The role of Eros in improving the pupil, or what Socrates learned from Sappho
Johnson, Marguerite (2013). The role of Eros in improving the pupil, or what Socrates learned from Sappho. Alcibiades and the Socratic lover-educator. (pp. 7-29) edited by Marguerite Johnson and Harold Tarrant. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
2013
Journal Article
Review of Women in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook. Bloomsbury sources in ancient history
Johnson, Marguerite (2013). Review of Women in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook. Bloomsbury sources in ancient history. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
2013
Book
Alcibiades and the Socratic lover-educator
Marguerite Johnson and Harold Tarrant eds. (2013). Alcibiades and the Socratic lover-educator. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
2012
Journal Article
Witches in time and space: Satire 1.8, Epode 5 and landscapes of fear
Johnson, Marguerite (2012). Witches in time and space: Satire 1.8, Epode 5 and landscapes of fear. Hermathena (192), 5-44.
2012
Book
Boudicca
Johnson, Marguerite (2012). Boudicca. London, United Kingdom: Bristol Classical Press.
2012
Journal Article
Review of Oh My Gods: a Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths
Marguerite Johnson (2012). Review of Oh My Gods: a Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
2012
Journal Article
What to look for in a mayor, or classical reception in the Coalopolis
Johnson, Marguerite (2012). What to look for in a mayor, or classical reception in the Coalopolis. Melbourne Historical Journal, 40, 13-24.
2012
Book Chapter
Away from the light: dark aspects of the goddess
Johnson, Marguerite (2012). Away from the light: dark aspects of the goddess. Pathways in modern western magic. (pp. 87-126) edited by Nevill Drury. Richmond, CA, United States: Concresent Scholars.
2012
Journal Article
Review of Socrates and Athens. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts
Johnson, Marguerite (2012). Review of Socrates and Athens. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
2012
Journal Article
Review of Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome
Marguerite Johnson (2012). Review of Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
2011
Journal Article
Clodia Muses
Johnson, Marguerite (2011). Clodia Muses. Arion - Journal of Humanities and the Classics, 19 (2), 117-119.
Supervision
Availability
- Honorary Professor Marguerite Johnson is:
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
It's Alive! Reading Statues in Hellenistic Epigram
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alastair Blanshard
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Doctor Philosophy
It's Alive! Reading Statues in Hellenistic Epigram
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alastair Blanshard
Media
Enquiries
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- ancient sexuality and gender
- Classical Reception Studies
- magic in antiquity
- modern occultism
- modernity and sexual histories
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