[Fiona Mitchell]

Excellent idea, Caitlin. Thanks for getting it started.

I work in ancient Greek literature and myth primarily, although I’m interested in the way that Greek texts and narratives interact with those from other cultures. At the moment I’m working on the connections between ancient Greek and Indian creation narratives, including the monstrous creator deities of the Orphic theogonies. I’m particularly interested at the moment in the connections between the ideas of chronology/time and bodily abnormality in creation narratives.

My doctoral research was on monsters in Greek literature: ‘Monsters in ancient Greek cosmogony, Ethnography and Biology’.

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