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Some Notes about Harrison

• An important figure in the history of women’s education
  • One of the earliest female professors in Cambridge
  • Influenced a whole generation of women scholars
• Mentioned in Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
• “Prolegomena to a Study of Greek Religion” was one of her biggies
  • Dionysis is important to humanity (revelry and disorder), not just Apollo
    • She’s following Nietzsche here
• Wants to explain our rituals, find their sources
• Uses things like vases, not just texts, to explain Greek culture (a cultural studies girl!)
• Feminist readings of Greek myth (ie, Maenads were not just a myth but instead a real group of women having their ways with each other upon a mountain drunk once a year)