Why does classical reception need disability studies?

Many of the ableist tropes around disability and disabled people in the modern world find their antecedents in ancient mythology and its reception, but the seemingly ‘traditional’ nature of these harmful tropes and reflexes of storytelling is not established by accident or in the absence of readers....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Silverblank, H, Ward, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2020