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Elisabeth Antoinette Irwin (29 August 1880 –16 October 1942) was the founder of the Little Red School House. She was an educator, psychologist, reformer, and declared lesbian, [1] living with her life partner Katharine Anthony and the two children they adopted.
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‘Debating the happiness of Periclean Athens: from Herodotus’ Solon to its legacy in Aristotle’, Acta Classica Supplement ‘Just why did Cambyses conquer Egypt (Hdt. 3.1-3)? A study of narrative, explanation and ‘history’ in Herodotus’ Cambyses logos’, in R. Rollinger (ed), Weltbild und Welterfassung zwischen Ost und West / Worldview and World Concep...
‘Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ On Thucydides and Thucydides’ rhetoric of the episodic’, in C. Werner, A. Dourado-Lopes, E. Werner (eds), Tecendo narrativas: unidade e episódio na literatura grega antiga (São Paulo), 121-199 ‘The nothoi come of age? Illegitimate sons and political unrest in late fifth-century Athens’, in P. Sänger (ed) Minderheiten un...
‘Ethnography and empire: Homer and the Hippocratics in Herodotus’ Ethiopian logos, 3.17-26’, Histos 8: 25-75
‘The hybris of Theseus and the date of the Histories’, in K. Ruffing and B. Dunsch (eds), Source References in Herodotus – Herodotus’ Sources: Conference in memoriam Detlev Fehling, Classica et Orientalia (Harrasowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden) 7-93 (Rev. BMCR 2015.2.4) ‘The significance of Talthybius’ wrath’, in K. Geus et al (eds), Wege des Erzählens: Lo...
‘Bacchylides 17: Theseus, Minos and Delian League ideology’, Hyperboreans: Essays in Greek and Latin Poetry, Philosophy, Rhetoric and Linguistics (Humanitas, São Paulo) 51-102
‘Herodotus and Aeginetan identity’, in D. Fearn (ed), Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry (OUP) 373-425 ‘“Lest the things done by men become exitêla”: writing up Aegina in a late fifth-century context’, in D. Fearn (ed), Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry (OUP) 426-57
‘‘‘What’s in a name?” and exploring the comparable: onomastics, ethnography, and kratos in Hdt. 5.1-2 and 3-10’, in Reading Herodotus (above) 41-88 ‘The politics of precedence: first historians on first thalassocrats’, in R. Osborne (ed), Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution: Art, Literature, Philosophy and Politics 430-380 B.C. (CUP) 188-223 ...
‘The transgressive elegy of Solon’, in A. Lardinois and J. Blok (eds), Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Perspectives (Brill) 36-78 (rev. BMCR 2007.4.26)
‘Gods among men? The social and political dynamics of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women’, in R. Hunter (ed), The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions (CUP) 35-85 (rev. Greece and Rome (2007) 111-12, BMCR 2006.10.3, CR 56 (2006) 275-6, Journal of Hellenic Studies 126 (2006) 151-3)
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Jan 29, 2024 · Elisabeth Irwin was a feminist activist, non-traditional educator, and education reformer during the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. In 1921, she founded Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin High School in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
Columbia University, Classics, Faculty Member. Follow. Research Interests: Classics, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Religion, Greek Lyric Poetry, Ancient History, Herodotus, and 2 more. Papers. Handout: 'Theseus, Decelea and the date of the Histories (9.73)' by ei42@columbia.edu Irwin.
Elizabeth Irwin has studied at Columbia (BA), Oxford (BA/MA) and Cambridge (PhD), and held Post-doctoral research fellowships and an affiliated lectureship at the University of Cambridge, teaching there, as well as at Oxford and Reading.
Elizabeth Irwin. ELIZABETH IRWIN was born in Worcester, raised by Brooklyn and finished by el D.F. (aka Mexico City). In addition to being a playwright she is also a public school and prison educator and radical socialist.
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Aug 3, 2014 · Elizabeth Irwin was born in Worcester, raised by Brooklyn and finished by el D.F. (aka Mexico City). In addition to being a playwright she is also a public school and prison educator and radical socialist.
