Waste in Antiquity

Thursday 14 July 2022

Presented by Dan-El Padilla Peralta

As part of the Kosmos Society’s Online Open House series, guest Dan-El Padilla Peralta guides the panel through a discussion on waste and the fecal in ancient Greece, drawing on modern examples as well as close readings of passages from Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey to argue that depictions of fecal waste are made transgressive by their connections to forms of political satire.

Recorded open house discussion, hosted by the Kosmos Society, Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, November 3, 2016.

Watch on the Kosmos Society website

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