Miranda Amey
Graduate Associate
she/her
450 University Hall
230 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
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Education: BA Archaeology, BS Art (Painting), University of Evansville.
Areas of research: Ancient Medicine, Religions of the Mediterranean, Mythology, Greek Lyric, Augustan Poetry
Advisor: Dr. Fritz Graf
Recent activity
- Articles
- [under review] “Zeus’ Proxy Womb: The Myth of Dionysus and Alternative Medicine in Soranus' Gynecology”, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
- [proposal under review] “Fertile as the Earth: Wetness and the Womb in Greco-Roman Mythology” for History of the Philosophy of Pregnancy Edited Volume, Palgrave Macmillan
- Conferences
- April 2024 “The Gynecology of Gaia”, Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, St. Louis, MO
- October 2023 “Fertile as the Earth: Wetness and the Womb in Greco-Roman Mythology”, History of the Philosophy of Pregnancy (Richard R. Baker Colloquium), Dayton, OH
- March 2023 “Zeus’ Proxy Womb”, Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Provo, UT
- May 2022 “A Vestal’s Security: The Vestal Virgins and the Virgin Disease”, Feminism & Classics Conference, Wake Forest University
- April 2022 “Under Enfeebled Limbs: tenuis sub artus and the Rendering of Sappho 31”, Midwest Classical Literature Consortium, OSU
- 2020-2021 President, “Sense (and) Perception”, Annual Classics Graduate Student Colloquium, The Ohio State University
- Service
- 2021-present, Treasurer, Columbus Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
- 2024 Session organizer, Colloquium on Narrative & Belief, OSU, March 22-23
- 2023 Graduate Student Representative, Department Chair Search Committee
- 2021-2022 Officer, Classics Coffee Hour