and the sky before you red as blood
Aug. 26th, 2009 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbI did have something to say, but I've forgotten what it was. At least, I thought I had something to say. Possibly I was hallucinating that.
Oh, well.
I was thinking today about my thesis, and the amount of work I need to do on it. I have, thanks to Le culte d'Isis, sufficient copious notes that I could probably start my first chapter, contingent on access to the Oxyrhynchus, Petrie, and a couple of other published papyri collections whose names presently escape me. I'll have to get someone to talk me through the inscription publications, though - OGIS and IG: from what I've seen, they're not as user-friendly as I might have wished.
But I thought about the division of my thesis. I need on the order of 12-15K, which is 4-5 chapters, I think. I've settled on a preliminary division of topics: Isis and the creation of Sarapis; Isis and the religious politics of the Ptolemies; cult places of Isis in lower Egypt; and cult places of Isis in upper Egypt. With, of course, space for the usual preliminaries of introductory and concluding verbiage, and depending on how things go, I may get to talk about the cultic personnel.
Right now I have notes for chapter 3, cult places in lower Egypt, and very little bit of notes for chapter 2. I'm relying on Dunand perhaps too much, for a book which was first published in 1973, but I have yet to find another book which deals with Isis with the same degree of clarity and detail. Not in French, and certainly not in English.
We'll see. Do you know, I can actually bring myself to be optimistic about this? We'll see what my supervisor - I don't even know who's supervising me yet, but it'll be either the papyrologist/Hellenistic kingdoms historian or the Bronze Age specialist who teaches the course on goddesses - has to say when s/he finds out what I've spent my summer doing.
Books 2009: 72
72. Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Kiss.
Set in the same world, several generations after her Kushiel novels. It's pretty entertaining, with a highly competent - deft, is the word - turn of phrase and imagery. Another travelogue and high romance, this time to Ch'in. But Naamah's Kiss lacks the verve and energy of the previous Kushiel books: the protagonist, Moirin, while interesting enough, seems drifting and undirected in comparison to Imriel or even Phedre.
On the other hand, it is possible that I'm just unreasonably hard to satisfy lately. *g*
Oh, well.
I was thinking today about my thesis, and the amount of work I need to do on it. I have, thanks to Le culte d'Isis, sufficient copious notes that I could probably start my first chapter, contingent on access to the Oxyrhynchus, Petrie, and a couple of other published papyri collections whose names presently escape me. I'll have to get someone to talk me through the inscription publications, though - OGIS and IG: from what I've seen, they're not as user-friendly as I might have wished.
But I thought about the division of my thesis. I need on the order of 12-15K, which is 4-5 chapters, I think. I've settled on a preliminary division of topics: Isis and the creation of Sarapis; Isis and the religious politics of the Ptolemies; cult places of Isis in lower Egypt; and cult places of Isis in upper Egypt. With, of course, space for the usual preliminaries of introductory and concluding verbiage, and depending on how things go, I may get to talk about the cultic personnel.
Right now I have notes for chapter 3, cult places in lower Egypt, and very little bit of notes for chapter 2. I'm relying on Dunand perhaps too much, for a book which was first published in 1973, but I have yet to find another book which deals with Isis with the same degree of clarity and detail. Not in French, and certainly not in English.
We'll see. Do you know, I can actually bring myself to be optimistic about this? We'll see what my supervisor - I don't even know who's supervising me yet, but it'll be either the papyrologist/Hellenistic kingdoms historian or the Bronze Age specialist who teaches the course on goddesses - has to say when s/he finds out what I've spent my summer doing.
Books 2009: 72
72. Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Kiss.
Set in the same world, several generations after her Kushiel novels. It's pretty entertaining, with a highly competent - deft, is the word - turn of phrase and imagery. Another travelogue and high romance, this time to Ch'in. But Naamah's Kiss lacks the verve and energy of the previous Kushiel books: the protagonist, Moirin, while interesting enough, seems drifting and undirected in comparison to Imriel or even Phedre.
On the other hand, it is possible that I'm just unreasonably hard to satisfy lately. *g*
