I’m just archiving a Blue Sky conversation and ensuring I can find the topic of erotes (cupides) and child labor and slavery when my brain wants to return to it. I put the bibliography at the end because I wasn’t sure how ‘original’ my thinking was on this. Sometimes I say stuff so much I come to believe it without remembers to check in with my colleagues. Sloppy intellectual thinking.
Just a little possibly relevant bibliography
| Mitchell, Elizabeth. “The Other Classical Body: Cupids as Mediators in Roman Visual Culture.” PhD diss., Harvard University, 2018. Neuenfeldt, Lori P. “Eros and Erotes in the late antique mosaics of Antioch.” MA diss., FSU, 2009. Slater, W. J. “PUERI, TURBA MINUTA.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, no. 21 (1974): 133–40. Beckmann, Sarah E. “The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco.” American Journal of Archaeology 127, no. 1 (2023): 55-83. |
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