Svetlana Slapsak questions Athenaeus’ work Philosphers at the Feast – and especially a section entitled On Women. This book serves, according to Slapsak, as the perfect display of strategies of complexity. Slapsak surprisingly concludes that just because the “old boys’ club” reflects from a position of power, new options for dealing with complexity appear, and that ancient alterity is being replaced by an intellectually challenging process of inventing new spaces for womens’ identities.
Svetlana Slapsak
born 1948, studied at Belgrade University, MA and PhD in Classical Studies and Linguistics. Editor in chief of
