As I recall, she had conflated Irish info with Scots in a very Clueless American manner -- typical but egregious. It drove me nuts, as said.
And thank you for the comment on Up a Long Ladder! At the time I started writing it, I must have been studying Irish history, culture and music for 25 years or more -- but I still went out and did heavy research on the specifics I needed for the story. The background was background, and certainly helped, especially given how delicate the core of the subject matter was.
Good eye for the Alpaca Cartel! That was pure Lothi, but it was a tip of the pen to me and to Reverb. I howled like anything when I first read it, and she smirked.
The specific passage in the Oresteia is one in which Aeschylus has Athene spouting misogynistic sexist grandstanding -- he has her absolve Orestes of guilt in the murder of his mother, not because his mother was a murderer herself, but because women don't matter, and mothers are women. This is presented as a new paradigm of heavenly justice. Yay. Let's hear it for good old Golden Age Athens, bastion of repression, in which all are free and equal, as long as they're native-born landowning males of a certain class who haven't pissed off the status quo too badly.
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And thank you for the comment on Up a Long Ladder! At the time I started writing it, I must have been studying Irish history, culture and music for 25 years or more -- but I still went out and did heavy research on the specifics I needed for the story. The background was background, and certainly helped, especially given how delicate the core of the subject matter was.
Good eye for the Alpaca Cartel! That was pure Lothi, but it was a tip of the pen to me and to Reverb. I howled like anything when I first read it, and she smirked.
The specific passage in the Oresteia is one in which Aeschylus has Athene spouting misogynistic sexist grandstanding -- he has her absolve Orestes of guilt in the murder of his mother, not because his mother was a murderer herself, but because women don't matter, and mothers are women. This is presented as a new paradigm of heavenly justice. Yay. Let's hear it for good old Golden Age Athens, bastion of repression, in which all are free and equal, as long as they're native-born landowning males of a certain class who haven't pissed off the status quo too badly.