Bibliography

This is a general bibliography for print and electronic sources on gender and sexuality in the ancient world. This list is by no means complete, and I welcome suggestions for additions via e-mail!

Any piece that may be used for a response is marked with an asterisk (*). Any entry in this bibliography that is already listed and asterisked in the course schedule is not asterisked here.

Greek:

• Cantarella, Eva. 2005. “Gender, Sexuality, and Law.” In The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, edited by Michael Gagarin and David Cohen, 236-253. Cambridge.
• Davidson, James. 2007. The Greeks & Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece. London.
• Dover, K.J. 2016. Greek Homosexuality. Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson, and James Robson. London and Oxford.
• Foley, Helene. 2014. “Performing Gender in Greek Old and New Comedy.” In The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy, edited by Martin Revermann, 259-274. Cambridge.
• Garison, Cassie. 2018. “Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Antiquity: The Trial and Consciousness of Callon.” Sententiae Antiquae.
• Halperin, David. 1989. One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: and Other Essays on Greek Love. London.
• Halperin, David M., John J. Winkler, and Froma I. Zeitlin, eds. 1990. Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World. Princeton.
• Haselswerdt, Ella. 2016. “Re-Queering Sappho.” Eidolon.
• Henderson, Jeffrey. 1991². The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy. Oxford.
• Herzog, Rachel. 2018. “Reading Consent into the Iliad: The Stakes of Writing from Briseis’ Perspective.” Eidolon.
• Murray, Jackie and Jonathan M. Rowland. 2007. “Gendered Voices in Hellenistic Epigram.” In Brill’s Companion to Hellenistic Epigram, edited by Peter Bing and Jon Bruss, 211-232. Leiden.
• Murray, Kourtney. 2018. “Spinning Out of Hades: A Journey from the Thesmophoria to Spin Class.” Eidolon.
• Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin. 2011. “Greek Tragedy: A Rape Culture?” EuGeStA 1: 1-21.
• Robson, James. 2013. Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens. Edinburgh.
• * Rutherford, Emily. 2015. “Hellenism and the History of Homosexuality.” Eidolon.
• * ——. 2018. “Dare to Speak Its Name: Pederasty in the Classical Tropes of Call Me By Your Name.” Eidolon.
• Spatharas, Dimos. 2016. “Sex, Politics, and Disgust in Aechines’ Against Timarchus.” In The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, edited by Donald Lateiner and Dimos Spatharas, 125-139. Oxford.
• Zuckerberg, Donna. 2016. “The Breasts that Launched a Thousand Ships (Helen’s face is up here, thanks).” Eidolon.

Roman:

• Barish, Sasha. 2018. “Iphis’ Hair, Io’s Reflection, and the Gender Dysphoria of the Metamorphoses.” Eidolon.
• Dutsch, Dorota. 2015. “Feats of Flesh: The Female Body on the Plautine Stage.” In Dutsch et al. 2015, 17-36.
• Dutsch, Dorota, Sharon L. James, and David Konstan, eds. 2015. Women in Republican Roman Drama. Madison (Wisc.).
• * Fontaine, Mike. 2015. “Straight Talk about Gay Marriage in Ancient Rome: The Perils of Precedent.” Eidolon.
• Hallett, Judith P. and Marilyn B. Skinner, eds. 1997. Roman Sexualities. Princeton.
• Kamen, Deborah and Sarah Levin-Richardson. 2015. “Lusty Ladies in the Roman Imaginary.)” In Blondell and Ormand 2015, 231-252.
• James, Sharon L. 2016. “Rape and Repetition in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Myth, History, Structure, Rome.” In Repeat Performances, edited by Laurel Fulkerson, 154-175. Madison (Wisc.).
• Kenty, Joanna. 2017. “Avenging Lucretia: From Rape to Revolution.” Eidolon.
• Manwell, Elizabeth. 2007. “Gender and Masculinity.” In A Companion to Catullus, edited by Marilyn B. Skinner, 111-128. Malden (MA) and Oxford.
• Masterson, Mark. 2016. Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood. Columbus.
• Nappa, Christopher. 2018. Making Men Ridiculous: Juvenal and the Anxieties of the Individual. Ann Arbor.
• Richlin, Amy. 2014. Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women. Ann Arbor.
• Walters, Jonathan. 1997. “Invading the Roman Body: Manliness and Impermeability in Roman Thought.” In Hallett and Skinner 1997, 29-43.
• Williams, Craig. 1999. Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity. New York and Oxford.
• Zuckerberg, Donna. 2015. “Bang Rome: Ovid and the Original Sin of Pickup Artistry.” Eidolon.

General:

• * Ager, Britta. 2018. “Drag Her by the Hair and Heart: The Manosphere and Ancient Love Curses.” Eidolon.
• * Arehart, Brent. 2016. “Taking Advice from the Pros: (S)expertise in Antiquity and the Digital Age.” Eidolon.
• Beck, Bill. 2018. “The Measure of a Man: Minor Classical Phalluses, Major Modern Fragility.” Eidolon.
• Blondell, Ruby and Kirk Ormand, eds. 2015. Ancient Sex. Columbus.
• Foxhall, Lin. 2013. Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge.
• * Gillies, Grace. 2017. “The Body in Question: Looking at Non-Binary Gender in the Greek and Roman World.” Eidolon.
• Herz, Zachary. 2015. “Law v. History: the story of the Supreme Court’s misguided, forty-year fixation on ancient gay history.” Eidolon.
• Hubbard, Thomas K., ed. 2014. A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities. Malden (MA), Oxford, Chichester.
• Ingleheart, Jennifer. 2018. Masculine Plural: Queer Classics, Sex, and Education. Oxford.
• James, Sharon. 2016. “Ancient Comedy, Women’s Lives: Finding Social History and Seeing the Present in Classical Comedy.”
• LaBuff, Jeremy. 2019. “A Bigger, Sexier Ancient World: Why We Should Care That Other Ancients Screwed.” Eidolon.
• Larmour, David H.J., Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter, eds. 1998. Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity. Princeton.
• Lee, Tori. 2017. “To Me, You Are Creepy: Excluded Lovers from Rome to Rom-Com.” Eidolon.
• * Maisel, LKM. 2019. “Women are Made, but from What? Modern and Ancient Trans Antagonism.” Eidolon.
• Masterson, Mark, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, and James Robson, eds. 2014. Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World. London.
• Oktaba, Nikolas. 2017. “Dick Pics, Ancient and Modern.” Eidolon.
• Ormand, Kirk. 2018. Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome, Revised Edition. Austin.
• Pomeroy, Sarah. 1995². Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity, 120-148. New York.
• Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin, and Fiona McHardy. 2014. From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom. Columbus.
• Richlin, Amy. 1991. “Zeus and Metis: Foucault, Feminism, Classics.” Helios 18: 160-180.
• ——. 1992a. The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor. Oxford.
• ——, ed. 1992b. Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome. Oxford.
• Skinner, Marilyn. 2013². Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture. Hoboken.

Podcasts:

• In Our Time: Sappho.
• Ancient Greece Declassified: Sappho.
• Ancient Greece Declassified: Platonic Love.
• History of Ancient Greece podcast: Love, Sex, and Prostitution.
• History of Ancient Greece: Marriage and Domesticity.
• History of Ancient Greece: Roman sexuality.