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Reference — Non-Circulating Library Materials

Boardman, John, ed. Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC). Zürich: Artemis, 1981.

An encyclopedia (alphabetical) of mythology: one set of volumes devoted to articles, the other to images. Not exactly user-friendly, but packed with info if you're working on a god- or myth-related topic.

Cancik, Hubert, Helmuth Schneider, Christine F. Salazar, et al., eds. Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Print.

[BU online version — authentication required]

Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth, eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3 ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. (Articles on topics like ancient Greek/Roman sexuality, etc.)

[BU online version — authentication required]

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Reference and Basic Studies — Circulating

All the following titles will be placed on reserve.

Adams, J. N. The Latin Sexual Vocabulary. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Print.

Blundell, Sue. Women in Ancient Greece. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. Print.

---. Women in Classical Athens. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1998. Print.

Dover, K. J. Greek Homosexuality. 2 ed. Cambridge, Mass., 1989.

[BU online version — authentication required]

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Volume 1: An Introduction. Trans. Robert Hurley. Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Print. Print.

---. The History of Sexuality. Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Print.

---. The History of Sexuality. Volume 3: The Care of the Self. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Print.

Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York: Schocken Books, 1975. Print.

Skinner, Marilyn B. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. Print.

Williams, Craig A. Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Print.

Younger, John G. Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Print.

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Bb PDFs

For full listing of/access to sources on reserve, whether Bb PDFs (scanned copies of chapters and articles) or Shelf Reserve (books), click:

Blackboard > My Bb@BU > My Courses > Ancient Sexuality & Gender-SPG09 >Course Reserves/Bb PDFs

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The following provides a key for correct MLA citation of books / book chapters / journal articles currently available to the class via Bb PDFs:

AESCHINES - Against Timarchus = Aeschines. Aeschines. Trans. Christopher Carey. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Print.

ARISTOPHANES - Ladies' Day = Aristophanes. Four Comedies. Trans. Dudley Fitts. New York: A Harvest Book / Harcourt, Inc., 1990. Print.

ARTEMIDORUS - Book One (assign. via Bb) = Artemidorus. The Interpretation of Dreams. Oneirocritica. Trans. Robert J. White. Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes Press, 1975. Print.

BOSWELL - Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories = Boswell, John. "Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories." Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. Eds. Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey. New York: Penguin Group, 1990. 16-36. Print.

BULLOUGH - Roman Mythology and Reality = Bullough, Vern L. "Roman Mythology and Reality." Sexual Variance in Society and History. New York: Wiley, 1976. 127-56. Print.

CARLSON - We Have a Life Cycle & Sexuality That is Genetically Programmed = Carlson, Elof Axel. Neither Gods nor Beasts: How Science Is Changing Who We Think We Are. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008. Print.

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COSTA - Dialogues of the Courtesans = Lucian. Selected Dialogues. Trans. Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Print.

DEMOSTHENES - Against Neaera = Demosthenes. Demosthenes. Speeches 50-59. Trans. Victor Bers. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Print.

FINNIS - Law, Morality, and Sexual Orientation = Finnis, J. "Law, Morality, and 'Sexual Orientation.' " Notre Dame Law Review 69.5 (1994): 1049-76. Print.

HALLETT - Women in the Ancient Roman World =

HALPERIN - "Homosexuality": A Cultural Construct = Halperin, David M. One Hundred Years of Homosexuality And Other Essays on Greek Love. New York and London: Routledge, 1990. Print.

HUBBARD - Archaic Greek Lyric = Hubbard, Thomas K., ed. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Print.

LATTIMORE - Alcestis = Euripides. Euripides. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Eds. David Grene, and Richmond Alexander Lattimore. Vol. 3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959. Print.

LEFKOWITZ - Women's Voices = Lefkowitz, Mary R., and Maureen B. Fant. Women's Life in Greece & Rome: A Source Book in Translation. 3 ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Print.

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MCGINN - Lex Lulia de Adulteriis Coercendis = McGinn, Thomas A. Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print.

NUSSBAUM - Platonic Love and Colorado Law = Nussbaum, Martha C. "Platonic Love and Colorado Law." Virginia Law Review 80 (1994): 1515-652. Print.

PLATO - Symposium = Plato. Complete Works. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 1997. Print.

SKINNER - Introduction: Quod Multo Fit Aliter in Graecia = Skinner, Marilyn B. "Introduction: Quod multo fit aliter in Graecia. . . ." Roman Sexualities. Eds. Judith P. Hallett, and Marilyn B. Skinner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 3-28. Print.

SOPHOCLES - Antigone = Sophocles. The Three Theban Plays. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England and New York: Penguin Books, 1984. Print.

ZINSERLING - Classical Period: Women of Athens = Paul-Zinserling, Verena. Women in Greece and Rome. The Image of Woman. New York: Abner Schram, 1973. Print.

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Assorted Books, Collections, Chapters, Articles

Several of the below may be placed on reserve.

Alexiou, Margaret. The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition. Greek Studies. 2 ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. Print.

Ancona, Ronnie, and Ellen Greene. Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry. Arethusa books. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Print.

Arrowsmith, William. "Luxury and Death in the Satyricon." Arion 5 (1966): 304-31. Print.

Barton, Carlin A. The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Print.

Bartsch, Shadi. The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Print.

Bartsch, Shadi, and Thomas Bartscherer, eds. Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Print.

Bassi, Karen. Acting like Men: Gender, Drama, and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Print.

Bechtle, Gerald. "The Adultery-Tales in the Ninth Book of Apuleius' 'Metamorphoses'." Hermes 123.1 (1995): 106-16. Print.

[Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4477063]

Boardman, John, Eugenio La Rocca, and Antonia Mulas. Eros in Greece. London: J. Murray, 1978. [Images — case paintings etc.]

Boswell, John. "Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories." Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. Eds. Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey. New York: Penguin Group, 1990. 16-36. [Cautiously essentialist.]

Bradley, Keith. "Contending with Conversion: Reflections on the Reformation of Lucius the Ass." Phoenix 52.3/4 (1998): 315-34. Print.

[Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1088674]

Butler, Judith. Antigone's Claim: Kinship between Life & Death. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Print.

Cantarella, Eva. Bisexuality in the Ancient World. Trans. Cormac O'Cuilleanain. 2 ed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Print.

---. Pandora's Daughters: The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. Print.

Clark, Randall Baldwin. "Platonic Love in a Colorado Courtroom: Martha Nussbaum, John Finnis, and Plato’s Laws." Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 12 (2000): 1-38. Print.

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Clarke, John R. Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1998. Print.

---. "Representations of the Cinaedus in Roman Art: Evidence of ‘Gay’ Subculture?" Journal of Homosexuality 49.3/4 (2005): 271-98.

[link to article at BU]

Clarke, John R. "Look Who's Laughing at Sex: Men and Women Viewers in the Apodyterium of the Suburban Baths at Pompeii." The Roman Gaze: Vision, Power, and the Body. Ed. David Fredrick. Arethusa Books. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 149-81. Print.

Cohen, David. Law, Sexuality and Society: The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Print.

---. "Seclusion, Separation, and the Status of Women in Classical Athens." Women in Antiquity. Eds. Ian McAuslan, and Peter Walcot. Greece & Rome Studies, v. 3. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Classical Association, 1996. 134-45. Print.

Connor, W. R. "Seized by the Nymphs: Nympholepsy and Symbolic Expression in Classical Greece." Classical Antiquity 7 (1988): 155-89. Print.

Davidson, James N. Courtesans & Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens. Hammersmith, London: HarperCollins, 1997. Print.

---. The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. Print.

Detel, Wolfgang. Foucault and Classical Antiquity: Power, Ethics, and Knowledge. Modern European Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [Critique of Foucault History of Sexuality vols. 2-3.]

Dillon, Matthew. Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Print.

Edmonds, Radcliffe G., III. "Socrates the Beautiful: Role Reversal and Midwifery in Plato's Symposium." Transactions of the American Philological Association 130 (2000): 261-85. Print.

Faraone, Christopher A. Ancient Greek Love Magic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. [See pp. 82-83, 136-137 for Sappho's prayer to Aphrodite (Hubbard 1.5) as related to a rather violent for of love-magic.]

Felluga, Dino. "Modules on Gender & Sex." Introduction to Theories of Gender and Sex. Purdue University. 10 October 2013 (2002): Web page. <http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/genderandsex/>

Finnis, J. " 'Shameless Acts' in Colorado: Abuse of Scholarship in Constitutional Cases." Academic Questions 7.4 (1994): 10–41. Print.

---. "Law, Morality, and 'Sexual Orientation.' ". Notre Dame Law Review 69.5 (1994): 1049-76. Print.

Fitton, J. W. " 'That Was No Lady, That Was. . . .' " Classical Quarterly 20.1 (1970): 56-66. Print.

Foley, Helene P. Reflections of Women in Antiquity. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1981. Print.

Foxhall, Lin. Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity. Key Themes in Ancient History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Print.

Foxhall, Lin and J. B. Salmon, eds. When Men were Men: Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Print.

Foucault, Michel. "Part Three. Economics." Trans. Robert Hurley. The History of Sexuality. Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. 141-84. [Chapter on Xenophon Oeconomicus and related.]

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Gaca, Kathy L. The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity. Hellenistic culture and society, 40. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Print.

Grant, Michael and Antonia Mulas. Eros in Pompeii: The Secret Rooms of the National Museum of Naples. New York: Morrow, 1975. Print.

Greene, Ellen, ed. Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Print.

Hallett, Judith P. "Women in the Ancient Roman World." Women's Roles in Ancient Civilizations: A Reference Guide. Ed. Bella Vivante. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. 257-92. Print.

Hallett, Judith P., and Marilyn B. Skinner, eds. Roman Sexualities. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Print.

Halperin, David M. One Hundred Years of Homosexuality And Other Essays on Greek Love. New York and London: Routledge, 1990. Print.

---. "Why is Diotima a Woman?" One Hundred Years of Homosexuality And Other Essays on Greek Love. New York and London: Routledge, 1990. 113-54. Print.

Halperin, David M., John J. Winkler, and Froma I. Zeitlin, eds. Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Print.

Hamel, Debra. Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Print.

Henry, Madeleine. Neaera: Writing a Prostitute's History. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. Print.

Hubbard, Thomas K. "Popular Perceptions of Elite Homosexuality in Classical Athens." Arion 6 (1998): 48-78. [Reconsideration of Dover, Foucault, Halperin.]

Hubbard, Thomas K., ed. Greek Love Reconsidered. New York: W. Hamilton Press, 2000. Print.

---, ed. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Print.

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Keith, Alison. "Tandem venit amor: A Roman Woman Speaks of Love." Roman Sexualities. Eds. Judith P. Hallett, and Marilyn B. Skinner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 295-310. Print.

Keuls, Eva C. The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1985. Print.

Konstan, David. Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Print.

Lardinois, A. P. M. H., and Laura McClure, eds. Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Print.

Larmour, David H. J., Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter. Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. Print.

Larson, Jennifer. Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Print.

Lefkowitz, Mary R. "The Heroic Women of Greek Epic." The American Scholar 56 (1987): 508-13. Print.

---. Women in Greek Myth. 2 ed. London: Duckworth, 2007. Print.

Leitao, David D. "The Legend of the Theban Sacred Band." The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome. Eds. Martha Craven Nussbaum, and Juha Sihvola. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 143-69. Print.

Lewis, Sian. The Athenian Woman: An Iconographic Handbook. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Print.

McAuslan, Ian, and Peter Walcot, eds. Women in Antiquity. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Classical Association, 1996. Print.

McGinn, Thomas A. The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman World: A Study of Social History & the Brothel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Print.

---. "The Lex Iulia de Adulteriis Coercendis." Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 140-215. Print.

---. Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print.

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McGlathery, Daniel B. "Reversals of Platonic Love in Petronius' Satyricon." Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity. 1998. 207-27. Print. [On the pergamene boy story in Petronius]

Monoson, Susan Sara. Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. [See chaps. 1 on Harmodius & Aristogeiton [pederastic politics], 3 on patriotism as eros in Athens.]

Myerowitz, Molly. "The Domestication of Desire: Ovid’s Parva Tabella and the Theater of Love." Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome. Ed. Amy Richlin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. 131-57. Print.

Nappa, Christopher. "Praetextati Mores: Juvenal's Second Satire." Hermes 126.1 (1998): 90-108.

Nussbaum, Martha C. "Platonic Love and Colorado Law." Virginia Law Review 80 (1994): 1515-652. Print.

---. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Print.

Nussbaum, Martha Craven, and Juha Sihvola, eds. The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Print.

Oakley, John Howard, and Rebecca H. Sinos. The Wedding in Ancient Athens. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Print.

Papaïoannou, Sophia. "Charite’s Rape, Psyche on the Rock and the Parallel Function of Marriage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses." Mnemosyne Ser. 4 51.3 (1998): 302-24. Print.

Paul-Zinserling, Verena. Women in Greece and Rome. The Image of Woman. New York,: A. Schram, 1973. Print.

Plato. The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters. Eds. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Bollingen Series. New York: Pantheon Books, 1961. Print.

Pomeroy, Sarah B. Spartan Women. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Print.

Posner, Richard A. Sex and Reason. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. Print.

---. Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. [Includes discussion of Nussbaum & Finnis.]

Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin. Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. Print.

Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin, and Lisa Auanger, eds. Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002. Print.

Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin, and Amy Richlin, eds. Feminist Theory and the Classics. New York: Routledge, 1993. Print.

Richlin, Amy. The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor. 2 ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Print.

---, ed. Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Print.

Rudich, Vasily. Dissidence and Literature under Nero: The Price of Rhetoricization. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Print.

---. Political Dissidence under Nero: The Price of Dissimulation. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Print.

Schaps, David M. Economic Rights of Women in Ancient Greece. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1979. Print.

---. "The Woman Least Mentioned: Etiquette and Women´s Names." Classical Quarterly 27 (1977): 323-30. Print.

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Scholtz, Andrew. Concordia Discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Athenian Literature. Hellenic Studies. Ed. Gregory Nagy. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2007. Print.

Sergent, Bernard. Homosexuality in Greek Myth. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. Print.

Skinner, Marilyn B. "Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why Is Sappho a Woman?" Feminist Theory and the Classics. Eds. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, and Amy Richlin. New York: Routledge, 1993. 125-44. Print.

Taaffe, Lauren K. Aristophanes and Women. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Print.

Thorp, J. "The Social Construction of Homosexuality." Phoenix 46 (1992): 54-61. Print.

Thornton, Bruce S. Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality. Boulder, Colo. and Oxford: Westview Press, 1997. Print.

Treggiari, Susan. Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1991. Print.

[Electronic version available via library site.]

Vivante, Bella, ed. Women's Roles in Ancient Civilizations: A Reference Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. Print.

Williams, Craig A. Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

[Electronic version available via library site.]

Winkler, John J. The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece. New York, 1990. Print.

Wohl, Victoria. Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy. 1st University of Texas Press ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Print.

---. Love among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Print.

Worman, Nancy. "The Body as Argument: Helen in Four Greek Texts." Classical Antiquity 16.1 (1997): 151-203.

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Web Resources

Valid Reference / Research / Bibliography Sites

Felluga, Dino. "Modules on Gender & Sex." Introduction to Theories of Gender and Sex. Purdue University. 10 October 2013 (2002): Web page. <http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/genderandsex/>

 

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