Classics

Race, gender and sexuality

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

  • Women, Greece
  • Women, Rome
  • Masculinity, Greece
  • Masculinity, Rome
  • Men, Greece
  • Men, Rome
  • Gender Identity, Greece
  • Gender Identity, Rome
  • Homosexuality, Greece
  • Homosexuality, Rome
  • Jews, Rome

Sourcebooks

Hubbard, Thomas K., ed. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: a sourcebook of basic documents. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003. JFE 03-7420.

Kraemer, Ross Shepard. Women's religions in the Greco-Roman world: a sourcebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. JFD 04-12708.

Lefkowitz, Mary. Women's life in Greece and Rome: a source book in translation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. JFE 92-9707.

McClure, Laura K., ed. Sexuality and gender in the classical world: readings and sources. Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA, USA: Blackwell Publishers, c2002. JFE 03-9753.

Bibliography and reference

Bell, Robert E. Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1991. JFF 91-2762.

Goodwater, Leanna. Women in Antiquity: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975. *RS-SNB 79-706.

Lightman, Marjorie. Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women: Notable Women from Sappho to Helena. New York: Facts On File, 2000. *R-SNE 00-2931.

Salisbury, Joyce. Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, c2001. JFF 01-3145.

Historical and critical studies

Balsdon, J. P. V. D. Roman women: their history and habits. London, Bodley Head [1962]. D-14 838.

Bassi, Karen. Acting like men: gender, drama, and nostalgia in ancient Greece. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998. JFE 99-2073.

Bauman, Richard A. Women and politics in ancient Rome. London; New York: Routledge, 1992. JFD 93-1128.

Berlinerblau, Jacques. Heresy in the university: the Black Athena controversy and the responsibilities of American intellectuals. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c1999. JFE 99-7189.

Bernal, Martin. Black Athena: the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization. London: Free Association Books, 1987-. JFL 87-416 Library has: Vol. 1-2.

Bernal, Martin. Black Athena writes back: Martin Bernal responds to his critics. Edited by David Chioni Moore. Durham: Duke University Press, c2001. *OBYE 01-11014.

Bremen, Riet van. The limits of participation: women and civic life in the Greek East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1996. JFE 98-10925.

Brooten, Bernadette J. Love between women: early Christian responses to female homoeroticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. JFE 96-19285.

Clark, Gillian. Women in the Ancient World. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. L-11 2064 no.21.

Cole, Susan Guettel. Landscapes, gender, and ritual space: the ancient Greek experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004. JFE 04-5059.

Songe-Møller, Vigdis. Philosophy without women: the birth of sexism in Western thought. Translated by Peter Cripps. London: Continuum, c2002. JFE 03-12460.

Dean-Jones, Lesley. Women's bodies in classical Greek science. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. JFD 94-6202.

Donaldson, James. Woman; her position and influence in ancient Greece and Rome, and among the early Christians. London, New York: Longmans, Green, 1907. SNB.

Dover, K.J. Greek homosexuality. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c1989. JFE 90-2562.

Flemming, Rebecca. Medicine and the making of Roman women: gender, nature, and authority from Celsus to Galen. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. JFD 01-4006.

Foxhall, Lin, and John Salmon. Thinking men: masculinity and its self-representation in the classical tradition. New York: Routledge, 1998. JFE 98-9118.

Foxhall, Lin, and John Salmon, eds. When men were men: masculinity, power and identity in classical antiquity. London; New York: Routledge, 1998. JFE 99-10153.

Goff, Barbara. Citizen Bacchae: women's ritual practice in ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004. JFE 04-9242.

Golden, Mark, and Peter Toohey, eds. Sex and difference in ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2003. JFE 03-12887.

Holst-Warhaft, Gail. Dangerous voices: women's laments and Greek literature. London; New York: Routledge, 1992. JFD 93-1740.

Joshel, Sandra R., and Sheila Murnaghan, eds. Women and slaves in Greco-Roman culture: differential equations. London; New York: Routledge, 1998. JFE 99-5975.

Karydas, Helen Pournara. Eurykleia and her successors: female figures of authority in Greek poetics. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, c1998. JFE 98-1227.

Kuefler, Mathew. The manly eunuch: masculinity, gender ambiguity, and Christian ideology in late antiquity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. JFE 01-9287.

Lardinois, André, and Laura McClure, eds. Making silence speak: women's voices in Greek literature and society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2001. JFE 01-7034.

Lefkowitz, Mary R., and Guy MacLean Rogers, eds. Black Athena revisited. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1996. JFE 96-7778.

Loven, Larsson, and Agneta Strömberg, eds. Gender, cult, and culture in the ancient world from Mycenae to Byzantium: proceedings of the second Nordic Symposium on Gender and Women's History in Antiquity, Helsinki, 20-22 October 2000. Nordic Symposium on Gender and Women's History in Antiquity (2000 : Helsinki, Finland). Sävedalen: Aaströms Förlag, 2003. JFD 03-16081.

Lyons, Deborah. Gender and immortality: heroines in ancient Greek myth and cult. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1997. JFE 97-2025.

Mazrui, Ali A. Ancient Greece in African political thought; an inaugural lecture delivered on 25th August 1966, at Makerere University College. [Nairobi, Kenya, East African Pub. House, 1967]. JLK 72-93 no. 1.

McCabe, Joseph. The empresses of Rome. London : Methuen, 1911. BWH.

O'Higgins, Laurie. Women and humor in classical Greece. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. JFE 03-15593.

Peradotto, John, and J.P. Sullivan, eds. Women in the ancient world: the Arethusa papers. Albany: State University of New York Press, c1984. JLE 83-3518.

Reinhold, Meyer. Diaspora: the Jews among the Greeks and Romans. Sarasota, FL: Samuel Stevens, 1983. *PXH 83-1305.

Setälä, Päivi, and Liisa Savunen, eds. Female networks and the public sphere in Roman society. Rome: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 1999. JFF 02-172.

Staples, Ariadne. From good goddess to vestal virgins: sex and category in Roman religion. London; New York: Routledge, 1998. JFD 98-1842.

Ward, Julie K. Feminism and ancient philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1996. JFE 96-13920.

Wilson, Lyn Hatherly. Sappho's sweetbitter songs: configurations of female and male in ancient Greek lyric. London; New York: Routledge, 1996. JFD 96-16731.

Winkler, John J. The constraints of desire: the anthropology of sex and gender in ancient Greece. New York: Routledge, [1990]. JFE 90-686.

Wright, F. A. Feminism in Greek literature from Homer to Aristotle. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press [1969]. C-14 4734.

Wyke, Maria, ed. Gender and the body in the ancient Mediterranean. Oxford, UK; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998. JFE 99-70.