Classical Studies

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Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800

By Roger Bagnall & Raffaella Cribiore
Subjects: Classical Studies, Gender Studies

The private letters of ancient women in Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest

Arguments with Silence

Writing the History of Roman Women

By Amy Richlin
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Gender Studies, History, Historical Methods and Theory

Examining the perishable nature of the history of women’s lives

Centaurs and Amazons

Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being

By Page duBois
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Classical Studies, Greek

Traces the development of the Greek hierarchical view of life that continues to permeate Western society

Taking Her Seriously

Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey

By Richard Heitman
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Gender Studies

An innovative new analysis of the Odyssey's most influential female character

Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (ACLS)

Enhanced Electronic Version

By Roger Bagnall & Raffaella Cribiore
Subjects: Classical Studies, Gender Studies

The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors

A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art

By Christine Mitchell Havelock
Subjects: Classical Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Art, Architecture, History

A revealing survey of Aphrodite

Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage

From Plautus to Chaucer

Edited by Warren S. Smith
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Gender Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

Traces satiric themes on women, sex, and marriage through ancient Latin literature and the Middle Ages into Chaucer

Breaking Ground

Pioneering Women Archaeologists

Edited by Getzel M. Cohen & Martha Sharp Joukowsky
Subjects: Archaeology, Classical Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Anthropology

Biographies of twelve often-overlooked woman archaeologists

Worshipping Aphrodite

Art and Cult in Classical Athens

By Rachel Rosenzweig
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Archaeology, Greek, Classical Studies, Greek, Gender Studies

Delves into the various characteristics of Aphrodite as the people of Athens conceived of her

Staging Masculinity

The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World

By Erik Gunderson
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"

Siren Songs

Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey

By Lillian Doherty
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies

A feminist critique of the Odyssey

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