Classics

The Other: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Ancient World

Last Revised 18 February 2001. The following bibliography makes no pretense at being complete; it isn't. From time to time new works will be added. You should consult the Diotima site for more bibliographies.

Frequently Asked Questions. Where do I go to find basic information on my proposed topic? For the study of the Ancient World, you should go first to the Oxford Classical Dictionary, Third Edition (in reference section of the library) and look up the entry on your proposed topic. Next you should do a "keyword" search using the College's online catalog. If you are interested in writing about Greek women, type in the keywords Women and Greek (or Greece). If you are interested in tragedy and how Athenian tragedy highlights the disenfranchised in Greek society, type in tragedy and Greece, and so forth. When in doubt, ask for assistance in the library.

What are some good sites to visit? I would start with Diotima and then use the search engine for topics on the ancient and medieval world called Argos. You can reach both sites from the links section of the Classics home page. A few minutes of purusing what the Classics web site has to offer will aid your research enormously. The Classics site now has a page which lists recent additions to the Carthage collection. Go here This page has yet to be updated. A number of texts were donated to the library in December. You really need to check out the stacks as well as the online catalog. Too often students tell me we do not have a book that I know we have because they will not use the online catalog. I will try to have basic books placed on reserve so all may have access to them.

More questions and answers will be posted in the future.

New on Diotima as of 18 February 2001

Race and Ethnicity/Cultural Identity

Women

• New
• Women in the Ancient World Bibliography A lot of articles and books listed here. You may need to order some items through interlibrary loan.
• Blundell, S., Women in Ancient Greece (Cambridge 1995)
• Blundell, S. and Margaret Williamson, The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece (New York, 1998)
• Davis-Kimball, J., "Warrior Women of the Eurasian Steppes," Archaeology 50 (1997), 44-48.
• duBois, Page, Sowing the Body Pyschoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women. (Chicago 1988)
• Fantham, E. et al., Women in the Classical World (Oxford 1995) [In our library]
• French, Valerie, "Midwives and Maternity Care in the Roman World,"Helios n.s. 13(2), 1986, 68-84. Kleiner, Diane and Matheson, Susan, eds., I, Claudia, Women in Ancient Rome (N5763 K64 I4)
• Lyons, D., Gender and Immortality: heroines in ancient Greek Myth and cult (PA 3015 W65 L96)
• Title: Warrior queens.
  Subject(s): AMAZONS of Black Sparta (Book)
  Source: Times Higher Education Supplement, 09/10/99, Issue 1401, p36, 1/4p Author(s): Rathbone, Richard Abstract: Reviews the book `Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey,' by Stanley B. Alpern.
  AN: 2352882
  ISSN: 0049-3929
  Database: Academic Search Elite
  
• Bibliography on Women in the Ancient World From Diotima.

Slavery

• Bradley, K., Slavery and Society at Rome (Cambridge, 1994)
• Madden, "Slavery in Rome and Origins," Classics Ireland, 3 (1996)

Sexuality

• Diotima's Bibliography on Sexuality. Folks there is a lot of entries here. You may have to order the material through inter- library-loan.
• Masculinities Archive
• Larmour, Miller, Platter, eds., Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity (Princeton 1998)
• McGinn, T. Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome. Oxford 1998 [KJA 3468 P76 M39m1998]
• Winkler, Constraints of Desire, The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in the Ancient World (New York 1990)
• Williams, Craig A. Roman Homosexuality, Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity (Oxford 1999)
• Halperin, D. et al., Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World (Princeton, 1990)
• Hallett and Skinner, eds., Roman Sexualities. (Princeton 1997)

Disabilities

• Primary Sources
• Enchiridion 5
• Dasen,V.,"Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece," From the Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews
• Edwards, M., "The Cultural Context of Deformity in the Ancient World," Look are her footnotes which are extensive. She gives you primary sources and other works on the topic.
• Garland, R., The Greek Way of Life [in our library]
• Garland, Robert, The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in Greco-Roman World. Ithaca: CUP. 1995. [HV 1552 G233 E9]
• Review of Garland's book BMCR 97.9.04
• Review of T. Maslowski's, ed. Pro CaelioBMCR 96.8.13
• . Use the find function under Netscape's "edit".
• Medicine in Ancient Egypt. Go to edit while in Netscape and search for the word "deformities." What could be easier?