Essays, etc.

Note: Below we provide hypertextual links to pertinent essays, lectures, and journal articles stored at various locations around the world, including this site. Copyright on the work at the other ends of these links in every case remains with the author or journal involved. If you want to make some of your own scholarship available via Diotima, please let us know.

ANE // Greece // Rome // Late Antiquity // Theory

Ancient Near East

• PBS Frontline: From Jesus to Christ. Interviews
  • Elizabeth Clark, the Roles for Women
  • Karen L. King, Women in Ancient Christianity: the New Discoveries
• Hannah M. Cotton, "The Guardian Of A Woman In The Documents From The Judaean Desert," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 118 (1997) 267-273
• Terence L. Donaldson, "Abraham's Gentile Offspring: Contratextuality and Conviction in Romans 4" Ioudaios
• Pearl Elman, "Deuteronomy 21: 10-14 - The Beautiful Captive Woman," Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (1997) 1.1
• Nikolaos Gonis, "Two Female Ghost-Names," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 119 (1997) 155-156
• Tal Ilan, Queen Shlomzion's Reign as Reflected in the Qumran Document (1999 paper at The Orion Center for the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature)
• Reuven Kimelman, "The Seduction of Eve and Feminist Readings of the Garden of Eden," Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal 1 (1998) 2
• Alexandra A. O'Brien, "Egyptian Women in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: The Economic and Legal Activities of Women in Demotic Texts": A Dissertation proposal presented to The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
• Victor Sasson, "The Literary and Theological Function of Job's Wife in the Book of Job" Biblica 79 (1998) 86-90
• Michael Satlow, "'Wasted Seed': The History of a Rabbinic Idea," Ioudaios
• Marianne Sawicki, "Making the Best of Jesus: Ioudaiai and Poiesis," Ioudaios
• Eliezer Segal, "Looking for Lilith"
• Peter Van Minnen, "Did Ancient Women Learn A Trade Outside The Home?," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123 (1998) 201-203
• H. M. Wahl, "Ester, das adoptierte Waisenkind. Zur Adoption im Alten Testament" Biblica 80 (1999) 78-99
• William A. Ward, "The Egyptian Economy and Non-royal Women: Their Status in Public Life" (lecture)
• A. Watson, "Jesus and the Adulteress" Biblica 80 (1999) 100-108
• Stephanie West, "Whose Baby? A Note On P. Oxy. 744," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 121 (1998) 167-172

Greece

• Z. Philip Ambrose, "Did Women Sing in the Thesmophoriazusae?," Didaskalia Supplement 1-May 1995
• Brian Arkins, "Sexuality in Fifth Century Athens," Classics Ireland 1 (1994)
• David Bain, "Two Submerged Items Of Greek Sexual Vocabulary From Aphrodisias," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 117 (1997) 81-84
• Karen Lee Bassi, "Orality, Masculinity, and the Greek Epic," Arethusa 30.3 (1997)
• Edward A. Beach, "The Eleusinian Mysteries," in The ECOLE Initiative
• Elizabeth Lynne Beavers, Aspasia (Perseus Encyclopedia)
• David Braund, "Plutarch's Pyrrhus and Euripides' Phoenician Women: Biography and Tragedy on Pleonectic Parenting," Histos (August, 1997)
• E. D. Carney, "Arsinoë before she was Philadelphus," Ancient History Bulletin 8.4 (1994) 123-131
• Paul Cartledge, "The Greeks and Anthropology," Classics Ireland 2 (1995)
• Randall B. Clark, "Platonic Love in a Colorado Courtroom: Martha Nussbaum, John Finnis, and Plato's Laws in Romer v. Evans," Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (Vol. 12, No. 1; Winter 2000, pp. 1-38)
• Jenny Strauss Clay, "The Plot of the Lysistrata and the Hostages of Line 244," Electronic Antiquity 1 (1994)
• D. J. Conacher, "Sophocles' Trachiniae: Some Observations," American Journal of Philology 118.1 (1997) 21-34
• Monica Silveira Cyrino, "Heroes in D(u)ress: Transvestism and Power in the Myths of Herakles and Achilles," Arethusa 31.2 (1998)
• Mary deForest, Female Choruses in Greek Tragedy
• Lowell Edmunds, "The Horse and the Maiden" (Aeschines 1.182 etc.): An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens" (With Appendices by Ruth Palmer)
• Martha L. Edwards, "The Cultural Context of Deformity in the Ancient Greek World 'Let There Be a Law That No Deformed Child Shall Be Reared'," Ancient History Bulletin, 10.3-4 (1996) 79-92
• Chris Emlyn-Jones, "Paradise Lost? Authority and reception in the presentation of mortal/immortal relationships in Archaic Greek Epic" The Reception of Classical Texts and Images (The Open University, 1996) Abstract (considers inter alia the relationships of Peleus & Thetis and Anchises & Aphrodite)
• Rachel Finnegan, "The Professional Careers: Women Pioneers and the Male Image Seduction," Classics Ireland 2 (1995)
• César Fornis and Juan-Miguel Casillas (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), "The Social Function of the Spartan Syssitia," The Ancient History Bulletin 11.2-3 (1997) 37-46
• Alfred French, "Pericles' Citizenship Law," Ancient History Bulletin 8.3 (1994)
• Suicide in Classical Mythology: An Essay, Elise P. Garrison
• Suicidal Females in Greek and Roman Mythology: A Catalogue, Elise P. Garrison
• Robert P. George, "'Shameless Acts' Revisited: Some Questions for Martha Nussbaum" (This article appears on pages 24-42 of the Winter 1995-96 issue of Academic Questions, the the journal of the National Association of Scholars.)
• Dene Grigar (Texas Woman's University) and Mindi Corwin (Richland College), "The Loom and the Weaver: Hypertext and Homer's Odyssey," Computers & Texts No. 16 (1998)
  The authors discuss the results of using Storyspace to weave connected paths through the Greek text of Homer's Odyssey and to examine the interpretation of Penelope through the eyes of various translations.
• James Grout, Hetairai (Encyclopedia Romana)
• A review by Edward M. Harris of Susan Deacy and Karen Peirce, eds. Rape in Antiquity: Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman Worlds, republished in Diotima with permission from Échos du Monde Classique/Classical Views XL, n.s. 16, 1997, 483-96
• Ruth Hazel, "'...and a chorus of Corinthian women...': Use of the Chorus in Recent Productions of Euripides' Medea" The Reception of Classical Texts and Images (The Open University, 1996) Abstract
• James Houlihan, "Incorporating the Other: the Catalogue of Women in Odyssey 11," Electronic Antiquity 2 (1994)
• Holmberg, Ingrid, "The Sign of Metis," Arethusa 30.1 (1997)
• Patricia J. Johnson, "Woman's Third Face: A Psycho/Social Reconsideration of Sophocles' Antigone," Arethusa 30.3 (1997)
• Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Active/Passive, Acts/Passions: Greek and Roman Sexualities," The American Historical Review 105.4
• Marilyn Katz, "Daughters of Demeter," forthcoming in Becoming Visible: Women in European History, ed. Bridenthal, Stuard and Wiener (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.)
• Marilyn A. Katz, "Women, Children and Men" Chapter 5 in The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece, ed. Paul Cartledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 100-138.
• David Konstan (all files in Adobe pdf),
  • The Pre-Pubescent Lover in Greek Literature
  • Enacting Eros
• Kenneth D.S. Lapatin, "The Ancient Reception of Pheidias' Athena Parthenos: the Visual Evidence in Context" The Reception of Classical Texts and Images (The Open University, 1996) Abstract
• Chris T. Lee, "Paul's Malakos: Its Evolution from Classical Greece Through the Roman World" (student research project)
• Kevin Lee, "The Greek Symposium" (Keynote Address at the 1997 NZACT Conference)
• Claire L. Lyons and Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow "Naked Truths About Classical Art: An Introduction"
• Deborah Lyons, Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult
• John M. McMahon, "Representing Impotence: Systems of Belief in Ancient Popular Culture," (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Classical Studies, 1993)
• John M. McMahon, "Cultivating Passion: Vegetables, Belief, and Sexuality" Newsletter of the Classical Association of the Empire State (forthcoming)
• Barbara F. McManus, Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866-1946): A series of web pages about the life and work of Grace Macurdy, Professor of Greek at Vassar College, who was the first woman classicist to focus her research on the lives of ancient women.
• Elizabeth Meyer, "A New Interpretive Study of the Evolution of Slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Greece"
• Sheila Murnaghan, "Stagings of Gender"
• Christopher Pelling, "East is East and West is West - Or Are They? National Stereotypes in Herodotus" (Histos, March 1997)
• L. H. Petersen, "Divided Consciousness and Female Companionship: Reconstructing Female Subjectivity on Greek Vases," Arethusa 30.1 (1997) 35-74
• Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, "The Male Actor of Greek Tragedy: Evidence of Misogyny or Gender-Bending?," Didaskalia Supplement 1-May 1995
• Ruth Scodel, "Meditations on Lysias I and Athenian Adultery," Electronic Antiquity 1 (1993)
• Elena Vlahu Scott, "Agia Kore: The Modern Greek Demeter and Persephone" (1995 Berkeley McNair Journal)
• David Silverman, "Connelly on the Parthenon Frieze" (course document, Reed College)
• N. W. Slater, "Waiting in the Wings: Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae," Arion 5.1 (1997)
• John Thorp, "The Social Construction of Homosexuality," Phoenix 46.1 (1992)
• Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett, "Pericles' Muting of Women's Voices in Thuc. 2.45.2" (A paper delivered at the 1999 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference)
• Martin L. West, "The Berlin Corinna," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 113 (1996) 22-23
• Lyn Webster Wilde, "Did the Amazons really exist?" (a brief edited extract from On the Trail of the Women Warriors - the Amazons in Myth and History)

Rome

• AAR 2000 meeting: Marriage and Family in North Africa
  • Jonathan P. Yates, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven
    Concupiscentia in Pre-Augustinian North Africa: A Quest for Continuity
  • William Tabbernee, Phillips Theological Seminary
    A Species of Fornication: Tertullian's Polemic against Remarriage among Christians
  • Karen Jo Torjesen, Claremont Graduate University
    Veils, Virgins, Female Shame, and Concupiscence
  • Maureen A. Tilley, University of Dayton
    Asceticism under Attack in North Africa: How to Manage the Renunciation of Sexuality
  • Thomas F. Martin, Villanova University
    "Quamuis iam nata cogat se diligi": Augustine on Parenting
  • David G. Hunter, Iowa State University
    The Practice and Theory of Marriage in Roman North Africa (ca. 200-400)
  • Robin Jensen, Andover Newton Theological School
    The Status of Marriage and the Enduring Importance of Domestic Life As Presented in Funerary Art and Epitaphs
  • J. Patout Burns, Vanderbilt University
    The Civil and Ecclesial Status of Concubinage   J. Patout Burns
    Marriage and Society in the City of God
• William W. Batstone, Sulpicia and the Speech of Men (Cambridge University, May 24, 2000)
• Trudy Harrington Becker, "Ambiguity and the Female Warrior: Vergil's Camilla," Electronic Antiquity Vol. 4 Issue 1 - August 1997
• David Cherry, "Soldiers’ Marriages and Recruitment in Upper Germany and Numidia" The Ancient History Bulletin 3.6 (1989) 128-130
• Jaime B. Curbera, "Venusta And Her Owner In Four Curse Tablets From Morgantina, Sicily," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110 (1996) 295-297
• Heather Ellison, "Cleopatra VII" from Egyptian Antiquities Information, official site of the Ministry of Tourism; n.b. the sections on rulers and also the on-line history (Gardiner)
• Alaa K. Ashmawy, "Cleopatra, the Last Pharaoh (B.C. 69-30)"
• Pamela R. Bleisch, Plautine Travesties of Gender and Genre: Transvestism and Tragicomedy in Amphitruo
• James R. Bradley (Trinity College, Hartford), "The Elegies of Sulpicia: An Introduction and Commentary," New England Classical Journal Vol. XXII.4 (May, 1995)
• Renaud Calvat, "Cléopâtre de Virgile à Mankiewicz. Origine et évolution d'un mythe," Bulletin de l'Arelam No. XXXII, juillet 1995, pp. 43-57
• Elaine Fantham, "The ambiguity of Virtus in Lucan's Civil War  and Statius' Thebaid," Arachnion. A Journal of Ancient Literature and History on the Web, nr. 3
• Nick Fisher, "Laser-Quests: Unnoticed allusions to contraception in a poet and a princeps?," Classics Ireland 3 (1996) 73-97
• Marleen B. Flory, "The Deification of Roman Women," The Ancient History Bulletin 9.3-4 (1995) 127-134
• Valerie French, "Midwives and Maternity Care in the Roman World," reprinted from a special issue of Helios entitled "Rescuing Creusa: New Methodological Approaches to Women in Antiquity," (Helios, New Series 13(2), 1986, pp. 69-84
• Anne H. Groton, Rhyme, Women, and Song: Getting in Tune with Plautus
• James Grout, Boudica (Encyclopedia Romana)
• Vincent Hunink, "The Enigmatic Lady Pudentilla," American Journal of Philology 119.2 (1998) 275-291
• Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Active/Passive, Acts/Passions: Greek and Roman Sexualities," The American Historical Review 105.4
• Robert A. Kaster, "The Shame of the Romans" (1996 APA Presidential Address)
• Jay King, Roman History, Coins, and Technology Back Pages: created with a primary mission of providing resource and enrichment material for K - 12 students and their teachers who are studying Roman history; includes mini-essays on
  Women in Roman Society: Noble Ladies, Warrior Queens, Soldiers' Wives, Farmer's Daughters, and Slaves
• David Konstan (all files in Adobe pdf),
  • Women, Ethnicity and Power in the Roman Empire
  • Enacting Eros
  • Self, Sex, and Empire in Catullus: The Construction of a Decentered Identity
• Sara H. Lindheim, "Hercules Cross-dressed, Hercules Undressed: Unmasking the Construction of the Propertian amator In Elegy 4.9," American Journal of Philology 119.1 (1998) 43-66
• Claire L. Lyons and Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow "Naked Truths About Classical Art: An Introduction"
• John Madden, "Slaves in the Roman Empire: numbers and origins," Classics Ireland 3 (1996) 109-28
• Susan Martin, "The Women of Rome: Private Lives and Public Personae" (1997 ACTFL presentation)
• Iain McDougall, "Livy and Etruscan Women," The Ancient History Bulletin 4.2 (1990) 24-30
• Dominic Montserrat, Gender in the Roman World: Reading and Studying Roman Gender
• O'Gorman, Ellen, "Love and the Family: Augustus and the Ovidian Legacy," Arethusa 30.1 (1997) 103-123
• Beryl Rawson, "‘the Family’ In The Ancient Mediterranean: Past, Present, Future," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 117 (1997) 294-296
• Tina Saavedra, "Agrippina the Elder: Vixen or Victim?," a paper read at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference April 19, 1996
• R. A. S. Seaford, "The Mysteries of Dionysos at Pompeii" -- reprinted from H. W. Stubbs (ed.), Pegasus: Classical Essays from the University of Exeter (1981) 52-67
• N. W. Slater, "The Fiction of Patriarchy in Terence's Hecyra," Classical World 81 (1988)
• R. A. Smith, "A Lock and a Promise: Myth and Allusion in Aeneas' Farewell to Dido in Aeneid 6," Phoenix 47 (1993)
• Susan Treggiari, "Leges Sine Moribus," Ancient History Bulletin 8.3 (1994)
• James Whitta, Adest sponsus, qui est Christus Performing the Male Monastic Body in Sponsus
• Steven J. Willett, "Reticent about the Feeling, Precise about the Thing: Horace's Ironic Elegy," a paper read at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference April 19, 1996
• (no author given), "Boudicca's Rebellion in 60-61 AD," Athena Review, Vol.1, No.1 (Fall, 1995) -- includes the description by Tacitus

Late Antiquity

• D. F. Buck, "The Reign of Aurelian in Eunapius' Histories," The Ancient History Bulletin 9.2 (1995), 86-92
• Jeffrey Jerome Cohen & the Members of Interscripta, "Medieval Masculinities: Heroism, Sanctity, & Gender" (The Labyrinth)
• Claudine Dauphin, "Brothels, Baths and Babes: Prostitution in the Byzantine Holy Land," Classics Ireland 3 (1996) 47-72
• Michael DiMaio, Jr. et al., essays on various imperial women in De Imperatoribus Romanis
• James Grout, Hypatia (Encyclopedia Romana)
• R. Newbold, "Fear of Sex in Nonnus' Dionysiaca" Electronic Antiquity IV.2 (1998)
• Eugene Vance, "Grave Art"
• Lawrence Warner, "Sacrificing the Son in Augustine's Confessions"

Additional Scholarship on Politics and Theory

• From the Johns Hopkins Guide to Theory and Criticism
  • Feminist Theory and Criticism
    • 1963-1972
    • Anglo-American Feminisms
    • Poststructuralist Feminisms
    • Materialist Feminisms
  • Gay Theory and Criticism
    • Gay Male
    • Lesbian
  • Cultural Studies
    • United Kingdom
    • United States
  • Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism
    • Traditional Freudian Criticism
    • Reconceptualizing Freud
    • The Post-Lacanians
  • Some other pertinent entries
    • Michele Foucault
    • Luce Irigaray
    • Adrienne Rich
    • Jacques Lacan
• Laurel M. Bowman, "Interview with David Halperin" Favonius vol. 3 (1991), 27-43.
• Kirk Ormand, "Positions for Classicists, or Why Should Feminist Classicists Care about Queer Theory?" (This paper was originally presented at a workshop, co-led by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, on Queer Theory/Feminist Theory/Classics at the conference on "Feminism and the Classics: Setting the Research Agenda," Princeton, Nov. 7-9, 1996.)
• Rebecca Resinski, "Constituting an Adorned Female Body -- from Pandora to Livy's Lex Oppia" (This paper was delivered at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference in April 1997 as part of a panel on Greek and Roman bodies.)
• Marilyn B. Skinner, "Zeus and Leda: The Sexuality Wars in Contemporary Classical Scholarship" Thamyris 3.1 (1996) 103-123

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