#women in classics

thegrapeandthefig:

claudiaprocula:

Hey so I’ve compiled a list of surces I have used at some point or other and/or seen reccomended when it comes to the stuy of Women in Classical Antiquity. Feel free to add anything you have also found useful, though please try to keep it mainly to scholarly and balancrf sources.

Historical Studies

• New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World by Georgia Tsouvala, Ronnie Ancona
• Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World by Jean Macintosh Turfa, Stephanie Lynn Budin
• Women and Monarchy in Macedonia by Elizabeth Carney
• Roman Women by Eve D'Ambra 
• Women in Antiquity: New Assessments by Richard Hawley, et al.
• A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by Sheila Dillon, Sharon L. James
• Pandora’s Daughters: The Role & Status of Women in Greek & Roman Antiquity by Mauren Fant, Mary Lefkowitz
• Women in the Classical World: Image and Text by Elaine Fantham, et al.
• Women in Greek Myth by Mary Lefkowitz
• Women in Classical Antiquity: From Birth to Death by Laura K. McClure
  
• Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity by Sarah Pomeroy
• Spartan Women by Sarah Pomeroy
• Women’s History and Ancient History by Sarah Pomeroy
• Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra by Sarah Pomeroy
• Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women by  Amy Richland
• The Women of Pliny’s Letters by Jo-Ann Shelton
  

Sourcebooks

• Clodia: A Sourcebook by Julia Dyson Hejduk 
  
• Cleopatra: A Sourcebook by Prudence J. Jones
• Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
• by Mary Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant
• Women in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook by Bonnie MacLachlan
• Women in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Bonnie MacLachlan
• Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook by Jane Rowlandson

Biographies

• Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra by Nathanael J. Andrade
• Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire by Anthony A. Barrett
• Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome by Anthony A. Barrett
• Sabina Augusta: An Imperial Journey by T. Corey Brennan 
  
• Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life by Elizabeth Carney
• Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power by Elizabeth Donnelly Carney
  
• Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Carney
• Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt by Dee L. Clayman
• Cornelia: Mother of the Gracchi by Suzanne Dixon
• Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska
• Julia Augusti: The Emperor’s Daughterby Elaine Fantham
• Clodia: A Sourcebook by Julia Dyson Hejduk
• Faustina I and II: Imperial Women of the Golden Age by Barbara M. Levick
• Julia Domna: Syrian Empress by Barbara Levick
  
• Turia: A Roman Woman’s Civil War by Josiah Osgood
  
• Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
• Cleopatra’s Daughter: and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Age by Duane W. Roller
• Clodia Metelli: The Tribune’s Sister by Marilyn Berglund Skinner
• Terentia, Tullia and Publilia: The Women of Cicero’s Family by Susan Treggiari

Lectures, Documentaries, & Online Sources

• Cleopatra: The Most Famous Woman of Classical Antiquity (Lecure by Dr. Duane Roller, 2021)
• Lucretia and the Politics of Violence (Lecture by Dr. Mary Beard, 2019)
• Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome (2013)
• Virgil: Aeneid: Women (lecture by Llewelyn Morgan, 2012)
  
• Women in Antiquity: An Online Resource for the Study of Women in the Ancient World
  
• Women Who Made History: Cleopatra (2015)
• Women’s Classical Caucus
  

Women in Ancient religions

• Bona Dea & the Cults of Roman Womenby Attilio Mastrocinque
• Engendering Aphrodite: Women & Society in Ancient Cyprus by Diane Bolger & Nancy Serwint
• Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion by Matthew Dillon
• The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell & Margaret Williamson
• The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity by Stephanie Lynn Budin
• Women’s Religious Activity in the Roman Republic by Celia B. Schultz
• Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean by Ross Shepard Kraemer

Women in the Roman World

• Great Women of Imperial Rome - Mothers and Wives of the Caesars by Jasper Burns
• Women and Politics in Ancient Rome by Richard A. Bauman
• Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna by Emily A. Hemelrijk
• Women and the Roman City in the Latin Westby Emily Hemelrijk & Greg Woolf
• Engendering Rome: Women in Latin epic by A.M. Keith
• War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome by John K. Evans

Misc.

• The Athenian Woman by Sian Lewis
• A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by Sharon L. James, Sheila Dillon
• The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman World by Thomas A.J McGinn
• Voices at Work: Women Performance and Labor in Ancient Greece by Andromache Karanika