CLAS 4375:  GENDER AND RACE IN ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS

Resources for the Advanced Track

Online:
 

History of concept of race  (Jim Bindon, U of Alabama)

Race, Racism and the Law, Vernelia Randall, U. of Daynton School of Law

ORIGIN AND NATURE OF NEW WORLD SLAVERY

ADVANCED READINGS: GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE COURSE

Finley, M.I.  Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, London, 1980
____________   Slavery in Classical Antiquity: Views and Controversies. Barnes and Noble, rp. 1964.

Fantham, E., et al, Women in the Classical World, Oxford 1994.

Foley, Helene P. Reflections of Women in Antiquity. New York, 1981.

Gould, J., "Law, Custom and Myth: Aspects of the Social Position of Women in Classical Athens," Journal of Hellenic Studies 100 (1980), pp 38-59.  COPYON RESERVE

Herodotus, The Histories. Edited by W. Blanco and Jennifer T. Roberts. Translated by W. Blanco. It includes notes, a historical background, and several essays.

Lefkowitz, Mary, Women in Greek Myth. Baltimore, 1979.

Loraux, Nicole, The children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes, Princeton, 1993, pp 147-183.

Peradotto, J. and J. P. Sullivan, eds. Women in the Ancient World: the Arethusa Papers. Albany, 1984.

Pomeroy, Sarah. B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. 1995.

Pozzi, D.C. and J. Wickersham, (eds.) Myth and the Polis. Cornell 1991.

Richlin, A., and N. Rabinowitz, Feminist Theory and the Classics, New York 1993.

Tyrrell, Wm. B. and F.S. Brown, Athenian Myths and Institutions. Words in Action, Oxford 1991.

Wiedemann, T., Greek and Roman Slavery, Johns Hopkins 1981.

Winkler, J. The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece. New York, 1990.

Xenophon, On the Management of the Household. Read in Perseus or in the edition with notes by S. Pomeroy.

MORE BIBLIOGRAHY

Leveque, Pierre "La Naissance d'Erichthonios ou de quelques distorsions dans la Sainte Famille" REA 94.3-4 (1992) 315-324 -+-

Rosivach, V.J. "Autochthony and the Athenians" CQ 37 (1987) 294-306 -+-

Connor, W.R. "Tribes, Festivals, and Processions; Civic Ceremonial and Political Manipulation in Archaic Greece" JHS 107 (1987)
          40-50 -+-

Snowden, Frank M., Blacks in Antiquity.  Ethiopians in the Graeco-Roman Experience, Cambridge, Ma., 1970.

Thompson, Lloyd "Roman Perceptions of Blacks" Scholia 2 (1993) 17-30 -+- abstract

Ridgway, David "Nestor's Cup and the Etruscans" OJA 16.3 (1997) 325-344 -+- abstract

Gouschin, V. "Athenian synoikism of the fifth century B.C., or two stories of Theseus" G&R 46.2 (1999) 168-187 -+-

Shaw, M.H. "The "ethos" of Theseus in "The Suppliciant Women"" Hermes 110 (1982) 3-19 -+-

Roberts, D.G. "Theseus and the Robber Sciron" JHS 32 (1912) 105-110 -+-

Tillyard, E.M.W. "Theseus, Sinis, and the Isthmian Games" JHS 33 (1913) 296-312 -+-

Sourvinou-Inwood, C. "Theseus Lifting the Rock and a Cup Near the Pithos Painter" JHS 91 (1971) 94-109 -+-

Podlecki, A.J. "Cimon, Skyros and `Theseus Bones'" JHS 91 (1971) 141-143 -+-

Woodford, S. "More Light on Old Walls: The Theseus of the Centauromachy in the Theseion" JHS 94 (1974) 158-165 -+-