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Women in Classical Antiquity

Hey so I’ve compiled a list of sources I have used at some point or other and/or seen recommended when it comes to the study 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 balanced sources.

Historical Studies

Women and Law in Late Antiquity by Antti Arjava

New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World by Georgia Tsouvala, Ronnie Ancona

Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome By Sandra Boehringer

Engendering Aphrodite: Women & Society in Ancient Cyprus by Diane Bolger, Nancy Serwint

The Imperial Women of Rome: Power, Gender, Context by Mary Boatwright

Women and Monarchy in Macedonia by Elizabeth Carney

The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Elizabeth Carney, Sabine Müller

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.

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 West by Emily Hemelrijk and Greg Woolf

Women’s Influence on Classical Civilization by Eireann Marshall, Fiona Mchardy

Roman Working Women in Ostia by Natalie Kampen

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 in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra by Sarah Pomeroy

Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Lisa Auanger

Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices: Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples by Molly Swetnam-Burland, Brenda Longfellow

Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian by Susan Treggiari

Women in Religion & Mythology

Gender, Creation Myths and their Reception in Western Civilization: Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve by Tovi Bibring, Lisa Maurice

The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell, Margaret Williamson

Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion by Matthew Dillon

Women Like This: New Perspectives on Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman World by Amy Jill-Levine

Women in Greek Myth by Mary Lefkowitz

Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Women in Roman Religion by Soralta Takács

Feminist Theory & Historiography

Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources by Laura K. McClure

Women in Antiquity: New Assessments by Richard Hawley, et al.

Heroines and Hysterics by Mary Lefkowitz

Women’s History and Ancient History by Sarah Pomeroy

Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women by Amy Richlin

Feminist Theory and the Classics by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, ‎Amy Richlin

Sourcebooks

Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800by Roger S. Bagnall, Raffaella Cribiore

Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and WidowhoodbyJudith Evans Grubbs

Women and Society in the Roman World: a Sourcebook of Inscriptions from the Roman West by Emily Hemelrijk

Clodia: A Sourcebook by Julia Dyson Hejduk 

Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook by Ross Shepard Kraemer

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

Art Historical

Portraits of Livia: Imaging the Imperial Woman in Augustan Rome by Elizabeth Bartman

Roman Women by Eve D'Ambra

Julia Augusta: images of Rome’s first empress on the coins of the Roman Empire by Tracene Harvey

Images of Women in Antiquity by Averil Cameron and Amelie Kuhrt

The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World by Sheilia Dillon

I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome by Diana E.E. Kleiner

I Claudia II: Women in Roman Art and Society by Diana E.E. Kleiner

Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology by Olga Koloski-Ostrow

Imperial Women: A Study in Public Images, 40 B.C.-A.D. 68 by Susan Wood

Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth by Susan Walker, Peter Higgins

Studies of Historical Personages

Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra by Nathanael 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 Carney

Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Carney

Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt by Dee Clayman

Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem by Elizabeth A. Clark

Cornelia: Mother of the Gracchi by Suzanne Dixon

Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott

Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska

Julia Augusti: The Emperor’s Daughter by Elaine Fantham

Representing Agrippina: Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire by Judith Ginsburg

Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady By Nikos Kokkinos

Faustina I and II: Imperial Women of the Golden Age by Barbara 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

Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic by Celia E. Schultz

The Women of Pliny’s Letters by Jo-Ann Shelton

Clodia Metelli: The Tribune’s Sister by Marilyn Berglund Skinner

Servilia and Her Family by Susan Treggiari

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 (Lecture by Dr. Duane W. Roller, 2021)

Who is Antony and Cleopatra’s Daughter? (Interview with Dr. Jane Draycott about Cleopatra Selene II, 2023)

Diotima(A resource for information on women, gender, sex, sexualities, race, ethnicity etc.) 

Lucretia and the Politics of Violence (Lecture by Dr. Mary Beard, 2019)

Online Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women

Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome (2013)

Women in Antiquity: An Online Resource for the Study of Women in the Ancient World

Women’s Classical Caucus

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