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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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hydromelgoat

I fell in love with a war. (why does mitski’s lyrics fit so well with poppy war ?)

sleep-deprived-lesbian

growing up as a cis girl the patriarchy told me “you’re a girl because of the way you were born, there is nothing you can do about this, you have no say in your gender” and i hated being a girl because it wasn’t my choice it was a prison and the trans community told me “you’re a girl because you say so, your view of yourself is the most important thing, if you change your mind that would be ok” and it made me proud to be a girl and feel empowered in my gender and i wasn’t trapped anymore and then terfs come along and tell me “you’re a girl because of the way you were born, there is nothing you can do about this, you have no say in your gender (but like in a woke way)” and they somehow expect me to be on their side?

sleep-deprived-lesbian

if you respond with some terf shit im blocking you lmao

loltaku-braindead

I’m so happy someone wrote this because I feel the same was as a cis girl. I felt pressured to be feminine and went full nlog because I felt too ugly and fat to be “feminine” and I was in an academic setting where it’s a nono. Then the trans community was so proud of their femininity it made me feel gratitude for being born a woman. Trans youtubers empowered me to buy my first skirts and dresses and I no longer felt “stupid” for doing it. I took another colleague that felt “stupid” for being feminine dress-shopping once and we’ve been friends ever since and she now dresses up all the time and tries to feel cute and feminine and I’m so happy to see her like that. The trans community destigmatized being feminine for cis women more than any girlboss feminism I’ve seen and we owe it to trans women.

cocklessboy

A trans woman was the one to make me realize I was a trans man. I’d always thought all girls hated being girls, that being born female was a terrible curse we all just had to endure. And then I met a trans women who was so, so fucking excited to be able to wear skirts and cute tops and makeup at last, after years of fighting for the right to get on HRT. I saw the pure joy she felt as she did a little twirl in a skirt and I realised being female isn’t bad. It’s not bad at all. I’m just not female. And I can experience that joy, too. And then I got my HRT and my voice dropped and I got hairy and I learned what it was to be happy with your gender. It took seeing a joyful trans woman twirling in a skirt for that to happen for me.

Thank you trans women.

hood-ex

God, I live for any story where Bruce realizes he's taught Dick he either a) matters less than him or b) matters less than literally everyone on earth... Like, you see it sometimes in the comics, Batman reacting to Dick's iron-strong belief in sacrificing himself. And it is always a mix of anger, terror, or guilt. Like, Dick will pull some shit that is incredible and saves people but requires him to really not give a shit if he dies or not, and Bruce will be screaming at him to stop, going 'this is me, I did this'. - @jackhawksmoor

Batman #352

Bruce: And I oop—

Nightwing (Vol. 2) #86

Let Them Live: Unpublished Tales from the DC Vault #2

Nightwing (Vol. 4) #92

my-jokes-are-my-armour

I was looking at the old tumblr questions (#witcherat) and this came around.

(I remember in an interview when he said he couldn't lift Henry's sword, because he doesn't have the muscles 😏)

He can wield a sword indeed 😅

Joey as Pierre in Knightfall

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icantthinkofanamesothiswilldo

Do the other Batkids know that Dick became Robin because he wanted to murder Tony Zucco? Like, did anyone ever tell them that? Because I can’t imagine that Bruce would want his kids to think that Robin was born out of bloodlust because that would only encourage Jason and Damian. I’m just imagining their reactions when they find out that Robin was created with the intention of murder.

#no caus you’re so right and you should say it #dick grayson #nightwing #jason todd #red hood #tim drake #red robin #damian wayne #batman #bruce wayne

writtenskyes

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Dick Grayson:

Source

kunfyouzed

THIS. This IS Dick Grayson! And I can completely see him having a page and posting these videos and in the end is one with Bruce, who just looks so tired, the looking at the camera meme

“Dick, can you please just walk normally for once?”

Dick: “No.”

iamfitzwilliamdarcy

i looked this guy up and he is a circus acrobat and oldest of like 7 lol

extremely Big Dick Grayson energy

b1rdonawire

you do know that when jewish and romani people say “never forget” we mean “learn about the holocaust so you can recognize the warning signs of facism and genocide” not “repeatedly bring up the holocaust whenever anything bad happens and exploit our pain and trauma to make people care about your cause” and when we say “never again” we mean “take action to prevent any stage of genocide on any scale by any means, hold collaborators responsible and don’t be complicit” not “only care about genocide when it’s too late”, right? or did you think it was just a fun catchphrase?

b1rdonawire

no actually reblog this

bob-belcher

Young Justice, Bereft (S01E09)

#yj #young justice #robin #me rn honestly

sawasawako-archived

do u ever like feel so absurdly reluctant to do things. like it ain’t even procrastination or laziness anymore u just physically and mentally can’t bring yourself to do anything. u really, really just wanna binge watch youtube until your mind numbs completely or lie on the floor and stare into the abyss. and it’s not like u don’t have “motivation” or anything or even that u don’t want to do it, it’s just. u can’t. idk how ppl just. Do Things. get up and go at it. i have to have an entire existential crisis and like, watch a goddamn motivational film or something first before i do the smallest thing. and it’s june for fuck’s sake.

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softlygasping

Zuko hasn't had any socialization with kids his age until he joins the gaang, and fire nation royalty aren't really ones to make jokes, so uncle irohs jokes are really the only sense of humor zuko has been exposed to and he thinks that's just what "funny" is

My point is that zuko thinks that Sokka is hilarious

luvzuko

sokka realizes this very quickly, which is why they immediately vibe

yilinglaozuhot

@dotsz don't leave these in the tags

luvzuko

LETS NOT FORGOT THAT THE PUNCHLINE TO ZUKO’S FAVORITE IROH JOKE WAS “LEAF ME ALONE, I’M BUSHED”

#zuko #sokka #atla #i love them

elenuvien

the too fews scenes of todoroki shouto in heroes rising

#boku no hero academia #heroes rising #bnha spoilers #todoroki shouto

memento-moli

I’m watching Modern Family and having a very good time

#todoroki shouto #todoroki touya #i love them

avatar-news

Zuko and Iroh through the years, from Avatar The Last Airbender: Legacy of the Fire Nation.

kkachi95

So heartwarming

#atla #zuko #iroh

nezuco

“I thought you were a good idiot! But you are a bad idiot, huh?”

#enen no shouboutai #fire force

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decembersoul

R.I.P. Grant Imahara :’(

gogomrbrown

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

punkrockradio

When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

robotsandfrippary

They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

here are some reconstructions of Tenochtitlan

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

just a note, we don’t think of old european cities as ruins, because those civilizations continued and kept building over the old–there are no abandoned ruins for us to visit & photograph. when we picture those old cities, we have only mental images drawn from our own assumptions & prejudices–images that tend to glorify ‘civilized’ europe.

since victors write history, our image of native american cities was created by colonizers motivated to uphold the ‘native savage’ myth. when we think of these civilizations now, we think of ‘uncivilized’ (rough, broken, abandoned) ruins, because that’s what remains. ruins are the only thing left. because of the destruction wrought by western invaders, these civilizations never had a chance to continue building. they were destroyed, and all we have left is an unimaginative shadow of their former glory.

baby-yodas-mom

went to peru and visited some of their museums and learned inca history that american schools don’t teach you. basically you know why they were beaten out by the spanish invaders? because incas were mostly scientists and not warriors. they had advanced medicine, farming and science technology. THATS what they were good at - tech - not building weapons to most efficiently kill people. the spanish were good at that. so they won. basically the real savages and thugs won and murdered a bunch of scientists, and their technology and advancements are lost forever. it took into the 20th century for colonizer technology to advance in the field of medicine and agriculture to the level of the incas. colonizers literally set human knowledge back like 500 years.

molothoo

It’s crazy to me that, literally everyone in the world was doing just fine until Europeans showed up flipped the script

homoquartz

i mean all of this yes but if you are nonnative please make sure you are not internalizing this idea that somehow our cultures are more “worthy” of preservation or w/e bc we were “advanced” by european standards

let’s please bust the myth that western europe was somehow this bastion of technology and knowledge (bc it is absolutely untrue) WITHOUT devaluing indigenous cultures that didn’t create long-standing monuments or what have you

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