BASIC READING LIST FOR THE CLASSICS

Arthur, Marylin B. "The Divided World of Iliad VI." Women's Studies 8 (1981): 21-46.

Beye, Charles Rowan. The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Epic Tradition. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1966.

Edwards, Mark W. Homer: Poet of the Iliad. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Kirk, Geoffrey. The Iliad: A Commentary. Vols. 1 & 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985-90.

Schein, Seth L. The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.

Silk, M. S. Homer: The Iliad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Willcock, Malcolm M. A Companion to the Iliad. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Clarke, Howard W. The Art of the Odyssey. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1967.

Eckert, Charles. "Initiatory Motifs in the Telemachia." Classical Journal 59 (1963): 49-57.

Foley, Helene P. "'Reverse Similes' and Sex Roles in the Odyssey." Arethusa 11 (1978): 7-25.

Heubeck, Alfred, Stephanie West, and J. B. Hainsworth, eds. A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey. Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Heubeck, Alfred, and Arie Hoekstra. A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.

Nelson, Conny, ed. Homer's Odyssey: A Critical Handbook. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1969.

Schein, Seth, ed. Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Austin, M. M. The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest: A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Burn, A. R. The Penguin History of Greece. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.

Bury, J. B., and Russell Meiggs. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great. 4^th ed. rev. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978.

The Cambridge Ancient History, vols. V-VII. 2^nd ed.

Crawford, Michael, and David Whitehead. Archaic and Classical Greece: A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Ehrenberg, Victor. From Solon to Socrates: Greek History and Civilization During the 6th and 5th Centuries BC. 2^nd ed. London and New York: Methuen, 1973.

Finley, M. I.. The Ancient Greeks. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.

Green, Peter. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Hammond, N. G. L., and H. H. Scullard, eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 2^nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.

Hornblower, Simon. The Greek World, 479-323 BC. Rev. ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1991.

Joint Association of Classical Teachers. The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Pollitt, J. J. Art and Experience in Classical Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion. Translated by John Raffan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Easterling, P. E., and B. M. W. Knox, eds. The Cambridge History of Classical Literature. Vol. 1: Greek Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Goldhill, Simon. Aeschylus: The Oresteia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Knox, Bernard M. W. The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964.

---. Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theater. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.

Lesky, Albin. A History of Greek Literature. Translated by James Willis and Cornelis de Heer. New York: Crowell, 1966.

Lloyd-Jones, Hugh. The Justice of Zeus. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983.

Segal, Erich, ed. Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Arthur, Marylin B. "Early Greece: The Origins of Western Attitudes Toward Women." Arethusa 6 (1973): 7-58.

Blundell, Sue. Women in Ancient Greece. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Cameron, Averil, and Amélie Kuhrt, eds. Images of Women in Antiquity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983.

Clark, Gillian. Women in the Ancient World. Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics 21. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Cohen, David. "Seclusion, Separation, and the Status of Women in Classical Athens." Greece & Rome n.s. 36 (1989): 3-15.

Dewald, Carolyn. "Women and Culture in Herodotus' Histories." Women's Studies 8 (1981): 93-127.

Fantham, Elaine. "Women in Antiquity: A Selective (and Subjective) Survey 1979-84." Echos du Monde Classique n.s. 5 (1986): 1-24.

Fantham, Elaine, Helene Peet Foley, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Sarah B. Pomeroy, and H. Alan Shapiro, eds. Women in the Classical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Foley, Helene. "The Concept of Women in Athenian Drama." In Foley, Reflections of Women in Antiquity, 127-168.

Gomme, A. W. "The Position of Women in Athens in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC" In Essays in Greek History and Literature, 89-115. Repr. of 1937 ed. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1967. [Controversial]

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

Humphreys, S. C. The Family, Women and Death. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983.

Just, Roger. Women in Athenian Law and Life. London and New York: Routledge, 1989.

Keuls, Eva. The Reign of the Phallus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Lefkowitz, Mary. Women in Greek Myth. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

Lefkowitz, Mary, and Maureen B. Fant, eds. Women's Life in Greece and Rome. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York: Schocken Books, 1975.

---. "Selected Bibliography on Women in Antiquity." Arethusa 11 (1977): 127-57; Arethusa 15 (1982): 343-72.

---. Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra. New York: Schocken Books, 1984.

Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist, and Louise Lamphere, eds. Women, Culture, and Society. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1974.

Shaw, Edward A. The Heroic Ideal and Greek Tragic Women. Ph.D. diss. Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University, 1994.

Snyder, Jane. The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome. Carbondale, IL.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.

Stigers, Eva Stehle. "Sappho's Private World." Women's Studies 8 (1981): 47-63.

Zeitlin, Froma. "The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia." Arethusa 11 (1978): 149-84.

Beard, Mary, and Michael Crawford. Rome in the Late Republic. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985.

Bunson, Matthew. Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire. New York: Facts on File, 1994.

The Cambridge Ancient History, vols. VIII-X. 2^nd ed.

Cameron, Averil. The Later Roman Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

---. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, AD 395-600. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.

Cary, M., and H. H. Scullard. A History of Rome. 3^rd ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975.

Crawford, Michael. The Roman Republic. 2^nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Kenney, E. J., and W. V. Clausen, eds. The Cambridge History of Classical Literature 2: Latin Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Scullard, H. H. A History of the Roman World, 753-146 BC. 4^th ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1980.

Shotter, David. The Fall of the Roman Republic. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.

Wells, Colin. The Roman Empire. 2^nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Anderson, William S. The Art of the Aeneid. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969.

Camps, W. A. An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Monti, Richard. The Dido Episode and the Aeneid: Roman Social and Political Values in the Epic. Leiden: Brill, 1981.

Otis, Brooks. Virgil: A Study in Civilized Poetry. 2^nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.

Perkell, Christine G. "On Creusa, Dido, and the Quality of Victory in Virgil's Aeneid." In Helene Foley, ed., Reflections of Women in Antiquity. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1981, 355-78.

Pöschl, Viktor. The Art of Vergil: Image and Symbol in the Aeneid. Translated by Gerda Seligson. Repr. of 1962 ed. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1970.

Tatum, James. "Allusion and Interpretation in Aeneid 6.440-76." American Journal of Philology 105 (1984): 434-52.

West, Grace Starry. Women in Vergil's Aeneid. Ph.D. diss., University of California at Los Angeles, 1975.

Williams, R. D. "The Purpose of the Aeneid." Antichthon 1 (1967): 29-41.

---. Virgil. Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.

---. The Aeneid. London and Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1987.