Death

  • G. J. Oliver (ed.), The Epigraphy of Death: Studies in the History and Society of Greece and Rome, Liverpool (2000) [Pp. vii, 225. L16.95.. ISBN 0-85323-915-0] / bmcr
  • James I. Porter (ed.), Constructions of the Classical Body: University of Michigan Press (1999) [Introduction; Smashing Bodies: The Corinthian Tydeus and Ismene Amphora (Louvre E640); Reflections on Erotic Desire in Archaic and Classical Greece; Dirt and Desire: The Phenomenology of Female Pollution in Antiquity; Pindar and the Prostitutes, or Reading Ancient “Pornography”; From a Grin to a Death: The Body in the Greek Discovery of Politics; Sexual Bodybuilding: Aeschines against Timarchus; Odor and Power in the Roman Empire; Cicero’s Head; The Roman Blush: The Delicate Matter of Self-Control; Anti-Pygmalion: The Praeceptor in Ars Amatoria, Book 3; The Suffering Body: Philosophy and Pain in Seneca’s Letters; Chronic Pain and the Creation of Narrative; Truth Contests and Talking Corpses; Sweet Honey in the Rock: Pleasure, Embodiment, and Metaphor in Late-Antique Platonism; Ovid’s Body; Herculean Muscle!: The Classicizing Rhetoric of Bodybuilding] / bmcr
  • M. Alexiou, The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (1974)
  • Anthony Barrett, Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome, New Haven: Yale University Press (2003) [“Livia (58 BC-29 AD), the wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius, wielded power at the centre of Roman politics for most of her long life. Livia has been portrayed as a cunning and sinister schemer, but in this biography (the first in English devoted to her) Livia emerges as a much more complex individual. Achieving influence unprecedented for a woman, she won support and even affection from her contemporaries and was widely revered after her death.”] / web link
  • Bauman, R.A., “Tanaquil-Livia and the death of Augustus,” Historia. Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 43 (1994) 177-188
  • J. Boardman, “Sex Differentiation in Attic Grave Vases,” AION 10 (1988) 171-179
  • Boswell, E., “Exposition and Oblatio: The Abandonment of Children and the Ancient and Medieval Family,” American Historical Review 89 (1984) 10-33
  • G. Davies, “The Significance of the Handshake Motif in Classical Funerary Art,” American Journal of Archaeology 89 (1985) 627-40 / full text
  • L. Dean-Jones, Women’s Bodies in Classical Greek Science (1993) / bmcr
  • N. Demand, Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, Baltimore (1994) / bmcr
  • Dietrich, B. C., “Death and Afterlife in Minoan Religion,” Kernos 10 (1997) 19-38
  • K. Dowden, Death and the Maiden: Girls’ Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology (1989)
  • M. Alexiou & P. Dronke, “The Lament of Jephta’s Daughter: Themes, Traditions, Originality,” Studia Mediaevala 12.2 (1971) 819-863
  • P. E. Easterling, “The Infanticide in Euripides’ Medea,” YCS 25 (1977) 177-191
  • T. H. Ellinger, Hippocrates on Intercourse and Pregnancy (1952)
  • Engels, Donald, “The Problem of Female Infanticide in the Greco-Roman World,” Classical Philology 75 (1980) 112-120 / full text
  • Eyben, Emiel, “Family Planning in Greco-Roman Antiquity,” Ancient Society 11-12 (1980-1981) 5-82
  • R. Garland, The Greek Way of Death (1985)
  • R. Garland, “The Well-Ordered Corpse: An Investigation into the Motives behind Greek Funerary Legislation,” BICS 36 (1989) 1-15
  • Mark Golden, “Demography and the Exposure of Girls at Athens,” Phoenix 35 (1981) 316-331
  • Goodison, Lucy, “Death, Women and the Sun. Symbolism of Regeneration in Early Aegean Religion,” BICS Supplement 53, Institute of Classical Studies, London (1989)
  • Hanson, A.E., “Paidopiia: metaphors for conception, abortion, and gestation in the Hippocratic corpus,” in Ancient medicine in its socio-cultural context. Papers read at the congress held at Leiden university 13-15 april 1992 edited by Ph.J. van der Eijk, H.F.J. Horstmannshoff and P.H. Schrijvers I-II, Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. Clio medica. The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine (1995) 291-307
  • W.V. Harris, “The theoretical possibility of extensive infanticide in the Graeco-Roman world,” Classical Quarterly 32 (1982) 114-116 / full text
  • William V. Harris, “Child-Exposure in the Roman Empire,” Journal of Roman Studies 84 (1994) 1-22 / full text
  • C. M. Havelock, “Mourners on Greek Vases,” in The Greek Vase edited by S. L. Hyatt (1981)
  • C. M. Havelock, “Mourners on Greek Vases: Remarks on the Social History of Women,” in Feminism and Art History edited by N. Broude and M. Garrard (1982) 44-61
  • M. R. Higonnet, Euripides’ Alcestis: How to Die a Normal Death in Greek Tragedy edited by S. W. Goodwin and E. Bronfen (1993)
  • G. Holst-Warhaft, Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature (1992)
  • Houby-Nielsen, Sanne, “Women and the Formation of the Athenian City-State. The Evidence of Burial Customs,” Metis 11 (1996) 233-260
  • S. C. Humphreys, “Oikos and Polis,” in The Family, Women, and Death: Comparative Studies edited by S. C. Humphreys, London (1993) 1-21
  • Jeffreys, Roland, “The Date of Messalla`s Death,” The Classical Quarterly 35 (1985) 140-148 / full text
  • Margo Kitts, “The Wide Bosom of the Sea as a Place of Death — Maternal and Sacrificial Imagery in Iliad 21,” Literature and Theology 14 no. 2 (2000) 103-124
  • H. Laale, “Abortion in Greek Antiquity: Solon to Aristotle (I),” Classical and Modern Literature 13.2 (1993) 157-166
  • H. Laale, “Abortion in Greek Antiquity: Solon to Aristotle (II),” Classical and Modern Literature 13.3 (1993) 191-201
  • Leader, Ruth E., “In Death Not Divided: Gender, Family, and State on Classical Athenian Grave Stelae,” American Journal of Archaeology 101.4 (1997) 683-699 / full text
  • Mayer, Roland, “What caused Poppaea’s Death?,” Historia 31 (1982) 248ff.
  • MHaentjens, Ann M.E., “Reflections on Female Infanticide in the Greco-Roman World,” AC 69 (2000) 261-264
  • Moorton, R.F., “Love as death: the pivoting metaphor in Vergil’s story of Dido,” The Classical World 83 (1990) 153-166
  • I. Morris, Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge (1992) / bmcr
  • I. Morris, “The Meanings of Death,” CAJ 5.2 (1995) 331ff.
  • J. S. Murray, “The alleged prohibition of abortion in the Hippocratic Oath,” Classical Views/Echos du Monde Classique 35 (1991) 293-311
  • Daniel Ogden, Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death: The Hellenistic Dynasties, London: Duckworth, with The Classical Press of Wales (1999) / bmcr
  • Daniel Ogden, Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death: The Hellenistic Dynasties, London: Duckworth, with The Classical Press of Wales (1999) [Pp. xxxiv, 317. ISBN 0-7156-2930-1] / bmcr
  • R. Parker, Miasma (1983)
  • Patterson, C., “‘Not Worth the Rearing’: The Causes of Infant Exposure in Ancient Greece,” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 115 (1985) 103-23 / full text
  • Patterson, O., Slavery and Social Death: Harvard (1982)
  • S. B. Pomeroy, “Women’s Identity and the Family in the Classical Polis,” in Women in Antiquity: New Assessments edited by R. Hawley and B. Levick: Routledge (1995)
  • R. Rehm, Marriage to Death. The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy, Princeton (1994) / bmcr
  • J. Reilly, “Mistress and Maid on Athenian Lekythoi,” Hesperia 58 (1989) 411-444
  • J. M. Riddle, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance (1992) / bmcr
  • J. M. Riddle, Eve’s Herbs : A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1997) [1. A Woman’s Secret; 2. The Herbs Known to the Ancients; 3. Ancient and Medieval Beliefs; 4. From Womancraft to Witchcraft, 1200-1500; 5. Witches and Apothecaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; 6. The Broken Chain of Knowledge; 7. The Womb as Public Territory; 8. Eve’s Herbs in Modern America] / web link
  • B. S. Ridgway, “Ancient Greek Women and Art: the Material Evidence,” American Journal of Archaeology 91 (1987) 399-409 / full text
  • H. J. Rose, “The Bride of Hades,” Classical Philology 20 (1925) 238-242 / full text
  • R. P. Saller, Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family, Cambridge (1994) / bmcr
  • W. Scheidel, “Measuring Sex, Age and Death in the Roman Empire: Explorations in ancient demography,” Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series 21 (1996) / bmcr
  • Paul Schubert, “Thersite et Penthesilée dans la Suite d’Homére de Quintus de Smyrne,” Phoenix 50 no. 2 (1997) [The first book of Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica relates the fight between Achilles and Penthesilea, which ends up with the slaying of Penthesilea; it also tells of Theristes’ death at the hands of Achilles. This article shows that there is a striking parallel between the two figures, with Thersites depicted as a contrasting reflection of Penthesilea.]
  • C. Segal, “Antigone: Death and Love, Hades and Dionysus,” in Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy edited by E. Segal (1983) 167-176
  • C. Segal, “Euripides’ Alcestis: Female Death and Male Tears,” ClAnt 11.1 (1992 142)
  • C. N. Seremetakis, The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1991)
  • H. A. Shapiro, “The Iconography of Mourning in Athenian Art,” American Journal of Archaeology 95 (1991) 629-656 / full text
  • C. Sourvinou-Inwood, ‘Reading’ Greek Death to the End of the Classical Period, Oxford (1995) / web link
  • K. E. Stears, “Dead women’s society: Constructing female gender in Classical Athenian funerary sculpture,” in Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology Bridging the ‘Great Divide’ edited by N. Spencer, London: Routledge (1995)
  • Karen Stears, “Death becomes her: gender and Athenian death ritual,” in The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece edited by S. Blundell and M. Williamson, London (1998)
  • Venit, Marjorie Susan, “The Stagni Painted Tomb: Cultural Interchange and Gender Differentiation in Roman Alexandria,” American Journal of Archaeology 103.4 (1999)
  • E. Vermeule, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (1979)
  • J.-P. Vernant, “Feminine Figures of Death,” in Mortals and Immortals. Collected Essays (1991) 95-110
  • T. Vestergaard, L. Bjertrup, M. H. Hansen, T. H. Nielsen and L. Rubinstein, “A Typology of the Women Recorded on Gravestones from Attica,” American Journal of ArchaeologyH 10.2 (1985 [1993]) 178-190
  • Watson, Alan, “The Death of Horatia,” The Classical Quarterly 29 (1979) 436-447 / full text
  • D. Williams, “Women on Athenian Vases: Problems of Interpretation,” in Images of Women in Antiquity edited by A. Cameron and A. Kuhrt (1983) 92-106
  • David Woods, “On the Death of the Empress Fausta,” Greece & Rome 45 no. 1 (1998) 70-86 / full text
  • Serena Zabin, “Iudae Benemerenti,” Phoenix 50 no. 3-4 (1997) [This study of Jewish funerary inscriptions from the western Empire demonstrates that Jewish cultural practices and ideals about gender differed in part from those of their pagan and Christian neighbors. A study of the epitaphs that give age-at-death as well as those that indicate the dedicator of the stone offers intriguing possibilities about the centrality of Jewish women’s place in their community. Mishnaic beliefs might provide part of the explanation for the unique content of these stones, but the inscriptions in turn give a window onto a world of experience occasionally at odds with that world constructed by the Mishnah. ]