Aristophanes

  • J. Assael, “Misogynie et feminisme chez Aristophane et chez Euripide,” Pallas 32 (1985) 91-103
  • A. M. Bowie, Aristophanes. Myth, Ritual and Comedy, Cambridge (1993) / bmcr
  • Calame, Claude, The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece, Princeton: Princeton University Press (1999)
  • B. Carroll, “Feminism and Pacifism: Historical and Theoretical Connections,” in Women and Peace: Theoretical, Historical, and Practical Perspectives edited by R. R. Pierson, London (1987) 2-28
  • Kevin Clinton, “The Thesmophorion in Central Athens and the Celebration of the Thesmophoria in Attica,” in The Role of Religion in the Early Greek Polis edited by R. Hagg, Stockholm (1996) 111-125
  • F. M. Cornford, The Origin of Attic Comedy (1914, republished with introduction by J. Henderson 1993)
  • D. Auger, M. Rosellini, and S. Said, Aristophane, les femmes et la cité (1979)
  • E. David, Aristophanes and Athenian Society of the Early Fourth Century B.C., Mnemosyne Supplement 81 (1984)
  • M. Dillon, “The Lysistrata as a Post-Deceleian Peace Play,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 117 (1987) 97-104 / full text
  • J. Dolan, “Gender Impersonation Onstage: Destroying or Maintaining the Mirror of Gender Roles?,” Women and Performance 2 (1985) 5-12
  • K. J. Dover, Aristophanic Comedy (1972)
  • V. Ehrenberg, The People of Aristophanes: A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy (1968)
  • S. Eitrem, “Les Thesmophoria, les Skirophoria, et les Arrhetophoria,” Symbolae Osloenses 23 (1944) 32-45
  • G. W. Elderkin, “Aphrodite and Athena in the Lysistrata of Aristophanes,” Classical Philology 35 (1940) 387-396 / full text
  • Christopher A. Faraone, “Salvation and female heroics in the parodos of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 117 (1997) / full text
  • R. Finnegan, “Women in Aristophanic Comedy,” Platon 42 (1990) 100-106
  • Judith Fletcher, “Sacrificial Bodies and the Body of the Text in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata,” Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature 28.2 (1999) 108-125
  • H. P. Foley, “The Female Intruder Reconsidered: Women in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and Ecclesiazusae,” Classical Philology 77 (1982) 1-21 / full text
  • R. L. Fowler, “How the Lysistrata Works,” EMC 15.2 (1996) 245-251
  • J. F. Gardner, “Aristophanes and Male Anxiety — the Defence of the Oikos,” Greece & Rome 36 (1989) 51-62 / full text
  • A. W. Gomme, “Aristophanes and Politics,” Classical Review 52 (1938) 97-109 / full text
  • Griffith, R. Drew, “Architecture of a Kiss: The Vocabulary of Attic Old Comedy,” GRBS 35.4 (1994) 339-344
  • J. A. Haldane, “A Scene in the Thesmophoriazusae (295-371),” Philologus 109 (1965) 39-46
  • E. M. Hall, “The Archer Scene in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae,” Philologus 133 (1989) 38-54
  • S. Halliwell, “The Uses of Laughter in Greek Culture,” Classical Quarterly 41 (1991) 279-296 / full text
  • David Halperin, “Homosexuality,” in The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Third Edition edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (1996) 720-723
  • J. H. Hanson, “Aristophanes’ Thesm. Theme, Structure, and Production,” Philologus 120 (1976) 165-185
  • R. Harriot, “Aristophanes’ Audience and the Plays of Euripides,” BICS 9 (1962) 1-8
  • R. M. Harriot, Aristophanes, Poet and Dramatist (1986)
  • R. M. Harriot, “Lysistrata. Action and Theme,” in Themes in Drama. Vol. 7, Drama, Sex, and Politics edited by J. Redmond (1985) 11-22
  • M. Heath, Political Comedy in Aristophanes (1987)
  • J. Henderson, “Aristophanes. Essays in Interpretation,” YCS 26 (1980)
  • J. Henderson, Aristophanes: Lysistrata (1987)
  • J. Henderson, “‘Lysistrate’: The Play and its Themes,” YCS 26 (1980) 153-218
  • J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy (1975)
  • J. Henderson, “Older Women in Attic Old Comedy,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 117 (1987) 105-129 / full text
  • J. Henderson, “The Demos and the Comic Competition,” in Nothing to Do With Dionysos? Athenian Drama in its Social Context edited by J. Winkler and F. Zeitlin, Princeton (1990) 270-313
  • J. Henderson, “Women and the Athenian Dramatic Festivals,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 121 (1991) 133-147 / full text
  • J. Henderson, Three Plays by Aristophanes. Staging Women, New York and London: Routledge (1996) / bmcr
  • R. Hopper, “A Note on Aristophanes, Lysistrata 665-70,” Classical Quarterly 10 (1960) 665-70 / full text
  • T. K. Hubbard, “Women in the City,” in The Mask of Comedy. Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis (1991) 182-199 / bmcr
  • A. O. Hulton, “The Women on the Acropolis: a Note on the Structure of the Lysistrata,” Greece & Rome 19 (1972) 32-36 / full text
  • J. P. Johansen, “The Thesmophoria as a Women’s Festival,” Temenos 11 (1975) 78-87
  • M. L. Kilmer, “Genital Phobia and Depilation,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 102 (1982) 104-112 / web link  / full text
  • D. Konstan, Greek Comedy and Ideology, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1995) / bmcr
  • Konstan, D., “Aristophanes’ Lysistrata: Women and the Body Politic,” in Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis edited by A. Sommerstein, S. Halliwell, J. Henderson and B. Zimmermann, Bari (1993)
  • E. Lé.vy, “Les femmes chez Aristophane,” Ktema 1 (1976) 99-112
  • Lardinois, André and Laura McClure, Making Silence Speak. Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Society, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press (2001) / bmcr
  • D. Levine, “Lysistrata and Bacchae: Structure, Genre, and ‘Women on Top’,” Helios 14 (1987) 29-38
  • D. M. Lewis, “Notes on Attic Inscriptions (II) XXIII. Who Was Lysistrata?,” ABSA L (1955) 1-12
  • T. Long, “Persuasion and the Aristophanic Agon,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 103 (1972) 285-299 / full text
  • N. Loraux, “The Comic Acropolis: Aristophanes, Lysistrata,” in The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes, Princeton (1993) 147-183 / bmcr
  • N. Loraux, “L’Acropole comique,” Ancient Society 11 (1980) 119-50
  • Ludwig, Paul W., “Politics and Eros in Aristophanes’ Speech: Symposium 191E-192C and the Comedies ,” American Journal of Philology 117.4 (1996) / pdf
  • D. M. MacDowell, Aristophanes and Athens: an Introduction to the Plays, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1995) / bmcr
  • J. March, “Euripides the Misogynist?,” in Euripides, Women, and Sexuality edited by A. Powell, London and New York (1990) 32-75 / bmcr
  • R. P. Martin, “Fire on the Mountain: Lysistrata and the Lemnian Women,” CA
  • Martin, Thomas R., Ancient Greece From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, New Haven: Yale University Press (1996) / web link  / bmcr
  • Laura McClure, Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama, Princeton: Princeton University Press (1999) / bmcr
  • Laura McClure, Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Blackwell Publishers (2002) [1. Editor’s Introduction: Laura McClure. Part I: Greece: 2. Classical Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour: K. J. Dover. Excerpt:: Aristophanes’ Speech from Plato, Symposium 189d7-192a1. 3. Double-Consciousness in Sappho’s Lyrics: J. J. Winkler. Excerpt:s: Sappho 1 and 31; Homer, Iliad 5.114-132; Odyssey 6.139-85. 4. Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women: H. King. Excerpts: Hippocrates, On Unmarried Girls; Euripides, Hippolytus 59-105. 5. Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama: F. Zeitlin. Excerpts: Sophocles, Women of Trachis 531-587, 1046-1084; Euripides, Bacchae 912-944. Part II: Rome: 6. The Silent Women of Rome: M. I. Finley. Excerpts: Funerary Inscriptions: CE 81.1-2, 158.2, 843, 1136.3-4; ILS 5213, 8402, 8394; CIL 1.1211, 1.1221, 1.1837. 7. The Body Female and the Body Politic: Livy’s Lucretia and Verginia: S. R. Joshel. Excerpts: Livy, On the Founding of Rome, 1.57.6-59.6. 8. Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy: M. Wyke. Excerpts: Propertius, 1.8a-b and 2.5; Cicero, In Defense of Marcus Caelius 20.47-21.50. 9. Pliny’s Brassiere. Excerpt:: Pliny, Natural History 28.70-82. Part III: Classical Tradition: 10. “The Voice of the Shuttle Is Ours.” P. K. Joplin. Excerpt: Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.424-623.] / bmcr
  • H. W. Miller, “Some Tragic Influences in the Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 77 (1946) 171-82 / full text
  • H. W. Miller, “On the Parabasis of the Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes,” Classical Philology 42 (1947) 180-181 / full text
  • C. Moulton, “Poetry and Imitation in the Thesmophoriazusae,” in Aristophanic Comedy (1981)
  • F. Muecke, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman,” Classical Quarterly 32 (1982) 41-55 / full text
  • H.-J. Newiger, “War and Peace in the Comedy of Aristophanes,” YCS 26 (1980) 219-237
  • A. Panagopoulos, “Aristophanes and Euripides on the Victims of the War,” BICS 32 (1985)
  • John Porter, Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage [nice collection of resources on ancient theater] / web link
  • John Porter, A Bibliography of Ancient Drama / web link
  • K. J. Reckford, Aristophanes’ Old-and-New Comedy, vol. 1, Six Essays in Perspective (1987)
  • K. S. Rothwell, Politics and Persuasion in Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae, Mnemosyne Supplement 111, Leiden: Brill (1990)
  • E. W. Scharffenberger, “A Tragic Lysistrata? Jocasta in the ‘Reconciliation Scene’ of the Phoenician Women,” RhM 138.3/4 (1995) 312-336
  • R. Seager, “Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae 493-6 and the Comic Possibilities of Garlic,” Philologus 127 (1983) 139-142
  • M. Shaw, “The Female Intruder: Women in Fifth-Century Drama,” Classical Philology 70 (1975) 255-66 / full text
  • M. Silk, “The People of Aristophanes,” in C. B. R. Pelling, Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature (1990) 150-73
  • S. J. Simon, “Euripides’ Defense of Women,” CB 50 (1973-74) 39-42
  • A. Sommerstein, S. Halliwell, J. Henderson and B. Zimmermann, Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis, Bari (1993)
  • A. H. Sommerstein, “Aristophanes and the Events of 411,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 97 (1977) 112-126 / full text
  • A. H. Sommerstein, “The Naming of Women in Greek and Roman Comedy,” QS 6 (1980) 393-418
  • A. H. Sommerstein, Aristophanes: Lysistrata (1990)
  • A. H. Sommerstein, Thesmophoriazusae. The Comedies of Aristophanes, Vol. 8, Warminster (1994) / bmcr
  • C. Sourvinou, “Aristophanes, Lysistrata 641-647,” Classical Quarterly 21 (1971) 339-342 / full text
  • L. M. Stone, Costume in Aristophanic Comedy (1981)
  • I. C. Storey, “Philoxenos… of doubtful gender,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 115 (1995) 182 / web link
  • Stroup, Sarah Culpepper, “Designing Women: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and the ‘Hetairization’ of the Greek Wife,” Arethusa 37.1 (2004) 37-73
  • L. K. Taaffe, Aristophanes and Women: Routedge (1993) / bmcr
  • L. K. Taaffe, “The Illusion of Gender Disguise in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae,” Helios 18 (1991) 91-112
  • H. A. Thompson, “Pnyx and Thesmophorion,” Hesperia 5 (1936) 151-200
  • Angeliki Tzanetou, “Something to Do with Demeter: Ritual and Performance in Aristophanes’ Women at the Thesmophoria,” AJPh 123 no. 3 (2002) 329-367
  • J. Vaio, “The Manipulation of Theme and Action in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata,” GRBS 14 (1973) 369-380
  • H. S. Versnel, “The Roman Festival for Bona Dea and the Greek Thesmophoria,” in Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion 2: Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual, Leiden: Brill (1993) / bmcr  / bmcr
  • H. S. Versnel, “The Festival for Bona Dea and the Thesmophoria,” Greece & Rome 39.1 (1992) 31-55 / full text
  • M. Vickers, “Alcibiades on Stage: Thesmophoriazusae and Helen,” Historia 38 (1989) 41-65
  • P. Walcot, “Aristophanic and Other Audiences,” Greece & Rome 18 (1971) 38-50 / full text
  • H. D. Westlake, “The Lysistrata and the War,” Phoenix 34 (1980) 38-54
  • C. H. Whitman, Aristophanes and the Comic Hero (1964)
  • I. Worthington, “Aristophanes’ Lysistrata 526. An Unnoticed Military Metaphor?,” Mnemosyne 39 (1986) 388-89
  • L. Wysocki, “Aristophanes, Thucydides Book VIII and the Political Events of 413-411,” Eos 76 (1988) 237-248
  • F. Zeitlin, “Travesties of Gender and Genre in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae,” Classical Reviewitical Inquiry 8 (1981) 301-27 [also in H. Foley (ed.), Reflections of Women in Antiquity, 169-217]
  • F. Zeitlin, “Cultic Models of the Female: Rites of Dionysos and Demeter,” Arethusa 15 (1982) 129-157
  • F. Zeitlin, “Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality and the Feminine in Greek Drama,” Representations 11 (1985) 63-94 [also in J. Winkler and F. Zeitlin (edd.), Nothing to Do With Dionysos? Athenian Drama in its Social Context, 63-96]
  • F. I. Zeitlin, “Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama,” in Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1995) / bmcr
  • F. I. Zeitlin, “Travesties of Gender and Genre in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousae,” in Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1995) / bmcr
  • B. Zweig, “The Mute Nude Female Characters in Aristophanes’ Plays,” in Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome edited by A. Richlin (1991) 73-89