Homer

  • A. Amory, The Renunion of Odysseus and Penelope edited by C. Taylor (1965)
  • N. Austin, Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom, Cornell (1994) / bmcr
  • Barber, E. J. W., Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, with Special Reference to the Aegean, Princeton (1991)
  • Karen Bassi, “Orality, Masculinity, and the Greek Epic,” Arethusa 30 no. 3 (1997) 315-40
  • A. Bergren, “Helen’s Web: Time and Tableau in the Iliad,” Helios 7 (1979) 19-34
  • A. Bergren, “Language and the Female in Early Greek Thought,” Arethusa 16 (1983) 69-96
  • C. R. Beye, “Male and Female in the Homeric Poems,” Ramus 3 (1974) 87-101
  • Richard Brilliant, “Kirke’s Men: Swine and Sweethearts,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • S. Butler, The Authoress of the Odyssey (1897)
  • E. A. S. Butterworth, “Penelope’s Weaving and the Wedding of Nausicaa,” in Some Traces of the Pre-Olympian World in Greek Literature and Myth (1966) 98ff.
  • C. S. Byre, “Penelope and the Suitors Before Odysseus: Odyssey 18.158-303,” American Journal of Philology 109 (1988) 159-173 / full text
  • Calame, Claude, The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece, Princeton: Princeton University Press (1999)
  • E. Cantarella, Pandora’s Daughters: the Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity, Baltimore (1987)
  • L. L. Clader, Helen. The Evolution from Divine to Heroic in Greek Epic Tradition (1976)
  • J. S. Clay, The Wrath of Athena. Gods and Men in the Odyssey, Princeton (1983)
  • B. Cohen, The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • Dörner, Eleonore, and Friedrich Karl Dörner, “Das Leben der Frau im homerischer Zeit,” in Kultbild und Porträt, Frauenbildnesse im griechischen Altertum (Antike Welt, Sondernummer) (1977) 43-52
  • Diana Buitron-Oliver, Beth Cohen, “Between Skylla and Penelope: Female Characters of the Odyssey in Archaic and Classical Greek Art,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • L. E. Doherty, “Gender and Internal Audiences in the Odyssey,” American Journal of Philology 113.2 (1992) 161-177 / full text
  • L. E. Doherty, Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences and Narrators in the Odyssey, Michigan (1995) / bmcr  / web link
  • Lillian Eileen Doherty, “Sirens, Muses and Female Narrators in the Odyssey,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • C. Emlyn-Jones, “The Reunion of Penelope and Odysseus,” GandR 31 (1984) 1-18
  • C. Faraone, “Taking the ‘Nestor’s Cup Inscription’ Seriously: Erotic Magic and Conditional Curses in the Earliest Inscribed Hexameters,” Classical Antiquity 15.1 (1996) 77-112
  • N. Felson-Rubin, “Penelope’s Perspective: Character From Plot,” in Homer: Beyond Oral Poetry edited by E. J. Bremer, Amsterdam (1987) 61-83
  • N. Felson-Rubin, Regarding Penelope, Princeton (1994) / bmcr
  • M. I. Finley, “Marriage, Sale, and Gift in the Homeric World,” Revue internationale des droits de l’antiquit. 3rd series 2 (1955) 167-194
  • H. Foley, “‘Reverse Similes’ and Sex Roles in the Odyssey,” Arethusa 11 (1978) 7-26
  • H. Foley, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Princeton (1993) / bmcr
  • Helene P. Foley, “Penelope as Moral Agent,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • Frangoulidis, S.A., “Charite’s literary models: Vergil’s Dido and Homer’s Odysseus,” Latomus 217 (1992) 435-450
  • Fredricksmeyer, Hardy C., “Penelope Polutropos: The Crux at Odyssey 23.218-24,” American Journal of Philology 118.4 (1997) / pdf
  • Laurel Fulkerson, “Epic Ways of Killing a Woman: Gender and Transgression in Odyssey 22.465-72,” CJ 97 no. 4 (2002) 335-350
  • A. J. Graham, “The Odyssey, History, and Women,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • E. Gregory, “Unravelling Penelope: The Construction of the Faithful Wife in Homer’s Heroines,” Helios 23.1 (1996) 3-20
  • J. Halverson, “The Succession Issue in the Odyssey,” Greece & Rome 33 (1986) 119-128 / full text
  • Hatzantonis, Emmanuel, “La resa omerica delle feminilitá di Circe,” AntCl 44 (1974) 38-56
  • Christine Mitchell Havelock, “The Intimate Act of Footwashing: Odyssey 19,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • W. E. Helleman, “Homer’s Penelope: A Tale of Feminine Arete,” EMC 14.2 (1995) 227-250
  • W. E. Helleman, “Penelope as Lady Philosophy,” Phoenix 49.4 (1995) 283-302
  • Hirvonen, Kaarle, Matriarchal Survivals and Certain Trends in Homer’s Female Characters, Helsinki (1968)
  • M. Hoffmann, “The Warp-Weighted Loom,” Studia Norvegica 14 (1964)
  • J. C. Hogan, “The Temptation of Odysseus,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 106 (1976) 187-210 / full text
  • I. E. Holmberg, “The Odyssey and Female Subjectivity,” Helios 22.2 (1995 103)
  • Ingrid Holmberg, “The Sign of Metis,” Arethusa 30.1 (1997) 1-33 / web link
  • E. A. Holze, Sirens and Their Song edited by M. DeForest (1993)
  • M. Jameson, “Private Space and the Greek City,” in The Greek City from Homer to Alexander edited by O. Murray and S. Price, Oxford (1990) 171-195
  • Stephanie W. Jamison, “Penelope and the Pigs: Indic Perspectives on the Odyssey,” Classical Antiquity 30 (1999) / web link
  • S. I. Johnston, “Penelope and the Erinyes: Odyssey 20.61-82,” Helios 21.2 (1994) 137-159
  • H. P. Karydas, Eurykleia and Her Successors: Female Figures of Authority in Greek Poetics, Lanham, MD (1998) / bmcr
  • M. Katz, Penelope’s Renown: Meaning and Indeterminacy in the Odyssey, Princeton (1991) / bmcr
  • G. A. Kennedy, “Helen’s Web Unraveled,” Arethusa 19 (1986) 5-14
  • M. Kitts, “Two Expressions for Human Mortality in the Epics of Homer,” History of of Religions (1994) 132-151
  • 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
  • Knauer, G. N., Die Aeneis und Homer, Gottingen (1964)
  • Lardinois, André and Laura McClure, Making Silence Speak. Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Society, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press (2001) / bmcr
  • J. Larson, “The Corycian Nymphs and the Bee Maidens of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes,” GRBS 36.4 (1995) 341-358
  • R. Lattimore, “Nausicaa’s Suitors,” Classsical Studies Presented to B. E. Perry (1969) 88-102
  • A. L. di Lello-Finuoli, “Donne e matrimonio nella Grecia arcaica,” Studi miceneiegeo-anatolici 25 (1984:) 275-302
  • D. Levine, “Penelope’s Laugh: Odyssey 18.163,” American Journal of Philology 104 (1983) 172-177 / full text
  • Lindberg, G., “Hera in Homer to ancient and modern eyes. The nagging wife in struggle for power?,” Acta universitatis Gothoburgenis, Göteborg (1990) 65-80
  • R. Luca, “Il lessico d’amore nei poemi omerici,” Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica 53 (1981) 170-198
  • M.Kitts, “Why Homeric Heroes Don’t Eat Quiche, or the Perils of Kukeon,” Literature and Theology 15:4 (2001) 1-19
  • M.R.Lefkowitz, “The Heroic Women of Greek Epic,” The American Scholar 56 (1987) 508-13
  • N. Marinatos, “Circe and Liminality: Ritual Background and Narrative Structure,” in Homer’s World: Fiction, Tradition, Reality; Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens. Bergen: The Norwegian Institute at Athens edited by O. Andersen and M. Dickie (1995) / bmcr
  • P. Marquardt, “Penelope Polutropos,” American Journal of Philology 106 (1984) 32-48 / full text
  • P. Marquardt, “Penelope as Weaver of Words,” in Woman’s Power, Man’s Game. Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy King edited by M. DeForest (1993)
  • Mayer, K., “Helen and the Dios Boyle,” American Journal of Philology 117.1 (1996) / pdf
  • 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
  • W.E. McDonald, “On Hearing the Silent Voice: Penelope and the Daughters of Pandareus,” Helios 24.1 (1997) 3-22
  • Meagher, Robert Emmet, The Meaning of Helen. In Search of an Ancient Icon, Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci (2002) [ISBN 0-86516-510-6] / web link
  • R. Minadeo, “A Hero’s Wife,” in Woman’s Power, Man’s Game. Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy King edited by M. DeForest (1993)
  • S. Murnaghan, “Penelope’s Agnoia: Knowledge, Power, and Gender in the Odyssey,” Helios 13 (1986) 103-115
  • S. Murnaghan, “Maternity and Mortality in Homeric Poetry,” Classical Antiquity 11 (1992) 242
  • Sheila Murnaghan, “The Plan of Athena,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • F. G. Naerebout, “Male-Female Relationships in the Homeric Epics,” in Sexual Asymmetry. Studies in Ancient Society edited by J. Blok and P. Mason (1987) 109-146
  • M. Nagler, “Penelope’s Male Hand: Gender and Violence in the Odyssey,” Colby Quarterly 29 (1993) 241-257
  • Jenifer Neils, “Les Femmes Fatales: Skylla and the Sirens in Greek Art,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • T. Van Nortwick, “Penelope and Nausicaa,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 109 (1979) 269-276 / full text
  • T. Van Nortwick, “Penelope as Double Agent: Odyssey 21.1-60,” CW 77.1 (1983) 26-27
  • J. V. O’Brien, The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the ‘Iliad’, Lanham (1993) / bmcr
  • S. D. Olson, Blood and Iron: Stories and Storytelling in Homer’s Odyssey, Leiden: E. J. Brill (1995) / bmcr
  • S. D. Olson, “The Stories of Helen and Menelaus (Odyssey 4.240-89) and the Return of Odysseus,” American Journal of Philology 110 (1989) 387-394 / full text
  • S. D. Olson, “Women’s Names and the Reception of Odysseus on Scheria,” EMC 11.1 (1992) 1-6
  • M. Pantelia, “Spinning and Weaving: Ideas of Domestic Order in Homer,” American Journal of Philology 114 (1993) 493-500 / full text
  • Tina Passman, “Re(de)fining Woman: Language and Power in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter,” in Woman’s Power, Man’s Game: Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy K. Kingedited by Mary De Forest, Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (1993) 54-77
  • V. Pedrick, “The Hospitality of Noble Women in the Odyssey,” Helios 15 (1988) 85-101
  • C. Penglase, Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod, London and New York: Routledge (1994) / bmcr
  • J. Peradotto, “The Social Control of Sexuality: Odyssean Dialogues,” Arethusa 26.2 (1993) 173-182
  • C. A. Perkins, “Persephone’s Lie in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter,” Helios 23.2 (1996) 135-142
  • Pratt, Louise, “The Old Women of Ancient Greece and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 130 (2000) 41-65 / full text
  • P. Pucci, “The Song of the Sirens,” Arethusa 12 (1979) 121-132
  • A. V. Rankin, “Penelope’s Dreams in Books XIX and XX of the Odyssey,” Helikon 2 (1962) 617-624
  • H. M. Roisman, “Penelope’s Indignation,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 117 (1987) 59-68 / full text
  • D. W. Roller and L. K. Roller, “Penelope’s Thick Hand (Odyssey 21.6),” CJ 90.1 (1994) 9-19
  • E. Scheid, “Il matrimonio omerico,” Dialoghi di archeologia 137.1 (1979) 60-73
  • S. L. Schein, Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays, Princeton (1996)
  • Seth L. Schein, “Female Representations and Interpreting the Odyssey,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • Schlaifer, Robert, “Greek Theories of Slavery from Homer to Aristotle,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 47, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1936) 165-204 / full text
  • L. P. Schrenk, “Sappho Frag. 44 and the ‘Iliad’,” Hermes 122.2 (1994) 144-50
  • 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.]
  • R. Seaford, Reciprocity and Ritual. Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1994) / bmcr
  • H. A. Shapiro, “Coming of Age in Phaiakia: The Meeting of Odysseus and Nausikaa,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr
  • L. M. Slatkin, The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad, Berkeley (1991)
  • Snyder, Jane, “The Web of Song: Weaving Imagery in Homer and the Lyric Poets,” Classical Journal 76 (l981) 193-196
  • H. Staten, Eros in Mourning: Homer to Lacan, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1995) / bmcr
  • M. Suzuki, Metamorphoses of Helen: authority, difference, and the epic (1989)
  • K. Synodinou, “The Threats of Physical Abuse of Hera by Zeus in the Iliad,” Wiener Studien 100 (1987) 13-22
  • G. C. Thomas, “Penelope’s Worth: Looming Large in Ancient Greece,” Hermes 116 (1988) 257-264
  • Van Nortwick, Thomas, “Like a Woman: Hector and the Boundaries of Masculinity,” Arethusa 34.2 (2001) 221-235
  • M. Weinsanto, “L’ivolution du mariage de l’Iliade à l’Odyssie,” in La femme dans les societies antiques edited by E. Levy, Strasbourg (1983) 45-58
  • Helene Whittaker, “The Status of Arete in the Phaeacian Episode of the Odyssey,” SO 74 (1999) 140-150
  • G. Wickert-Micknat, “Die Frau,” Archaeologia Homerica Band III, Goettingen (1982)
  • J. J. Winkler, “Penelope’s Cunning and Homer’s,” in The Constraints of Desire. The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece, New York and London: Routledge (1990) / bmcr / web link
  • V. Wohl, “Standing by the Stathmos: The Creation of Sexual Ideology in the Odyssey,” Arethusa 26 (1993) 19-50
  • J. Yarnall, Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress, Champaign (1994) / bmcr
  • F. I. Zeitlin, “Figuring Fidelity in Homer’s Odyssey,” in Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1995) / bmcr
  • Froma I. Zeitlin, “Figuring Fidelity in Homer’s Odyssey,” in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey edited by B. Cohen, Oxford (1995) / bmcr