Nudity

  • Zainab Bahrani, “The Hellenization of Ishtar: nudity, fetishism, and the production of cultural differentiation in ancient art,” The Oxford Art Journal 19.2 (1996) 3-16
  • Bassi, Karen, “Male Nudity and Disguise in the Discourse of Greek Histrionics,” Helios 22.1 (1995) 3-22
  • Stephanie Boehm, Die ‘nackte Göttin’: zur Ikonographie und Deutung unbekleideter weiblicher Figuren in der frühgriechischen Kunst, Mainz am Rhein: Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut (1990)
  • Bonfante, L., “Nudity as a Costume in Classical Art,” American Journal of Archaeology no. 93 (1989) 543-79 / full text
  • Shelby Brown, “‘Ways of Seeing’ Women in Antiquity: An Introduction to Feminism in Classical Archaeology and Ancient Art History,” in Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology edited by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow and Claire L. Lyons, London: Routledge (1997) / web link  / bmcr
  • Beth Cohen, “Divesting the Female Breast of Clothes in Classical Sculpture,” in Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology edited by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow and Claire L. Lyons, London: Routledge (1997) / web link  / bmcr
  • N. Crowther, “Nudity and Morality: Athletics in Italy,” Classical Journal 76.2 (1980-81) 119-123
  • N. Crowther, “Athletic Dress and Nudity in Greek Athletics,” Eranos 80 (1982) 163-168
  • Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux, “Eros Desire and the Gaze,” in Sexuality in Ancient Art: Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy edited by N. Kampen, Cambridge: CUP (1996)
  • P.A. Hannah, “The Reality of Greek Male Nudity: Looking to African Parallels,” Scholia 7 (1998) 16-40
  • C. M. Havelock, The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors: A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art, Ann Arbor (1995) / bmcr
  • M. McDonnell, “The Introduction of Athletic Nudity: Thucydides, Plato , and the Vases,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 111 (1991) 182-93 / full text
  • Dominic Montserrat, Changing bodies, changing meanings: studies on the human body in antiquity, London: Routledge (1998) [Contributors: Angus Bowie, Gillian Clark, Richard Hawley, Lynn Meskell, Dominic Montserrat, Penelope Murray, Jane Stevenson, Nicholas Vlahogiannis, Terry Wilfong] / bmcr
  • R. Osborne, “Looking on — Greek Style. Does the Sculpted Girl Speak to Women Too?,” in Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies edited by I. Morris, Cambridge: CUP (1994) 81-96 / bmcr
  • Robin Osborne, “Men Without Clothes: Heroic Nakedness and Greek Art,” Gender and History 9.3 (1997) 504-528
  • R. F. Sutton, Jr., “Pornography and Persuasion on Attic Pottery,” in Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome edited by Amy Richlin, Oxford: Oxford UP (1991) 3-35 / bmcr
  • Joan Reilly, “Naked and Limbless: Learning about the Feminine Body in Ancient Athens,” in Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology edited by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow and Claire L. Lyons, London: Routledge (1997) / web link  / bmcr
  • Nanette Salomon, “Making a World of Difference: Gender, Asymmetry, and the Greek Nude,” in Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology edited by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow and Claire L. Lyons, London: Routledge (1997) / web link  / bmcr
  • Nigel Spivey, “Revealing Aphrodite,” in Understanding Greek Sculpture : Ancient Meanings, Modern Readings: Thames and Hudson (1997)
  • Andrew Stewart, Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece, Cambridge: CUP (1997) [1. Perspectives, 2. Nakedness, 3. Tooling the Body, 4. Three Attic Ideologies, 5. Of War and Love, 6. “Womanufacture,” 7. The Athenian Body Politic, 8. Erotica , 9. Beyond the Walls, 10. Looking Forward: After Alexander, Appendix. Archaic and Early Classical Small Bronzes of Girls “Going Dorian”] / 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