Rape

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  • Leo C. Curran, “Rape and Rape Victims in the Metamorphoses,” Arethusa 11 (1978) 213
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  • S. Deacy and K.F. Pierce, Rape in Antiquity: Sexual violence in the Greek and Roman worlds, London: Duckworth (1997)
  • Deacy, Susan, “The Vulnerability of Athena. Parthenoi and Rape in Greek Myth,” in Rape in Antiquity: Sexual violence in the Greek and Roman worlds edited by S. Deacy and K.F. Pierce, London: Duckworth (1997) 43-63
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  • E. Fantham, “Stuprum: Public Attitudes and Penalties for Sexual Offences in Republican Rome,” EMC 35 (1991) 267-91
  • Lin Foxhall and John Salmon (eds.), Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition, London and New York: Routledge (1998) [CONTENTS: Lin Foxhall, “Introduction” Matthew Fox, “The constrained man” Robin Osborne, “Sculpted men of Athens: masculinity and power in the field of vision” Emma J. Stafford, “Masculine values, feminine forms: on the gender of personified abstractions” Lin Foxhall, “Natural sex: the attribution of sex and gender to plants in ancient Greece” Margaret Williamson, “Eros the blacksmith: performing masculinity in Anakreon’s love lyrics” Richard Hawley, “The male body as spectacle in Attic drama” Alan H. Sommerstein, “Rape and young manhood in Athenian comedy” Angela Heap, “Understanding the men in Menander” Karen F. Pierce, “Ideals of masculinity in New Comedy” Jonathan Walters, “Juvenal, Satire 2: putting male sexual deviants on show” Mary Harlow, “In the name of the father: procreation, paternity and patriarchy” Gillian Clark, “The old Adam: the Fathers and the unmaking of masculinity” Felicity Rosslyn, “The hero of our time: classic heroes and post-classical drama” ] / bmcr  / bmcr
  • Lin Foxhall and John Salmon, Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition, London and New York: Routledge (1998)
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  • Elise Garrison, Groaning Tears. Ethical and Dramatic Aspects of Suicide in Greek Tragedy: Brill. Mnemosyne Supplement 147 (1995) / web link
  • Pamela Gordon and Harold C. Washington, “Rape as a Military Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible,” in A Feminist Companion to the Bible edited by Athalya Brenner 8: Sheffield Academic Press (1995) 308-325
  • E. M. Harris, “Did the Athenians Regard Seduction as a Worse Crime than Rape?,” Classical Quarterly 40 (1990) 370-377 / full text
  • Edward Harris, “Review-discussion of Deacy and Peirce, Rape in Antiquity: Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman Worlds,” EMC/CV no. 40 (16) (1998) 483-496
  • Harrison, Thomas, “Herodotus and the Ancient Greek Idea of Rape,” in Rape in Antiquity: Sexual violence in the Greek and Roman worlds edited by S. Deacy and K.F. Pierce, London: Duckworth (1997) 85-208
  • J. Hemker, “Rape and the Founding of Rome,” Helios 12 (1985) 41-47
  • Hopwood, Keith, “Byzantine Princesses and Lustful Turks,” in Rape in Antiquity: Sexual violence in the Greek and Roman worlds edited by S. Deacy and K.F. Pierce, London: Duckworth (1997) 231-242
  • James, Sharon L., “From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus,” Helios 25.1 (1998) 31-48
  • James, Sharon, L., “Slave-Rape and Female Silence in Ovid’s Love Poetry,” Helios 24.1 (1997) 60-76
  • P. K. Joplin, “Ritual Work on Human Flesh: Livy’s Lucretia and the Rape of the Body Politic,” Helios 17 (1990) 51-70
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  • A. A. Keefe, “Rapes of Women / Wars of Men,” Semeia 61 (1993) 79
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  • Kilmer, Martin, “‘Rape’ in Early Red-Figure Pottery. Violence and Threat in Homo-erotic and Hetero-erotic Contexts,” in Rape in Antiquity: Sexual violence in the Greek and Roman worlds edited by S. Deacy and K.F. Pierce, London: Duckworth (1997) 123-141
  • King, Karen L., “Ridicule and Rape, Rule and Rebellion: Images of Gender in The Hypostasis of the Archons,” in Gnosticism and the Early Christian World: Festschrift for J. M. Robinson edited by J. A. Sanders and C. Hedrick, Sonoma, CA: Polebridge (1990) 1-35
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  • Lape, Susan, “Democratic Ideology and the Poetics of Rape in Menandrian Comedy,” ClAnt 20.1 (2001) 79-120
  • M. Lefkowitz, “Seduction and Rape in Greek Myth,” in Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies edited by A.E. Laiou, Washington, D.C. (1993) 17-37
  • B. Lincoln, “The Rape of Persephone. A Greek Scenario of Women’s Initiation,” Harvard Theological Review 72 (1979) 223-235
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  • P. Noailles, “Le Proces de Verginie,” REL 20 (1942) 106-38
  • Noonan, J.D., “Livy I. 9. 6: The Rape at the Consualia,” Classical World 83 (1990) 493-501
  • M. Norabito, “Droit romain et réalites sociales de la sexualité servile,” Dialogues d’histoire ancienne 12 (1986) 371-87
  • Ogden, Daniel, “Rape, Adultery and the Protection of Bloodlines in Classical Athens,” in Rape in Antiquity: Sexual violence in the Greek and Roman worlds edited by S. Deacy and K.F. Pierce, London: Duckworth (1997) 25-41
  • Rosanna Omitowoju, Rape and the Politics of Consent in Classical Athens, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2002) / bmcr
  • Omitowoju, Rosanna, “Regulating Rape. Soap Operas and Self Interest in the Athenian Courts,” in Rape in Antiquity: Sexual violence in the Greek and Roman worlds edited by S. Deacy and K.F. Pierce, London: Duckworth (1997) 1-24
  • Z. M. Packman, “Call It Rape: A Motif in Roman Comedy and Its Suppresion in English-Speaking Publications,” Helios 20 (1993) 42-55
  • Papaioannou, Sophia, “Charite’s Rape, Psyche on the Rock and the Parallel Function of Marriage in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,” Mnemosyne 51.3 (1998) 302-324
  • Pfaff, “Stuprum,” RE 4A 423-24
  • K. Philippides, “Terence’s Eunuchus: Elements of the Marriage Ritual in the Rape Scene,” Mnemosyne 48 (1995) 272-284
  • Pierce, Karen F., “The Portrayal of Rape in New Comedy,” in Rape in Antiquity: Sexual violence in the Greek and Roman worlds edited by S. Deacy and K.F. Pierce, London: Duckworth (1997) 163-184
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  • A. Richlin, “Not before homosexuality: the materiality of the cinaedus and the Roman law against love between men,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 5 (1993) 41-54
  • A. Richlin, “Reading Ovid’s Rapes,” in Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome edited by Amy Richlin, Oxford: Oxford UP (1991) 158-179 / bmcr
  • A. Scafuro, “Discourse of Sexual Violation in Mythic Accounts and Dramatic Versions of ‘The Girl’s Tragedy’,” Differences 2.1 (1990) 126-159
  • Scafuro, Adele C., The forensic stage : settling disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy: Cambridge University Press (1997) [Chapter 5: Redress for sexual offenses in Athenian and Roman law; Chapter 6: The resolution of seduction and rape in New Comedy; Appendix 7: Moikhos and moikheia] / bmcr
  • D. M. Schaps, “The Women of Greece in Wartime,” Classical Philology 77 (1982) 193-213 / full text
  • L. P. Smith, “Audience Response to Rape: Chaerea in Terence’s Eunuchus,” Helios 21.1 (1994) 21-38
  • C. Sourvinou-Inwood, ‘Reading’ Greek Culture: Texts and Images, Rituals and Myths, Oxford (1991) / bmcr
  • Stewart, Andrew, “Rape?,” in Pandora. Women in Classical Greece edited by Ellen D. Reeder, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press (1995) 74-90
  • Stirrup, Barbara E., “Techniques of Rape: Variety of Wit in Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’,” Greece & Rome 24 (1977) 170-184 / full text
  • Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, “‘You May Enjoy the Spoil of Your Enemies’: Rape as a Biblical Metaphor for War,” Semeia 61 (1993) 59
  • Susan Treggiari, Roman Marriage. Iusti Coniuges from the time of Cicero to the time of Ulpian, Oxford (1991) / bmcr
  • D. Trout, “Retextualizing Lucretia: Cultural Subversion in The City of God,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 2.1 (1994) 53-70
  • P. Walcot, “Herodotus on Rape,” Arethusa 11 (1978) 137
  • P. Walcot, “Plutarch on sex,” Greece & Rome 45.2 (1998) 166-187 / full text
  • Maria Wyke, Parchments of gender: deciphering the bodies of antiquity, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1998) [Introduction Maria Wyke; 1. Ithyphallic Males Behaving Badly; or, Satyr Drama as Gendered Tragic Ending Edith Hall; 2. `The Mother of the Argument’: Eros and the Body in Sappho and Plato’s Phaedrus Helene P. Foley; 3. Talking Recipes in the Gynaecological Texts of the Hippocratic Corpus Ann Ellis Hanson; 4. Controlling Daughters’ Bodies in Sirach Jon L. Berquist; 5. Austerity, Excess, Success, and Failure in Hellenistic and Early Imperial Italy Emma Dench; 6. Poisonous Women and Unnatural History in Roman Culture Sarah Currie; 7. Discovering the Body in Roman Oratory Erik Gunderson; 8. The Emperor’s New Body: Ascension from Rome Mary Beard John Henderson; 9. `Ordering the House’: On the Domestication of Jewish Bodies Cynthia M. Baker; 10. Playing Roman Soldiers: The Martyred Body, Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane, and the Representation of Male Homosexuality Maria Wyke; 11. Sowing the Seeds of Violence: Rape, Women, and the Land Carol Dougherty ] / web link
  • F. Zeitlin, “Keats in His Tradition,” in Rape and Representation edited by L. Higgins and B. Silver, New York (1991)
  • F. Zeitlin, “Configurations of Rape in Greek Myth,” in Rape edited by S. Tomaselli and R. Porter, Oxford (1986) 122-51
  • Andrew Zissos, “The Rape of Proserpina in Ovid Met. 5.341-661: Internal Audience and Narrative Distortion,” Phoenix 53 (1999) 97-113