Virginity

  • N. Adkin, “Athanasius’ Letter to Virgins and Jerome’s Libellus de virginitate servanda,” RFIC 120 no. 2 (1992) 185-203
  • Neil Adkin, “Cyprian’s De habitu virginum and Jerome’s Libellus de virginitate servanda (epist. 22),” Classica et Mediaevalia 46, Copenhagen (1995) 237-254
  • Neil Adkin, “Self-Imitation in Jerome’s Libellus de virginitate servanda (Epist. XXII),” Athenaeum 83 no. 2 (1995) 469-485
  • Cloudsley Anne, Women of Omdurman: Life, Love and the Cult of Virginity, London: Ethnographica (1983)
  • M. Beard, “The Sexual Status of Vestal Virgins,” Journal of Roman Studies 70 (1980) 12-27 / full text
  • M. Beard, “Re-reading (Vestal) Virginity,” in Women in Antiquity: New Assessments edited by R. Hawley and B. Levick: Routledge (1995)
  • S. Boldrini, “Verginità delle vestali: la prova,” in Vicende e figure femminili in Grecia e a Roma edited by R. Raffaelli, Ancona (1995) 295-300
  • H. Cancik-Lindemaier, “Priestly and female roles in Roman religion. The virgines Vestae,” Hyperboreus 2 no. 2 (1996) 138-150
  • K. Cooper, “The Ancient Novel,” in The Virgin & the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity, Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1996)
  • Roma al femminile, Storia delle donne in Italia edited by A. Fraschetti, Rome: Laterza (1994)
  • Foley, Helene, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy, Princeton: Princeton University Press (2001) [Chapters: I. The Politics of Tragic Lamentation, II. The Contradictions of Tragic Marriage, III. Women as Moral Agents in Greek Tragedy, III.1. Virgins, Wives, and Mothers; Penelope as Paradigm, III.2. Sacrificial Virgins: The Ethics of Lamentation in Sophocles’ Electra, III.3. Sacrificial Virgins: Antigone as Moral Agent, III4. Tragic Wives: Clytemnestras, III.5. Tragic Wives: Medea’s Divided Self, III.6. Tragic Mothers: Maternal Persuasion in Euripides, IV Anodos Dramas: Euripides’ Alcestis and Helen ] / web link
  • S. Goldhill, Foucault’s Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1995) / bmcr
  • J. Hallett, Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family, Princeton (1984)
  • H. King, “Hippocrates, Galen, and the Origins of the ‘Disease of Virgins’,” IJCT 2.3 (1996) 372-387
  • Kraemer, Ross S., “Response to ‘Virginity and Subversion: Norea against the Powers in the Hypostasis of the Archons’ by Anne McGuire,” in Images of the Feminine in Gnosticismedited by Karen King, Philadelphia: Fortress Press (1988) 259-264
  • Molly Lindner, Portraits of the Vestal Virgins and their Imperial Patrons: Sculptures and Inscriptions from the Atrium Vestae in the Roman Forum, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1995)
  • M. C. Martini, “Carattere e struttura del sacerdozio delle Vestali: un approcio storico-religioso (Prima parte),” Latomus 56 no. 2 (1997) 245-263
  • M. C. Martini, “Carattere e struttura del sacerdozio delle Vestali : un approcio storico-religioso (Secunda parte),” Latomus 56 no. 3 (1997) 477-503
  • J. I. McDougall, “Cassius Ravilla and the trial of the Vestals,” AHB 6 no. 1 (1992) 10-17
  • McGuire, Anne, “Virginity and Subversion: Norea against the Powers in the Hypostasis of the Archons,” in Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism edited by Karen L. King, Philadelphia: Fortress (1988) 239-258
  • R. Mitchell, “The Violence of Virginity in the Aeneid,” Arethusa 24 (1991) 219-238
  • K. Mustakallio, “The crimen incesti of the Vestal Virgins and the Prodigious Pestilence,” in Crudelitas. The Politics of Cruelty in the Ancient and Medieval World edited by T. Viljamaa, A. Timonen and C. Krtzel: Turku (Finland) (1992) 56-62
  • K. Mustakallio, “Sex Vestae sacerdotes. What did they represent?,” in Utriusque linguae peritus. Studia in honorem Toivo Viljamaa edited by J. Vaahtera and R. Vainio: Turku (1997) 73-80
  • W. Otten, “Christ’s Birth of a Virgin who Became a Wife: Flesh and Speech in Tertullian’s De carne Christi,” VChr 51 no. 3 (1997) 247-260
  • J. R. Pinault, “The Medical Case for Virginity in the Early Second Century C.E.: Soranus of Ephesus, Gynecology 1.32,” Helios 19 (1992) 123-139
  • Geert Roskam, “Mariage ou virginite? Le carmen 62 de Catulle et la lutte entre deux ideaux de vie,” Latomus 59 no. 1 (2000) 41-56
  • Teresa M. Shaw, “Creation, Virginity, and Diet in Fourth Century Christianity: Basil of Ancyra’s On the True Purity of Virginity,” Gender and History 9.3 (1997) 579-596
  • Sissa, Giulia, Greek Virginity, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP (1990)
  • Staples, A., From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins. Sex and Category in Roman Religion, London: Routledge (1998) / pdf
  • Gunhild Viden, “St. Jerome On Female Chastity: Subjugating the Elements of Desire,” SO 73 (1998) 139-157
  • Wallace, R., and L. La Follette, Latin seni crines and the Hair Style of Roman Brides and Vestal Virgins (forthcoming)
  • P. Watson, “Puella and Virgo,” Glotta 61 (1983) 119-143
  • Robin Lorsch Wildfang, “The Vestal Virgin’s Ritual Function in Roman Religion,” C 50 (1999) 227-234