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Women in Antiquity: Greece

Women in Antiquity

Plays and Writings on Women Online

Andromache - Euripides
Assemblywomen - Aristophanes
Bacchae - Euripides
Catalogue of Women - Hesiod
Electra - Euripides
Electra - Sophocles
Hecuba - Euripides
Helen - Euripides
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite Prose written anonymously tells the story of how Zeus put it in the heart of Aphrodite to fall in love with the mortal Anchises. Of that union would spring the Trojan hero Aeneas.
Homeric Hymn to Demeter Anonymous ancient Greek hymn celebrating Demeter. It tells the story of the Abduction of her daughter Persephone and the foundation of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Iphigenia Among the Taurians - Euripides
Iphigenia at Aulis - Euripides
Lysistrata - Aristophanes
Medea - Euripides
Perikeiromene (The Girl with Her Hair Cut Short) - Menander
Persians - Aeschylus
Phoenician Women - Euripides
Samia (The Women from Samos) - Menander
Suppliants - Aeschylus
Suppliant Women - Euripides
Trojan Women - Euripides
Women at the Thesmophoria - Aristopohanes
The Women of Trachis - Sophocles

Ancient Greece

Statue of Athena Parthenos (the Virgin Goddess) 2nd or 3rd century A.D.

Books

Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Carney
Call Number: DF 233.8 .O6 C37 2006
ISBN: 0415333164
Publication Date: 2006-07-24
Pandora's Box by Erwin Panofsky; Dora Panofsky A stunning array of the visual evidence of women in Ancient Greece.
Call Number: HQ 1134 .R37 1995
ISBN: 0691011249
Publication Date: 1995-11-19
Women in Greece and Rome by Leftowitz, Mary R. , 1935 Fant, Maureen B.
Call Number: HQ 1127 .W65 1977
ISBN: 0895220032
Publication Date: 1977
Women's Life in Greece and Rome by Mary R. Lefkowitz; Maureen B. Fant
Call Number: HQ 1127 .W653 2016
ISBN: 9781472578471
Publication Date: 2016-06-02
Women of Classical Mythology by Robert E. Bell Bell provides a wonderful catalog of every female goddess, monster, mortal, and being in the realm of ancient Greek and Roman mythology.
Call Number: BL 715 .B445 1991
ISBN: 0874365813
Publication Date: 1991-06-30
Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves by Sarah B. Pomeroy
Call Number: HQ 1134 .P64
ISBN: 0805235620
Publication Date: 1975-01-01
Spartan Women by Sarah B. Pomeroy
Call Number: HQ 1134 .P66 2002
ISBN: 0195130669
Publication Date: 2002-07-11

Websites

Paleothea - Women in Greek Myths
The Lot of the Hellenic Woman, c. 700-300 BCE (Fordham University)
A Celebration of Women Writers - Greece
ToposText (Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation)
Feminae Romanae
The Arethusa Papers The Arethusa Papers describe historical setting of ancient Greek life.
Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women
Diotima- Greek Texts on Women
Women's Influence on Classical Civilization
Diotima- Epigraphs of Greek Women
Women in Greece
Sayings of Spartan Women