Women in the ancient world: the Arethusa papers

Introduction / John Peradotto and J.P. Sullivan

Early Greece : the origins of the western attitude toward women / Marylin B. Arthur

"Reverse similes" and sex roles in the Odyssey / Helene P. Foley

Workers and drones : labor, idleness and gender definition in Hesiod's beehive / Linda S. Sussman

Sappho and Helen / Page duBois

The Maenad in early Greek art / Sheila McNally

Classical Greek attitudes to sexual behaviour / K.J. Dover

The dynamics of misogyny : myth and mythmaking in the Oresteia / Froma I. Zeitlin

The menace of Dionysus : sex roles and reversals in Euripides' Bacchae / Charles Segal

Plato : misogynist, phaedophile, and feminist / Dorothea Wender

The women of Etruria / Larissa Bonfante Warren

The role of women in Roman elegy : counter-cultural feminism / Judith P. Hallett

Rape and rape victims in the Metamorphoses / Leo C. Curran

Theodora and Antonina in the Historia Arcana : history and/ or fiction? / Elizabeth A. Fisher

Selected bibliography on women in classical antiquity / Sarah B. Pomeroy (with Ross S. Kraemer and Natalie Kampen)

Suggested undergraduate syllabus / Sarah B. Pomeroy.