my ultimate classics reading list for the summer
[scholarship i really need to read to figure out what i want to focus on for my master’s. i’ll try to go through as many of these as i can. i ask for recs on some topics at the end of the post!]
SEXUALITY & GENDER (generic) —
*Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome, S. Boehringer (to finish)
*The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory, ed. E. Haselswerdt, S. H. Lindheim & K. Ormand
*Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World, ed. A. Surtees & J. Dyer
Greek Homosexuality, K. Dover (to finish)
Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Greece and Rome, K. Ormand
Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome, B. A. Natoli, A. Pitts, & J. P. Hallett
*Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture, M. B. Skinner
Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature, G. Holst-Warhaft
Postcolonial Amazons: Female Masculinity and Courage in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Literature, W. Duvall Penrose Jr
*"Monter au ciel : Kallistô et Artémis dans la mythologie grecque", S. Boehringer in La religion des femmes en pays grec. Mythes, cultes et société, ed. L. Bodiou & V. Mehl
Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, N. S. Rabinowitz & L. Auanger
Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, T. Sapsford
RECEPTION
*Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception, ed. S. Butler
Critical Ancient World Studies: the Case for Forgetting Classics, ed. M. Umachandran & M. Ward
Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage, H. P. Foley
Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage, ed. E. B. Mee & H. P. Foley
OVID
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid, ed. P. R. Hardie
Tragedy in Ovid: theater, metatheater and the transformation of a genre, D. Curley
*"Oscula iungit nec moderata satis nec a uirgine danda: Ovid’s Callisto Episode, Female Homoeroticism, and the Study of Ancient Sexuality", J. H. Oliver ✔️
GREEK TRAGEDY
*Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy, M. Mueller ✔️
*Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides, H. P. Foley
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, ed. P. E. Easterling
Reading Greek Tragedy, S. Goldhill
*Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology, S. A. Gurd ✔️
Electra and the empty urn: Metatheater and role playing in Sophocles, M. Ringer
Looking at Antigone, ed. D. Stuttard
*Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality, J. Strauss
GREEK TRAGEDY: GENDER/SEXUALITY
Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece, B. Goff
*Marriage to Death: the Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy, R. Rehm
*Female Acts in Greek Tragedy, H. P. Foley
Demanding Witness: Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy, E. L. Weiberg
*Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia, S. Goldhill
OTHERS
Sappho and Homer: A Reparative Reading, M. Mueller
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body, C. Vout
Disability and Healing in Greek and Roman Myth, C. Laes
Narratology and Classics, I. J. F. de Jong
if you have more recs that seem to fit the topics i’m focusing on or that you think could interest me, please tell me! i’m also looking for anything on: gender non-conformity in Roman myths; the family (its structure and collapse) in mythology; incest in antiquity/ancient literature; recent studies on the reception of the House of Atreus
not exclusively classics-related but if there are books on literary analysis/theory that you think are really important and could be helpful, PLEASE tell me. + scholarship about queerness or weird things with Bodies or time/space distortion or trauma theory that could be applied to ancient lit, and other similar things that could be useful when analysing classics :)
