Rutgers University Libraries Gender & Sexuality in the Ancient World

The Basics

Restricted Access

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Off-Campus Links

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E-Reserves

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IRIS: Find Books

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Becoming an 'Expert' User

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Citing Your Sources

You will most likely be using Chicago/Turabian style when citing the sources that you use in your research papers. The Chicago Manual of Style and Turabian's Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations are both available at the Dana Library Reference Desk. The Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison also has a nice introduction to Chicago/Turabian Documentation that will give you the basic information you need to create bibliographic citations.

The above site does not, however, cover citing online resources. The Library of Congress has a guide on How to Cite Electronic Sources that show Turabian-style examples; the Bedford/St. Martin's site also offers useful information on Using Chicago Style to Cite and Document Sources

You can also import references from IRIS and many of the electronic databases into RefWorks, a web-based bibliography and database manager. RefWorks will build your bibliography for you based on whatever style sheet you specify (MLA, Chicago, etc.). For information on setting up your (free) RefWorks account see the RefWorks FAQ.

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Getting Started

Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome.
Edited by Michael Grant and Rachel Kitzinger. New York, 1988. 3 volumes.
Includes essays on cults, divination and oracles, attitudes toward sex, prostitution, women, marriage, and birth control, childbirth, and early childhood. Extensive bibliographies. A good place to find background materials as well as references for your topic.
Dana Call Number: Ref. DE59 .C55 1988.
The Oxford Classical Dictionary
Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. 3rd edition. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.
The best one-volume guide to the Greco-Roman world. Over 6000 signed entries and thematic essays with bibliographies.
Dana Call Number: Ref. DE5 .O9 1996

Bibliography
Ancient Greece and Rome: A Bibliographic Guide
Compiled by Keith Hopwood. New York, 1995.
Selective, classified listing of some 8,000 English-language books and articles relating to the history of the ancient world from c. 950 BC to AD 565.
Dana Call Number: Ref. DE86 .A67 1995.

Primary Sources
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
A collection of links to public domain translated primary sources related to the ancient world. Organized by region and topic. Part of Paul Halsall's outstanding "Internet History Sourcebooks Project."

Finding Books

IRIS
IRIS is the online catalog for all the Rutgers University Libraries except the Newark and Camden Law Libraries. Use IRIS to find out if the Rutgers Libraries have the specific books or journals that you need, or to locate books on topics that you're researching.

Finding Articles: Indexes and Databases

Basic Index
Humanities Full Text
Humanities Full Text is the basic index for finding articles in the humanities disciplines, including history. It indexes over 550 of the core, English language journals in history, literature, art and music, philosophy and religion. It indexes many journals back to 1984 and, beginning with 1995, includes many full-text articles.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access.

Classical Studies
L'Annee philologique
The primary database for classical studies. Indexes over 1500 journals, as well as articles in books, dissertations, and conference papers relating to the history, literature, philosophy, science and technology, etc., of Ancient Greece and Rome. 1949-
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access.
TOCS-IN :Index to Table of Contents of Interest to Classisists
Searchable index to the tables of contents of over 185 journals (over 45,000 articles) in Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion. 1992-
Gnomon Online: The Eichstatt Information System for Classical Studies
Searchable bibliographic database of articles in classical journals and series, as well as selected dissertations and books. Supplement to the Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank on CD-ROM. Includes all entries from 1997 onward. The search page is in German but don't panic--it indexes all words in the record including any available abstracts and lots of them are in English. To Search:
  • From the initial page select "Title Search."
  • Click on the "Suche" button
  • Enter your Keyword(s)
  • Click on "Start"

Philosophy and Religion
Philosopher's Index
Index to over 550 journals, as well as books, on philosophy and related fields including aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law, religion, education, and language. 1940-
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access
ATLA Religion Database
Index to some 650 journals, as well as mulit-authored works, relating to Biblical Studies and world religions, including ancient religions. 1949-
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

Can't Resist the Urge to Google?
Google Scholar
Use the Google search engine to search specifically for scholarly literature including books, peer-reviewed articles, theses, preprints, and technical reports. Links to the full-text of articles from open access (available without a subscription) journals and preprint repositories.

Digital Libraries

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum
Browse or search a digital library of Latin texts and translations from the earliest inscriptions to the Neo-Latinist writers of the 18th century.
Perseus Ditigal Library
The Perseus Classics Collection is an extensive digital library of resources for the study of Ancient Greece and Rome. The collection includes hundreds of searchable works by classical Greek and Roman authors, both in the original language and in translation, as well as thousands of images of architecture, sculpture, coins, vases, and sites, maps, and a number of important secondary sources including the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, the full Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek, and an on-line edition of the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary.
Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World
Wonderful searchable collection of online scholarly articles, bibliographies and images, plus De Feminis Romanis, an anthology of Latin readings on Roman women.
LacusCurtius
Bill Thayer's excellent resource for Roman history. Includes over 20 Greek and Latin texts, many classic reference works, a gazetteer and atlas, thousands of photographs of Roman, Etruscan and medieval remains, and a Roman Military History site.

Women
Feminae Romanae: Imperial Women of Ancient Rome

Primary Sources

Women's Life in Greece & Rome: A Source Book in Translation
Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant, compilers. 2d edition. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
The standard collection of primary texts in translation.
Dana Call Number: HQ1127 .W653 1993
Women's Life in Greece and Rome
Selections from the above title.
"Women, Sexuality and the Family." IN Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Socrates. Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland. 2d edition. New York, 2000, pp.383-440.
Translations of primary source materials. Includes subsections on "Sappo of Lesbos," "Women in Greek Drama," "Homosexuality and Pederasty," and "Prostitution."
Dana Call Number: Ref. DF75 .D55 2000.
Women in the Classical World: Image and Text
Elaine Fantham et al. New York, Oxford University Press, 1994.
Essays with supporting visual as well as written primary sources.
Dana Call Number: HQ1127 .W62 1994
De Feminis Romanis
Collection of Latin texts on women.

Bibliography
Law, the Family, and Daily Life
Bibiliography from the Diotima site

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Sex
"Women, Sexuality and the Family." IN Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Socrates. Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland. 2d edition. New York, 2000, pp.383-440.
Translations of primary source materials. Includes subsections on "Sappo of Lesbos," "Women in Greek Drama," "Homosexuality and Pederasty," and "Prostitution."
Dana Call Number: Ref. DF75 .D55 2000.

Homosexuality
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents.
Edited by Thomas K. Hubbard. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 2003.
Dana Call Number: HQ76.3 .G8H66 2003
Ancient Greece
Chapter 3 of Paul Halsall's site on People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History.
Links to discussions, reviews, philosophical and literary source materials, and images.
Ancient Rome
Chapter 4 of Paul Halsall's site on People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History.
Links to discussions, reviews, and literary and historical texts.

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Religion
Dictionary of Roman Religion
Lesley Adkins and Roy A. Adkins. New York, Facts on File, 1996.
Dana Call Number: Ref. BL798 .A35 1996

Primary Sources
Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook
Ross Shepard Kraemer. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Dana Call Number: Ref. BL625. M34 2004

Vestal Virgins
Vesta
Bibliography from the Diotima site.
The Temple of Vesta and the Vestal Virgins

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Art
Pollitt, Jerome Jordan. The Art of Rome, c.753 B.C.-337 A.D.: Sources and Documents. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1966.
The standard collection of translated ancient texts.
Dana Call Number: N5760 .P57
Coulson, William D.E. Greek and Roman Art, Architecture, and Archaeology: An Annotated Bibliography. 2nd edition, revised. New York, Garland, 1987.
Dana Call Number: Ref. N5610 .C68 1987

Image Libraries
ARTstor
Approximately 700,000 images with citations in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access
Classical Art Research Center: The Beazley Archive
Search or browse for images by format (pottery, gems, sculpture, antiquaria, inscriptions) or search a merged database. Over 150,000 images of classical works available. From the Beazley Archive at the University of Oxford.
Perseus Digital Library: Art and Archaeology Artifact Browser
Descriptions and images of ancient coins, vases, sculptures, gems, sites, and buildings.
Questions?
Natalie Borisovets (natalieb@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
John Cotton Dana Library
February 10, 2009