Contents

  1. Prologue

  2. I. Introduction to Gender & Sexuality in Ancient Rome: Part One

    1. 1. Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. “Is Female To Male as Nature Is To Culture?”

    2. 2. Butler, Judith. 1998. “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire.”

    3. 3. Lorde, Audre. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.”

    4. 4. hooks, bell. 1998. “Black Women and Feminism.”

  3. II. Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Rome: Part Two

    1. 5. Rome Timeline and Maps

    2. 6. “Early Rome to 500 B.C.E.”

    3. 7. “Early Roman Society, Religion, and Values”

    4. 8. Donna Zuckerberg’s editorial “Welcome to the New Eidolon” and LKM Maisal’s “Women are Made, But from What?”

  4. III. The Origins of Rome

    1. 9. Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Book I: Preface - 13

    2. 10. Vergil's Aeneid Book I

    3. 11. Aimee Hinds "Rape or Romance? Bad Feminism in Mythical Retellings"

    4. 12. OPTIONAL: Richlin, Amy. 1992: "Reading Ovid's Rapes"

  5. IV. Lucretia

    1. 13. Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Volume I. 57 - 60 : Tarquinius and Lucretia

    2. 14. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Book 4

    3. 15. Ovid, Fasti: LCL 253

    4. 16. Joshel, Sandra. 2002. “The Female Body and the Body Politic: Livy’s Lucretia and Verginia”

    5. 17. Joanna Kenty. 2017. “Avenging Lucretia”

  6. V. Race, Ethnicity, and Imperialism: Cleopatra

    1. 18. Egypt, 146–31 B.C.

    2. 19. Vergil's Aeneid Book VIII

    3. 20. Horace 1.37

    4. 21. Propertius 3.11

    5. 22. Haley, Shelley. 1993. “Black Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-Membering, Re-Claiming, Re-Empowering.”

    6. 23. Stemma Cleopatra.pdf

    7. 24. End of the Republic :Chronological Table

    8. 25. White at the Museum

    9. 26. 'Race'-ing the Romans with Dr. Shelley Haley 10/19

  7. VI. Queering Rome

    1. 27. Ovid: The Metamorphoses : Book IX: lines 666 - 797

    2. 28. Female Homoeroticism in the Roman Empire: How Many Licks Does It Take to Get to the Disruption of a Phallocentric Model of Sexuality? By Nicole Speth

    3. 29. “The Body in Question” by Grace Gillies (2019)

    4. 30. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

  8. VII. Race, Gender, Ethnicity, & Cleopatra : Further Resources

    1. 31. Royster, Francesca T. 2003. Becoming Cleopatra : The Shifting Image of an Icon. New York : Palgrave Macmillan,.

    2. 32. Biddick, Kathleen, John R. Clarke, Stephen F. Eisenman, Ikem Stanley Okoye, and Frances K. Pohl. 1996. “Aesthetics, Ethnicity, and the History of Art.” The Art Bulletin 78 (4): 594–621

    3. 33. Be Not Afraid of the Dark by Shelley P. Haley

    4. 34. Kennedy, Rebecca. n.d. “Classics at the Intersections: Is There a ‘race’ or ‘Ethnicity’ in Greco-Roman Antiquity?” Classics at the Intersections (blog). Accessed June 16, 2020. https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2019/04/is-there-race-or-ethnicity-in-greco.html.

    5. 35. Blog: Women in Classics: A Conversation with SCS President-Elect Shelley Haley: Part I

    6. 36. Blog: Women in Classics: A Conversation with Shelley Haley: Part II

    7. 37. Rebecca Futo Kennedy: Why I Teach About Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World

  9. VIII. Roman Satire, Contemporary Comedy, and Lesbian Content

    1. 38. Hannah Gadsby's "Nanette"

    2. 39. Hannah Gadsby "Douglas"

  10. IX. Workshops

    1. 40. Workshop 1

    2. 41. Workshop 2

    3. 42. Workshop 3

    4. 43. Workshop 4

    5. 44. Workshop 5

  11. X. Student Projects

    1. 45. The Penis Poetry (Among Other Things)

    2. 46. Why Are We So Uncomfortable? The Confusing Taboo of Menstruation in Ancient Rome and Modern America

    3. 47. Rome and America, Rome(in) America, Roman America

    4. 48. Male Prostitution in Ancient Rome: The Tangled Narratives of Material Culture

    5. 49. Re-Imagining the Goddess

    6. 50. Reflections on Academia

    7. 51. Juvenal and Roman Heteronormativity

    8. 52. Interviewing a Human Who Carries Multifaceted Baggage from Their Perceived Identity: A Series of Intimate Moments with Elagabalus

    9. 53. For You

    10. 54. Constructing Queerness: Pederasty

    11. 55. Silly Queen! You know that doesn’t apply to him: The adventures of a woman in an unfair world

    12. 56. Finding the “Other” in Classics: Researching the Yoruba Society to Understand Erotic Magic and Ritual in Ancient Rome

  12. XI. Resources (TBA)

    1. 57. Richlin, Amy. 2014. “The Ethnographer’s Dilemma and the Dream of a Lost Golden Age.”

  13. Appendix