CLAS 2100/WMST 2100: Women in Ancient Greece

University of Colorado, Fall 1998

Bibliography of secondary materials

You may also wish to consult the online bibliographies collected at the Diotima website (http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/biblio.html).

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Clark, G., Women in the Ancient World, Oxford, 1993.

Cohen, D. Law, Sexuality, and Society: The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens, Cambridge, 1991.

Dean-Jones, L., Women’s Bodies in Classical Greek Science, Oxford, 1994.

Demand, N., Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, Johns Hopkins, 1994.

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