Description: List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgments. Editor's Introduction. Part I: Greece. 1. Classical Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour. (K. J. Dover). Source: Aristophanes' Speech from Plato, Symposium 189d7-192a1. 2. Double-Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics. (J. J. Winkler). Sources: Sappho 1 and 31; Homer, Iliad 5.114-132; Odyssey 6.139-85. 3. Bound to Bleed. Artemis and Greek Women. (H. King). Excerpts: Hippocrates, On Unmarried Girls; Euripides, Hippolytus 59-105. 4. Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama. (F. Zeitlin). Sources: Sophocles, Women of Trachis 531-587, 1046-1084; Euripides, Bacchae 912-944. Part II: Rome. 5. The Silent Women of Rome. (M. I. Finley). Sources: Funerary Inscriptions: CE 81.1-2, 158.2, 843, 1136.3-4; ILS 5213, 8402, 8394; CIL 1.1211, 1.1221, 1.1837. 6. The Body Female and the Body Politic. Livy's Lucretia and Verginia. S. R. Joshel. Sources: Livy, On the Founding of Rome, 1.57.6-59.6. 7. Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy.(M. Wyke). Excerpts: Propertius, 1.8a-b and 2.5; Cicero, In Defense of Marcus Caelius 20.47-21.50. 8. Pliny's Brassiere. Source: Pliny, Natural History 28.70-82. Part III: Classical Tradition. 10. "The Voice of the Shuttle Is Ours." (Patricia Klindienst). Source: Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.424-623. Bibliography. Index.

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