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Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 1994
From:
Bob Kaster
Subject:
Rape in Antiquity--Biblio.?
Here's
a very broad question that I hope someone on the list will be able
to help with: what would be the best place(s) to start if one wanted
to compile a bibliography of modern studies of rape in antiquity
(especially Roman)? Law, literature (including historiography), the
visual arts--all or any of these would be of interest. And all
suggestions will be gratefully received.
Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 1994
From:
David Meadows
Subject:
Re: Rape in Antiquity--Biblio.?
Here's something I had on file (yes, I'm actually filing these
things now); things marked with an asterisk I have not seen: Rape In
Antiquity Appleton, C. _Trois Episodes de l'Histoire Ancienne de
Rome; Les Sabines, Lucrece, Virginie_ (Paris, 1924)* Evans-Grubbs,
Judith. "Abduction Marriage in Antiquity" JRS 79 (1989),
59-83. [rape more in the sense of abduction than our view of rape]
Gardner, J. _Women in Roman Law and Society_ (Bloomington, 1986),
117-121. Just, R. _Women in Athenian Law and Life_ (London, 1989),
68-70, 118- 125. Noailles, P. "Le Proces de Verginie," REL
20 (1942), 106-138 Norabito, M. "Droit romain et realites
sociales de la sexualite servile" Dialogues d'histoire ancienne
12 (1986), 371-387* Pfaff, ? "Stuprum" RE 4A, 423-424
Pomeroy, S. _Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves_ (New York, 1975),
86-88, 160-161. Treggiari, S. _Roman Marriage_ (Oxford, 1991), 233,
279, 309-11 [Chapter 9 in general is about sexual relations and
attitudes) Also worth a look is Digest (i.e. Justinian) 48.5 Any
additions gratefully received
Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 1994
From:
PMW Matheson
Subject:
Re: Rape in Antiquity--Biblio.? [
As
a drop in proverbial bucket, there is _Rape_, ed. Tomaselli S. and
R. Porter (Oxford 1986), with an article by Bryson, N. "Two
Narratives of Rape in the Visual Arts: Lucretia and the Sabine
Women," and, on the same theme, Donaldson, I. _The Rapes of
Lucretia_ (Oxford 1982) Some recent articles (from TOCS-IN) :
Walcot, Peter, "Herodotus on Rape" Arethusa 11 (1978) 137
Curran, Leo C., "Rape and Rape Victims in the Metamorphoses"
Arethusa 11 (1978) 213 Bauman, R.A., "The Rape of Lucretia,
Quod metus causa and the Criminal Law" _Latomus 52.3_ (1993)
550 Brooks Thistlethwaite, Susan, ""You May Enjoy the
Spoil of Your Enemies": Rape as a Biblical Metaphor for War"
_Semeia 61_ (1993) 59 Keefe, Alice A., "Rapes of Women/Wars of
Men" _Semeia 61_ (1993) 79 Packmman, Zola Marie, "Call it
Rape: A Motif in Roman Comedy and its Suppression in
English-Speaking Publications" _Helios 20.1_ (1993) 42 --
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994
From:
"P. Lowell Bowditch"
Subject:
Re: Rape in Antiquity--Biblio.?
There
are many pertinent articles, including Amy Richlin's own "Reading
Ovid's Rapes," in the collection of essays she edits,
__Pornography and Representation In Greece and Rome__. Oxford
University Press, 1992. Many thanks to all who gave me information
on Maffeo Vegio, the humanist revisionist of Vergil.
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994
From:
Tim Parkin
Subject:
Re: Rape in Antiquity--Biblio.?
One
item to add to the emerging bibliography: S.G. Cole, 'Greek
sanctions against sexual assault', *Classical Philology* 79.2 (April
1984) 97-113.
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 16:13:18
From:
"S. Georgia Nugent"
Subject:
rape biblio.
To
add to the bibliography: my colleague Froma Zeitlin has an article
in the collection _Rape and Representation_, edd. Lynn Higgins and
Brenda Silver, Columbia Univ. Pr., 1991.
Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 1994
From:
"Lee F. Sherry"
Subject:
Re: Rape in Antiquity--Biblio.?
See
now "Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and
Medieval Societies" edited by A. Laiou, Dumbarton Oaks 1993
Date:
Wed, 26 Jan 1994
From: Gregory Bloomquist
Subject:
Rape in Lysistrata
Or
should I say "absence" of rape in Lysistrata: my question
is "why"? It would seem that if there ever were an
occsaion in which men could prove their dominance over women in a
conflict, this would be it. Or, is it simply that the comedic genus
makes rape in this particular play impossible, whereas if L. had
been a tragedy, rape might have occurred.
Date:
Wed, 26 Jan 1994
From:
Tony Keen
Subject:
Re: Rape in Lysistrata
if L. had been a tragedy, rape might have occurred. Since one of
Aristophanes' objectives is to portray how pathetic men get when
they can't get sexual satisfaction, including a scene of such
satisfaction, even if it were by means of rape, would destroy the
effect.
Date:
Wed, 26 Jan 1994
From:
MARILYN SKINNER
Subject: Re: Rape in Antiquity--Biblio.?
Here
are some additional contributions and suggestions for peripheral
exploration: 1. David Schaps, "The Women of Greece in Wartime,"
_CP_ 77 (1982) 193-213 2. Edward M. Harris, "Did the Athenians
Regard Seduction as a Worse Crime than Rape?" _CQ_ 40 (1990)
370-77; Ed says no, contrary to what we've all been telling our
students in our "Women in Antiquity" courses . . . 3.
Elaine Fantham, "Stuprum: Public Attitudes and Penalties for
Sexual Offences in Republican Rome," _EMC/CV_ 35 (1991) 267-91
4. Eva Keuls, _Reign of the Phallus_ (1985) has a highly
controversial discussion of physical abuse of hetairai on pp. 174
ff. Her conclusions have been contested by Martin Kilmer, among
others. For the iconography, however, it's a very accessible source.
There are numerous directions in which to extend such a
bibliography, including the metaphorical/metonymic, i.e., marriage
as rape, death as rape. Also, contributions have focused so far on
sexual offences against women. For homosexual rape, see David Cohen,
_Law, Sexuality, and Society_ (1991) on _hybris_ against youths. On
the Roman side, there's the much-discussed problem of just what was
going on with the _Lex Scantinia_. Newest contribution on that: Amy
Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," _Journal of the
History of Sexuality_ 3 (1993) 523-73. This is really a "can-of-worms"
rubric!
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994
From:
"James A. Arieti"
Subject:
Re: Rape in Antiquity--Biblio.?
May
I be allowed to add my own "Empedocles in Rome: Rape and the
Roman Ethos," *Clio* 10(1980): 5-20.
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994
From:
"Jenny S. Clay"
Subject: Re: Rape in Lysistrata
If
rape, homosexual activity, or even hanky-panky with the slaves were
envisaged in the Lysistrata, the plot would collapse. The great
thing about this play is that it is simultaneously the most obscene
and the most moral of Aristophanes plays.
Date:
Thu Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994
From:
KOPFF E CHRISTIAN
Subject:
Re: Rape in Lysistrata
In the course of the oath the women swear near the beginning of the
play, the possibility that their husbands will use force on them to
get sex is clearly envisaged. I translate loosely from 223-228: "I
will never willingly give in to my husband and if he violently uses
force against me against my will (_ean de m' akousan biazetai
biai_), I will put out poorly and not move in response."
Henderson _ad_ 225 (p. 96) notes that _biazomai_ is used of rape.
This does not refute the true observation that _Lysistrata_ is an
obscene play committed to espousing family values.
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