Minerva Bibliographies: Ancient/Late Antiquity

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Most Recommended:

  • Davis-Kimball, Jeannine
    Warrior Women of the Eurasian Steppes
    Archaeology Jan/Feb 1997: 44-48
  • Davis-Kimball, Jeannine
    Warrior Women: An Archaeologist’s Search for History’s Hidden Heroines
    New York: Warner Books, 2002
  • Dudley, Donald Reynolds and Graham Webster
    The Rebellion of Boudicca
    New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962
  • Fraser, Antonia
    The Warrior Queens
    New York: Knopf, 1989
  • Macurdy, Grace Harriet
    Hellenistic Queens: A Study of Woman-Power in Macedonia, Seleucid Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt
    Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1932
  • Newark, Tim
    Women Warlords
    London: Blandford/Cassell Artillery House, 1989
  • Schaps, David
    The Women of Greece in Wartime
    Classical Philology
     77. (1982): 193-213
  • Tyldesley, Joyce
    Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh
    New York: Viking, 1996

Additional:

  • The Women Warriors
    Lingua Franca
     Dec/Jan 1998
  • Baron, Salo Wittmayer
    A social and religious history of the Jews
    2nd , rev. and enl. ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952
  • Bellis, Alice Ogden
    Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes: Women’s Stories in the Hebrew Bible
    Louisville: John Know Press, 1994
  • Blashfield, Jean F.
    Hellraisers, Heroines, and Holy Women
    New York: Superlative House, 1981

  • Blok, Josine H.
    The Early Amazons: Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth

    Leiden, New York, and Cologne: E.J. Brill, 1995
  • Bothmer, D. von.
    Amazons in Greek Art
    Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957
  • Boulding, Elise
    The Underside of History: A View of Women Through Time
    Boulder, CO: Westview, 1976

  • Browning, Iain
    Palmyra
    Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1979
  • Bujold, Lois McMaster and Roland J. Green
    Women at War

    Tor, 1997

  • Bulst, Christoph
    The Revolt of Queen Boudicca in A.D. 60: Roman Politics and the Iceni
    Historia
       (1961)
  • Burbank, Victoria Katherine
    Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia
    University of California Press, 1994
  • Bury, J. S.
    Cambridge Ancient History
    . Vol. III.
    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Cooley, John K.
    Baal, Christ, and Mohammed: religion and revolution in 
    North Africa
    New York: Holt, Rinehart,and Winston, 1965
  • DeGroot, Gerard J. and Corinna Peniston-Bird, Eds.
    A Soldier and A Woman: Women in the Military
    Longman, 2000
  • Demosthenes
    Demosthenes’ public orations
    Trans. Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963

  • Dio, Cassius
    Dio’s Roman history
    Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954
  • Diodorus, Siculus
    Diodorus of Sicily
    Trans. Oldfather, C. H.
    New York: G.P. Putnam’s sons, 1933-1967. 12 vols.
  • Dodgeon, M.H. and S.N.C. Lieu
    The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (AD 226-363): A Documentary History
    London: Routledge, 1991
  • Donner, Fred
    The Early Islamic Conquests
    Princeton: 1981
  • Donzel, E. J. van
    The Encyclopaedia of Islam, new edition
    . Vol. v. <1>
    Leiden [The Netherlands]: E.J. Brill, 1993

  • Downey, G.
    Aurelian’s Victory over Zenobia at Immae, A.D. 272
    TAPA : Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 81. (1950):57-68
  • Dudley, D.R. and Graham Webster
    Boudicca’s Revolt
    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962
  • Dudley, D.R. and Graham Webster
    The Roman Conquest of Britain AD 43-57
    London: B.T. Batsford, 1965
  • Ehrenreich, Barbara
    Blood Rites:
     Origins and History of the Passions of War
    New York: Metropolitan Books, 1997
  • Evans, John K.
    War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome
    London: Routledge, 1991
  • Fage, J.D., Ed.
    Cambridge History of Africa
     Vol. 2.
    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,, 1978
  • Fantham, Elaine, Helene Peet Foley, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Sarah B. Pomeroy, and H. A. Shapiro
    Women in the Classical World: Image and Text
    New York: Oxford University Press, 1994

  • Gera, Deborah
    Warrior Women: The Anonymous Tractatus De Mulieribus
    . Vol.
    (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava. Supplementum, No 162). New York: E J Brill, 1997
  • Green, Pete
    Alexander to Actium: the historical evolution of the Hellenistic age
    Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990
  • Hanson, W.S. and D.B. Campbell
    The Brigantes: From Clientage to Conquest
    Britannia 17. (1986): 73-89
  • Herodotus
    The Histories
    Trans. Selincourt, Aubrey de. London: Penguin, 1972
  • Hitti, Philip Khuri
    History of the Arabs from the earliest times to the present
    10th ed. London: Macmillan, 1970
  • Hornblower, Simon
    Mausolus
    Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982
    .
  • Isaac, B.
    The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East
    rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
  • Ivanova, Iu. N.
    I na Rusi byli Amazonki [There were Amazons in Russia, too] Armiia 5 (1992): 44-49
  • Jones, David E.
    Women Warriors: A History
    Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 1997
  • Kleinbaum, Abby Wettan
    The War Against the Amazons
    New York: McGraw Hill, 1983
  • LaCocque, Andre
    The Feminine Unconventional: Four Subversive Figures in Israel’s Tradition
    Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990
  • Lamsa, George Mamishisho
    Old Testament Light; A Scriptural Commentary Based on the Aramaic of the Ancient Peshitta Text
    Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964
  • Lefkowitz, Mary R.
    Influential Women
    Images of Women in Antiquity. eds. Cameron, Averil and Amélie Kuhrt
    Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1983. 49-65
  • Lefkowitz, Mary R. and M. B. Fant.
    Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
    Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982
  • Macdonald, Sharon, Pat Holden, and Shirley Ardener
    Images of Women in Peace and War
    London: Macmillan, 1987

  • Mayor, Adrienne and Josiah Ober
    Amazons
    MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History
    : 68-77
  • Millar, F.
    The Roman Near East 31 BC-AD 337
    Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993
  • Nicolle, David
    Yarmuk 636 AD
    London: 1994
  • Olmstead, A. T.
    History of Assyria
    Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923
  • Osborne, Lawrence
    The Women Warriors
    Lingua Franca (1998): 50-57

  • Pantel, Pauline Schmitt, Ed.
    A History of Women in the West: I. From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints
    5 vols.
       Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap, 1992
  • Parker, S. Thomas
    Romans and Saracens: A History of the Arabian Frontier
    ASOR, 1986
  • Pauly, A.
    Ortiagon

  • Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
    Stuttgart: A. Druckenmuller, 1964-75
  • Pausanias
    Descriptions of Greece
     [W. H. S. Jones]
    Vol. 1. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1918
  • Plutarch
    Moralia
    Trans. Babbit, Frank Cole.
    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983
  • Plutarch and Bernadotte Perrin
    Plutarch’s lives in eleven volumes
    Cambridge: Harvard University Press. W. Heinemann, 1967
  • Pollio, Vitruvius
    On architecture
    Trans. Granger, Frank. New York: Putnam, 1931-1934. 2 vols.
  • Polyaenus
    Polyaeni Strategematon libri VIII
  • Polybius
    The Histories
    Trans. Badian, newly translated by Mortimer Chambers; revised and abridged with an introduction by E. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1966
  • Richmond, I.A.
    Queen Cartimandua
    Journal of Roman Studies
     44. (1954): 43-52
  • Riddle, John M.
    Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance
    London: Harvard University Press, 1992

  • Robins, Gay
    Women in Ancient Egypt
    London:
       British Museum Publications, 1993
  • Rothery, Guy Cadogan
    The Amazons in Antiquity and Modern Times
    London: Francis Griffiths, 1910
  • Roux, Georges, Ed.
    Ancient Iraq.
     2nd ed.
    New York: Penguin, 1992
  • Salmonson, Jessica Amanda
    The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era
    New York: Paragon House, 1991
  • Schaps, David
    The Women of Greece in Wartime
    Classical Philology 77. (1982): 193-213

  • Schmitz, Leonhard
    Ancient History
    New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1898
  • Snyder, Jane McIntosh
    The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome
    Southern Illinois University Press, 1989
  • Stoneman, Richard
    Palmyra and its Empire: Zenobia’s Revolt Against Rome
    University of Michigan Press, 1994
  • Strabo
    Geography
    Trans. Jones, H.L. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966
  • Sulimirski, Tadeusz
    The Sarmatians
    New York: Praeger, 1970
  • Tacitus
    The Annals
    Trans. Brodribb, Alfred John Church and William Jackson
    Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica’s Great Books, 1952
  • Tacitus
    The Agricola and the Germania
    Trans. Handford, S. A. London: Penguin, 1970
  • Taylor, Keith
    The Birth of 
    Vietnam
    Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983
  • Tyrrell, William Blake
    Amazons: A Study in Athenian Mythmaking
    Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984
  • Volkman, Hans
    Cleopatra: A Study in Politics and Propaganda
    New York: Sagamore Press, 1958
  • Webster, Graham
    Rome Against Caratacus: The Roman Campaigns in Britain, AD 48-58
    Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1982
  • Willard, Charity Cannon
    Early Images of the Female Warrior: Minerva, the Amazons, Joan of Arc
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 6.3 (1988): 1-11