Ronnie Ancona

Ronnie Ancona and Georgia Tsouvala

Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves introduced scholars, students, and general readers to an exciting new area of inquiry: women in classical antiquity. Almost 50 years later, New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World builds upon and moves beyond Pomeroy's seminal work to represent the next step in this interdisciplinary field. The “new directions” for the study of women in antiquity included in this volume of newly commissioned essays feature new methodological questions to be asked, new time periods to be explored, new objects of study, as well as new information to be uncovered. In addressing these new directions, the editors have gathered a distinguished group of contributors that includes historians, philologists, archaeologists, art historians, and specialists in subfields like ancient medicine, ancient law, papyrology, and epigraphy. While some chapters focus primarily on Greece or Rome, others straddle or go beyond these artificial boundaries in interesting ways. While the focus of the volume is antiquity, the issues it raises will be of interest also to those studying women and theorizing the study of women in other periods as well. The volume will help readers to see women in antiquity with fresh eyes and to view anew important issues related to women today.

Tsouvala received a Ph.D. in classics in 2008 from the CUNY Graduate Center.

As well as presenting the Latin text of forty-six poems with line-by-line notes and vocabulary, Writing Passion provides an introduction to the life of Catullus and his body of work and includes historical and literary background. The second edition features four poems that were not in the first edition (75, 83, 92, and 107), which expand the elegiac selections about Lesbia, and an updated bibliography. Writing Passion Plus: A Catullus Reader Supplement contains poems 6, 16, 32, and 57. 

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This reader, designed for students moving from elementary or intermediate Latin into reading the authentic Latin of Horace, contains 203 lines of Latin selections from his Satire and Odes. Introductory materials include an overview of the life and work of Horace, bibliography, and description of Horatian meters. The Latin selections are accompanied by pre-reading materials that help students understand underlying cultural and literary concepts; grammatical exercises; vocabulary notes; notes to assist reading comprehension; post-reading materials that encourage an appreciation of Horace's style and reflection on what has been read; appendices on grammar and figures of speech; and a pull-out vocabulary of words appearing frequently in Horace. 

Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Cicero, and Virgil are the official Advanced Placement Program Latin authors as well as standard reading for college and advanced secondary students of Latin. This volume provides accessible information about recent scholarship on these authors to show how an awareness of current academic debates can enhance the teaching of their work. Contributions by established authorities on each author combine theoretical material with Latin passages so that instructors can see how practically to apply these methods to specific texts. Instructors will also appreciate how many and varied are the ways of approaching the reading and study of Latin texts while conveying the excitement of recent scholarship. This is a practical sourcebook for busy teachers who wish to keep abreast of recent developments in Latin scholarship so that they can broaden students' appreciation of timeless classics.

In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture. This new volume, the first to focus specifically on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical positions that argue that this poetry either confirms traditional gender roles or subverts them. By complicating the views of gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, this exciting new scholarship will stimulate further debates in classical studies and literary criticism with its fresh perspectives.