Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

  Primary Source

Homer. Translated: Fagles, Robert. The Odyssey. New York: Penguin Books. 1996.

            This is a primary source, written in the 300 or 400 B.C. by Homer. This is the journey of Odysseus after the Trojan War. It gives different women's role in the book, like his faithful wife, Penelope, the nymph Calypso, the Princess that he meets, and his faithful old servant, Eurypedia.

Homer. Translated: Butler, Samuel. The Iliad. New York: Barnes and Nobles Books. 1995.

            This book retells the classical epic poem written by Homer, it is translated into paragraph form. In the book it talks about the things that happened during the Trojan War, between Greece and Troy. This cook doesn't really focus that much on women, it's mainly about the hero Achilles.

Books (Single Author)

Lynn, Schnurnberger. Let There Be Clothes. Workman Publishing; New York, 1991.

            This book gave me a schedule of what a normal day in life for an Ancient Greek Women would be like, it tells you more about what the ancient Greek women feels while going on their lives. And each chore the women does, how she feel about it.

Nardo, Jon. Life in Ancient Greece. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1996.

            This book gives information on how people live in the Ancient Greece, including men and women. It tells us the women rights and responsibilities, which is exactly what we need for our topic. Also, it tells us how people of different class live like.

 Powell, Anton. Ancient Greece. New York: Facts on Life, 1989.

            This book tells us basically how people lived in different regions of Ancient Greece because there are different customs at different places. The women’s lives are included in the different regions, like in Athena, Sparta, Mycenae, and exc. Also, it gives us examples of famous women at that time.

Powell, Anton. The Greek World. New York: Warwick Press, 1987.

            This book gives a lot of information on great events that happens in Ancient Greek and also the daily lives of the Greeks. This book contains many pictures of artifacts and maps. There is a very useful timeline on page 13 and information on women on page 39-39.

Books (Two or more authors)

Baker, Rosalie F, and Charles F. Baker III. Ancient Greeks. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

     This is a very useful book because it gives us famous Ancient Greeks put in a time period who have made a difference in the Ancient Civilization. It gives us a full description of the people that are mentioned in this book.

Encyclopedias and other multi-volume works  

1995 - 2000 Ross Scaife. www.stoa.org/diotima. Last update: 16 December 2002.

            <http://www.histoportal.com/greece.html>

            This is a website that I found using the Yahoo search engine. It has a lot of information on Greece, but it doesn’t focus on women on Greece. It could be used as background research.

2000 Merriam-Webster, Inc. and Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

             <http://education.yahoo.com/search/be?lb=t&p=url%3Ag/greek_law>

            This is a section I found in the Britannica Encyclopedia that explains about the Greek laws back in the ancient times. It mainly talks about justice.

2000 Merriam-Webster, Inc. and Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Greek Religion

        <http://www.yahooligans.com/search/ligans_be?lb=t&p=url%3Ag/greek_religion>

  This section on the Encyclopaedia Britannica also informs me on the ancient religions on Greece and Myths of their gods and goddesses such as Zeus and Poseidon.

2000 Merriam-Webster. Inc. and Encyclopaedia Britannica. Inc. Greece

        <http://www.yahooligans.com/search/ligans_be?lb=t&p=url%3Ag/greece>

          In this encyclopedia, I found a lot of background information on the geography and the history of Ancient Greece. It also has a map of Greece that we can use. 

2001, Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Inc.Greece

<http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gr.html>

          This website counts as a reference section. The World Factbook contains information on all of the countries. I found many information about the present day Greece such as the area of the land, population, and government systems. It is a very useful source.

Columbia Encyclopedia. Sixth Edition.2003. Greece

         <http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/G/Greece.asp>

        This encyclopedia has much information about Greece such as the land, population, and the history of it. The problem of this section is that it mainly focuses on the present day Greece but not the Ancient Greece.

Columbia Encyclopedia. Sixth Edition. 2003. Greek Religion

         <http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Greekrel_Origins.asp>

         This section of the Columbia Encyclopedia is about the origions of the Ancient Greek culture and some Mythological gods and goddesses. These are some very important background information.

Lumiansky, R.M. “Greece.” The New Encyclopedia Britannica: Micropaedia. Volume 5. Page 454-463. 15^th edition. 1998.

            This is the basic overview of the whole Greece world, from the ancient times to nowadays. The facts are very strait out. Most of this is talking about the Greek religion, which is somewhat resourceful for this project.

Segal, Charles. “Greece.” Encyclopedia America. Volume 13. Page 360-441. 5^th edition.2001.

            This book is very resourceful and helpful. It labeled the different subjects of the Greeks into chapters so we can eliminate the chapters that we don't need. The life of ancient Greek women is mentioned as well as examples from different city-states and different times in history.  

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. 1994, 2000, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press.

            <http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0858491.html>

            This is a couple of paragraphs I found in the encyclopedia on www.infoplease.com. It is about the origins of the Greek religion and also their mythology. 

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. 1994, 2000, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press.

            <http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0821700.html>

Internet Websites

2001 HEC and Roberto Lopes. Updated on 18 April 2001. The Hellenic Genocide.
            Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.

            <http://www.greece.org/genocide/quotes/quotes4.html>

 This website in which I found the quote in has many other quotes quoted by famous authors in Ancient Greece. Some of the quotes were about the mistreatments of Greek women.

Ancient Greece and Environs Costume Links. January 25, 2003. January 27, 2003. <http://www.costumes.org/pages/ greeklinks.htm>

        This is another costume page, so I didn't bother to read it, since costumes aren't very important for me in my project. So I just got a picture from the website. It's a painting on a plate of a hetarae serving a man.

Ancient Greek Symposia. 2002. January 23, 2003. www.arts.ed.ac.uk/classics/ openday/politics.html.

        I didn't read much of the website, but I did get this really good picture of a pottery showing men with hetaraes by their sides. Probably, they're aristocrats, out for a political meeting.

Ancient Greek Women's Laments. December 7, 2002. January 12, 2003. <http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/ pages/laments.html>

        This website had a poem by Sappho, and it showed me the skills she have as a poet. That is why I put her in the Women who made a difference corner of the website. 

Bludell, Susan. Women in Ancient Greece. Harvard University Press.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BLUWOX.html

 This website has a couple of paragraphs about the rights and responsibilities of women in Ancient Greece. Lacks information and not a very good site.

Donahue, Joy. The Study of Women and Gender in Ancient World. Portland State University Sophomore Inquiry program.                                     <http://www-adm.pdx.edu/user/sinq/greekciv2/sport/women.html>                                                                                   

This web site also does not contain too much information, but the information that is stated within this site is very helpful. It talks about their daily lives and the clothes that the women wore.

Donn, Lin. Daily Life in Ancient Greece: Meet the Greeks. October 23, 2002. December 5, 2002.                                                   

        <http://www.members.aol.com/Donndass/Greeklife.html>                                                                

        This website gives you the way the Ancient Greeks lived in their daily lives, it also tells us the role of the people with different genders, and then dividing them into different age groups.

Graham, Casey. Ancient Athenian Women. January 7, 2002. December 5, 2002.<https://www.angelfire.com/ca3/ancientchix/>                   

     This website gives us all the information we will need to know about women in Ancient Athens. It tells us their roles from a young child to a women. This whole thing is about what life is like in Athens, so it's different from the other city-states such as Sparta and the normal country villages.  

Greek Studies. 2001. January 13, 2003. <http://www.greekstudies.pdx.edu/Quotes.htm>

              This website that I found contains a great deal of quotes by Ancient Greeks, but the problem to this website is that not many of the quotes are about women.

Hudzic, M.. Clothing of the Ancient Greek Women.  March 6, 2002. January 16, 2003.

        <http: www.richeast.org/htwm/Greeks/ costume/costume.html>

        This website supplied me two very good pictures, portraying Greek women doing their daily chores. And while doing that I read of how people dressed in those days.

Marriage and Family Life. January 25, 2003.  <http://www.ancientgr.com/archaeonia/ lifestyle/marriage.htm>

        This website is very useful, it gave me many resources as in what married women would do, their rights in a marriage and what is expected from them in a marriage. Though some of the things I learned in here is not so pleasant, but it's very useful. Also it gave me a great picture for the website.

Sappho. January 7, 2003. <http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/ sapphodiscography.html>

        This website gave me some information about Sappho, the famous female poet, although there were never any statues made during her life time but they were made after her death. It gave me some useful information, and i got this picture of Sappho on it.

Sappho Famous Quotes. 2001. ThinkExist.com. 1/23/03

            <http://www.thinkexist.com/English/Author/x/Author_4729_1.htm>

             This is a website I found that had many quotes from famous people in the ancient times. However, there is only one quote that is quoted by Sappho.

Shadowfen's Lair. September 30, 2001. January 16, 2003. <http://www.lonestar.texas.net/~scottd.html>

            This website is kind of useless to me in my website. But instead of getting any information on the Ancient Greeks, I found this great map, that I can use.

The History Net. Women's History. About Inc. January 12, 2001. December 23,2002.

        <http:  //www.womenshistory.about.com/cs/ancientgreece/>

         This website has a large of different information that we can use. It contains information about famous people back in Ancient Greece such as Sappho and Hipparchia.

Tigertail Virtue Art Museum. 2000. January 18, 2003. <http:www.tigtail.org/M_View/TVM/ E/Ancient/Greek/greek.html>

　    This website gave me a picture of Athena in her armor, it was a famous statue of her. I also saw a lot of landscapes of modern Greece that has been passed down for centuries from Ancient Greece.

Women in the Ancient World. Women in Ancient Greece. James C. Thompson, B.A,M. Ed.                                             

    <http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/index.htm>                                                                                                                

        This website supplied me with many useful information on women's daily lives and how they are controlled by their husbands. It lacks a bit about their rights though.