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Race in Antiquity, Critical Race Theory

  • Apple, M. (2004) Ideology and Curriculum (3rd ed.). Abingdon and New York.
  • Appiah, K.A. (2016) 鈥楾here is no such thing as western civilization鈥, in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/western-civilisation-appiah-reith-lecture
  • *Bernal, M. (1987) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, i: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985, New Brunswick, NJ
  • --- (1991) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, ii: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence, London
  • --- (2001) Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to his Critics, ed. David Chioni Moore, Durham, NC
  • Daniels, M. (2017) 鈥楤lack Athena, 30 Years On: Why Bernal Still Matters to Classics鈥, in Eidolon: https://eidolon.pub/black-athena-30-years-on-5a78253028cc
  • Eddo Lodge, R. (2017) Why I no longer talk to white people about race, London
  • *Gruen, E. S. (2010) Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, Princeton [e-book]
  • Haley, S. P. (1993) 'Black Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-membering, re-claiming, re-empowering', in Rabinowitz, N.S. and Richlin, A. (eds.) Feminist Theory and the Classics, New York and London, 23-43.
  • *Haley, S. P. (2009) 鈥楤e Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies', in L. Nasrallah and E. Sch眉ssler Fiorenza (eds.) Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies, Minneapolis, MN, 27-49.
  • Hall, J. (1997) Ethnic Idenity in Greek Antiquity, Cambridge [e-book]
  • Isaac, B.J. (2004) The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity, Princeton [e-book] Introduction 1-52 + Chapter 7 鈥楨gyptians鈥 352-370; note that there is no chapter on 鈥榖lacks鈥 or 鈥楢fricans鈥, see reviews: Dee, J.H. on BMCR; Lefkowitz, M. in The American Historical Review 110.1 (2005) 198-9; *Lambert, M. in The Classical Review 55.2 (2005) 658-62; *Richter, D. in Classical Philology 101.3 (2006) 287-90, Millar, F. in The International History Review 27.1 (2005) 85-9; Bridges in JHS 125 (2005) 180-1, *McCoskey 2006.
  • Isaac, B. (2009) 鈥楻acism: A Rationalization of Prejudice in Greece and Rome鈥, in Eliav-Feldon, M., Isaac, B. and Ziegler, J. (eds.) The Origins of Racism in the West, Cambridge and New York, 32-56.
  • McCoskey, D. E. (2006) 鈥楴aming the Fault in Question: Theorizing Racism among the Greeks and Romans鈥, IJCT 13.2, 243-67.
  • *--- (2012) Race: Antiquity and its Legacy, London and New York
  • **Morrison, T. (1989) 鈥楿nspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature鈥, Michigan Quarterly Review 28, 1-34; online at https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/m/morrison90.pdf
  • *Orrells, D., Bhambra, G.K. and Roynon, T. (eds.) (2011) African Athena: New Agendas, Oxford. [e-book]
  • **Rollock, N. and Gillborn, D. (2011) Critical Race Theory (CRT), British Educational Research Association online resource. Available online at https://www.bera.ac.uk/researchers-resources/publications/critical-race-theory-crt
  • Rollock, N. (2016) 鈥楲etter to my Unborn Daughter, My career in the academy – reasons for my mental breakdown鈥, in G. Ladson-Billings & W. Tate (Eds) Covenant Keeper: Derrick Bell鈥檚 Enduring Education Legacy, New York: Peter Lang. Available online at https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/resources/letter-to-my-unborn-daughter
  • Snowden, F.M. (1970) Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Graeco-Roman Experience, Cambridge Mass [e-book] see reviews by E. L. Jones (1971) in The Black Scholar 2.6, 56-9.
  • --- (1983) Before Colour Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks, Cambridge Mass.
  • * Umachandran, M. (2017) 鈥楩ragile, Handle with Care: on White Classicists鈥, in Eidolon: https://eidolon.pub/fragile-handle-with-care-66848145cf29

Ethiopians

  • Burgess, J. S. (2004) 鈥楨arly Images of Achilles and Memnon?鈥 Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica n.s. 76.1, 33-51.
  • Davies, Malcolm. 2016. The Aethiopis: Neo-Neoanalysis Reanalyzed. Hellenic Studies Series 71. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_DaviesM.The_Aethiopis.2016.
  • Drews, R. (1969) 鈥楢ethiopian Memnon: African or Asiatic?鈥 in Rh. Mus. 112, 191 http://www.rhm.uni-koeln.de/112/M-Drews.pdf
  • Du Bois, W. E. B. (1947) 鈥楾he Land of the Burnt Faces鈥 in The World and Africa, Oxford, 74-94.
  • Griffith, R. D. (1998) 鈥楾he Origin of Memnon鈥, Classical Antiquity 17.2, 212-34.
  • *Gruen, E. S. (2010) Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, Princeton [e-book], chapter 8
  • Keita, M. (2011) 鈥楤elieving in Ethiopians鈥, in Orrells, D., Bhambra, G. K., Roynon, T. (eds.) (2011) African Athena: New Agendas, Oxford [e-book]
  • McCoskey, D. E. (2012) Race: Antiquity and its Legacy, London and New York.
  • McGrath, E. (1992) 'The Black Andromeda', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 55, 1-18.
  • Snowden (1970) Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Graeco-Roman Experience, Cambridge Mass [e-book] Chapter 3 鈥楪raeco-Roman Acquaintance with African Ethiopians鈥
  • West, M. L. 鈥業liad鈥 and 鈥楢ethiopis鈥, The Classical Quarterly n.s. 53.1, 1-14.

Egyptians (Herodotus)

  • Dewald, C. and Marincola, J. (2006) The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus, Cambridge; esp. chapter 19, Rood. T. 鈥楬erodotus and Foreign Lands鈥 [e-book]
  • Harrison, T. (2016) 鈥楿pside Down and Back to Front: Herodotus and the Greek Encounter with Egypt鈥, in Matthews, R. and Roemer, C. (eds.) Ancient Perspectives on Egypt, London, 203-17 [e-book]
  • *Hartog, F. (1988) The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History, Berkeley [e-book]
  • Hornblower, S. (1983) 鈥楥yrene, Africa and Egypt in the fifth century鈥 in S. Hornblower The Greek World: 479-323 BC, Abingdon and New York, Chapter 5 鈥楰yrene and Egypt鈥 57-65
  • Irwin, E. (2014) 鈥楨thnography and Empire: Homer and the Hippocratics in Herodotus鈥 Ethiopian Logos, 3.17-26鈥 Histos 8, 25-75. Accessible here: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/histos/documents/2014A02IrwinEthnographyandEmpire.pdf
  • Moyer, I. S. (2002) 鈥楬erodotus and an Egyptian Mirage: The Genealogies of the Theban Priests鈥, JHS 122, 70-90 [e-journal]
  • Munson, R. (2001) Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus, Michigan [accessible here: https://www.press.umich.edu/17366/telling_wonders/?s=look_inside]
  • Pelling, C. B. R. (1997) 鈥楨ast is East and West is West – Or Are They? National Stereotypes in Herodotus鈥, Histos 1, accessible here: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/histos/documents/1997.04PellingEastIsEast5166.pdf
  • *Vasunia, P. (2001) The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, Berkeley and London, Chapters 2-3

Homer Odyssey 4

  • Doyle, A. (2010) 鈥樷淯nhappily Ever After? The Problem of Helen in Odyssey 4鈥, in Akroterion 55, 1-18. Accessible here: http://akroterion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/13/189
  • Griffith, R. D. (1996) 鈥楬omer鈥檚 Black Earth and the Land of Egypt鈥 in Athenaeum 84.1, 251-4.
  • --- (2001) 鈥楽ailing to Elysium: Menelaus鈥 Afterlife (鈥淥dyssey鈥 4.561-69) and Egyptian Religion鈥, Phoenix 55.3/4, 213-43 [e-journal]
  • Heubeck, A., West, S. and Hainsworth, J. B. (1988-1992) A Commentary on Homer鈥檚 Odyssey, Oxford.
  • Londsdale, S. H. (1988) 鈥楶rotean Forms and Disguise in Odyssey 4鈥, Lexis 2, 165-78 [not in 糖心TV]
  • Plass, P. (1969) 鈥楳enelaus and Proteus鈥 CJ 65.3, 104-8 [e-journal]

Euripides Helen

  • Allan, W. (2008) Euripides: Helen, Cambridge [for library to purchase]
  • Bassi, K. (1993) 'Helen and the Discourse of Denial in Stesichorus' Palinode', Arethusa 26, 51-75.
  • *Marshall, C. W. (2014) The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen, Cambridge [e-book]
  • Porter, J. I. (1993) 'The Seductions of Gorgias' Classical Antiquity 12, 267-99.
  • *Segal, C. (1971) 鈥楾he Two Worlds of Euripides鈥 Helen鈥 TAPA 102, 553-614 [e-journal]
  • Swift, L. A. (2009) 鈥楬ow to Make a Goddess Angry: Making Sense of the Demeter Ode in Euripides鈥 Helen鈥 CPh 104.4, 418-38 [e-journal]
  • *Vasunia, P. (2001) The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, Berkeley and London, Chapter 1, 33-64.

The Other in Greek Tragedy – Aeschylus Suppliant Women

  • Auffarth, C. (1995) 鈥楥onstructing the Identity of the Polis: The Danaides as 鈥楢ncestors鈥欌, in H盲gg, R. (ed.) Ancient Greek Hero Cult, Stockholm, 39-48.
  • Bachvarova, M. R. (2009) 鈥楽uppliant Danaids and Argive Nymphs in Aeschylus鈥 in CJ 104.4, 289-310 [e-journal]
  • Bakewell, G. W. (1997) 鈥樜溛迪勎课刮何 in the Supplices of Aeschylus鈥, ClAnt 15, 209-28 [e-journal]
  • *--- (2013) Aeschylus鈥 Suppliant Women: The Tragedy of Immigration, Madison [e-book]
  • Bednarowski, P. (2010) 鈥楾he Danaids鈥 Threat: Obscurity, Suspence, and the Shedding of Tradition in Aeschylus鈥 Suppliants鈥, CJ 105, 193-212 [e-journal]
  • Bowen, A. J. (2013) Aeschylus Suppliant Women, Oxford.
  • *Brill, S. (2009) 鈥榁iolence and Vulnerability in Aeschylus鈥 Suppliants鈥, in Wians, W. (ed.) Logos and Muthos: philosophical essays in Greek literature, Suny Press, 161-80 [e-book]
  • Castriota, D. (2005) 鈥楩eminizing the Barbarian and Barbarizing the Feminine: Amazons, Trojans, and Persians in the Stoa Poikile鈥, in Barringer, J. and Hurwit, J. (eds.) Periklean Athens and its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives, Austin, 89-201 [e-book]
  • Garvie, A. F. (1969) Aeschylus鈥 鈥楽upplices鈥: play and trilogy, London.
  • Hall, E. (1989) Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy, Oxford.
  • Loraux, N. (1987) Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman, transl. A. Forster, Harvard [in library].
  • Mitchell, L. G. (2006) 鈥楪reeks, Barbarians and Aschylus鈥 鈥淪uppliants鈥, G&R 53.2, 205-23 [e-journal]
  • Parks, S.-L. (2005) 鈥楴ew Black Math鈥, Theatre Journal 57, 576-83 [e-journal]
  • Sa茂d, S. (2002) 鈥楪reeks and Barbarians in Euripides鈥 Tragedies: The End of Differences?,鈥 in T. Harrison (ed.) Greeks and Barbarians, Edinburgh, 62-100.
  • Vasunia, P. (2011) The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, Berkeley.
  • Vidal-Naquet, P. (1997) 鈥楾he Place and Status of Foreigners in Athenian Tragedy鈥, in Pelling, C. (ed.) Greek Tragedy and the Historian, Oxford and New York, 109-119 [e-book]
  • *Wohl, V. (2010) 鈥楽uppliant Women and the Democratic State: White Men Saving Brown Women from Brown Men鈥, in Bassi, K. and Euben, J. P. (eds.) When Worlds Collide: Classics, Politics, and Culture, Tucson [e-book].
  • Zeitlin, F. (1990) 鈥楾hebes: Theater of Self and Society in Athenian Drama鈥, in Winkler, J. and Zeitlin, F. (eds.) Nothing to Do with Dionysos?, Princeton, 130-67.
  • --- (1992) 鈥楾he Politics of Eros in the Danaid Trilogy of Aeschylus鈥, in Hexter, R. and Selden, D. (eds.) Innovations of Antiquity, New York, 203-52.

Pindar Pythian 4

  • Calame, C.(2014), 鈥楴arrative Semantics and Pragmatics: The Poetic Creation of Cyrene鈥, in Edmunds, L. (ed.), Approaches to Greek Myth. 2nd edn. Baltimore MA, 280-352 [Note: the chapter is also included in the first edition of the volume]
  • Cawkwell, G. (2011), Cyrene to Chaeronea: Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History. Oxford: Chapter 1, 鈥楨arly Colonisation鈥 (= Classical Quarterly 42 (1992) 289-303 [e-journal])
  • Dougherty, C. (1993), The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece. New York: Chapter 1, 鈥楲aying the Foundations: Narrative and Cult鈥, and Chapter 6, 鈥楶ythian 5: Colonial Founders and Athletic Victors鈥 [available as e-book]
  • Felson, N. (1999), 鈥榁icarious Transport: Fictive Deixis in Pindar鈥檚 Pythian Four鈥, HSCPh 99: 1-31 [e-journal].
  • Hornblower, S. and Morgan, C. (2007), 鈥業ntroduction鈥, in Horblower, S. and Morgan, C. (eds.), Pindar鈥檚 Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire. Oxford, 1-43 [have a look at the first map].
  • Hornblower, S. (2011), The Greek World: 479-323 BC. 4th edn. London: Chapter 5, 鈥楰yrene and Egypt鈥 [Note: the chapter is also included in previous editions of the book]
  • Johnston, S. I. (1995) 鈥楾he Song of the Iynx: Magic and Rhetoric in Pythian 4鈥, TAPA 125, 177-206 [e-journal]
  • Malkin, I. (2003), 鈥楾radition in Herodotus: The Foundation of Cyrene鈥, in Derow, P. and Parker, R. (eds), Herodotus and His World. Oxford, 153-70.
  • *Malkin, I. (2004), 鈥楶ostcolonial Concepts and Ancient Greek Colonization鈥, Modern Language Quarterly 65.3: 341-64 [e-journal].
  • Nicholson, N. (2000), 鈥楶olysemy and Ideology in Pindar Pythian 4.229-300鈥, Phoenix 54.3/4: 191-202.
  • *O鈥橦iggins, D. (1997) 鈥楳edea as Muse: Pindar鈥檚 Pythian 4鈥, in Clauss, J. J. and Johnston, S. I. (eds.) Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art, Princeton, pp.103-26.
  • Osborne, R. (1996), Greece in the Making. 1200-479 BC. London: Chapter 1, 鈥楾he Traditions of History鈥, pp.8-16.
  • *Osborne, R. (1998), 鈥楨arly Greek Colonization? The Nature of Greek Settlement in the West鈥, in Fisher, N. R. E. and van Wees, H. (eds), Archaic Greece: New Approaches. London, 144-52.
  • Robbins, E. (1997) 鈥楶indar鈥, in Gerber, D. E. (ed.), A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets. Leiden, 252-77.
  • Sigelman, A. C. (2016) Pindar鈥檚 Poetics of Immortality, Cambridge, Chapter 4 [e-book]

Libya and the birth of Latin Literature

  • Biggs, T. (2017) 鈥楶rimus Romanorum: Origin Stories, Fictions of Primacy, and the First Punic War,鈥 CP 112.3, 350-67.
  • *Feeney, D. (2016) Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature, Cambridge MA [e-book]
  • *Giusti (2018) Carthage in Virgil鈥檚 Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus, Cambridge, Chapter 1 [e-book]
  • Hoyos, D. (2010) The Carthaginians, London.
  • Kuttner, A. (2013) 鈥楻epresenting Hellenistic Numidia, in Africa and at Rome鈥, in J.R.W. Prag and J.C. Quinn (2013) The Hellenistic West: Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean, Cambridge and New York, 216-72 [e-book]
  • *Leigh, M. (2010) 鈥楨arly Roman Epic and the Maritime Moment鈥, CPh 105.3, 265-80 [e-journal]
  • O鈥橤orman, E. (2004) 鈥楥ato the Elder and the Destruction of Carthage,鈥 Helios 31, 99-125.
  • *Quinn, J. (2017) 鈥楾ranslating Empire from Carthage to Rome鈥, CPh 112.3, 312-331 [e-journal]
  • --- (2018) In Search of the Phoenicians, Princeton.

Plautus鈥 Poenulus

  • De Melo, W. (2012) Plautus The Little Carthaginian – Pseudolus – The Rope, Harvard. [e-book]
  • Franko, G. F. (1996) 鈥淭he Characterization of Hanno in Plautus鈥 Poenulus.鈥 in AJPh 117: 425-452 [e-journal]
  • Gratwick, A. S. (1971) 鈥淗anno鈥檚 Punic Speech in the Poenulus of Plautus.鈥 in Hermes 99: 25-45 [e-journal]
  • Henderson, J. (1999) 鈥淗anno鈥檚 Punic Heirs: Der Poenulus-Neid des Plautus.鈥 In Writing Down Rome. Satire, Comedy, and other Offences in Latin Poetry, Oxford, pp. 3-37 [e-book]
  • Prag, J. R. W. (2006) 鈥淧oenus Plane Est – But Who Were the 鈥楶unickes鈥?鈥 In Papers of the British School at Rome 74: 1-37. [e-journal]
  • Richlin, A. (2005) Rome and the Mysterious Orient: three Plays by Plautus, Berkeley [e-book]
  • --- (2017) 鈥楾he Traffic in Schtick鈥 in Loar, M. P., MacDonald, C. and Padilla Peralta, D. (eds.) Rome, Empire of Plunder: the Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation, Cambridge, 169-93 [e-book]
  • Slater, N. W. (1992) 鈥楶lautine Negotiations: the Poenulus Prologue Unpacked鈥, in YCS 29, 131-46 [e-journal]
  • Starks, J. H. (2000) 鈥楴ullus Me Est Hodie Poenus Poenior: Balanced Ethnic Humour in Plautus鈥 Poenulus,鈥 Helios 27, 163-86.

Sallust鈥檚 Jugurtha

  • Agbamu, S. (2019) 'The Arco dei Fileni: A fascist reading of Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum', CRJ 11.2, 157-77.
  • Chlup, J. Th. (2013) Sallust鈥檚 Melian Dialogue: Sulla and Bocchus in the Bellum Iugurthinum. Dialogues d鈥橦istoire Ancienne 8, 191–207, accessible here: https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_DHA_HS80_0191--sallust-s-melian-dialogue-sulla-and.htm
  • Claassen, J.-M. (1993) 鈥楽allust鈥檚 Jugurtha: Rebel or Freedom Fighter? On Crossing Crocodile-Infested Waters鈥, CW 86, 273-97.
  • Du茅, C. (2000) 鈥楾ragic History and Barbarian Speech in Sallust鈥檚 Jugurtha鈥, HSCP 100, 311-25 [e-journal]
  • Green, C.M.C. (1993) 'De Africa et eius incolis: The Function of Geography and Ethnography in Sallust's History of the Jugurthine War (BJ 17-19)', Ancient World 24.2, 185-97.
  • Kraus, C. (1999) 鈥楯ugurthine Disorder鈥, in Kraus, C. (ed.) The Limits of Historiography, Leiden, 217-47.
  • Levene, D. S. (1992) 鈥楽allust鈥檚 Jugurtha: An 鈥淗istorical Fragment鈥濃, JRS 82, 53-70 [e-journal]
  • Miller, J. (2015) 鈥業dealization and Irony in Sallust鈥檚 Jugurtha: The Narrator鈥檚 Depiction of Rome Before 146 B.C., CQ 65, 242-52 [e-journal]
  • Morstein-Marx, R. (2000) 鈥楾he Alleged 鈥淢assacre鈥 at Cirta and its Consequences (Sallust Bellum Iugurthinum 26-27)鈥, CPh 95, 468-76 [e-journal]
  • *Morstein-Marx, R. (2001) 'The Myth of Numidian Origins in Sallust's African Excursus (Iugurtha 17.7-18.12) in AJPH 122.2, 179-200.
  • Oniga, R. (1995) Sallustio e l'etnografia, Pisa. [not in 糖心TV]
  • Scanlon, T. F. (1988) 鈥楾extual Geography in Sallust鈥檚 The War with Jugurtha鈥 Ramus 17, 138-75
  • Shaw, B. (1982) 'Fear and Loathing: the Nomad Menace and Roman Africa', in Wells, C.M. (ed.) L'Afrique Romain / Roman Africa, Ottawa, 106-121.
  • Shaw, B. (1982-3) '"Eaters of Flesh, Drinkers of Milk": the Ancient Mediterranean Ideology of the Pastoral Nomad', Ancient Society 13-14, 5-31.
  • Wiedermann, T. (1993) 'Sallust's 'Jugurtha': Concord, Discord, and Digressions', G&R 40.1, 48-57.
  • Wood, N. (1995) 鈥楽allust鈥檚 Theorem: A Comment on 鈥楩ear鈥 in Western Political Thought,鈥 History of Politcal Thought 16, 174-89.

Livy鈥檚 Hannibal

  • Chlup, J. T. (2009) 鈥楳aior et clarior victoria: Hannibal and Tarentum in Livy,鈥 CW 103.1, 17-38 [e-journal]
  • Clauss, J. J (1997b) 鈥樷淒omestici hostes鈥: the Nausicaa in Medea, the Catiline in Hannibal,鈥 MD 39, 165-85 [e-journal]
  • Fabrizi, V. (2015) 鈥楬annibal鈥檚 March and Roman Imperial Space in Livy, Ab urbe condita, Book 21, Philologus 159.1, 118-155.
  • Feldherr, A. (2009) 鈥淒elusions of Grandeur: Lucretian 鈥楶assages鈥 in Livy.鈥 in Hardie, P. (2009) (ed.) Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture, Oxford, 310-329.
  • Levene, D. S. (2010) Livy on the Hannibalic War, Oxford [e-book]
  • Rossi, A. (2004) 鈥淧arallel Lives: Hannibal and Scipio in Livy鈥檚 Third Decade.鈥 in TAPA 134 n.2: 359-381. [e-journal]

Virgil鈥檚 Carthage

  • Barchiesi, A. (1999) 鈥淩epresentations of Suffering and Interpretation in the Aeneid.鈥 In Hardie, P. R. (1999) (ed.) Virgil. Critical Assessments of Classical Authors, London, pp. 324-44
  • Biggs, T. (2017) 鈥楢 Second First Punic War: Re-Spoliation of Republican Naval Monuments in the Urban and Poetic Landscapes of Augustan Rome鈥, in Loar, M. P., MacDonald, C. and Padilla Peralta, D. (eds.) Rome, Empire of Plunder: the Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation, Cambridge, 47-68 [e-book]
  • Davidson, J. (1998) 鈥淒omesticating Dido: History and Historicity.鈥 In Burden, M. (1998) (ed.) A Woman Scorn鈥檇. Responses to the Dido Myth, London, pp. 65-88.
  • Edgeworth, R. J. (1976-77) 鈥淭he Death of Dido.鈥 In CJ 72: 129-33. [e-journal]
  • Egan, R. B. (1998) 鈥楾he Signs of the Horse鈥檚 Head: Aeneid 1.442-5,鈥 PVS 23, 193-207, available here: http://digitalvirgil.co.uk/2013/11/30/rory-b-egan-the-signs-of-the-horses-head-aeneid-1-442-5/
  • *Giusti, E. (2014) 鈥榁irgil鈥檚 Carthaginians at Aen. 1.430-6: Cyclopes in Bees鈥 Clothing,鈥 CCJ 60, 37-58 [e-journal]
  • --- (2014) 鈥極nce More Unto the Breach: Virgil鈥檚 Arae and the Treaty of Philinus,鈥 SIFC 107, 61-79. [e-journal]
  • *--- (2016) 鈥楳y Enemy鈥檚 Enemy is my Enemy: Virgil鈥檚 illogical use of Metus Hostilis,鈥 in P. Hardie (ed.) (2016) Augustan Poetry and the Irrational, Oxford, 37-55. [e-book]
  • *--- (2017) 鈥榁irgil鈥檚 Carthage: a Heterotopic Space of Empire,鈥 forthcoming in M. Asper and V. Rimell (eds.) Imagining Empire: Political Space in Hellenistic and Roman Literature, Heidelberg, 133-50.
  • * --- ( 2018) Carthage in Virgil鈥檚 Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus, Cambridge [e-book]
  • Gladhill, B. (2009) 鈥楾he Poetics of Alliance in Vergil鈥檚 Aeneid,鈥 Dictynna 6, 36-69: http://dictynna.revues.org/260
  • *Goldschmidt, N. (2013) Shaggy Crowns: Ennius鈥 Annales and Virgil鈥檚 Aeneid, Oxford, Chapter 4 鈥楶unica鈥 [e-book]
  • --- (2017) 鈥楾extual Monuments: Reconstructing Carthage in Augustan Literary Culture,鈥 CP 112, 368-83 [e-journal]
  • * Harrison, E.L. (1984). (1972-73) 鈥榃hy did Venus wear boots? – Some reflections on Aeneid 1.314f.,鈥 PVS 12, 10-25: http://digitalvirgil.co.uk/2013/11/06/e-l-harrison-why-did-venus-wear-boots-some-reflections-on-aeneid-1-314f/
  • *--- (1984) 鈥淭he Aeneid and Carthage.鈥 In Woodman, T. – West, D. (1984) (eds.) Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus, Cambridge, pp. 95-115.
  • Hardie, P.R. (1990) 鈥淥vid鈥檚 Theban History: the first Anti-Aeneid?鈥 in CQ 40:224-235. [e-journal]
  • *--- (2006) 鈥榁irgil鈥檚 Ptolemaic Relations,鈥 JRS 96, 25-41
  • * Hexter, R. (1992) 鈥淪idonian Dido.鈥 in Hexter, R. – Selden, D. (1992) (eds.) Innovations of Antiquity, New York and London, pp. 332-384.
  • * Horsfall. N. M. (1973-74) 鈥淒ido in the Light of History鈥 in PVS 13: 1-13: http://digitalvirgil.co.uk/2013/11/06/n-horsfall-dido-in-the-light-of-history/
  • Moles, J. L. --- (1987) 鈥楾he tragedy and guilt of Dido,鈥 in M. Whitby, P. Hardie and M. Whitby (eds.) Homo Viator: Classical Essays for John Bramble, Bristol, 153-61.
  • Oliensis, E. (2001) 鈥淔reud鈥檚 Aeneid.鈥 in Vergilius 47: 39-63. [e-journal]
  • Pobjoy, M. (1998) 鈥淒ido on the Tragic Stage: An Invitation to the Theatre of Carthage.鈥 in Burden, M. (1998) (ed.) A Woman Scorn鈥檇. Responses to the Dido Myth, London, pp. 41-64.
  • Schiesaro, A. (2008) 鈥淔urthest Voices in Virgil鈥檚 Dido.鈥 In SIFC 100: 60-109 and 194-245. [e-journal]
  • Shi, V. S.-R. and Morgan, L. (2015) 鈥楢 Tale of Two Carthages: History and Allusive Topography in Virgil鈥檚 Libyan Harbor (Aen. 1.159-69),鈥 TAPA 145, 107-33. [e-journal]
  • *Starks, J. H. (1999) 鈥楩ides Aeneia: The Transference of Punic Stereotypes in the Aeneid,鈥 CJ 94, 255-83. [e-journal]
  • Syed, Y. (2005) Vergil鈥檚 Aeneid and the Roman Self: Subject and Nation in Literary Discourse, Ann Arbor. [e-book]

Horace鈥檚 Carthage

  • Ambrose, J. W. (1973) 鈥楬orace on Foreign Policy: 鈥淥des鈥 4.4鈥, CJ 69.1, 26-33 [e-journal]
  • *Feldherr, A. Feldherr, A. (2010), 鈥樷淒ionysiac Poetics鈥 and the Memory of Civil War in Horace鈥檚 Cleopatra Ode鈥, in B. W. Breed, C. Damon and A. Rossi (eds.) Citizens of Discord: Rome and Its Civil Wars (Oxford): 223-32. [e-book]
  • *Giusti, E. --- (2016) 鈥楧ithyrambic Iambics: Epode 9 and its General(s鈥) Confusion,鈥 in P. Bather and C. Stocks (eds.) Horace Epodes: Contexts, Intertexts, and Reception, Oxford, 131-51. [e-book]
  • Henderson, J. (1996) 鈥楶olishing off the Politics: Horace鈥檚 Ode to Pollio, 2,1鈥, MD 37, 59-136 [e-journal]
  • Johnson, W. R. (1969) 鈥楾act in the Drusus Ode: Horace, Odes 4.4鈥 in CSCA 2, 171-81 [e-journal]
  • Stocks, C. --- (2016) 鈥楳onsters in the Night: Hannibal, Prodigia, and the Parallel Worlds of Epode 16 and Ode 4.4,鈥 in P. Bather and C. Stocks (eds.) Horace Epodes: Contexts, Intertexts, and Reception, Oxford, 153-74. [e-book]

Lucan鈥檚 Africa

  • Ahl, F. (1976) Lucan: An Introduction, Ithaca, 鈥楽angre y Arena鈥, pp. 82-115.
  • Asso, P. (2011) 鈥楾he Idea of Africa in Lucan鈥, in Orrells, D., Bhambra, G. K., Roynon, T. 鈥業ntroduction鈥, in Orrells, D., Bhambra, G.K. and Roynon, T. (eds.) African Athena: New Agendas, Oxford, 225-38 [e-book]
  • Saylor, C. (1982) 鈥楥urio and Antaeus: the African Episode of Lucan Pharsalia IV鈥, TAPA 112, 169-77. [e-journal]
  • Tracy, J. (2014) Lucan鈥檚 Egyptian Civil War, Cambridge [e-book]

Silius Italicus Punica

  • Cowan, R. (2010) 鈥榁irtual Epic: Counterfactuals, Sideshadowing, and the Poetics of Contingency in the Punica鈥, in A. Augoustakis (ed.) Brill鈥檚 Companion to Silius Italicus, Leiden and Boston, 323-51. [e-book]
  • Ganiban, R. T. (2010) 鈥榁irgil鈥檚 Dido and the Heroism of Hannibal in Silius鈥 Punica,鈥 in A. Augoustakis (ed.) Brill鈥檚 Companion to Silius Italicus, Leiden and Boston, 73-98. [e-book]
  • Keith, A. M. (2010) 鈥楨ngendering Orientalism in Silius鈥 Punica鈥, in A. Augoustakis (ed.) Brill鈥檚 Companion to Silius Italicus, Leiden and Boston, 353-73. [e-book]
  • Marks, R. (2010) 鈥楽ilius and Lucan鈥 in A. Augoustakis (ed.) Brill鈥檚 Companion to Silius Italicus, Leiden and Boston, 127-53. [e-book]
  • *Stocks, C. (2014) The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus鈥 Punica, Liverpool. [e-book]
  • Tipping, B. (2010) Exemplary Epic: Silius Italicus鈥 Punica, Oxford [e-book]

Petrarch鈥檚 Africa

  • Bernardo, A. S. (1962) Petrarch, Scipio and the 鈥淎frica鈥: the Birth of Humanism鈥檚 Dream, Baltimore [request]
  • Hardie, P. (2012) Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature, Cambridge, 460-484.
  • Kirkham, V. and Maggi, A. (2009) (eds.) Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works, Chicago, Chapter 5, pp. 113-30 [e-book]
  • Martinez, R. L. (2015) 鈥楾he Latin Hexameter Works: Epystole, Bucolicum carmen, Africa,鈥, in Ascoli, A. R. and Falkeid, U. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch, Cambridge, 87-99 [e-book]

Postcolonial Readings

  • Ahmad, A. (1992) In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, London [in library]
  • Bhabha, H. (1994) The Location of Culture, London [e-book]
  • *Choudhury, B. (2016) Reading Postcolinial Theory: Key Texts in Context, London [e-book]
  • Fanon, F. (1967) The Wretched of the Earth, London [in library]
  • Said, E. (1978) Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient, London [in library]
  • Said, E. (1993) Culture and Imperialism, London.
  • Spivak, G. C. (1988) 鈥楥an the Subaltern Speak?鈥, in C. Nelson and L. Grossberg (eds.) Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, London, 21-78; available here: http://planetarities.web.unc.edu/files/2015/01/spivak-subaltern-speak.pdf
  • Young, R. (1995) Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, London [in library]
  • --- (2004) White Mythologies: Writing History and the West, London [in library]
  • --- (2015) Empire, Colony, Postcolony, Chichester [e-book]

Hellenistic Literature

  • Clayman, Dee L. (2014) Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt, Oxford.
  • Csaba, A. L. (2016) 鈥楨ncounters with Ancient Egypt: the Hellenistic Greek Experience鈥, in Matthews, R. and Roemer, C. (eds.) Ancient Perspectives on Egypt, London, 218-34 [e-book]
  • *Morrison, A. D. (2010) 鈥楪reek Literature in Egypt鈥, in Lloyd, A. B. (ed.) A Companion to Ancient Egypt, Malden Mass., 755-778 [e-book]
  • Rutherford, I. (2013) 鈥楪reek Fiction and Egyptian Fiction鈥, in Whitmarsh, T. and Thomson, S. (eds.) The Romance between Greece and the East, Cambridge, 23-37 [e-book]
  • *Stephens, S.A. (2003) Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria, Berkeley [e-book]
  • --- (2009) 鈥楬ellenistic Culture鈥, in Graziosi, B., Vasunia, P. and Boys-Stones, G. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies, Oxford [e-book]
  • Vasunia, P. (2001) The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, Berkeley

Callimachus

  • Bing, P. (2008) The well-read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets, Michigan, 91-143 on the Hymn to Delos.
  • Clayman, D. L. (2011) 鈥楤erenice and her Lock鈥, TAPA 141.2, 229-46 [e-journal]
  • Gutzwiller, K. (1992) 鈥楥allimachus鈥 Lock of Berenice: Fantasy, Romance, and Propaganda鈥, AJPh 113.3, 359-85 [e-journal.
  • Selden, D. (1998) 鈥楢libis鈥 ClAnt 17.2, 289-412 [e-journal]
  • Van Oppen de Ruiter, B. F. (2015) Berenice II Euergetis, Basingstoke, 鈥楢stronomy and Ideology in the Coma Berenices鈥, pp. 71-115 [e-book]

Theocritus

  • Foster, J. A. (2006) 鈥楢rsinoe II as Epic Queen: Encomiastic Allusion in Theocritus, Idyll 15鈥, TAPA 136.1, 133-48 [e-journal]
  • Hinge, G. (2009) 鈥楲anguage and Race: Theocritus and the koine Identity of Ptolemaic Egypt鈥, in Hinge, G. and Krasilnikoff, J. A. (eds.) Alexandria: A Cultural and Religious Melting Pot, Aarhus, 66-79.
  • *Reed, J. (2000) 'Arsinoe's Adonis and the Poetics of Ptolemaic Imperialism', TAPA 130, 319-51.
  • Whitehorne, J. (1995) 鈥榃omen鈥檚 Work in Theocritus, Idyll 15鈥 Hermes 123.1, 63-75 [e-journal]

Apollonius

  • Griffiths, F. T. (2012) 鈥楥laiming Libya: Peleus and the Ptolemies in Apollonius Rhodius鈥 Argonautica鈥, in Cusset, C., Le Meur-Weissman, N. and Levin, F. (eds) Mythe et pouvoir 脿 l鈥檈poque hell茅nistique, Leuven, 1-35.
  • Hunter, R. (2015) Argonautica Book IV, Cambridge, Introduction.
  • Mori, A. (2008) The Politics of Apollonius' Argonautica, Cambridge.
  • Nishimura-Jensen, J. (2000) 鈥楿nstable Geographies: The Moving Landscape in Apollonius鈥 Argonautica and Callimachus鈥 Hymn to Delos,鈥 TAPA 130, 287-317 [e-journal]
  • Noegel, Scott. 2004. "Apollonius' Argonautika and Egyptian Solar Mythology." Classical World 97.2: 123-136.
  • Stephens, S. (2007) 鈥楻emapping the Mediterranean: the Argo Adventure, Apollonius and Callimachus鈥 Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: https://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/stephens/050702.pdf
  • *Thalmann, W. G. (2011) Apollonius of Rhodes and the Spaces of Hellenism, New York and Oxford, chapter 4 鈥楥olonial Spaces鈥 [e-book]

Callimachus and Catullus

  • Johnston, P. A. (1987) 鈥楧ido, Berenice, and Arsinoe: Aeneid 6.460鈥, AJPh 108.4, 649-54 [e-journal]
  • Putnam, M. C. J. (1960) 鈥楥atullus 66.74-88鈥 CPh 55.4, 223-8 [e-journal]
  • Thomas, R. F. (1983) 鈥楥allimachus, the Victoria Berenices, and Roman Poetry鈥, CQ 33.1, 92-113 [e-journal]

Heliodorus

  • Hunter, R. (ed.) (1998) Studies in Heliodorus, Cambridge [not in library]
  • Jones, M. (2006) 鈥楬eavenly and Pandemic Names in Heliodorus鈥 Aethiopica鈥, CQ 56.2, 548-62 [e-journal]
  • Morgan, J. R. (1982) 鈥楬istory, Romance, and Realism in the Aithiopika of Heliodorus鈥, ClAnt 1.2, 221-65 [e-journal]
  • --- (1989) 鈥楾he Story of Knemon in Heliodorus鈥 Aithiopika鈥, JHS 109, 99-113 [e-journal]
  • --- (2008) 鈥楢n Ethiopian Story鈥, in Reardon, B. P. (ed.) Collected Ancient Greek Novels, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 349-588.
  • --- (2014) 鈥楬eliodorus the Hellene鈥, in Cairns, D. and Scodel, R. (eds.) Defining Greek Narrative, Edinburgh, 260-76 [e-book]
  • Olsen, S. (2012) 鈥楳aculate Conception: Sexual Ideology and Creative Authority in Heliodorus鈥 鈥淎ethiopica鈥濃, AJPh 133.2 301-22 [e-journal]
  • Tel貌, M. (2011) 鈥楾he Eagle鈥檚 Gaze in the Opening of Heliodorus鈥 鈥淎ethiopica鈥濃, AJPh 132.4, 581-612 [e-journal]
  • Whitmarsh, T. (2002) 鈥榃ritten on the Body: Ekphrasis, Perception and Deception in Heliodorus鈥 Aethiopica鈥, Ramus 31, 111-125.

Apuleius

  • *Clarke, K.(2001) 鈥楶rologue and Provenance: Quis ille? Or Unde ille?鈥 in Kahane, A. and Laird, A. (eds.) (2001) A Companion to the Prologue to Apuleius鈥 Metamorphoses, Oxford and New York, 101-10.
  • Finkelpearl, E. D. (1998) Metamophosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel, Ann Arbor [in library]
  • *Frangoulidis, S. (2008) Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius鈥 Metamorphoses, Berlin [e-book]
  • *Graverini, L. (2002) 鈥楥orinth, Rome and Africa: A Cultural Background for the Tale of the Ass鈥, in Paschalis, M. and Frangoulidis, S. (eds.) Space in the Ancient Novel, Groningen, 58-77 [e-book]
  • --- (2014) 鈥楾he Negotiation of Provincial Identity through Literature: Apuleius and Vergil鈥 in Lee, Finkelpearl and Graverini (eds.) 112-128.
  • Harrison, S. (1990) 鈥楾he Speaking Book: The Prologue to Apuleius鈥 Metamorphoses鈥, CQ 40: 507-13.
  • --- (2000) Apuleius: A Latin Sophist, Oxford.
  • *--- (2013) 鈥楳ilesiae Punicae: How Punic was Apuleius?鈥 in Withmarsh, T. (ed.) The Romance between Greece and the East, Cambridge, 211-23 [e-book]
  • --- (2013) Framing the Ass: Literary Texture in Apuleius鈥 Metamorphoses, Oxford [in library]
  • --- (ed.) (2015) Characterisation in Apuleius鈥 Metamorphoses: Nine Studies, Cambridge Scholars. [e-book]
  • Kahane, A. and Laird, A. (eds.) (2001) A Companion to the Prologue to Apuleius鈥 Metamorphoses, Oxford and New York [read Clarke]
  • *Keulen, W. and Egelhaaf-Gaiser (eds.) (2012) Aspects of Apuleius鈥 Golden Ass Volume III, The Isis Book: A Collection of Original Papers, Leiden [e-book]
  • *Lee, B. T. (2005) Apuleius鈥 Florida: A Commentary, De Gryter [e-book]
  • *Lee, B. T., Finkelpearl, E. and Graverini, L. (eds.) (2014) Apuleius and Africa, New York and London [introduction, Graverini IS IT POSSIBLE TO REQUEST AN E-BOOK?]
  • Mattiacci, S. (2014) 鈥楢puleius and 鈥淎fricitas鈥濃, Lee, Finkelpearl and Graverini (eds.) Apuleius in Africa, 87-111.
  • * Selden, D. (2014) 鈥楢puleius and Afroasiatic Poetics鈥, in Lee, Finkelpearl and Graverini (eds.) Apuleius in Africa, 112-128.
  • Tilg, S. (2014) Apuleius鈥 Metamorphoses: A Study in Roman Fiction, Oxford [e-book]
  • https://sites.google.com/site/apuleiusandafrica/HOME [site of the Apuleius and Africa conference]

Augustine and Tertullian

  • Brown, P. (1967) Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, London [in library]
  • Meconi, D. P. and Stump, E. (eds.) (2014) The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, Cambridge [e-book]
  • Rankin, D. (2006) From Clement to Origen: the social and historical context of the Church Fathers, London.
  • Wilhite, D. (2007) Tertullian the African, Berlin: De Gruyter [e-book]
  • Wilhite, D. (2017) Ancient African Christianity: an introduction to a unique context and tradition, New York [e-book]
  • http://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/algeria/algeriatrip.html [site of the conference Augustine in Algeria held in 2001]

Black Classicism and Classica Africana

  • Adler, E. (2016) Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond, Ann Arbor [to request]
  • Barnard, J.L. (2017) Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture, Oxford [e-book]
  • Gates, Henry Louis. (1987) "Authority,(white) power and the (black) critic; It's all Greek to me." Cultural Critique 7: 19-46.
  • Gates Jr, Henry Louis (2014) The signifying monkey: A theory of African American literary criticism. Oxford University Press.
  • Goff, B. (ed.) (2005) Classics and Colonialism, London
  • Goff, B. and Simpson (2007) Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone, and dramas of the African diaspora, Oxford [e-book]
  • Greenwood, E. (2009) 鈥楻e-rooting the classical tradition: new directions in black classicism鈥, in Classical Receptions Journal 1.1, 87-103
  • Malamud, M. (2016) African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism, London and New York [in library; introduction available on Talis Aspire]
  • McConnell, J. (2013) Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939, Oxford.
  • Rankine, P.D. (2006) Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature, Madison [e-book]
  • Stark, J. (1973) 'Invisible Man: Ellison's Black Odyssey', Negro American Literature Forum 7.2, 60-63.
  • Walters, T.L. (2007) African American literature and the classicist tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison, New York
  • Wetmore, K.J. (2003) Black Dionysus: Greek Tragedy and African American Theatre, Jefferson NC

Black Athena Debate

  • Bernal, M. (1987) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, i: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985, New Brunswick, NJ
  • --- (1991) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, ii: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence, London
  • --- (2001) Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to his Critics, ed. David Chioni Moore, Durham, NC
  • Lefkowitz, M.R. and MacLean Rogers, G. (eds.) (1996) Black Athena Revisited [not in 糖心TV]
  • Lefkowitz, M.R. (1997) Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History [not in 糖心TV]
  • Marchand, S. and Grafton, A. (1997) 鈥楳artin Bernal and His Critics鈥, Arion 5.2., 1-35
  • Mudimbe, V. Y. (1988) The Invention of Africa, Bloomington and Indianapolis
  • Mudimbe, V. Y. (1994) The Idea of Africa, Bloomington and Indianapolis
  • Orrells, D. (2015) 'Oedipus in Africa: Mudimbe and Classical Antiquity', International Journal of Francophone Studies 18.2-3, 235-61.
  • *Orrells, D., Bhambra, G.K. and Roynon, T. (eds.) (2011) African Athena: New Agendas, Oxford.
  • van Binsbergen, W. (2011) (ed.) Black Athena comes of age, Berlin

W. E. B. Du Bois

  • Broderick, F. L. (1958) 鈥楾he Academic Training of W. E. B. DuBois鈥 The Journal of Negro Education 27.1, 10-16.

  • Cowherd, C. (2003) 鈥楾he Wings of Atalanta: Classical Influences in The Souls of Black Folk鈥, in The Souls of Black Folk: One Hundred Years Later, ed. D. Hubbard, Columbia, MO, pp. 284-97.

  • Marable, M. (2016) W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat, London [e-book]
  • **Various articles in

    Fertik, H. and Hanses, M. (2019) Above the Veil: Revisiting the Classicism of W. E. B. Du Bois, special issue of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition 26.1. URL:

Phillis Wheatley

  • Bennett, P. (1998) 鈥楶hillis Wheatley鈥檚 Vocation and the Paradox of the 鈥淎fric Muse鈥濃, PMLA 113.1 Special Topic Ethnicity, 64-76 [e-journal]
  • Gates, H.R. Jr. (2003), The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America鈥檚 First Black Poet and her Encounters with the Founding Fathers, New York.
  • Greenwood, E. (2011) 'The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley', in Alson, R. Hall, E. McConnell, J. (eds.) Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood, Oxford, 153-75
  • Hayden, L.K. (1992), 鈥楥lassical Tidings from the Afric Muse: Phillis Wheatley鈥檚 Use of Greek and Roman Mythology鈥, CLA Journal 35, 432–7.
  • Richards, P.M. (1992) 鈥楶hillis Wheatley and Literary Americanization鈥, American Quarterly 44.2, 163-91 [e-journal]

  • Shields, J.C. (1980a), 鈥楶hillis Wheatley鈥檚 Use of Classicism鈥, American Literature 52.1, 97–111.

    —— (1993), 鈥楶hillis Wheatley鈥檚 Subversion of Classical Stylistics鈥, Style, vol. 27.2, Special Issue on African-American Poetics, guest edited by John C. Shields (Summer), 252–70.

    —— (1994), 鈥楶hillis Wheatley鈥檚 Subversive Pastoral鈥, Eighteenth-Century Studies 27.4, 631–47.

    —— (2008), Phillis Wheatley鈥檚 Poetics of Liberation: Backgrounds and Contexts, University of Tennessee Press.

  • Walters, T.L. (2007) African American literature and the classicist tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison, New York.

Derek Walcott

  • Greenwood, E. (2010) Afro-Greeks: dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean literature and classics in the twentieth century, Oxford. [e-book]
  • McConnell, J. (2013) Black Odysseys: the Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1919, Oxford.
  • Van Zyl Smit B. (1998) 'Derek Walcott's 'The Odyssey': The Gates of the Imagination never close' in Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity 7, 3-16

Toni Morrison

  • *Haley, Shelley P (1995). 鈥楽elf-Definition, Community and Resistance: Euripides鈥 Medea and Toni Morrison鈥檚 Beloved鈥. Thamyris 2/2: 177–206. [in library]
  • Kimball, A. Samuel (1997). 鈥楪enesis, Oedipus and Infanticidal Abjection in Toni Morrison鈥檚 Beloved鈥. Literature and Psychology 43/3: 41–65 [in library]
  • Malmgrem, Carl (1995). 鈥楳ixed Genres and the Logic of Slavery鈥. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36/2: 96–106.
  • McConnell, J. (2016) 'Postcolonial Sparagmos: Toni Morrison鈥檚 Sula and Wole Soyinka鈥檚 The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite', Classical Receptions Journal 8.2, 133-54.
  • *Otten, T. (1998). 鈥楾ransfiguring the Narrative: Beloved from Melodrama to Tragedy鈥, in Barbara Solomon (ed.), Critical Essays on Toni Morrison鈥檚 Beloved. Boston and New York: G.K. Hall, 284–99. [in library]
  • *Roynon, T. (2012) The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison, Cambridge.
  • *--- (2014) Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition, Oxford [e-book]
  • Schmudde, Carol (1993). 鈥樷淜nowing When To Stop鈥: A Reading of Toni Morrison鈥檚 Beloved鈥. CLA Journal 37/2: 121–35. [not in 糖心TV]
  • *Walters, T.L. (2007) African American literature and the classicist tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison, New York

Classics in West Africa

  • Gibbs, J. (2007) 鈥楢ntigone and her African Sisters: West African Versions of a Greek Original鈥, in Hardwick, L. and Gillespie, C. (eds.) Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds, Oxford.
  • Goff, B. (2013) 'Your Secret Language': Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa, London.

Wole Soyinka's Bacchae

  • Baker-White, R. (1993) 'The Politics of Ritual in Wole Soyinka's "The Bacchae of Euripides"', Comparative Drama, 27.3, 377-98
  • Bishop, N. (1983) 'A Nigerian Version of A Greek Classic: Soyinka's Transformation of "The Bacchae", Research in African Literatures 14.1, 68-80
  • Gibbs, J. (ed.) (1981) Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka, London
  • Goff, B. 2005. 鈥楧ionysiac Triangles: The Politics of Culture in Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides鈥, in Victoria Pedrick and Steven Oberhelman, eds., The Soul of Tragedy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 73–90.
  • Katrak, K. H. (1986) Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy: a Study of Dramatic Theory and Practice, London
  • Maja-Pearce, A. (ed.) (1994) Wole Soyinka: an Appraisal, Oxford
  • McConnell, J. (2016) 'Postcolonial Sparagmos: Toni Morrison's Sula and Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite, CRJ 8.2, 133-54.
  • Okpewho, I. (1999) 鈥楽oyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire鈥 Research in African Literatures 30 (1999): 32-55
  • Owusu, M. O. (1973) The Impact of Greek Tragedy on Four Modern West African Dramatists: Olga Rotimi, John P. Clark, Efua T. Sutherland, Wole Soyinka, Thesis
  • Page, M. (1979) Wole Soyinka: Bibliography, Biography, Playography, London
  • Pizzato, M. (2003) 鈥楽oyinka鈥檚 Bacchae, African Gods, and Postmodern Mirrors鈥 The Journal of Religion and Theatre, 2
  • Sotto, W. (1985) The Rounded Rite: a Study of Wole Soyinka鈥檚 Play The Bacchae of Euripides, Lund
  • Van Weyenberg, A. (2011) in Orrells, D., Bhambra, G.K. and Roynon, T. (eds.) (2011) African Athena: New Agendas, Oxford, 326-42
  • Wright, D. (1993) Wole Soyinka Revisted, New York

Classics in South Africa

  • Lambert, M. (2011) The Classics and South African Identities, London and New York
  • Parker, G. (2017) South Africa, Greece, Rome: Classical Confrontations, Cambridge
  • Van Zyl Smit, B. (2014) 'Black Medeas' in D. Stuttard, ed., Looking at Medea, Bloomsbury. 157-166
  • Van Zyl Smit, B. (2011) 'Oedipus and Afrikaans theater,' Comparative Drama. 45(1), 477-493
  • Van Zyl Smit, B. 2007. Multicultural reception: Greek drama in South Africa in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In: L. Hardwick and C. Stray eds., A Companion to Classical Receptions Oxford: Blackwell. 373-385

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