Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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First published: January 1, 2026 - Last updated: January 1, 2026

TITLE INFORMATION

Editor: Elina Pyy

Title: Ancient Rape Cultures

Subtitle: Sexual Violence in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Early Christian World

Place: Rome

Publisher: Edizioni Quasar

Year: 2025

Pages: 309pp.

Series: Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 53

ISBN-13: 9788854916425 - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat

Language: English

Keywords: Ancient History | Types: Rape; Society: Rape Culture



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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Editor: Elina Pyy, Humanistinen tiedekunta (Faculty of Arts), Helsingin yliopisto (University of Helsinki) - Academia.edu, ORCID

Contents:
  Elina Pyy, Introduction
  Rape in Greek Culture and Thought
  Suzanne Lynch, Rape Culture in Classical Athens
  Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Taking Thratta’s Cherry: The Rape of Enslaved Domestic Laborers in Aristophanes
  Brian McPhee, Rape Normalization and Menandrian Apologetics in Callimachus’ Acontius and Cydippe
  Rape Narratives in Roman Literature
  Simona Martorana, Medusa in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Refracted Rapes
  Ben Jerue, An Ancient Greek Custom? Reading the Rape of the Sabine Women in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 2, 30
  Ash Finn, Sexual Violence and the So-called ‘Gains of Vengeance’ in Ancient Rome
  Imperial Ideology and Colonial Discourses
  Eleanor Newman, The Sexual Exploitation of African Males in Roman Material Culture
  Antti Lampinen, Boudica’s Daughters: Conquest and Rape in the Ancient Roman Discourse
  Francesca Bellei, Donna or domina? Manipulating Italia’s gender from ancient Rome to 19th-century Italian colonialism
  Revolutions of Rape Culture in Late Antiquity
  Judith Evans-Grubbs, Rape and the Christian Virgin: St. Thekla’s Power against Sexual Assault
  Alexander Thies, For the Good of the Empire: A Wedding in Milan, Imperial Succession, and the Creation of Ritualised Rape Culture in the Late Antique Court
  Biblical Receptions
  Louis Zweig, Listening for Dinah in Abelard’s Planctus and Other Latin Poems
  Chris Greenough, Sexual Violence Against Men in the Bible
  Ancient rape Cultures on the Contemporary Screen
  Briana King, From Antiquity to Screen: Sexual Violence in Greco-Roman Art and its Modern Representations in Caligula (1979) and Spartacus (2010-2013)
  Elina Pyy, Ovid’s Pygmalion and Daphne Myths in 21st-Century Body Horror Film: Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In and Lim Woo-Seong’s Vegetarian
  List of contributors

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Lectures: Pyy, Elina, org. Ancient Rape Cultures: Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian: International Conference Rome 2022. - Bibliographic Entry: Info

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