Books written by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

  • Greek Tragedy

    Providing a thorough examination of ancient performance practices, and including detailed readings of selected plays, this text explores tragedy’s ideology and effects, illuminating the reasons why Greek tragedy continues to be a subject ...

  • Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women

    Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen . In Signs Reader : Women , Gender , and Scholarship , ed . Elizabeth Abel and Emily Abel , 279–97 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1983 . Claus , David . “ Phaedra and the Socratic Paradox .

  • Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides

    Women on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, ...

  • Feminist Theory and the Classics

    First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

  • From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom

    This volume had its origins in a very specific situation: the teaching of ancient texts dealing with rape. Ensuing discussions among a group of scholars expanded outwards from this to other sensitive areas.

  • Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

    Lee, J. (2009) Celebrity, Pedophilia, and Ideology in American Culture. Amhurst, NY: Cambria Press. Leick, G. (1994) Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature. London and New York: Routledge. Longman, T. (1991) Fictional Akkadian ...

  • Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

    143–61. Sparkes, B. (1960) “Kottabos: An Athenian after dinner game”, Archaeology 13: 202–7. Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D. (2006) Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom

    Using Classical Greek and Roman texts as a jumping off point, classicists and ancient historians from around the world address how to teach such topics as rape, pederasty, and slavery in the classics classroom.

  • Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World

    The essays in this book seek to close this gap by exploring a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt.

  • Classics and Prison Education in the US

    ... Why Are We Reading a Handbook on Rape?' Young Women Transform a Classic”. In Pedagogy 4, no. 3: 438–459. Lockard, Joe, and Sherry Rankins-Robertson, eds. 2018. Prison Pedagogies: Learning and Teaching with Imprisoned Writers. Syracuse ...

  • Greek Tragedy

    Providing a thorough examination of ancient performance practices, and including detailed readings of selected plays, this text explores tragedy’s ideology and effects, illuminating the reasons why Greek tragedy continues to be a subject ...