An essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women/gender and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features original research that crosses disciplines, offering readers an accessible guide to new methods, new sources, and new questions in the study of ancient Greek philosophy and its multiple afterlives.
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is an essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women, gender, and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features original research that crosses disciplines, offering readers an accessible guide to new methods, new sources, and new questions in the study of ancient Greek philosophy and its multiple afterlives.
Comprising 40 chapters from a diverse international group of experts, the Handbook considers questions about women and gender in sources from Greek antiquity spanning the period from 7th c. BCE to 2nd c. BCE, and in receptions of Greek antiquity from the Roman Imperial period, through the European Renaissance to the current day. Chapters are organized into five major sections:
I. Early Greek antiquity – including Sappho, Presocratic philosophy, Sophists, and Greek tragedy – 700s–400s BCE
II. Classical Greek antiquity – including Aeschines, Plato, and Xenophon – 400s–300s BCE
III. Late Classical Greek to Hellenistic antiquity – including Cyrenaics, Cynics, the Hippocratic corpus, and Aristotle – 300s–200s BCE
IV. Late Greek antiquity to Roman Imperial period – including Pythagorean women, Stoics, Pyrrhonian Skeptics, and late Platonists – 200s BCE to 700s CE
V. Later receptions – including Shakespeare, the European Renaissance, Anna Julia Cooper, W.E.B. DuBois, Jane Harrison, Sarah Kofman, and Toni Morrison
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is a vital resource for students and scholars in philosophy, Classics, and gender studies who want to gain a deeper understanding of philosophy’s rich past and explore sources and questions beyond the traditional canon. The volume is a valuable resource, as well, for students and scholars from history, humanities, literature, political science, religious studies, rhetorical studies, theatre, and LGBTQ and sexuality studies.
1. Introduction
Sara Brill and Catherine McKeen
Part I: 700-400s BCE
2. The Way Up and Down: Liminal Agency in The Homeric Hymns and Presocratic
Philosophy
Jessica Elbert Decker
3. Sappho of Lesbos and the Time of Erosophy
Chelsea C. Harry
Sex, Family, and Chthonic Justice: On the Cosmology of the Choephoroi
Kalliopi Nikolopoulou (SUNY Buffalo)
Euripides on "Womens Rights?" Natural Philosophy and Epistemic Justice in
the Fragments of Melanipp Soph and Desmtis Dorota Dutsch (UC Santa
Barbara)
On NotBelieving: A Gorgianic Reading of the Tragic Cassandra Maria Cecília
de Miranda Nogueira Coelho (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
The Correctness of Grammatical Gender in the Sophistic Tradition Chloe
Balla (University of Crete)
II. 370s-340s BCE
Eis gynaikos andra: Aeschines on Women, Eros, and Politics Francesca
Pentassuglio (Sapienza University of Rome)
By Zeus, Said Theodote: Women as Interlocutors and Performers in Xenophons
Philosophical Writings Carol Atack (University of Cambridge)
Women in Xenophons Socratic Works David M. Johnson (Southern Illinois
University Carbondale)
Socrates Laughing Bodies: Women and Comedy in Platos Phaedo Sonja Tanner
(University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
Platos Argument for the Inclusion of Women in the Guardian Class: Prospects
and Problems Emily Hulme (University of Sydney)
Women, Spirit, and Authority in Plato and Aristotle Patricia Marechal
(University of California, San Diego)
Plato on Women and the Private Family Rachel Singpurwalla (University of
Maryland)
Platos Scientific Feminism: Collection and Division in Republic Vs "First
Wave" John Proios (University of Chicago) and Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell
University)
Weaving Politics in Platos Statesman Jill Frank (Cornell University) and
Sarah Greenberg (Cornell University)
Midwifery as Metaphor in Platos Theaetetus Marina Berzins McCoy (Boston
College)
Divine Names and the Mystery of Diotimas Eponymy Danielle Layne (Gonzaga
University)
Sexual Differentiation and What it Means to be Human in Timaeus Jill Gordon
(Colby College)
III. 330s-320s BCE
Cyrenaics on Philosophical Education and Gender Katharine R. O'Reilly
(Toronto Metropolitan University)
Wives or Philosophers? Hipparchia and the Cynic Criticism of Gendered
Economics Malin Grahn-Wilder (University of Jyväskylä)
Diagnosing Aristotles Sexism Charlotte Witt (UNH)
Women in Ancient Medical Texts as Sources of Knowledge in Aristotle Mariska
Leunissen (University of North Carolina)
Aristotles Hylomorphism Reconsidered Through Aristotles Account of
Generation Adriel M. Trott (Wabash College)
The Role of the Female in Aristotle's Teleology of Reproduction Ana Laura
Edelhoff (University of Konstanz)
Aristotle on Womens Virtues Sophia Connell (University of London)
What is wrong with women. Aristotles paradigm of gender, and its anomalies
Giulia Sissa (UCLA)
IV. 320s BCE-400s CE
Pythagorean Women: An Example of Female Philosophical Protreptics Caterina
Pellò (University of Geneva)
Women in Stoicism Jula Wildberger (American University of Paris)
Pyrrhonian Skepticism on Gender and Virtue Christiana Olfert (Tufts
University)
The Reception of Diotima in Later Platonism: Clea, Sosipatra and
Asclepigeneia Crystal Addey (University College Cork)
The Place of Women in the Neoplatonic Schools Alexandra Michalewski (Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique)
The School of Hypatia and the Problem of the Gendered Soul Aist elkyt
(Leiden University)
V. Later receptions
The Worth of Women: the Reception of Ancient Debates in the Renaissance
Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)
Philosopher Queens and a Female Prospero(a): Platos Republic and
Shakespeares Tempest Arlene Saxonhouse (University of Michigan)
"Possessed, Magical, and Dangerous to Handle": Jane Harrison, Nietzsche, and
the Maenad Chorus Laura McClure (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Womens Work: Exploring a Transhistorical Tradition of Inquiry with W. E. B.
Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, and Aristotle Harriet Fertik (The Ohio State
University)
Sarah Kofman: Socratic Lover Paul Allen Miller (University of South
Carolina)
What Does it Mean to Decolonially Ruminate on a Classic? Medea, Sethe, and la
Llorona Andrés Fabián Henao Castro (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Eros, the Elusive? A Dialogue on Platos Symposium, Diotima and Women in
Ancient Philosophy Mariana Ortega (Pennsylvania State University) and a
companion
Sara Brill is Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT, USA. She works on the psychology, politics, and ethics of Plato and Aristotle, as well as broader questions of embodiment, life, and power as points of intersection between ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary critical theory. She is the author of Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life (Oxford UP, 2020) and Plato on the Limits of Human Life (Indiana UP, 2013), and co-editor of Antiquities Beyond Humanism (with Emanuela Bianchi and Brooke Holmes; Oxford UP, 2019).
Catherine McKeen is a philosopher whose work engages questions about women, gender, and community in Platos political philosophy. She teaches at Bennington College in Bennington, VT, USA.
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