Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she also coordinates the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society, and Culture.Lisa Auanger is an editor of the Bibliography of the History of Art at the Getty Research Institute.

• Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz) 2. Imag(in)ing a Women's World in Bronze Age Greece: The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera (Paul Rehak) 3. Aphrodite Garlanded: ErÔs and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis (Marilyn B. Skinner) 4. Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Fragments (Ellen Greene) 5. Excavating Female Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz) 6. Women in Relief: "Double Consciousness" in Classical Attic Tombstones (John G. Younger) 7. Glimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence (Lisa Auanger) 8. Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls (Diane T. Pintabone) 9. Lucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions? (Shelley P. Haley) 10. "Friendship and Physical Desire": The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century CE Egypt (Terry G. Wilfong) Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index

"This book is the most thorough account of female homo-erotic materials from the ancient Mediterranean I have yet seen in English... I can easily see it becoming a standard work on ancient female homo-eroticism." John S. Rundin, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she also coordinates the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society, and Culture.Lisa Auanger is an editor of the Bibliography of the History of Art at the Getty Research Institute.

• Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz) 2. Imag(in)ing a Women's World in Bronze Age Greece: The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera (Paul Rehak) 3. Aphrodite Garlanded: ErÔs and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis (Marilyn B. Skinner) 4. Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Fragments (Ellen Greene) 5. Excavating Female Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz) 6. Women in Relief: "Double Consciousness" in Classical Attic Tombstones (John G. Younger) 7. Glimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence (Lisa Auanger) 8. Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls (Diane T. Pintabone) 9. Lucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions? (Shelley P. Haley) 10. "Friendship and Physical Desire": The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century CE Egypt (Terry G. Wilfong) Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index

"This book is the most thorough account of female homo-erotic materials from the ancient Mediterranean I have yet seen in English... I can easily see it becoming a standard work on ancient female homo-eroticism." John S. Rundin, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she also coordinates the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society, and Culture.Lisa Auanger is an editor of the Bibliography of the History of Art at the Getty Research Institute.

• Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz) 2. Imag(in)ing a Women's World in Bronze Age Greece: The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera (Paul Rehak) 3. Aphrodite Garlanded: ErÔs and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis (Marilyn B. Skinner) 4. Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Fragments (Ellen Greene) 5. Excavating Female Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz) 6. Women in Relief: "Double Consciousness" in Classical Attic Tombstones (John G. Younger) 7. Glimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence (Lisa Auanger) 8. Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls (Diane T. Pintabone) 9. Lucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions? (Shelley P. Haley) 10. "Friendship and Physical Desire": The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century CE Egypt (Terry G. Wilfong) Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index

"This book is the most thorough account of female homo-erotic materials from the ancient Mediterranean I have yet seen in English... I can easily see it becoming a standard work on ancient female homo-eroticism." John S. Rundin, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio