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BIBLIOGRAPHYBrown, Peter. The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity. University of Chicago Press, 1981.Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. Columbia University Press, 1988.Brown, Peter. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200–1000. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.Wiśniewski, Robert. The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics. Oxford University Press, 2019.Yasin, Ann Marie. Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community. Cambridge University Press, 2009.Saxer, Victor. Morts, martyrs, reliques en Afrique chrétienne aux premiers siècles. Beauchesne, 1980.Trout, Dennis E. Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems. University of California Press, 1999.Rapp, Claudia. Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition. University of California Press, 2005.Hahn, Cynthia. Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400–circa 1204. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.Hahn, Cynthia. “Seeing and Believing: The Construction of Sanctity in Early-Medieval Saints’ Shrines.” Speculum, vol. 72, no. 4, 1997, pp. 1079–1106.Geary, Patrick J. Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages. Princeton University Press, 1978.Vikan, Gary. Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art. Dumbarton Oaks, 1982.Vikan, Gary. Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium. Ashgate, 2003.Bitton-Ashkelony, Brouria. Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity. University of California Press, 2005.Hunt, E. D. Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Later Roman Empire AD 312–460. Clarendon Press, 1982.Wilkinson, John. Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades. Aris & Phillips, 1977.Wilkinson, John. Egeria’s Travels to the Holy Land. 3rd ed., Aris & Phillips, 1999.Egeria. Egeria: Diary of a Pilgrimage. Translated by George E. Gingras. Newman Press, 1970.Egeria. The Pilgrimage of Egeria: A New Translation of the Itinerarium Egeriae with Introduction and Commentary. Translated by Anne McGowan and Paul F. Bradshaw. Liturgical Press, 2018.Sivan, Hagith. “Who Was Egeria? Piety and Pilgrimage in the Age of Gratian.” Harvard Theological Review, vol. 81, no. 1, 1988, pp. 59–72.Biddle, Martin. The Tomb of Christ. Sutton Publishing, 1999.Coüasnon, Charles. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Oxford University Press, 1974.Gibson, Shimon, and Joan E. Taylor. Beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem: The Archaeology and Early History of Traditional Golgotha. Palestine Exploration Fund, 1994.Ousterhout, Robert. “Architecture as Relic and the Construction of Sanctity: The Stones of the Holy Sepulchre.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 62, no. 1, 2003, pp. 4–23.Krautheimer, Richard. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. Yale University Press, 1986.Grabar, André. Martyrium: Recherches sur le culte des reliques et l’art chrétien antique. Collège de France, 1946.Jensen, Robin M. Understanding Early Christian Art. Routledge, 2000.Jensen, Robin M. Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions. Baker Academic, 2012.Webb, Matilda. The Churches and Catacombs of Early Christian Rome: A Comprehensive Guide. Sussex Academic Press, 2001.Bowes, Kim. Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2008.MacCormack, Sabine. Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity. University of California Press, 1981.Bradshaw, Paul F. The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy. Oxford University Press, 2002.Bradshaw, Paul F., and Maxwell E. Johnson. The Origins of Feasts, Fasts and Seasons in Early Christianity. Liturgical Press, 2011.Taft, Robert F. The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West: The Origins of the Divine Office and Its Meaning for Today. Liturgical Press, 1986.Mango, Cyril. Byzantine Architecture. Electa/Rizzoli, 1976.Ousterhout, Robert. Eastern Medieval Architecture: The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands. Oxford University Press, 2019.Useful Primary and Late Antique SourcesEgeria. Itinerarium Egeriae, also known as The Pilgrimage of Egeria. Essential for Holy Land pilgrimage, Jerusalem liturgy, Good Friday veneration of the Cross, and the relationship between Scripture, ritual, and place.Cyril of Jerusalem. Catechetical Lectures. Useful for fourth-century Jerusalem, initiation, baptismal theology, and the sacred environment of late antique Christian teaching.Jerome. Letters. Useful for pilgrimage, sacred geography, ascetic networks, and Christian devotion to the Holy Land.Paulinus of Nola. Letters and Poems. Useful for relic devotion, saintly patronage, shrine culture, and the cult of Felix at Nola.Augustine. City of God. Useful for Christian interpretations of paganism, sacred history, relic miracles, and the theology of the heavenly and earthly cities.Augustine. Sermons. Useful for martyr feasts, relic devotion, Christian memory, and the pastoral handling of saint veneration.Theodoret of Cyrrhus. The Cure of Pagan Maladies. Useful for late antique Christian arguments against paganism and for understanding the Christian replacement of older sacred forms.Gregory of Nyssa. Life of Macrina and related writings. Useful for Christian death, sanctity, holy bodies, and late antique attitudes toward ascetic holiness. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
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Greek and Roman Primary Sources
Aristotle. Generation of Animals. Translated by A. L. Peck. Loeb Classical Library 366. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942.
Galen. On Semen. Edited and translated by Phillip De Lacy. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V 3, 1–2. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1992.
Galen. On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body. Translated by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1968.
Hippocrates. Generation, Nature of the Child, Diseases IV. Translated by Paul Potter. Loeb Classical Library 520. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Hippocrates. On the Seed and the Nature of the Child. In Hippocratic Writings, edited by G. E. R. Lloyd and translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann. London: Penguin, 1978.
Soranus. Soranus’ Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1956.
Greek and Roman Medicine, Gender, and Sexuality
Connell, Sophia M. Aristotle on Female Animals: A Study of the Generation of Animals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Dean-Jones, Lesley. Women’s Bodies in Classical Greek Science. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Flemming, Rebecca. Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature, and Authority from Celsus to Galen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
King, Helen. Hippocrates’ Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. London: Routledge, 1998.
Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Lloyd, G. E. R. Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Mattern, Susan P. The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Nutton, Vivian. Ancient Medicine. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2013.
Ayurveda, Kāma, and South Asian Sexual Traditions
Doniger, Wendy, and Sudhir Kakar, trans. Kamasutra. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Flood, Gavin. The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion. London: I. B. Tauris, 2006.
Meulenbeld, G. Jan. A History of Indian Medical Literature. 5 vols. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999–2002.
Sanderson, Alexis. “The Śaiva Age: The Rise and Dominance of Śaivism during the Early Medieval Period.” In Genesis and Development of Tantrism, edited by Shingo Einoo, 41–350. Tokyo: Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, 2009.
White, David Gordon. Kiss of the Yoginī: “Tantric Sex” in Its South Asian Contexts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
White, David Gordon. The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Wujastyk, Dominik. The Roots of Ayurveda: Selections from Sanskrit Medical Writings. 3rd ed. London: Penguin, 2003.
Chinese Medicine and Daoist Cultivation
Despeux, Catherine. Taoism and Self Knowledge: The Chart for the Cultivation of Perfection. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Furth, Charlotte. A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China’s Medical History, 960–1665. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Kohn, Livia. Daoist Body Cultivation: Traditional Models and Contemporary Practices. Magdalena, NM: Three Pines Press, 2006.
Lo, Vivienne. “The Influence of Nurturing Life Culture on the Development of Western Han Acumoxa Therapy.” In Innovation in Chinese Medicine, edited by Elisabeth Hsu, 19–50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Pregadio, Fabrizio, ed. The Encyclopedia of Taoism. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 2008.
Schipper, Kristofer. The Taoist Body. Translated by Karen C. Duval. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Wile, Douglas. Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women’s Solo Meditation Texts. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Comparative and Methodological Studies
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Vol. 2, The Use of Pleasure. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
Hopwood, Nick, Rebecca Flemming, and Lauren Kassell, eds. Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., and Mathew Kuefler, eds. The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. Vol. 2, Systems of Thought and Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
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Krautheimer, Richard. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. 4th ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Essential. This is the backbone source for early Christian basilicas, liturgical space, urban context, and the development of Christian architecture after Constantine. Krautheimer is especially useful for not treating churches as isolated floor plans, but as part of city, ritual, bishop, patronage, and memory.
Krautheimer, Richard. Rome: Profile of a City, 312–1308. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
Very useful for Rome as a layered city: imperial remains, Christian churches, papal authority, public space, and the transformation of Roman urban memory.
Krautheimer, Richard, Wolfgang Frankl, and Spencer Corbett. Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae: The Early Christian Basilicas of Rome. 5 vols. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1937–1977.
Heavy academic reference work. Best for the Lateran, Old Saint Peter’s, early Roman churches, plans, architectural evidence, and dating.
Mathews, Thomas F. The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.
More focused on Constantinople, but excellent for connecting architecture and liturgical movement.
White, L. Michael. Building God’s House in the Roman World: Architectural Adaptation among Pagans, Jews, and Christians. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Great for the transition from house settings and adapted spaces into larger public Christian architecture.
Brandenburg, Hugo. Ancient Churches of Rome from the Fourth to the Seventh Century: The Dawn of Christian Architecture in the West. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.
Very useful for Rome, the Lateran, Santa Maria Maggiore, Santa Sabina, and the formation of Christian public architecture.
Snyder, Graydon F. Ante Pacem: Archaeological Evidence of Church Life Before Constantine. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2003.
Best for the “before Constantine” contrast: house churches, burial spaces, symbols, and pre-public Christian material culture.
Elsner, Jaś. Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100–450. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Excellent for the transformation from Roman imperial art and space into Christian visual culture and triumphal imagery. Elsner’s work is especially useful for your “empire becomes the bones of the church” angle.
Constantine, Legal Shift, and Imperial Patronage
Eusebius. Life of Constantine. Translated by Averil Cameron and Stuart G. Hall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
Primary source. Use carefully because it is highly pro-Constantine and partly panegyric, but it is essential for Constantine’s Christian image, patronage, and sacred building projects. Eusebius is one of the key ancient witnesses for Constantine’s role in Christian imperial memory.
Eusebius. Ecclesiastical History. Translated by Kirsopp Lake. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926–1932.
Useful background for the pre-Constantinian church, persecution memory, martyr tradition, and Christian self-understanding before public imperial patronage.
Barnes, Timothy D. Constantine and Eusebius. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Major scholarly source on Constantine, Eusebius, politics, Christian patronage, and imperial ideology.
Drake, H. A. Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Excellent for the political complexity of Constantine’s relationship with bishops and Christian institutions.
Lenski, Noel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Good edited volume for Constantine’s world: religion, politics, empire, law, cities, and Christianization.
Odahl, Charles Matson. Constantine and the Christian Empire. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2010.
Useful general scholarly overview, especially for readers/listeners who need the historical framework.
MacMullen, Ramsay. Christianizing the Roman Empire: A.D. 100–400. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
Classic work on Christianization as a social and political process.
Brown, Peter. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200–1000. 3rd ed. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Excellent big-picture framing. Helps avoid the cartoon version where Constantine instantly creates medieval Christianity.
Basilicas, Liturgy, Space, and the Body
Yasin, Ann Marie. Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Very strong for how churches organized community, memory, saints, ritual space, and sacred presence.
Yasin, Ann Marie. “Sacred Installations: The Material Conditions of Liturgy in Late Antique Churches.” In Objects in Context, Objects in Use, edited by Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift, and Toon Putzeys. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Useful for altars, liturgical furnishing, and how sacred space is made materially.
Bowes, Kim. Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Good for the public/private transition, elite patronage, domestic religion, and late antique religious change.
Markus, R. A. The End of Ancient Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Important for the shift from ancient Christian worlds into more structured post-Constantinian Christianity.
Brown, Peter. The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
This will become even more important for your next episode on martyrs, relics, tombs, bones, and pilgrimage.
MacCormack, Sabine. Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Great for public ceremony, imperial ritual, Christian adaptation, and how power becomes theatrical and architectural.
Lateran, Old Saint Peter’s, and Holy Sepulchre
Davis, Raymond. The Book of Pontiffs: The Ancient Biographies of the First Ninety Roman Bishops to AD 715. Rev. ed. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010.
Translation of the Liber Pontificalis. Useful for the Lateran, papal memory, church foundations, donations, and claims about Constantine.
Mango, Cyril. The Art of the Byzantine Empire, 312–1453: Sources and Documents. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986.
Excellent sourcebook for texts on Christian art, architecture, and sacred building.
Ward-Perkins, J. B. “The Shrine of St. Peter’s and Its Twelve Spiral Columns.” Journal of Roman Studies 42, no. 1–2 (1952): 21–33.
Very useful for Old Saint Peter’s, reused columns, Solomonic column traditions, and apostolic memory. The tradition of reused marble columns at Old Saint Peter’s directly supports your spolia-and-memory section.
Krautheimer, Richard. “Mensa-Coemeterium-Martyrium.” Cahiers Archéologiques 11 (1960): 15–40.
Important for tomb, altar, martyr memory, and architectural development.
Wilken, Robert Louis. The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Useful for Jerusalem, holy geography, sacred memory, and the Holy Sepulchre.
Taylor, Joan E. Christians and the Holy Places: The Myth of Jewish-Christian Origins. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Strong source for holy places, memory, archaeology, and early Christian sacred geography.
Biddle, Martin. The Tomb of Christ. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1999.
Useful for Holy Sepulchre archaeology and the architectural framing of crucifixion, burial, and resurrection.
Spolia, Reused Stone, and Roman Material Inheritance
Kinney, Dale. “Spolia. Damnatio and Renovatio Memoriae.” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 42 (1997): 117–148.
One of the key scholarly pieces for spolia, memory, reuse, and interpretation.
Kinney, Dale. “Rape or Restitution of the Past? Interpreting Spolia.” In The Art of Interpreting, edited by Susan C. Scott, 52–67. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
Great for your nuance: spolia is not always theft, not always theology, not always conquest. It can be practical, symbolic, aesthetic, political, or all of those at once.
Brilliant, Richard, and Dale Kinney, eds. Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.
Excellent broader collection on reuse, appropriation, memory, and architectural meaning.
Hansen, Maria Fabricius. The Eloquence of Appropriation: Prolegomena to an Understanding of Spolia in Early Christian Rome. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2003.
Very relevant to your point that reused materials could create a meaningful Christian aesthetic, not just a cheap construction solution.
Brenk, Beat. “Spolia from Constantine to Charlemagne: Aesthetics versus Ideology.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 41 (1987): 103–109.
Very useful for the practical-versus-symbolic debate.
Greenhalgh, Michael. The Survival of Roman Antiquities in the Middle Ages. London: Duckworth, 1989.
Good for how Roman materials, statues, columns, and monuments survive, are reused, or are reinterpreted.
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Episode One: Before the Brain Scan
Modern Sexual Response and Neuroscientific Framing
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Ancient Egyptian Primary Sources and Textual Collections
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Ancient Egyptian Religion, Sexuality, and Medicine
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Hornung, Erik. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many. Translated by John Baines. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982.
Manniche, Lise. Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt. London: KPI, 1987.
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Mesopotamian Primary Sources and Translated Literature
Black, Jeremy, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor Zólyomi. The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Foster, Benjamin R. Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature. 3rd ed. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2005.
Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Harps That Once…: Sumerian Poetry in Translation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.
Kramer, Samuel Noah. The Sacred Marriage Rite: Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969.
Wolkstein, Diane, and Samuel Noah Kramer. Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth—Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
Mesopotamian Sexuality, Sacred Marriage, and Gender
Assante, Julia. “The Kar.kid/Ḫarimtu: Prostitute or Single Woman? A Reconsideration of the Evidence.” Ugarit-Forschungen 30 (1998): 5–96.
Biggs, Robert D. ŠÀ.ZI.GA: Ancient Mesopotamian Potency Incantations. Texts from Cuneiform Sources 2. Locust Valley, NY: J. J. Augustin, 1967.
Budin, Stephanie Lynn. Fertility and Gender in the Ancient Near East. London: Routledge, 2014.
Budin, Stephanie Lynn. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Leick, Gwendolyn. Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature. London: Routledge, 1994.
Lapinkivi, Pirjo. The Sumerian Sacred Marriage in the Light of Comparative Evidence. State Archives of Assyria Studies 15. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2004.
Peled, Ilan. “Sexuality in the Systems of Thought and Belief of the Ancient Near East.” In The Cambridge World History of Sexualities, vol. 2, edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Mathew Kuefler, 43–62. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Peled, Ilan. Masculinities and Third Gender: The Origins and Nature of an Institutionalized Gender Otherness in the Ancient Near East. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2016.
Parpola, Simo, and Robert M. Whiting, eds. Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2002.
Stol, Marten. Women in the Ancient Near East. Translated by Helen Richardson and Mervyn Richardson. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
Westenholz, Joan Goodnick. “Tamar, Qĕdēšā, Qadištu, and Sacred Prostitution in Mesopotamia.” Harvard Theological Review 82, no. 3 (1989): 245–266.
Wiggermann, Frans A. M. “Sexualität: In Mesopotamien.” In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, vol. 12, edited by Michael P. Streck and others, 410–426. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010.
Mesopotamian Medicine, Reproduction, and the Body
Böck, Barbara. The Healing Goddess Gula: Towards an Understanding of Ancient Babylonian Medicine. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 67. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
Geller, Markham J. Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Horstmanshoff, H. F. J., Marten Stol, and Cornelis Tilburg, eds. Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine. Studies in Ancient Medicine 27. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Scurlock, JoAnn, and Burton R. Andersen. Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine: Ancient Sources, Translations, and Modern Medical Analyses. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Steinert, Ulrike. “Fluids, Rivers, and Vessels: Metaphors and Body Concepts in Mesopotamian Gynaecological Texts.” Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes 22 (2013): 1–23.
Steinert, Ulrike. “Concepts of the Female Body in Mesopotamian Gynecological Texts.” In The Comparable Body: Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine, edited by John Z. Wee, 275–357. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Stol, Marten. Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean Setting. Cuneiform Monographs 14. Groningen: Styx Publications, 2000.
Broader Comparative and Methodological Studies
Budin, Stephanie Lynn. “Phallic Fertility in the Ancient Near East and Egypt.” In Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day, edited by Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming, and Lauren Kassell, 31–48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Faraone, Christopher A., and Laura K. McClure, eds. Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
King, Helen. Hippocrates’ Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. London: Routledge, 1998.
Stol, Marten. “Women in Mesopotamia.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 38, no. 2 (1995): 123–144.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., and Mathew Kuefler, eds. The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. Vol. 2, Systems of Thought and Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
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