The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy

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 Plato’s political philosophy. She teaches at Bennington College in Bennington, VT, USA.

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 "Women’s Rights?" Natural Philosophy and Epistemic Justice in the Fragments of Melanippē Sophē and Desmōtis – Dorota Dutsch (UC Santa Barbara)



On Not–Believing: 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 Xenophon’s Philosophical Writings – Carol Atack (University of Cambridge)



Women in Xenophon’s Socratic Works – David M. Johnson (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)



Socrates’ Laughing Bodies: Women and Comedy in Plato’s Phaedo – Sonja Tanner (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)



Plato’s 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)



Plato’s Scientific Feminism: Collection and Division in Republic V’s "First Wave" – John Proios (University of Chicago) and Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University)



Weaving Politics in Plato’s Statesman – Jill Frank (Cornell University) and Sarah Greenberg (Cornell University)



Midwifery as Metaphor in Plato’s Theaetetus – Marina Berzins McCoy (Boston College)



Divine Names and the Mystery of Diotima’s 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 Aristotle’s Sexism – Charlotte Witt (UNH)



Women in Ancient Medical Texts as Sources of Knowledge in Aristotle – Mariska Leunissen (University of North Carolina)



Aristotle’s Hylomorphism Reconsidered Through Aristotle’s 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 Women’s Virtues – Sophia Connell (University of London)



What is wrong with women. Aristotle’s 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 – Aistė Čelkytė (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): Plato’s Republic and Shakespeare’s 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)



Women’s 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 Plato’s Symposium, Diotima and Women in Ancient Philosophy – Mariana Ortega (Pennsylvania State University) and a companion