These essays examine a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to 5th-century CE Egypt. They present interpretations of the evidence offered by literary works, art, legal documents, and more.

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.

Introduction Nancy Sorkin RabinowitzImag(in)ing a Women's World in Bronze Age Greece: The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera Paul RehakAphrodite Garlanded: Eros and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis Marilyn B. Skinner University of ArizonaSubjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Fragments Ellen GreeneExcavating Female Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting Nancy Sorkin RabinowitzWomen in Relief: "Double Consciousness" in Classical Attic Tombstones John G. Younger Duke UniversityGlimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence Lisa AuangerOvid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls Diane T. Pintabone University of southern CaliforniaLucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions? Shelley P. Haley Hamilton College"Friendship and Physical Desire": The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century CE Egypt Terry G. Wilfong University of MichiganWorks CitedNotes on ContributorsIndex