Susan Deacy
Classical scholar and professor specializing in gender and sexuality, ancient Greek mythology and religion, and disability studies
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Susan Jane Deacy is a classical scholar who has been Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton since January 2018. She researches the history and literature of the ancient Greek world, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality, ancient Greek mythology and religion, and disability studies. She is also an expert on the teaching of subjects which are potentially sensitive, including sexual violence, domestic violence, and infanticide; she was project leader on the initiative 'Teaching Sensitive Subjects in the Classics Classroom'. She is also series editor of Routledge's Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World, and has been editor of the Bulletin of the Council of University Classical Departments since 2011.
Susan Deacy's Published Works
Published Works
- Rape in Antiquity (1997) (44)
- Uxoricide in pregnancy: ancient Greek domestic violence in evolutionary perspective. (2013) (26)
- THE VULNERABILITY OF ATHENA:: Parthenoi and Rape in Greek Myth (1997) (16)
- Greek Mythology (2009) (13)
- Athena in the classical world (2001) (13)
- From “Flowery Tales” to “Heroic Rapes”: Virginal Subjectivity in the Mythological Meadow (2013) (11)
- Embedding Employability into a Classics Curriculum (2010) (10)
- “Famous Athens, Divine Polis”: The Religious System at Athens (2007) (4)
- What was the colour of Athena's Aegis?* (2009) (3)
- ‘We call her Pallas, you know’: Naming, taming and the construction of Athena in Greek culture and thought (2016) (2)
- Beheading the Gorgon: Myth, Symbolism and Appropriation (2016) (1)
- Gods—Olympian or Chthonian? (2015) (1)
- Why Does Zeus Rape? An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective (2018) (1)
- Ajax, Cassandra and Athena: Retaliatory Warfare and Gender Violence at the Sack of Troy (2015) (1)
- Knowing the story told about 'Erichthonios':: looking at 'the goddess Athena, the maiden warrior' (2010) (1)
- Teaching Sensitive Subjects in the Classical Classroom: Challenges, advice and strategies (2012) (1)
- (H.) Morales Classical Mythology. A Very Short Introduction . Pp. xiv + 143, ills, map. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Paper, £6.99. ISBN: 978-0-19-280476-1. (2009) (0)
- AN ‘UNFAMILIAR’ APPROACH TO GREEK DRESS (2016) (0)
- THE CLASSICAL BODY AND MODERN THEORY (2016) (0)
- (L.) Reitzammer The Athenian Adonia in Context: The Adonis Festival as Cultural Practice. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. $65. Pp. 288. 9780299308209. (2017) (0)
- M. Gimbutas: The Living Goddesses . Pp. xx + 286, 130 ills. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1999. Cased, $35. ISBN: 0-520-21393-9. (2000) (0)
- ALL ABOUT ATHENA? THE CLASSICAL AKROPOLIS (2008) (0)
- WHY DOES ZEUS RAPE? (2019) (0)
- Deborah Gera: Warrior Women. The Anonymous Tractatus De Mulieribus. Pp. xi + 252. Leiden, New York, and Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1997. Cased, $94.50. ISBN: 90-04-10665-0. (2000) (0)
- How to Teach Sensitive Subjects in the Classics Classroom (2016) (0)
- (R.) Rosenzweig Worshipping Aphrodite. Art and Cult in Classical Athens . Pp. xvi + 157, pls. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2004. Cased, £37.50, US$60. ISBN: 978-0-472-11332-3. (2007) (0)
- TRACING ATHENA’S ORIGINS (2008) (0)
- Demeter/Ceres; Cerberus; Erinyes; Delphi; Achilles; Adonis; Jason & Medea; Phaethon; Actaeon; (2012) (0)
- EARLY ATHENIAN HISTORY (2008) (0)
- History - (J.B.) Connelly Portrait of a Priestess. Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece . Princeton UP, 2007. Pp. xv + 413. £26.95. 9780691127460. (2008) (0)
- (R.G.A.) Buxton Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 281, illus. £50. 9780199245499. (2011) (0)
- The 'Whole University Approach' to the Pedagogy of Domestic Violence (2014) (0)
- (A.C.) Smith and (S.) Pickup Eds. Brill's Companion to Aphrodite . Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. Pp. xvii + 452, illus. €146.00/$216. 978900418003. (2012) (0)
- Sex and sexuality, Greece (2012) (0)
- Heracles between Hera and Athena (2021) (0)
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