Barbara K Gold

Biographic Data

ID1035192
NAMEBarbara K Gold
GIVEN NAMESBarbara K
FAMILY NAMEGold
SIGNATUREGOLD B K
AFFILIATIONSHamilton College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS29
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Perpetua

    Open AccessBarbara K GoldARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2026

  • “Simone Weil’s Iliad

    Open AccessBarbara K Gold, Barbara GoldARTICLEEugesta2024

    This article focuses on Simone Weil’s translation and reception of Homer’s Iliad. Some criitics have called it a misreading, but I contend that translation and reception comes in many forms and that it is a mistake to label non-literal translations as “misreadings.” My analysis of Weil’s Homer also focuses on how Weil’s writing about war is marked by her identity as a woman and a woman who is drawn to epic poetry. The article focuses on two episo…

  • Transgender Saints

    Barbara K Gold, Barbara GoldCHAPTERThe Routledge Companion to the…2022

    This chapter begins with the hagiographical accounts from medieval and Byzantine times and some of the interpretations of these stories. It proposes that Perpetua’s transformation into a male in her dream vision was a precursor to the transitioning of later female saints into the male monks in many Byzantine stories. Judith Butler’s work on the performative aspect of the gender construction can also be extended to sex identity and has been an imp…

  • A Guide to Latin Elegy and Lyric

    Genevieve Liveley, Barbara K Gold et al.BOOKA Guide to Latin Elegy and Lyric2020

  • Carthage

    Barbara K GoldBOOKPerpetua2018

    This chapter discusses the rise, development, and Romanization of ancient Carthage in the early Christian period after the formation of the province of Africa Proconsularis in the Augustan period; the physical topography of the city of Carthage, including the Byrsa, the Antonine Baths, and the amphitheater; and it describes the tophet or outdoor sacrificial area and whether human sacrifice was practiced among the Carthaginians. It also covers the…

  • Perpetua’s Life

    Barbara K GoldBOOKPerpetua2018

    This chapter examines what facts we know about Perpetua’s life, context, and background: her companions in martyrdom (Felicitas; Revocatus; Saturus; Saturninus; Secundulus); her age, social status, and family (especially her father). It explores the mystery of her missing husband, who is never mentioned in the narrative, and examines her fraught relationship with her father. It also explores her relationship with her baby son and his future witho…

  • A Matter of Genre and Influence

    Barbara K GoldBOOKPerpetua2018

    This chapter discusses the generic properties of Perpetua’s narrative and the relationship of the martyr narratives to the contemporary Greek novel, the ancient secular novel, the Gospels, and the apocryphal acts of the apostles. It discusses the (false?) distinction between history and fiction. It also discusses dating of these works and whether the pagan or polytheistic works influenced the apocryphal acts or vice versa; it concludes that most …

  • Carthage

    Barbara K GoldBOOKPerpetua2018

    This chapter first lays out how we understand Christianity, contemporary ways of exploring ancient religion, and how contemporary studies of religious movements can help us to understand ancient religion; it also explores the social, economic, historical, archaeological, or other cultural forces that intersect with and explain the many facets of religious experience. It further discusses the provenance of Christianity in Roman Carthage; how Chris…

  • Perpetua

    Barbara K GoldBOOKPerpetua2018Cited by: 2

    This book is an overview of the Christian martyr Perpetua’s life and the cultural, religious, political, literary, social, and physical contexts in which she lived. It does not attempt to be a full biography of Perpetua because we do not have enough information about her. It discusses the narrative work in Latin, the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis , composed by her and by her editor while she was awaiting execution, and its authenticit…

  • Patronage, literary

    Open AccessBarbara K GoldCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Patronage is a social institution that played an important role in the workings of the Roman Republic and Empire.

  • A Companion to Roman Love Elegy

    Open AccessBarbara K GoldBOOKCompanion to Roman Love Elegy2012

    "33 essays on Catullus, Tibullus, Sulpicia, Propertius, and Ovid, their Greek and Roman predecessors, and later writers influenced by their work. ... Some articles focus on specific writers or texts, [while] others center on the historical and material context, Greek and Roman influences on the elegists, style, meter, translation, aspects of production, and different critical approaches."--Jacket

  • Catullus, Cicero, and a Society of Patrons

    Barbara K GoldARTICLEThe Classical World2012

    Reviewed by: Catullus, Cicero, and a Society of Patrons: The Generation of the Text Barbara K. Gold Sarah Culpepper Stroup. Catullus, Cicero, and a Society of Patrons: The Generation of the Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv, 308. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-51390-6. This is a book about the textualization of performance and the materialization of the text in the late Republic. It is less concerned with literature than with the…

  • The Natural and Unnatural Silence of Women in the Elegies of Propertius

    Open AccessBarbara K GoldARTICLEAntichthon2007

    I begin with a quote from W.R. Johnson on Propertius 4.11: ‘When we have finally gotten to Cornelia, whose central message is that the game of recusatio has ended, overwhelmed by her chilly sublimities and conquered by the powers of her Roman Truths and Virtues – when the performance ends and the silence begins, we may be shocked to hear Cynthia laughing loudly at the lachrymose deity and the metonymic skid that has now enfolded him.

  • “Vested Interests” in Plautus' Casina

    Barbara K Gold, Barbara GoldCHAPTERSex and Difference in Ancient…2003

    Cross-dressing is a focal point at which the concerns of many contemporary fields of inquiry converge: gender studies, performance theory, gay/lesbian/bisexual studies, psychoanalysis, linguistics, anthropology, film theory, theatre history and criticism, and feminism. In recent years, there has been intense interest in this subject, which calls into question the absolute binarism of male and female and highlights the potential biological, cultur…

  • "Vested Interests" in Plautus' Casina

    Barbara K Gold, Barbara GoldCHAPTERSex and Difference in Ancient…2003

  • Accipe Divitias Et Vatum Maximus Esto

    Barbara K GoldCHAPTERFlavian Rome2003

    Martial is a poet who makes us want to believe him. His critics focus heavily on his 'mendicant facade' and his role as a social commentator, critic and realist. Social historians are particularly fascinated by what Martial has to say about the system of relationships based on patronage that so infused Roman society and culture and functioned as one of the major social mechanisms for the production of power in both republican and imperial Rome. I…

  • She Heard the Gates of the Temple of Learning Clang as They Closed

    Barbara K GoldARTICLEThe Classical World2000

  • Propertius

    Barbara K Gold, Propertius Propertius et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1998

  • Self-Promotion and the "Crisis" in Classics [with Responses]

    John Heath, Barbara K Gold et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1995

    John Heath, Barbara K. Gold, Tamara M. Green, David Konstan, Barbara McManus, Ronald Mellor, David H. Porter, Jon Solomon, Richard F. Thomas, Self-Promotion and the "Crisis" in Classics [with Responses], The Classical World, Vol. 89, No. 1 (Sep. - Oct., 1995), pp. 3-52

  • Mitte Sectari, Rosa Quo Locorum Sera Moretur

    Barbara K GoldARTICLEClassical Philology1993

  • Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome

    Barbara K GoldREVIEWThe American Historical Review1993

  • Openings in Horace's Satires and Odes

    Open AccessBarbara K GoldCHAPTERBeginnings in Classical Literature1992

    Maecenas is a preeminent figure in Horace's poetry. Theirs is the most famous, most documented, and most studied of all relationships between an ancient writer and his patron, and it hardly needs to be said that Maecenas' name always appears in Horace's poetry in the right and obvious places: Epodes 1.4, Satires 1.1.1, Odes 1.1.1, and Epistles 1.1.3. Formally, Horace makes it very clear that Maecenas is to be a focal point of his audience's atten…

  • Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome

    Wendy J Raschke, Barbara K GoldARTICLEThe Classical World1990Cited by: 20

    Focusing on literary evidence, Gold explores patronage in Greece and Rome through the words of the authors, revealing the forces that patronage exerted on genius and talent. The author argues that, although the patron was in important influence in the development of the literature written for and about him, the literary product emerged as a force in itself, independent of the influence of the patron. Gold sees the relationship between patron and …

  • Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport

    Barbara K Gold, David SansoneARTICLEThe Classical World1990Cited by: 1

  • Pandora's Daughters

    Barbara K Gold, Maureen B Fant et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1989