Marilyn B Skinner

Biographic Data

ID3604686
NAMEMarilyn B Skinner
GIVEN NAMESMarilyn B
FAMILY NAMESkinner
SIGNATURESKINNER M B
AFFILIATIONSNorthern Illinois University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS62
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why is Sappho a Woman

    Marilyn B SkinnerCHAPTERReading Sappho2023

  • Roman Sexualities

    Anthony Corbeill, Catharine Edwards et al.BOOKRoman Sexualities2020

  • S usan T reggiari . Servilia and Her Family

    Open AccessMarilyn B SkinnerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    Half-sister to Cato, reputed mistress of Julius Caesar, and linked through close kinship ties to the ringleaders of Caesar’s assassination, Servilia, born to a patrician household around 100 b.c.e., is one of the redoubtable matriarchs of the late Roman Republic. At one point, indeed, she figures conspicuously in Cicero’s letters as the undisputed, if unofficial, head of her immediate family. Since the evidence for the lives of ancient women is s…

  • Fortunata and the Virtues of Freedwomen

    Marilyn B SkinnerCHAPTERNarrating Desire2012

  • Narrating desire: Eros, sex, and gender in the ancient novel

    Froma I Zeitlin, Marilyn B Skinner et al.BOOKNarrating Desire2012

    Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in the field of ancient sexuality, inquiry into major shifts in erotic consciousness is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection, which focus upon the representation of the desiring subject in prose fiction, advance our understanding considerably as they probe the ambiguities surrounding the ostensible opposition of male and female in such texts. The volume will provide a neede…

  • Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel

    M Futre Pinheiro, Marília P Futre Pinheiro et al.BOOKNarrating Desire2012Cited by: 2

    Representation of desiring subjects in the novel is one of the most illuminating issues in the area of ancient gender and sexuality, for such narratives subject societal norms to acute critique. This volume brings together fourteen essays originally given as oral presentations at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN IV), held in Lisbon in July 2008. Employing feminist and psychoanalytic approaches, each offers a provocat…

  • Gender Studies

    Marilyn B Skinner, Barbara Graziosi et al.CHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of Hellenic…2009

    This article examines the meaning given within different social structures to human individuals, whose relationship even with their own bodies is culturally determined. While ‘gender’ is widely understood to be a hermeneutic tool used in feminist research, its relationship to other feminist approaches is not altogether clear. Gender studies as a field is a relatively recent spin-off from ‘women in antiquity’. Investigation of ancient women, the r…

  • Authorial Arrangement of the Collection: Debate Past and Present

    Marilyn B SkinnerOTHERA Companion to Catullus2007

    This chapter contains section titled: Emergence of the Question Charting the Aesthetic Axioms New Directions Conclusion

  • A Companion to Catullus

    Marilyn B SkinnerBOOKCompanion to Catullus2007Cited by: 25

    List of Illustrations. Abbreviations. Notes on Contributors. 1 Introduction (Marilyn B. Skinner). Part I The Text and the Collection. 2 History and Transmission of the Text (J. L. Butrica). 3 Authorial Arrangement of the Collection: Debate Past and Present (Marilyn B. Skinner). Part II Contexts of Production. 4 The Valerii Catulli of Verona (T. P. Wiseman). 5 The Contemporary Political Context (David Konstan). 6 The Intellectual Climate (Andrew F…

  • Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture

    Andrew Lear, Marilyn B SkinnerARTICLEThe Classical World2006Cited by: 10

  • Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

    Francis Cairns, Régine Chambert et al.BOOKVergil, Philodemus, and the…2003

    The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As impr…

  • Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World

    Ellen Greene, Shelley P Haley et al.BOOKAmong Women2002

    Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women's deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women's relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest in the relationships between men in ancient Greece and Rome. The essays in this book seek to close this gap by exploring a wide variety of textu…

  • Transactions with Catullus

    Marilyn B SkinnerARTICLEThe Classical World2002

  • Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity

    Kirk Ormand, Craig A Williams et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World2001

  • Introduction. Quod Multofit Aliter in Graecia

    Marilyn B SkinnerCHAPTERRoman Sexualities1998

  • Five. Ego mulier. The Construction of Male Sexuality in Catullus

    Marilyn B SkinnerCHAPTERRoman Sexualities1998

  • Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity

    Beert C Verstraete, David H J Larmour et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1998

  • Prisoner of History: Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition

    Marilyn B Skinner, Madeleine M HenryARTICLEThe American Historical Review1997

  • Zeus and Leda: The Sexuality Wars in Contemporary Classical Scholarship

    Marilyn B SkinnerCHAPTERMyths and Millennial Dreams of a…1996

  • The Dynamics of Catullan Obscenity: Cc. 37, 58 and 11

    Marilyn B SkinnerARTICLESyllecta classica1992Cited by: 7References: 14

    M.B. Skinner: Catullan Obscenity The Dynamics of Catullan Obscenity: cc. 37, 58 and 11 Marilyn B. Skinner Ovid's a rake, as halfhis verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample, Catullus scarcely has a decent poem . . . (Don Juan I.xlii) So Byron, enough of a seasoned campaigner himself to recognize smut when he came across it. Any moral objection to literature proffered by an arch-libertine should be taken, of course, with a grain…

  • Rescuing Creusa. New Methodological Approaches to Women in Antiquity

    Frances Van Keuren, Marilyn B Skinner et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1989Cited by: 7

  • Aesthetic Patterning in Catullus: Textual Structures, Systems of Imagery and Book Arrangements: Introduction

    Marilyn B SkinnerARTICLEThe Classical World1988Cited by: 4

  • Classical studies, patriarchy and feminism: The view from 1986

    Open AccessMarilyn B SkinnerARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum1987Cited by: 2References: 6

  • The Poems of Catullus: A Teaching Text

    Marilyn B Skinner, Phyllis Young ForsythARTICLEThe Classical World1987

  • Scholarly Publication: An Annotated Bibliography

    Marilyn B SkinnerARTICLEThe Classical World1986