Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow - Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology

Aileen Ajootian Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Mississippi, USA. Publications: Hermaphroditos, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. 5, Zurich, Artemis Verlag, 1990; Praxiteles, in J. J. Pollitt and O. Palagia (eds), Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Larissa Bonfante Professor of Classics, New York University, USA. Publications: The World of Roman Costume, co-edited with Judith Sebesta, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1994; Reading The Past: Etruscan, London, British Museum Publications, 1990; Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1986; Etruscan Dress, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

Shelby Brown Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, USA. Publications: Feminist Research in Archaeology: What Does It Mean? Why Is It Taking So Long?, in Amy Richlin and Nancy Rabinowitz (eds), Feminist Theory and the Classics, London, Routledge, 1993, pp. 23871; Death As Decoration: Scenes of the Arena on Roman Domestic Mosaics, in Amy Richlin (ed.), Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 180211; Late Carthaginian Child Sacrifice and Sacrificial Monuments in the Mediterranean Context, Sheffield, JSOT Press, 1991.

Beth Cohen She has taught at the University of Rochester in Italy, Bard College, Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin, USA. Publications: editor, The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homers Odyssey, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995; From Bowman to Clubman: Herakles and Olympia, The Art Bulletin, 1994, vol. 75, pp. 695715; co-author with Diana Buitron et al., The Odyssey and Ancient Art: An Epic in Word and Image, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1992; Attic Bilingual Vases and Their Painters, Garland Publishing, NY, 1978.

Natalie Boymel Kampen Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Womens Studies and of Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA. Publications: Image and Status: Working Women in Ostia, Berlin, Mann, 1981; contributor, Women in the Classical World: Image and Text, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994; editor, Sexuality in Ancient Art: Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996; Theorizing Gender in Roman Art, in D. Kleiner and S. Matheson, I, Claudia: Women in Roman Art, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1996, pp. 1425.

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University, USA. Publications: The Sarno Bath Complex, Rome, LErma di Bretschneider, 1990; Finding Social Meaning in the Public Latrines of Pompeii, in N. de Haan and G. jansen (eds), Cura Aquarum in Campania: Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region, BABesh, Suppl. 4, Leiden, 1996, 7986; Water in the Roman World: New research from Cura Aquarum and the Frontinus Society, with N. de Haan, G. de Kleijn, and S. Piras, JRA, 1997, vol. 10, pp. 18191; ed. and contributor Water Use and Hydraulics in the Roman City, Archaeological Institute of America Colloquia and Conference Papers, forthcoming; The City Baths of Pompeii and Herculaneum, in P. W Foss and J. J. Dobbins (eds), Pompeii and the Ancient Settlements Undr Vesuvius, New York and London, Routledge, in press; and a book on health and sanitation in Roman Italy, in preparation.

Claire L. Lyons Collections Curator, Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, USA. Publications: Morgantina Studies V: The Archaic Cemeteries, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996; Modalit di acculturazione a Morgantina, Bollettino di Archeologia, 1991, vols 11 12, pp. 110; Sikel Burials at Morgantina: Defining Social and Ethnic Identities, in R. Leighton (ed.), Early Societies in Sicily: New Developments in Archaeological Research, London, Accordia Publications, 1996, pp. 177 88; and various articles on the history of archaeology and collecting.

Joan Reilly Director of Visual Resources, City University of New York, USA, 19935. Publications: Many Brides: Mistress and Maid on Athenian Lekythoi, Hesperia, 1989, vol. 58, pp. 41144; Standards, Maypoles, and Sacred Trees?, Archologischer Anzeiger, 1994, pp. 499505.

John Robb Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, England. Publications: Burial and Social Reproduction in the Peninsular Italian Neolithic, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 1994, vol. 7, pp. 2771; Gender Contradictions: Moral Coalitions and Inequality in Prehistoric Italy, Journal of European Archaeology, 1994, vol. 2, pp. 20 49; Violence and Gender in Early Italy, in D. Frayer and D. Martin (eds), Troubled Times: Osteological and Archaeological Evidence of Violence, New York, Gordon and Breach, in press.

Nanette Salomon Associate Professor of Art History at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and lecturer in Education at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Publications: The Art Historical Canon: Sins of Omission, in J. E. Hartman and E. Messer-Davidow (eds), (En)gendering Knowledge: Feminists in Academe, Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1991, pp. 22236; The Venus Pudica: Uncovering Art Historys Hidden Agendas and Pernicious Pedigrees, in G. Pollock (ed.), Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts Feminist Readings, London, Routledge, 1996, pp. 6987.

Jane McIntosh Snyder Professor Emeritus of Classics and Womens Studies, Ohio State University, USA. Publications: Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece, with M. Maas, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1989; The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome,