Margaret Williamson

Selected Publications

• Sappho's Immortal Daughters, Harvard University Press, 1995.

• 'Sappho and the Other Woman', in Re-reading Sappho, E. Greene (ed.), 1996.

• 'Eros the Blacksmith', in Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self Representation in the Classical Tradition, eds L. Foxhall and J. B. Salmon, 1998.

• The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece, ed. with S. Blundell, 1998

• 'The Mirror-Shield of Knowledge:  a Classicist in the West Indies in 1825', in M. Bradley, ed.  Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire, Oxford University Press, 2010

• 'Africa or Old Rome? Jamaican Slave Naming Revisited', in Slavery and Abolition vol. 38 no.1, 2017 

• 'Slave Names and Naming in the Anglophone Atlantic.' In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. Oxford University Press, 2018.

• 'Dictionaries as translations: English in the Lexicon', in Liddell and Scott: the History, Methodology and Languages of the World's Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek, eds Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke, and Joshua T. Katz, Oxford University Press, 2019.

• '"Nero, the mustard!" The ironies of classical slave names in the British Atlantic,' in Classicisms in the Black Atlantic, eds  A. Lecznar, H. Morse and I. Moyer, Oxford University Press, 2020.

• Introduction to excerpts from the travel narratives of Thomas Staunton St Clair and Matthew 'Monk' Lewis in Classics and Race: A Historical Reader, eds Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells and Phiroze Vasunia, UCL Press Online, 2025.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088139