CLST/WGST 114

Gender and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity

 Electronic Resources for the Study of Gender in the Ancient World

 

Class Determined Criteria for the Evaluation of the Caucus Assignment

 

Special Issue Journal Assignment

Special Issue Journals

Clara Shaw Hardy

LDC 258

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Office Hours: MWF 9:30-11:00

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and by appointment

 

Schedule of Assignments

January 3

Introductions, Reading Exercise

 

Archaic Greece

 

January 8

 

Archilochus, Alkman, and Sappho from GV.

Please also read pp. 19-21 of the introduction, and 21-35 if you have time.

 

January 10

 

Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days lines 42-106, 695-828

 

The Athenian Polis

 

January 15

 

Legal texts: Speeches IV, VIII, and XVII from The Murder of Herodes.

 

January 17

 

Medical texts: Hippocratic treatise The Seed and The Nature of the Child (reader); selections 339, 343, 344, 345, 346, 348, 349 on Medicine and Anatomy from F&L on reserve or online at http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-medicine.shtml

 

January 22

 

Philosophical texts: selections from Xenophon's Oeconomicus, (reader)

 

January 24

 

Plato's Symposium

 

January 29

 

Sophocles' Women of Trachis, Philoctetes

 

January 31

 

Euripides' Hippolytus, Alcestis

 

February 5

 

Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria, Assemblywomen. The introduction to this volume is very good; you might find it useful to look, particularly, at IV ("Women in Aristophanic Comedy").

 

The Roman Republic

 

February 7

 

Terence, The Brothers, The Mother-in-Law

 

February 12

 

Catullus, Virgil, Propertius, and Ovid from GV

 

February 14

 

Cicero's Pro Caelio (reader)

 

February 19

 

Plutarch's Life of Mark Antony, selections (reader)

 

February 21

 

Virgil's Aeneid, Books 1-3

 

February 26

 

Virgil's Aeneid, Books 4-6

 

The High Roman Empire

 

February 28

 

Lucian's A Professor of Public Speaking (reader).

 

March 5

 

Longus, Daphnis and Chloë, Books 1 and 2

 

March 7

 

Longus, Daphnis and Cloë, Books 3 and 4


A Selection of Electronic Resources for the Study of

Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

Diotima: A large database containing texts, images, and bibliography:

one of the best available on-line resources in Classics anywhere.

The Perseus Project: a huge collection of Greek texts, images, and archaeological

data (with some Roman material as well)

The Ancient World Web: a searchable clearing house for websites concerning the ancient world:

try searching for "sexuality" or "women"


Criteria for the Evaluation of the Caucus Assignment:

An excellent INITIAL POSTING on Caucus will: