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
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Clara Shaw Hardy LDC 258 x-4230, chardy |
Office Hours: MWF 9:30-11:00 TTh 3:00-4:30 and by appointment |
Schedule of Assignments
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January 3 |
Introductions, Reading Exercise |
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January 8 |
Archilochus, Alkman, and Sappho from GV. Please also read pp. 19-21 of the introduction, and 21-35 if you have time. |
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January 10 |
Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days lines 42-106, 695-828 |
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January 15 |
Legal texts: Speeches IV, VIII, and XVII from The Murder of Herodes. |
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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 |
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January 22 |
Philosophical texts: selections from Xenophon's Oeconomicus, (reader) |
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January 24 |
Plato's Symposium |
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January 29 |
Sophocles' Women of Trachis, Philoctetes |
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January 31 |
Euripides' Hippolytus, Alcestis |
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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"). |
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February 7 |
Terence, The Brothers, The Mother-in-Law |
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February 12 |
Catullus, Virgil, Propertius, and Ovid from GV |
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February 14 |
Cicero's Pro Caelio (reader) |
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February 19 |
Plutarch's Life of Mark Antony, selections (reader) |
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February 21 |
Virgil's Aeneid, Books 1-3 |
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February 26 |
Virgil's Aeneid, Books 4-6 |
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February 28 |
Lucian's A Professor of Public Speaking (reader). |
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March 5 |
Longus, Daphnis and Chloë, Books 1 and 2 |
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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: