Everyone must sign up for one presentation in the first half of the semester and one in the second half.
Presentations will be given in the class meeting’s that we discuss that reading.
You also need to submit a Word or PDF version as an essay assignment on BlackBoard.
Your written presentation must meet the write-up requirements in the syllabus in terms of length (the length of a 2-3 page essay = ~500-750 words) and expected content (reactive and analytical).
Pick one, then click the button to claim it. If there’s a name in bold in front of the reading name, that one’s already been picked by another student. As always I’m grateful to those who sign up for the earlier ones!
If you want to change the presentation you’ve chosen to a different one, please email me.
Abusch, “Ishtar’s Proposal and Gilgamesh’s Refusal” (Present on Tuesday, February 15)
Bailey, “Initiation and the Primal Woman in Gilgamesh and Genesis 2-3” (Present on Tuesday, February 15)
Harris, “Inanna-Ishtar as Paradox and a Coincidence of Opposites” (Present on Tuesday, February 15)
Francisco N.
Depla, “Women in Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Literature” (Present on Tuesday, February 22)
Lesko, “Women’s Monumental Mark on Ancient Egypt” (Present on Tuesday, February 22)
Robins, “The God’s Wife of Amun in the 18th Dynasty in Egypt” (Present on Tuesday, February 22)
Sharis I.
Nixon, “The Cults of Demeter and Kore” (Present on Tuesday, March 1)
Slater, “The Greek Family in History and Myth” (Present on Tuesday, March 1)
Zeitlin, “Signifying Difference: The Myth of Pandora” (Present on Tuesday, March 1)
Juana C.
Arthur, “Early Greece: The Origins of the Western Attitude Toward Women” (Present on Tuesday, March 8)
Geraldine F.
Arthur, “The Divided World of Iliad VI” (Present on Tuesday, March 8)
Dowden, “Approaching Women Through Myth: Vital Tool or Self-Delusion?” (Present on Tuesday, March 8)
Shellica P.
Ortner, “Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?” (Present on Tuesday, March 8)
Archer, “Notions of Community and the Exclusion of the Female in Jewish History…” (Present on Tuesday, March 15)
Archer, “The Role of Jewish Women in the Religion, Ritual, and Cult of Graeco-Roman Palestine” (Present on Tuesday, March 15)
Julie R.
Brock, “Reading Between the Lines: Sarah and the Sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis, Chapter 22)” (Present on Tuesday, March 15)
Heath, “Women’s Work: Female Transmission of Mythical Narrative” (Present on Tuesday, March 22)
Marry, “Sappho and the Heroic Ideal” (Present on Tuesday, March 22)
Laura S.
Stigers, “Sappho’s Private World” (Present on Tuesday, March 22)
Dewald, “Women and Culture in Herodotus’s Histories” (Present on Tuesday, March 29)
Kyana D.
Katz, “Ideology and the ‘Status of Women’ in Ancient Greece” (Present on Tuesday, March 29)
Alexa W.
Pomeroy, “Women’s Identity and the Family in the Classical Polis” (Present on Tuesday, March 29)
Walker, “Women and Housing in Classical Greece: The Archaeological Evidence” (Present on Tuesday, March 29)
Kiara E.
Burton, “Women’s Commensality in the Ancient Greek World” (Present on Tuesday, April 5)
Dover, “Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behavior” (Present on Tuesday, April 5)
Foxhall, “Women’s Ritual and Men’s Work in Ancient Athens” (Present on Tuesday, April 5)
Segal, “The Menace of Dionysus: Sex Roles and Reversals in Euripides’ The Bacchae” (Present on Tuesday, April 5)
Venit, “Women in Their Cups” (Present on Tuesday, April 5)