Schedule of Readings and Assignments
Readings listed with the book icon () are from the assigned textbook, Pomeroy’s Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves.
WIA refers to the optional book, Women in Antiquity (Hawley & Levick, eds.); those articles can be accessed by PDF, so the book is not required.
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1 Introduction and Themes
Thursday, August 25
- Watch the Welcome and Orientation Video
- Read: Pomeroy, Introduction to Goddesses
- Sign up for your primary source presentation
- Sign up for your secondary source presentation
2 Women in The Epic of Gilgamesh
Thursday, September 1
- Read all of the following:
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
3 The Female Pharaohs of Egypt
Thursday, September 8
- Read all of the following:
- Roehrig (ed.), Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
[packet of selected articles]
- Roehrig (ed.), Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
GENDER AND THE GREEKS
4 Ancient Goddesses and Gods
Thursday, September 15
- Read all of the following:
- “Goddesses and Gods” (ch. 1, pp. 1–15)
- Hesiod, Theogony
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
5 The Bronze Age and its Homeric Echo
Thursday, September 22
- Read all of the following:
- “Women in the Bronze Age and Homeric Epic” (ch. 2, pp. 16–31)
- Three selections from Homer: “Agamemnon’s Insult” (from Iliad); “Nausicaa and the Stranger” and “The Artifice of Penelope” (from Odyssey)
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
No Meeting
Thursday, September 29
6 Women and the Kingdom of Israel
Thursday, October 6
- Read all of the following:
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
- Images Essay due the Monday before
7 Greece Emerging from the Dark Age
Thursday, October 13
- Read all of the following:
- “The Dark Age and the Archaic Period” (ch. 3, pp. 32–56)
- Hesiod, Works and Days
- Plutarch, “Sayings of Spartan Women”
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
8 Women and the Athenian Polis
Thursday, October 20
- Read all of the following:
- “Women and the City of Athens” (ch. 4, pp. 57–78)
- Aeschylos, from Eumenides
- Herodotos, from The Histories
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
- Dewald, “Women and Culture in Herodotus’s Histories”
- Katz, “Ideology and the ‘Status of Women’ in Ancient Greece” (WIA ch. 2, pp. 21–43)
- Pomeroy, “Women’s Identity and the Family in the Classical Polis” (WIA ch. 7, pp. 111–121)
- Walker, “Women and Housing in Classical Greece: The Archaeological Evidence”
- Proposal due the Monday before
9 Living Unpublicly in Classical Athens
Thursday, October 27
- Read all of the following:
- “Private Life in Classical Athens” (ch. 5, pp. 79–92)
- Euripides, from The Bacchae
- Theocritus, “The Women at the Adonis Festival”, from Idylls
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
- Burton, “Women’s Commensality in the Ancient Greek World”
- Dover, “Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behavior”
- Foxhall, “Women’s Ritual and Men’s Work in Ancient Athens” (WIA ch. 6, pp. 97–110)
- Segal, “The Menace of Dionysus: Sex Roles and Reversals in Euripides’ The Bacchae”
- Venit, “Women in Their Cups”
10 Images of Women in Athenian Literature
Thursday, November 3
- Read all of the following:
- “Images of Women in the Literature of Classical Athens” (ch. 6)
- Sophocles, from Antigone
- Euripides, from Medea
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
GENDER AND THE ROMANS
11 The Roman Aristocratic Matron
Thursday, November 10
- Read all of the following:
- “The Roman Matron of the Late Republic & Early Empire” (ch. 8)
- Livy, “The Capture of the Sabine Women” and “The Rape of Lucretia”
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
- Boatwright, “Women and Gender in the Forum Romanum”
- Carp, “Two Matrons of the Late Republic”
- Corbier, “Male Power … Through Women Under the Julio-Claudians” (WIA ch. 12, pp.178–193)
- Fantham, “Aemilia Pudentilla: Or the Wealthy Widow’s Choice” (WIA ch. 14, pp. 220–232)
- Fischler, “Social Stereotypes and Historical Analysis: … Imperial Women at Rome”
12 Beyond the Roman Aristocracy
Thursday, November 17
- Read all of the following:
- “Women of the Roman Lower Classes” (ch. 9, pp. 190–204)
- “The Twelve Tables”, fragments
- Ovid, from Metamorphosis
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
- Curran, “Rape and Rape Victims in The Metamorphoses”
- Hallett, “The Role of Women in Roman Elegy: Counter-Cultural Feminism”, with responses
- Roller, “Horizontal Women: Posture and Sex in the Roman Convivium”
- Savunen, “Women and Elections in Pompeii” (WIA ch. 13, pp. 194–206)
- Warren, “The Women of Etruria”
No Meeting
Thursday, November 24
13 Women and the Roman Religion
Thursday, December 1
- Read all of the following:
- “The Role of Women in the Religion of the Romans” (ch. 10, pp. 205–226)
- Pliny the Younger, selected letters
- Cato on the Oppian Law
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
14 The Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman Eras
Thursday, December 8
- Read all of the following:
- “Hellenistic Women” (ch. 7, pp. 120–148)
- “The Elusive Women of Classical Antiquity” (epilogue, pp. 227–230)
- Plutarch, “Advice to the Bride and Groom”
- Plutarch, Roman Accounts of Cleopatra
- Also read one of these scholarly articles:
- Position Paper due the Monday before
Final Exam (6:00–8:00 p.m.)
Thursday, December 15, 6:15–8:15 p.m.