Women in Antiquity

Primary Source Sign-up

Everyone must sign up for one presentation on a primary source and one presentation on a secondary source.

  • As always I’m grateful to those who sign up for the earlier ones!
    • 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 reading, 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.
  • If you want to change the presentation you’ve chosen to a different one, please email me.
  1. Gilgamesh, Tablets 1-2: Shamhat and Enkidu (New Transcription)
    (Present on Thursday, September 1)
  2. Gilgamesh, Tablet 6: Ishtar’s Proposal (New Transcription)
    (Present on Thursday, September 1)
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  4. Theogony: Hesiod
    (Present on Thursday, September 15)
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  6. “Agamemnon’s Insult” (from Iliad): Homer
    (Present on Thursday, September 22)
  7. “Nausicaa and the Stranger” (from Odyssey): Homer
    (Present on Thursday, September 22)
  8. “The Artifice of Penelope” (from Odyssey): Homer
    (Present on Thursday, September 22)
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  10. The Book of Esther
    (Present on Thursday, October 6)
  11. The Book of Ruth
    (Present on Thursday, October 6)
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  13. Works and Days: Hesiod
    (Present on Thursday, October 13)
  14. “Sayings of Spartan Women”: Plutarch
    (Present on Thursday, October 13)
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  16. from Eumenides: Aeschylos
    (Present on Thursday, October 20)
  17. from The Histories: Herodotos
    (Present on Thursday, October 20)
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  19. from The Bacchae: Euripides
    (Present on Thursday, October 27)
  20. “The Women at the Adonis Festival”, from Idylls: Theocritus
    (Present on Thursday, October 27)
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  1. from Medea: Euripides
    (Present on Thursday, November 3)
  2. from Antigone: Sophocles
    (Present on Thursday, November 3)
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  4. “The Capture of the Sabine Women”: Livy
    (Present on Thursday, November 10)
  5. “The Rape of Lucretia”: Livy
    (Present on Thursday, November 10)
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  7. selections from Metamorphoses: Ovid
    (Present on Thursday, November 17)
  8. “The Twelve Tables”, fragments
    (Present on Thursday, November 17)
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  10. “Cato on the Oppian Law”: Livy
    (Present on Thursday, December 1)
  11. selected letters: Pliny the Younger
    (Present on Thursday, December 1)
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  13. Roman Accounts of Cleopatra: Plutarch
    (Present on Thursday, December 8)
  14. “Advice to the Bride and Groom”: Plutarch
    (Present on Thursday, December 8)