Women in Antiquity

Secondary 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. “Ishtar’s Proposal and Gilgamesh’s Refusal”: Abusch
    (Present on Thursday, September 1)
  2. “Initiation and the Primal Woman in Gilgamesh and Genesis 2-3”: Bailey
    (Present on Thursday, September 1)
  3. “Inanna-Ishtar as Paradox and a Coincidence of Opposites”: Harris
    (Present on Thursday, September 1)
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  5. “Women in Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Literature”: Depla
    (Present on Thursday, September 8)
  6. “Women’s Monumental Mark on Ancient Egypt”: Lesko
    (Present on Thursday, September 8)
  7. “The God’s Wife of Amun in the 18th Dynasty in Egypt”: Robins
    (Present on Thursday, September 8)
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  9. “The Cults of Demeter and Kore”: Nixon
    (Present on Thursday, September 15)
  10. “The Greek Family in History and Myth”: Slater
    (Present on Thursday, September 15)
  11. “Signifying Difference: The Myth of Pandora”: Zeitlin
    (Present on Thursday, September 15)
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  13. “Early Greece: The Origins of the Western Attitude Toward Women”: Arthur
    (Present on Thursday, September 22)
  14. “The Divided World of Iliad VI”: Arthur
    (Present on Thursday, September 22)
  15. “Approaching Women Through Myth: Vital Tool or Self-Delusion?”: Dowden
    (Present on Thursday, September 22)
  16. “Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?”: Ortner
    (Present on Thursday, September 22)
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  18. “Notions of Community and the Exclusion of the Female in Jewish History…”: Archer
    (Present on Thursday, October 6)
  19. “The Role of Jewish Women in the Religion, Ritual, and Cult of Graeco-Roman Palestine”: Archer
    (Present on Thursday, October 6)
  20. “Reading Between the Lines: Sarah and the Sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis, Chapter 22)”: Brock
    (Present on Thursday, October 6)
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  22. “Women’s Work: Female Transmission of Mythical Narrative”: Heath
    (Present on Thursday, October 13)
  23. “Sappho and the Heroic Ideal”: Marry
    (Present on Thursday, October 13)
  24. “Sappho’s Private World”: Stigers
    (Present on Thursday, October 13)
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  26. “Women and Culture in Herodotus’s Histories”: Dewald
    (Present on Thursday, October 20)
  27. “Ideology and the ‘Status of Women’ in Ancient Greece”: Katz
    (Present on Thursday, October 20)
  28. “Women’s Identity and the Family in the Classical Polis”: Pomeroy
    (Present on Thursday, October 20)
  29. “Women and Housing in Classical Greece: The Archaeological Evidence”: Walker
    (Present on Thursday, October 20)
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  31. “Women’s Commensality in the Ancient Greek World”: Burton
    (Present on Thursday, October 27)
  32. “Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behavior”: Dover
    (Present on Thursday, October 27)
  33. “Women’s Ritual and Men’s Work in Ancient Athens”: Foxhall
    (Present on Thursday, October 27)
  34. “The Menace of Dionysus: Sex Roles and Reversals in Euripides’ The Bacchae”: Segal
    (Present on Thursday, October 27)
  35. “Women in Their Cups”: Venit
    (Present on Thursday, October 27)
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  1. “The Conception of Women in Athenian Drama”: Foley
    (Present on Thursday, November 3)
  2. “Some Pythagorean Female Virtues” : Lambropoulou
    (Present on Thursday, November 3)
  3. “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia”: Zeitlin
    (Present on Thursday, November 3)
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  5. “Women and Gender in the Forum Romanum”: Boatwright
    (Present on Thursday, November 10)
  6. “Two Matrons of the Late Republic”: Carp
    (Present on Thursday, November 10)
  7. “Male Power … Through Women Under the Julio-Claudians”: Corbier
    (Present on Thursday, November 10)
  8. “Aemilia Pudentilla: Or the Wealthy Widow’s Choice”: Fantham
    (Present on Thursday, November 10)
  9. “Social Stereotypes and Historical Analysis: … Imperial Women at Rome”: Fischler
    (Present on Thursday, November 10)
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  11. “Rape and Rape Victims in The Metamorphoses”: Curran
    (Present on Thursday, November 17)
  12. “The Role of Women in Roman Elegy: Counter-Cultural Feminism”, with responses: Hallett
    (Present on Thursday, November 17)
  13. “Horizontal Women: Posture and Sex in the Roman Convivium”: Roller
    (Present on Thursday, November 17)
  14. “Women and Elections in Pompeii”: Savunen
    (Present on Thursday, November 17)
  15. “The Women of Etruria”: Warren
    (Present on Thursday, November 17)
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  17. “Re-reading (Vestal) Virginity”: Beard
    (Present on Thursday, December 1)
  18. “Roman Women”: Clark
    (Present on Thursday, December 1)
  19. “Theodora and Antonina in the Historia Arcana: History and/or Fiction?”: Fisher
    (Present on Thursday, December 1)
  20. “On Creusa, Dido, and the Quality of Victory in Virgil’s Aeneid”: Perkell
    (Present on Thursday, December 1)
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  22. “Self-Help, Self-Knowledge: … Patient in Hippocratic Gynaecology”: King
    (Present on Thursday, December 8)
  23. “Influential Women”: Lefkowitz
    (Present on Thursday, December 8)
  24. “Infanticide in Hellenistic Greece”: Pomeroy
    (Present on Thursday, December 8)
  25. “Spartan Women among the Romans: Adapting Models, Forging Identities”: Pomeroy
    (Present on Thursday, December 8)
  26. “The Women of Akmoneia”: Thonemann
    (Present on Thursday, December 8)