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Reply in the comments below with the presentation you want to take. Specify by number so it’s clear. Make sure the one you’re signing up for is not already taken by someone else. Everyone must sign up for one presentation. As always I'm grateful to those who sign up for the earlier ones!

  • Presentations will be given in the discussion that class meeting’s weekly page. Discussion area presentations are due the night before the class meeting day, so they are already there for people to read and respond to.
  • 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 scroll down and post a comment claiming the one you want. If there's a name in bold in front of the reading name, that one's already been picked by another student.

  1.    Abusch, “Ishtar’s Proposal and Gilgamesh’s Refusal”
     (Post in the Week 2 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 10)
  2.    Bailey, “Initiation and the Primal Woman in Gilgamesh and Genesis 2-3”
     (Post in the Week 2 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 10)
  3.    (Alaya) Harris, “Inanna-Ishtar as Paradox and a Coincidence of Opposites”
     (Post in the Week 2 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 10)
  4.    (Jocelyne) Depla, “Women in Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Literature”
     (Post in the Week 3 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 17)
  5.    (Joe) Lesko, “Women’s Monumental Mark on Ancient Egypt”
     (Post in the Week 3 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 17)
  6.    (Erika) Robins, “The God’s Wife of Amun in the 18th Dynasty in Egypt”
     (Post in the Week 3 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 17)
  7.    (Jessilyn) Nixon, “The Cults of Demeter and Kore”
     (Post in the Week 4 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 24)
  8.    Slater, “The Greek Family in History and Myth”
     (Post in the Week 4 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 24)
  9.    (Genesis) Zeitlin, “Signifying Difference: The Myth of Pandora”
     (Post in the Week 4 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 24)
  10.    (Marlo) Arthur, “Early Greece: The Origins of the Western Attitude Toward Women”
     (Post in the Week 5 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 1)
  11.    (Abraham) Arthur, “The Divided World of Iliad VI”
     (Post in the Week 5 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 1)
  12.    (Sharaisa) Dowden, “Approaching Women Through Myth: Vital Tool or Self-Delusion?”
     (Post in the Week 5 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 1)
  13.    (Michelle) Ortner, “Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?”
     (Post in the Week 5 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 1)
  14.    (Candy) Archer, “Notions of Community and the Exclusion of the Female in Jewish History…”
     (Post in the Week 6 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 8)
  15.    Archer, “The Role of Jewish Women in the Religion, Ritual, and Cult of Graeco-Roman Palestine”
     (Post in the Week 6 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 8)
  16.    Brock, “Reading Between the Lines: Sarah and the Sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis, Chapter 22)”
     (Post in the Week 6 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 8)
  17.    Heath, “Women’s Work: Female Transmission of Mythical Narrative”
     (Post in the Week 7 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 15)
  18.    Marry, “Sappho and the Heroic Ideal”
     (Post in the Week 7 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 15)
  19.    Stigers, “Sappho’s Private World”
     (Post in the Week 7 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 15)
  20.    Dewald, “Women and Culture in Herodotus’s Histories”
     (Post in the Week 8 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 22)
  21.    Katz, “Ideology and the ‘Status of Women’ in Ancient Greece”
     (Post in the Week 8 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 22)
  22.    Pomeroy, “Women’s Identity and the Family in the Classical Polis”
     (Post in the Week 8 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 22)
  23.    (Warda) Walker, “Women and Housing in Classical Greece: The Archaeological Evidence”
     (Post in the Week 8 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 22)
  24.    Burton, “Women’s Commensality in the Ancient Greek World”
     (Post in the Week 9 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 29)
  25.    (Mirkan) Dover, “Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behavior”
     (Post in the Week 9 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 29)
  26.    Foxhall, “Women’s Ritual and Men’s Work in Ancient Athens”
     (Post in the Week 9 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 29)
  27.    (Daniel) Segal, “The Menace of Dionysus: Sex Roles and Reversals in Euripides’ The Bacchae”
     (Post in the Week 9 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 29)
  28.    Venit, “Women in Their Cups”
     (Post in the Week 9 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 29)

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