This document outlines the essay titles, presentation topics, and guided readings for 8 modules in the S&G Classes for 2015-16. The modules cover topics related to love, sexuality, gender, the body, masculinity, domesticity, work, and religion in the Greek and Roman worlds. Each module includes an essay assignment, a presentation topic, and a prescribed text for a guided reading. The modules will examine representations of love, gender roles, homoeroticism, medical theories of sex and gender, constructions of masculinity, women's experiences, gender relations at work, and the role of sexuality and gender in religion.
This document outlines the essay titles, presentation topics, and guided readings for 8 modules in the S&G Classes for 2015-16. The modules cover topics related to love, sexuality, gender, the body, masculinity, domesticity, work, and religion in the Greek and Roman worlds. Each module includes an essay assignment, a presentation topic, and a prescribed text for a guided reading. The modules will examine representations of love, gender roles, homoeroticism, medical theories of sex and gender, constructions of masculinity, women's experiences, gender relations at work, and the role of sexuality and gender in religion.
This document outlines the essay titles, presentation topics, and guided readings for 8 modules in the S&G Classes for 2015-16. The modules cover topics related to love, sexuality, gender, the body, masculinity, domesticity, work, and religion in the Greek and Roman worlds. Each module includes an essay assignment, a presentation topic, and a prescribed text for a guided reading. The modules will examine representations of love, gender roles, homoeroticism, medical theories of sex and gender, constructions of masculinity, women's experiences, gender relations at work, and the role of sexuality and gender in religion.
essay titles, presentation topics, and passages for guided readings
1. Lovemaking Essay title: What is love? Illustrate your answer with reference to the prescribed texts. Presentation: Is Sapphos vision of love distinctively feminine? Guided reading: Ovid, Ars Amatoria (Loeb) 2. Sexuality and gender in Greek and Roman humour Essay title: What do comic texts about male-female relations tell us about Greek and Roman men? Presentation: Comparing Aristophanes picture of women in the three set plays Guided reading: Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 3. Homoeroticism Essay: Is Foucault right that homoeroticism was the paradigmatic sexual discourse in some places and times in the ancient world? Presentation: Idealizations of homoeroticism in texts and images Guided reading: Aeschines 1, Against Timarchus 4. The gendered body Essay: How and why do Graeco-Roman medical theory and practice treat women and men differently? Presentation: Creation myths: the invention of gender? Guided reading: Soranus, Gynaecology (tr. O. Temkin, Baltimore 1956) 5. Masculinities Essay: What made a man in the Greek and/or Roman world? Presentation: Why cant a Greek or Roman woman be more like a man? Guided reading: Sophocles, Philoctetes 6 . Gender at home Essay: Do our sources allow us to understand anything of womens experience of domesticity in the ancient world? Presentation: Visions of a happy home Guided reading: Aeschylus, Agamemnon 7. Gender at work Essay: How and why does the epigraphic evidence of womens work differ from literary evidence? Presentation: Gender relations at work Guided reading: [Demosthenes] 59, Against Neaira? 8. Sex, gender and religion Essay: Did virginity and celibacy empower fourth century men and women? Presentation: The gendering of martyrdom Guided reading: Senatusconsultum de Bacchanalibus