Schedule

The readings listed under each week should be completed by the Monday class meeting of that week. We will spread the discussion over both class meetings, but all readings will be needed to make sense of the week’s topic.

* indicates a reading that may be used for a response.


Week 1 (W 1/23) | Week 2 (M 1/28, W 1/30) | Week 3 (M 2/4, W 2/6) | Week 4 (M 2/11, W 2/13) | Week 5 (M 2/18, W 2/20) | Week 6 (M 2/25, W 2/27) | Week 7 (M 3/11, W 3/13) | Week 8 (M 3/18, W 3/20) | Week 9 (M 3/25, W 3/27) | Week 10 (M 4/1, W 4/3) | Week 11 (M 4/8, W 4/10) | Week 12 (M 4/15, W 4/17) | Week 13 (M 4/29, W 5/1) | Week 14 (M 5/6)


Week 1 (W 1/23) - Introduction

Slideshow: link here.

Read Ormand pp. 1-20 (2nd ed: pp. 1-24).

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Week 2 (M 1/28, W 1/30) - Homer, Hesiod, and Greek Lyric Poetry

Slideshow: link here.

Assignments:

W 1/30: Class visit from Ms. Jennifer Whelan, MLIS, on strategies for reading the different types of material with which we’ll be dealing in this course.

Optional:

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Week 3 (M 2/4, W 2/6) - Sexual Roles and Sexual Rules in Classical Athens

Slideshow: link here.

Assignments:

Quiz #1 on W 2/6.

Optional:

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Week 4 (M 2/11, W 2/13) - Sexuality in Greek Comedy

Slideshow: link here.

Lysistrata Passage: link here.

Assignments:

Optional:

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Slideshow: link here.

Gorgias’ Helen translation: link here.

Assignments:

Quiz #2 on 2/20.

Optional:

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Week 6 (M 2/25, W 2/27) - Philosophical Sex

Slideshow: link here.

Assignments:

Optional:

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Week 7 (M 3/11, W 3/13) - Love and Sex in Hellenistic Poetry

Slideshow: link here.

Assignments:

Quiz #3 on W 3/13.

Optional:

TBD

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Week 8 (M 3/18, W 3/20) - Rome and Roman Sex

Slideshow: link here.

Assignments:

Optional:

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Week 9 (M 3/25, W 3/27) - Roman Comic Sex

Slideshow: link here.

Assignments:

Quiz #4 on W 3/27.

Optional:

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Slideshow: link here.
Panopto lecture for 4/3: link here.

Assignments:

Optional:

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Week 11 (M 4/8, W 4/10) - Roman Poetry about Love and Sex: Catullus and the Elegists

Slideshow: link here

Assignments:

Quiz #5 on W 4/10.

Optional:

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Week 12 (M 4/15, W 4/17) - Ovid: Proto-Feminist or Extreme Misogynist?

General CW: rape.

Slideshow: link here.
Panopto lecture for 4/17: link here.

Ovid Metamoporphoses selections: link here
Ovid’s Philomela episode: link here.

Assignments:

Optional:

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Week 13 (M 4/29, W 5/1) - Sex in Satire and Invective Poetry

Slideshow: link here.

Assignments:

Quiz #6 on W 5/1.

Optional:

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Week 14 (M 5/6) - Conclusion

Assignments:

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