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.
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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)
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Read Ormand pp. 1-20 (2nd ed: pp. 1-24).
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- Ormand 21-45 (2nd ed: 25-54).
- * Haselswerdt, Ella. 2016. “Re-Queering Sappho.” Eidolon.
- * Zuckerberg, Donna. 2016. “The Breasts that Launched a Thousand Ships (Helen’s face is up here, thanks).” Eidolon.
- Homer, Iliad 18.1-147 (Achilles laments over Patroclus).
- Homer, Iliad 22.405-515 (Hector dies, the Trojans lament).
- Sappho 1, 16, 31. – Carson, Anne (trans.). 2003. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. New York.
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.
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Quiz #1 on W 2/6.
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Lysistrata Passage: link here.
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Gorgias’ Helen translation: link here.
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- Ormand 75-90 (2nd ed: 92-110).
- * Cantarella, Eva. 2005. “Gender, Sexuality, and Law.” In The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, edited by Michael Gagarin and David Cohen, 236-253. Cambridge.
- * Herz, Zachary. 2015. “Law v. History: the story of the Supreme Court’s misguided, forty-year fixation on ancient gay history.” Eidolon.
- * Spatharas, Dimos. 2016. “Sex, Politics, and Disgust in Aechines’ Against Timarchus.” In The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, edited by Donald Lateiner and Dimos Spatharas, 125-139. Oxford.
Quiz #2 on 2/20.
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- Ormand 107-127 (2nd ed: 156-181).
- * Murray, Jackie and Jonathan M. Rowland. 2007. “Gendered Voices in Hellenistic Epigram.” In Brill’s Companion to Hellenistic Epigram, edited by Peter Bing and Jon Bruss, 211-232. Leiden.
- * Pomeroy, Sarah. 1995. “Hellenistic Women.” In Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity, 120-148. New York.
- * Fountoulakis, Andreas. 2013. “Male Bodies, Male Gazes: Exploring Erôs in the Twelfth Book of the Greek Anthology.” In Erôs in Ancient Greece, edited by Ed Sanders, Chiara Thumiger, Christopher Carey, and Nick Lowe, 293-312. Oxford.
Quiz #3 on W 3/13.
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- * Williams, Craig. 1999. “Introduction.” In Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity, 3-14. New York and Oxford.
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Quiz #4 on W 3/27.
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- * Plautus’ Casina (Christenson, David, tr. 2008. Plautus: Four Plays. Newburyport (MA).)
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Panopto lecture for 4/3: link here.
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Quiz #5 on W 4/10.
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General CW: rape.
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Panopto lecture for 4/17: link here.
Ovid Metamoporphoses selections: link here
Ovid’s Philomela episode: link here.
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- Ovid Ars Amatoria 1.1-772 (Francese, Christopher and R. Scott Smith, eds. 2014. Ancient Rome: An Anthology of Sources, 227-248. Indianapolis and Cambridge.)
- * Zuckerberg, Donna. 2015. “Bang Rome: Ovid and the Original Sin of Pickup Artistry.” Eidolon.
- * James, Sharon L. 2016. “Rape and Repetition in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Myth, History, Structure, Rome.” In Repeat Performances, edited by Laurel Fulkerson, 154-175. Madison (Wisc.).
- * McCarter, Stephanie. 2018. “Rape, Lost in Translation.” Electric Literature. CW: rape.
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Quiz #6 on W 5/1.
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