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Introduction: Evidence for Women's History, Methodology
Day 1 Introductions, Types of Evidence, Methodology
- Fantham et al. pgs.
5-12
- Berkin, "Dangerous Courtesies" (xerox packet)
- Semonides, How to Pick a Wife (L&F #57)
ARCHAIC PERIOD:
Day 2 Myths, Memories, and the Question of ancient Matriarchy
(Catalhoyuk, Minoan Crete, Mycenean Greece, women's work: textiles)
- Ehrenberg, "Matriarchy, Patriarchy, or Equality" and "Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchy?" Women in Prehistory 63-76 and 109-18 (coursepack)
- Barber, Women's Work, Chs 1, 4 (coursepack)
- J. Billigmeier and J. Turner, "The Socio-economic roles of women in Mycenean Greece," in Reflections of Women in Antiquity, ed. Helene Foley (Gordon and Breach 1981) 1-18. (coursepack)
- Catalhoyuk (Anatolia)
Day 3 Mother Goddesses and archaic Greek religion
- Historical Woman chosen
- Fantham et al. pgs. 19-49
- Selections from Hesiod's Theogony (coursepack)
- Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (Homeric Hymn 5) (coursepack)
- Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Homeric Hymn 2) (coursepack)
- Korai and Kouroi
- Alkman, Parthenion
- Recommended Readings (on reserve):
- Blundell, Women in Ancient Greece, 20-46
P.M.: Finding Primary Sources (Elizabeth Schau) Cole 126
Day 4 A Woman's Voice: Sappho
A.M. Panel Presentation: Chuck, Cory
- Research Bibliography Due, primary sources
- Snyder Chapter 1
- Fantham et al. pgs. 12-22
- Study
Guide for Sappho
- Informal Writing Assignment #1: Three
views of women
- Recommended Readings (some on reserve):
- De Jean, Introduction to Fictions of Sappho
- Hallett "Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality"
Signs 4 (1979) 447-64.
- Parker, "Sappho Schoolmistress" Transactions
of the American Philological Association 123 (1993) 309-51
- Winkler, "Double Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics,"
in Constraints of Desire, 162-87; repr. in McClure, Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World
- Skinner, "Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why is Sappho a Woman?" in Rabinowitz and Richlin, eds., Feminist Theory and the Classics, 125-44.
- Greene, "Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Fragments," in Rabinowitz and Auanger, eds. Among Women, 82-105
Day 5 The Exchange of Women: Concubines & Slaves
- Fantham et al. pgs. 50-53
- Hurmence, ed., My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery: Twenty-one
Oral Histories of Former North Carolina Slaves (Winston-Salem, NC:
John F. Blair, Publisher, 1984), pp. 35-39 and 67-74 (coursepack)
- Iliad 1.1-336, 3.120-180, 6.365-465; Odyssey 1.424-444,
15.351-484, 18.304-45, 23.390-472 (coursepack)
- Hesiod, The Creation of Women (also Fantham 40-42)
- Euripides, Hecuba (coursepack)
- Questions
- Recommended Readings (on reserve):
- Gerda Lerner: "The Woman Slave," The Creation of Patriarchy
- F. I. Zeitlin, "Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama," in McClure, Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World, 103-38
- Rabinowitz, "Slaves with slaves: Women and class in Euripidean tragedy," in Joshel and Murnaghan, eds., Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture, 56-68
PM: Finding Secondary sources (Elizabeth Schau) Cole 127
CLASSICAL GREECE:
Day 6 Athens: Women's standing in politics, law, and economics
- Research Bibliography Due, primary and secondary sources
- Due: Biography, First Draft, at least 4 pages typed (final draft due Wednesday at 5 p.m.
- Fantham et al. pgs. 68-83, 106-113
- Lefkowitz & Fant plates 2, 3, 9 &10
- How
to Train a Wife (L&F #267)
- Legal Status (L&F #80-87, 236)
- Good Wives: (L&F #29, 36-38, 237)
- Bad Girls: (L&F #59-67, 88-89, 238)
- Women's Response? (L&F #34)
- Women and Women (L&F #226-227)
- More Questions
- Recommended Readings (on reserve):
- Blundell, Women in Ancient Greece, 113-24
- Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves, Ch 4
PM: Writer's workshop: organization, integrating sources, raising questions (Mariah Steele)
Day 7 Athens: Women's sexuality as subject to social and legal control;
women's education, domestic space
- Fantham et al. pgs. 113-118
- Lysias, "On the Murder of Eratosthenes," Antiphon, "Against
a Stepmother," and pseudo-Demosthenes, "Against Neaera"
(L&F 88-90)
- Working Women:
- Prostitution (L&F #90, 225, 235, 287, 288 )
Theodote
- Other Occupations (L&F #303, 317-18, 322-25, 327, 329-332, 376, 379)
- Plato's Female Pupils (L&F #216)
- Informal Writing Assignment #2: Describe your reactions after
reviewing the Athenian laws and customs regarding adultery, concubinage,
and prostitution. What attitude (or attitudes) regarding women's sexuality
do you think these reveal? Do you perceive any inconsistencies or contradictions
in these laws and customs? How do you think the women (both "respectable"
women and "nonrespectable" women) might have reacted to these laws/customs
and the male attitudes that underlie them?
- Recommended Readings (some on reserve):
- Blundell, Women in Ancient Greece, 124-26, 147-48
- Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves, Ch 5
- Johnstone, "Cracking the Code of Silence: Athenian Legal
Oratory and the Histories of Slaves and Women" in Joshel and Murnaghan, eds., Women
and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture
- Morris, "Remaining Invisible: The Archaeology of the Excluded
in Classical Athens" in Women and Slaves
- Cole, "Could Greek Women Read and Write?" in Reflections
of Women in Antiquity
- Williams, "Women on Athenian Vases: Problems of Interpretation,"
in Images of Women in Antiquity
- Halperin, "The Democratic Body," in One Hundred Years
of Homosexuality
- Keuls, "The Athenian Prostitute: A Good Buy in the Agora"
in The Reign of the Phallos
- Keuls, " The Whore with the Golden Heart, the Happy Hooker,
and other Fictions" in The Reign of the Phallos
- Kurke, "Inventing the Hetaira: Sex, Politics, and Discursive
Conflict in Archaic Greece," Classical Antiquity 16
(1997) 106-50
PM: Guest lecture/workshop: Maria Schutt, Professor of Art, Hands-on workshop on ancient textiles, spinning and weaving
Day 8 Women's Roles in Civic and Private Religion
A.M. Panel Presentation: Alyssa, Katy, Adam
- Final Draft of Biography paper due at 5 p.m.
- Fantham et al. pgs.83-97
- Religion (L&F #77, 391-92, 394-96, 398-400, 402-405)
- one of the following two articles (coursepack):
Bella Zweig, "The Primal Mind: Using Native American Models for
the Study of Women in Ancient Greece," in Feminist Theory and
the Classics, ed. N. Sorkin Rabinowitz and A. Richlin (Routledge
1993) 145-80.
Jill Dubisch, "Gender, Kinship, and Religion: 'Reconstructing'
the Anthropology of Greece," in Contested Identities: Gender
and Kinship in Modern Greece, ed. P. Loizos and E. Papataxiarchis
(Princeton 1991) 33-46.
- Recommended Readings (one on reserve):
- Clark, "The Gamos of Hera: Myth and Ritual" in The
Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece
- Nixon, "The Cults of Demeter and Kore" in Women in
Antiquity: New Assessments
- Stehle and Day, "Women Looking At Women: Women's Ritual and
Temple Structure" in Sexuality in Ancient Art
- Stears, "Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual" in The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece
- Winkler, "Laughter of the Oppressed: Demeter and the Gardens
of Adonis" in Constraints of Desire
- Zeitlin, "Cultic Models of the Female: Rites of Dionysus
and Demeter" in Playing the Other
Day 9 Spartan Women; Classical Women Poets
- Fantham et al. pgs. 56-66
- Snyder chapter 2
- Telesilla (L&F # 160)
- Lefkowitz & Fant #76, 99 & 401
PM: Writer's workshop: reading primary sources, understanding different genres, recognizing inherent biases (Mariah Steele)
HELLENISTIC PERIOD
Day 10 Women's Bodies: Ancient Medical Theories
A.M. Panel Presentation: Brette, Elise, Megan
- Fantham et al. "Excursus on Anatomy" (pgs. 183-203)
- King, "Producing Woman: Hippocratic Gynaecology," in Women
in Ancient Societies
- Hiring
a wet nurse (L&F #250)
- A
philosopher on breast-feeding (L&F #253)
- Gynecology
& Reproductive Issues (L&F #338-381)
- Cures of women at Epidauros (L&F 406)
- Greek
and Roman surgical instruments (Asclepion)
- Questions to
Ponder
- Study Guides: Women
in the Hippocratic Corpus; Soranus,
Galen and later ideas about the femal body
- Recommended Readings (on reserve):
- King, "Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women," in McClure, Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World, 77-97.
- King, "Self-help, self-knowledge: in search of the patient
in Hippocratic Gynaecology," in Hawley and Levick, eds., Women in Antiquity: New
Assessments
- Dean-Jones, "The Cultural Construct of the Female Body in
Classical Greek Science," in Pomeroy, ed., Women's History and Ancient
History
- Valerie French, Midwives
and Maternity Care in the Roman World," Helios 13.2
(1986) 69-84
Day 11 Hellenistic Culture, Women Poets & Philosophers
- Introduction and outline to Feminist Analysis paper due; submit by 8:30 a.m. to jgruber-miller@cornellcollege.edu and msteele@cornellcollege.edu
- Optional informal writing assignment: Three Greek sculptures of women
- Fantham et al. pgs.140-180
- Snyder Chapter 3
- women painters (L&F #307)
- Hipparchia (L&F #217-218)
- More Questions
- Recommended Readings (on reserve):
- Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves, Ch 7
- Salomon, "Making a World of Difference: Gender, Asymmetry, and the Greek Nude," in Koloski-Ostrow and Lyons, eds., Naked Truths, 197-219.
PM: Writer's Workshop: thesis statements, model papers (Mariah Steele)
ROMAN WOMEN
Day 12 Early Roman Legends; Women in the early Republic; Etruscan
Women
A.M. Panel: Dan, Desiree, Halley
- Fantham et al. (pgs. 211-241, 243-58, 260-65)
- Livy's accounts of the Sabine
Women, Lucretia,
and Cloelia
(L&F #233, 166, 165)
- Marriage & Social Status: Laws
of the Kings, The
Twelve Tables ( L&F #107-111, 208, 213)
- Aristocratic Women (L&F # 51-3, 71, 167, 168, 173, 174, 176, 178,
223, 259-60)
- Freedwomen & non-elite women (L&F # 40, 250)
- Vestal
Virgins (L&F # 408-413)
- Recommended Readings (first one on reserve):
- Joshel, "The Body Female and the Body Politic: Livy's Lucretia and Verginia," in McClure, Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World, 163-87.
- Stehle, "Venus, Cybele, and the Sabine Women: The Roman Construction of Female Sexuality," Helios 16.2 (1989) 143-64.
- Mary Beard, "Re-reading Vestal Virginity," in Hawley and Levick, eds., Women in Antiquity: New Assessments, 166-77.
Day 13 Women, Family and Sexuality in the Late Republic & Early
Empire
A.M. Panel: Avi, Caroline, Lindsey
- Feminist analysis of Life of your historical woman, first draft
due
- Fantham et al. (pgs. 271-77, 280-292 (skim), 294-306, 314-321)
- Marriage, Family, Divorce, & Social Status (L&F # 41, 43-45, 48-50,
69, 112-122, 128-141, 191, 211, 242, 249, 253, 258)
- Adultery & Sexual Crimes ( L&F # 123-127, 142-47, 240, 265)
- Recommended Readings:
- Cohen, "The Augustan Law on Adultery: The Social and Cultural
Context" in The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present
- Flemming, "Quae Corpore Quaestum Facit: The Sexual Economy
of Female Prostitution in the Roman Empire," Journal of
Roman Studies 89 (1999) 38-61
- Edwards, " Unspeakable Professions: Public Performance and Prostitution in Ancient Rome," in Hallett and Skinner, eds., Roman Sexualities, 66-95
- Dixon, "Rape in Roman Law and Myth," in Reading Roman Women, 45-55.
- Myerowitz, "The Domestication of Desire: Ovid's Parva
Tabella and the Theater of Love," in Pornography and
Representation in Greece and Rome
- Treggiari, "Ideals and Practicalities in Matchmaking in Ancient
Rome" in The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present
- Hallett, "Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality
in Latin Literature" in Roman Sexualities
Day 14 Elite Women: Roman Women Writers, Cleopatra, Imperial Women
- Fantham et al. (pgs. 136-139, 307-313, 322-27, 345-68)
- Snyder, Chapter 5
- McManus, brief
biography of Livia, wife of Augustus
- Sulpicia
the Satirist (L&F #224)
- Cleopatra:
(L&F #175; cf. L&F #407)
- Hallett, Elite
Roman women: public speech, literary interests and education (course
pack)
- one of the following two articles (in your course pack):
Hallett "Woman as Same and Other in Classical Roman Elite"
Helios 16 (1989)
Fischler, "Social Stereotypes and Historical Analysis: The Case
of Imperial Women at Rome" in Women in Ancient Societies
- Aristocratic Women (L&F 68, 71, 75, 168, 170-174, 176, 192-201, 209,
214, 219, 243-248, 263, 345-368)
- Imperial Women (L&F # 180, 210, 220, 266)
- Curses & Potions (L&F # 415-420)
- Recommended Readings:
- Parker, "Loyal Slaves and loyal wives: The crisis of the outsider-within and Roman exemplum literature," in Joshel and Murnaghan, eds., Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture, 152-73, esp. 152-56 and 163-70
- Hillard, "On the Stage, Behind the Curtain: Images of Politically
Active Women in the Late Roman Republic," Helios 16
(1989)
- Joshel, "Female Desire and the Discourse of Empire: Tacitus's
Messalina" in Hallett and Skinner, eds. Roman Sexualities
- Plutarch, "The Life of Antony" (see Cleopatra above)
- Richlin, Julia's Jokes, Galla Placidia, and the Roman Use of Women
as Political Icons," in Stereotypes of Women in Power
- Wyke, "Augustan Cleopatras," in The Roman Mistress:
Ancient and Modern Representations
Day 15 Art in Roman Life
- Visit the exhibit Art in
Roman Life: Villa to Grave at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art:
Riley Collection website
- Writing Assignment: Describe in detail how the life
of an upper-class Roman woman of the late Republic/early Empire differed
strikingly from that of an upper-class woman in classical Athens in
TWO of the following five areas: 1) guardianship; 2) economic capacities;
3) marital roles; 4) political roles; 5) religious roles. For each of
the two areas that you choose to describe, support your statements about
the Roman women with specific information (including at least one direct
quotation) from the readings from Fantham, et al. (Chapters 9 and 11)
and/or Pomeroy (Chapters 8 and 10)(on reserve). What do you think accounted
for these differences?
Day 16 Working Women, Freedwomen & Slaves
- Dramatic Monologue/Readers Theater, first draft due
- Fantham et al. (pgs. 265-70, 330-44, 368-391)
- Slaves & Prostitutes (L&F # 119, 155, 169, 181)
- Midwives & Medical Practitioners (L&F # 369-375, 377-78, 380-382)
- Freedwomen (L&F # 47, 212, 239, 251. 254)
- Final Questions to Ponder
Presentations
Day 17 Breaking the Silence of the Past: performance of dramatic monologues/Readers
Theater presentation
Day 18 Presentations (cont)
- Portfolio of all writing assignments due along with a 1-2
page analysis of your progress as a writer. How have you improved
as a writer? What do you wish you could have done different? What challenges
did you meet both in your research and in your writing and how did you attempt to overcome them? What do you feel
you still need to work on as a writer? Please include a hard copy of
your papers with my comments. I would like to review not only informal
writing assignments but also the final drafts of each of the three stages
of the Life of an ancient woman.
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