Part 3: Women in Classical Greece
Day 6 Spartan women: Sparta as "other," as utopia
Required Reading:
Recommended Reading:
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Blundell, 150-59
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Pomeroy, 35-42
BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE AT 5:00 P.M.
Day 7 Women's standing in politics, law, and economics
Required Reading:
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Fantham, 68-83, 106-113
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Blundell, 113-24, 127-29
Recommended Reading:
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Marilyn Arthur Katz, "Daughters
of Demeter"
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Lin Foxhall, "Household, Gender, and Property in Classical Athens," Classical
Quarterly 39 (1989) 22-44.
Day 8 Women's sexuality as subject to social and legal control
Required Reading:
Writing Assignment #3 due
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?
PROFILE DUE SATURDAY AT 5:00 P.M.
Week 3
Day 9 Women's roles in civic and private religion; women in the oikos:
family and domestic life; women poets of fifth century Greece
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Fantham, 83-106
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Snyder, Ch.2
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one of the following two articles:
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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.
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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 Reading:
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Susan G. Cole, "Could Greek Women Read and Write?" in Reflections of
Women in Antiquity, ed. H. Foley (Gordon and Breach 1981) 219-45.
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Susan Walker, "Women and Housing in Classical Greece: The Archaeological
Evidence," in Images of Women in Antiquity, ed. Cameron and Kuhrt
(Wayne State 1983) 81-91.
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