This course is an introduction to women in ancient Greece and Rome which juxtaposes the cultural norms and prescriptions placed on women by men and philosophical and medical texts about women, with written and artistic representations of individual women and archaeological evidence. The course will cover the archaic period, classical Greece, Athens, Sparta, the Hellenistic world, Rome, and early Christianity. There will be one synchronous discussion per week, with asynchronous recorded lectures and assignments. There will be two papers and two exams.
