Instructor: Shennan Hutton
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Lives and roles of women and men in ancient Greece and Rome. Readings from history, philosophy, medical and legal documents, literature and myth. GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE.
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 philosophy 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 two 3-4-page papers, one midterm and a final.