CCIV 243 WOMEN AND THE POLIS

SPRING 1998


 

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HEROINES AND GREEK CULT

Sarah Rosenberg

23 April 1998 (class time)

Primary Source: Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis

Image: London F 159


MYTHS OF ATHENIAN ORIGINS

Andrea McKnight

24 April 1998 (1-2:15 pm)

Primary Source: Euripides, Ion

Image: Berlin F 2537


THE SYMPOSIUM AND HETAERAE

Jen Kravitz

28 April 1998 (class time)

Primary Sources: Xenophon, Symposium; Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae Book 13 ("Concerning Women"). If you have trouble with the AOL server, go to my download of the site instead.

Image: Louvre G 135


FUNERARY RITUAL

Tricia Luce

30 April 1998 (class time)

Primary Source: Euripides, Suppliant Women

Image: Harvard 1952.75


DEMETER, THE THESMOPHORIA AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES

Image for Eleusinian Mysteries

Sarah Wilkes

5 May (class time)

Primary Source: Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Image: RISD 25.083


ATHENA AND THE PANATHENAIA

Bekah Friedman

7 May 1998, 12:30-1:45 pm

Primary Source: Hesiod, Theogony

Image: Boston 00.330


AMAZONS

Rachel Hertzman

7 May 1998, 1:45-3 pm

Primary Sources: Plutarch, Life of Theseus; Herodotus, Histories IV.110-17; "Airs, Waters and Places," in Hippocratic Writings 

Image: London B 323


MARRIAGE RITUAL AND THE HOUSEHOLD

Mary Liz Williamson

12 May 1998, 9-10:15 am

Primary Source: Aeschylus, Suppliants

Image: London 1920.12-21


THE BODY IN QUESTION

Becky Karush

12 May 1998, 10:15-11:30

Primary Sources: Hippocratic Medicine; Aristotle, Selections from On the Generation of Animals; see also this selection from the Hippocratic Corpus on the wandering womb

Image: Childbirth Relief (5th century); from E. D. Phillips, Aspects of Greek Medicine (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973), illustration 3.

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Last revised 11 May 1998