Dr Barbara Goff
Calendar of assignments
For each class, you must read the material assigned from the texts
for purchase and from the reader. The material in italics, which is
described as on reserve, is recommended but not required. In most
cases it provides a more theoretically inflected account of the
primary material. Those introducing the class discussion are expected
to read the recommended as well as the required material for their
presentation topic.
WLGR = Women's Life in Greece and Rome, Pomeroy = Goddesses,
Whores,Wives and Slaves, Foley = Reflections of Women in Antiquity,
Fantham = Women in the Classical World
1/22 Introduction
1/27 Homeric epic: women in a warrior society
- Iliad (Fagles) pp 132-136, 141-143, 146-147, 203-212, 339,
374-381, 412-415, 483-487, 490-498, 542-558, 611-614
- Pomeroy 16-31 (omitting 23-25)
- Arthur in Foley
1/29 Homeric epic: a catalog of women
- Odyssey 1-12 : Lattimore 1, 2.42, 3.58, 4.65-73, 5.90-93, 6,
7.111-113, 8.128-30, 133, 10.156-67, 11.172-80, 12.185-92
- Fantham 33-34
2/3 Homeric epic: coming home
- Odyssey 13-24:
- 13. 204-09, 14, 15.225-6, 228,-9, 234-7, 16, 17.254, 260-61,
266- 69, 18.274-79, 19.283-end, 20.298-301, 21.309-12, 317-18,
22.331-34, 23.335-44, 24.348-50
- Winkler on Penelope in Winkler 1989 in reader
- Foley in Peradotto and Sullivan 1978 in reader
2/5 Minoan and other matriarchies
- Pomeroy 13-15, 23-25
- Billigmeier and Turner in Foley
- Fantham 128-135
- Herodotus on Amazons 176-177 in reader
- Pomeroy 1976 in reader
- Bamberger in Rosaldo and Lamphere 1974 in reader
- QUIZ 1
2/10 Hesiodic appropriations
- Pomeroy 32-35, 48-52
- WLGR# 54-57
- Hesiod on Muses in reader
- Loraux 1993 in reader
- Arthur 1983 on reserve
- Bergren 1983 on reserve
2/12 Women's voices from ancient Greece
- WLGR #1-21, # 160, #162
- Pomeroy 52-56
- Stigers and Winkler in Foley
- on Sappho:Winkler on Sappho in Winkler 1989 on reserve
- Skinner in Rabinowitz and Richlin 1993 on reserve
- on Nossis:Skinner 1989,on reserve
- Skinner in Pomeroy 1991 on reserve
2/17 Homeric Hymn to Demeter: female anger and submission
- WLGR # 393
- Hymn in reader
- Foley 1994: 103-150 in reader
2/19 Classical Athens: law and life
- WLGR # 77-90, 267
- Pomeroy 57-74, 79-92
- Gould 1980 on reserve
- QUIZ 2
2/24 Classical period, history: extraordinary women
- Herodotus in reader
- Dewald in Foley
2/26 Classical period, philosophy: defining the female
- WLGR #72-74, #208, 216, 217, 218
- Pomeroy 115-119
- PAPER 1 DUE
3/3 Classical vase-paintings: making women visible
- Sutton in Richlin 1992 in reader
- Williams in reader
- on women in The City of Images in reader
- Fantham 46-49
- Keuls 1985: 229-266 on reserve
3/5 Classical and Hellenistic period: Medicine
- WLGR #338-352, 355-56, 375, 380
- Dean-Jones in Pomeroy 1991 on reserve
- King in Cameron and Kuhrt 1983 on reserve
3/10 Classical and Hellenistic period: religion
- WLGR #86, 383-387, 389-392, 394-400, 402-406
- Pomeroy 75-78
- Kraemer 1988 in reader
- Pausanias on Arrhephoria, in reader
- Fantham 34-39, 83-96
- Zeitlin 1982 on reserve
- QUIZ 3
3/12 Athenian tragedy. Female triumph?
- Oresteia 1: Agamemnon, Choephoroi
- Pomeroy 93-99
3/17 NO CLASS
3/19 NO CLASS
3/24 Athenian tragedy. Female defeat?
- Oresteia 2: Eumenides
- Zeitlin in Peradotto and Sullivan 1978 in reader
3/26 Sophoclean heroines
- Antigone, Electra, Women of Trachis
- Rosaldo, Ortner in Rosaldo & Lamphere 1974 on reserve
- Pomeroy 99-103
3/31 Euripidean anti-heroines
- Medea, Hippolytos, Bacchae
- WLGR # 29-33, 32-34, 59-61
- Pomeroy 103-112
- Foley in Foley
- Zeitlin 1991 on reserve
- QUIZ 4
4/2 Athenian comedy: the world turned upside-down
- Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazousai, Ecclesiazousai
- Pomeroy 112-114
- Zeitlin in Foley
4/7 Dorian Women : alternative possibilities
- WLGR # 76, 95-100, 401
- Pomeroy 35-42
- Fantham 56-67
- Kunstler 1987
- PAPER 2 DUE
4/9 Hellenistic Women: a new deal?
- WLGR #228, 229, 230, 415
- Theokritos in reader
- Apollonius Rhodius in reader
- Griffiths in Foley
- Pomeroy 120-148
- Fantham 136-182
4/14 Rome: early legends
- WLGR # 107-119, # 165, 166, 233
- Livy in reader
- Fantham 216-228
- Female origins
- QUIZ 5
4/16 Roman republican women: matrons and virgins
- WLGR # 51, 52, 53, # 71, #167, 168, # 173, 174, 176, 178,
#214, #258, 259, 260, #408-413
- Pomeroy 149-185, 189-226
- Carp in Foley
- Hallett 1989 in reader
- Fantham 230-37
4/21 Roman Imperial women: power and sexuality
- WLGR # 120-147, #170, # 175, # 189, 190, # 210, 211,
- # 265, 266
- Tacitus in reader
- Pomeroy 185-189
- Fantham 294-329
- Richlin in Foley
4/23 Imperial epic: women in a new world order
- Vergil Aeneid 1, 2, 4, 6
4/28 Imperial epic: endings
- Vergil Aeneid 7, 11, 12
- Perkell in Foley
- QUIZ 6
4/30 Imperial elegy: are women real?
- WLGR #22-27
- Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid in reader
- Fantham 280-293
- Wyke 1989 in reader
- Hallett 1978 in reader
- Gold in Rabinowitz and Richlin on reserve
5/5 Women in the early Christian period
- WLGR # 75, # 192-201, # 242, # 261, # 441-452
- Free at last?
5/7 Conclusions
- PAPER 3 DUE
Return to CC 348/WS 345 WOMEN IN CLASSICAL
ANTIQUITY