Classics 384 (Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Rome)

FALL 2008

Dr. Sutherland's home page

MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY

 
 

August 20

 
Introduction

August 22

Richlin, The Garden of Priapus xiii-xxxvii
Optional: Bornstein, Gender Outlaw ch. 4

August 25

 
WLGR 39-41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51-52, 53, 75

August 27

WLGR 107-114, 118, 120-123, 167-168,
170-172, 111A, 154A, 156A

August 29

 
Livy, The History of Rome Book 1

September 1

 
LABOR DAY

September 3

Livy 2.12-13, 3.42-50, WLGR 168, 176;
Optional: WCW ch. 7

September 5

 
Joshel, "The Body Female and the Body Politic"

September 8

 
 
 
WLGR 119-129, 174

September 10

WLGR 178-179, 181, 284-285, 289-290, 292-294,
296-302, 312-316, 319-321, 326, 334-335, 196A,
285A-C, 321A, 331A, 337A; Dixon, "How Do You
Count Them if They're Not There?"

September 12

 
 
Kampen, "Social Status and Gender in Roman Art"
Optional: WCW 265-270

September 15

 
No class; work on papers

September 17

 
Short papers due

September 19

WLGR 173
Optional: WCW pp. 260-265

September 22

WLGR 388, 408-411, 425, 430-431,
411A, 413A-C, 425A-B, 437A

September 24

WLGR 341-362, 357A, 364A, 382A;
French, "Midwives and Maternity Care"

September 26

 
TBA

September 29

Exam review/discussion

October 1

MIDTERM EXAM

October 3

Juvenal, Satires 6; WLGR 174-175

October 6

Richlin, "Invective Against Women in Roman Satire";
Gold, "'The House I Live In Is Not My Own'"

October 8

Selections from Ovid, Metamorphoses
(on Blackboard)

October 10

 
NO CLASS: FALL BREAK

October 13

Selections from Ovid, Metamorphoses
(on Blackboard)

October 15

 
Selections from Ovid, Metamorphoses

October 17

Segal, "Philomela`s Web
and the Pleasures of the Text"

October 20

 
Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"

October 22

 
Wyke, "Woman in the Mirror"

October 24

Suetonius, Julius Caesar;
handout on Blackboard

October 27

 
Cicero, Pro Caelio

October 29

 
Suetonius, Augustus

October 31

Catullus. Optional: Martial
(on reserve in Hodges)

November 3

Catullus

November 5

Roman elegy (on Blackboard)

November 7

NO CLASS

November 10

Plato, Symposium

November 12

Elaine Fantham, "Stuprum"

November 14

Beert Verstraete, "Slavery"

November 17

 
Clarke, "The Warren Cup"

November 19

No class; REQUIRED meetings with Dr. S.
about paper topics

November 21

Juvenal, Satire 2
Paper outlines due

November 24

Walters, "Invading the Roman Body"

November 26

Juvenal, Satire 1

November 28

NO CLASS (THANKSGIVING)

December 1

 
Papers due; course wrap-up

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8

 
FINAL EXAM, 2:45-4:45 p.m.

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