Professor: J. Barringer
CRN: 92491
Distribution: C/D
Time: Tu Th 10:30 am - 11:50 am OLIN 102
Cross-listed: Art History
Ancient Greece and Rome were men's worlds. Men held
political economic, and social power. Greek
women wielded no overt social leverage yet managed to maintain control over their households
and
played an important part in religion and mythology. Roman woman had somewhat greater
freedom
and legal powers, especially women in the imperial families. Both societies were slave societies,
and
social relations between aristocratic patrons and middle-class clientes formed the backbone of
political
interaction in the Roman Republic and Empire. This course examines issues of gender and social
status in ancient Greece and Rome as revealed in ancient art and literature. Topics to be covered
include legendary women and founding myths; religion and mythology; perceptions of men's and
women's bodies and medicine; gender roles in tragedy and epic; homo-, hetero-, and bisexuality;
gender and status before the law; the relation between public and private lives; the rise of the
Roman
middle-class; slavery and freedmen; education; rites of passage; and marriage. First-Year students
welcome.
Professor: W. Mullen
CRN: 92935
Distribution: A/B
Time: Tu 1:20 pm - 3:20 pm OLIN 304
Cross-listed: Philosophy
Consideration of the principal pre-Socratic philosophers--Parmenides, Heracleitus, Empedocles,
Democritus and others--with respect to developments in Greek religion and science as well as to
the history of philosophy. First-Year students welcome.