Middlebury

CLAS 0280

Gender, Sexuality, Antiquity

Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
In this course we will examine gender and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome. Through close analyses of primary texts and material remains, we will discuss representations of gender in literature and art, sexual norms and codes, medical theories concerning the male and female body, and views on marriage, rape, adultery, and prostitution. We will also examine the relationship between the construction of gender identities and sexuality in literature, and whether or not modern constructions of sexuality are applicable to the ancient world. Authors and texts include Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, the Hippocratic Corpus, Livy, Ovid, Catullus, and Sulpicia. Not open to students who have taken CLAS/GSFS 1016. 3 hrs. lect.
Subject:
Classics
Department:
Classics
Division:
Humanities
Requirements Fulfilled:
CMP CW EUR HIS SOC
Equivalent Courses:
WAGS 1016
CLAS 1016
GSFS 0280
GSFS 1016

Sections in Winter 2014