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Syllabus
A
heavy reading course, Women in Antiquity called for students to
dive into such classic works as Hesiod's Theogony and Works
and Days, the Homeric Hymns to Demeter and Aphrodite, Euripides'
Medea and Bacchae, and, of course, Aristophanes'
Lysistrata. In addition, students had to purchase the following
first two texts; the third was recommended:
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Woman,
Culture, and Society, (Stanford University Press),
edited by Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere.
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Women's
Life in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook in Translation,
(Johns Hopkins University Press), edited by Mary R. Lefkowitz
and Maureen B. Fant.
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Women
in the Classical World: Image and Text, (Oxford
University Press), by Elaine Fantham, Helene Peet Foley, Natalie
Boymel Kampen, and Sarah B. Pomeroy. An illustrated chronological
survey including primary sources and historical and cultural
context.
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