Tuesday, Nov 15 Sparta and Athens

READING: McNeill, pp. 103-121, 163-180;

Reilly, 87-106.

Wednesday, Nov 16 Women and Men in Classical Greece

READING: Euripides, The Bacchae.

Thursday, Nov 17 Greek Thought

READING: Plato, excerpt from the Symposium;

Aristotle, excerpts from The Generation of Animals, and Nichomachean Ethics, in Course Reader, pp. 119-139.

Tuesday, Nov 22 Another Look at Evolution & Religion

FILM (to be shown in class):

Evolution, Show 7: "What About God?"

For addtional material and links, click here

Tuesday, Nov 29 Alexander and the Hellenistic World

READING: McNeill, pp. 180-185.

Wednesday, Nov 30 Rome -- From Republic to Empire

READING: McNeill, pp. 185-197;

Reilly, pp. 158-172.

Thursday, Dec 1 Women, Men, and Society in Rome

READING: Excerpts from Cicero, Virgil, and Horace,
and Juvenal, "Against Women", in Course Reader, pp. 140-144;

Reilly, pp. 128-138;
Sarah Pomeroy, "Women and Roman Religion" (handout).