Tuesday, Nov 14 Sparta and Athens

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

Reilly, 87-106.




Wednesday, Nov 15 Women and Men in Classical Greece

READING: Euripides, The Bacchae.




Thursday, Nov 16 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 21 Alexander and the Hellenistic World

READING: McNeill, pp. 180-185.




Tuesday, Nov 28 Rome -- From Republic to Empire

READING: McNeill, pp. 185-197;

Reilly, pp. 158-172.



Wednesday, Nov 29 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).






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