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CLAS/HIST240 Ancient Societies: The Family
Spring Semester, 2004
Department
of Classics, Monmouth College
NOTE: This schedule will remain "in progress"
throughout the semester. It will be modified as needed. Students are advised to consult
this schedule periodically for changes, modifications, and additions.
Additional study questions will be added later.
Jan. 13 Course
Introductions
What is a family?
Some Readings on the Modern
Family in the Popular Press
FOCUS TEXT: Genesis 1-4 (use
The Bible Browser) |
Jan. 15 Modern vs. Ancient Families: Definitions and Attitudes
Friedl. Vasilika (in library);
Vasilika Outline
Pomeroy, ix-xiii; 227-230
Song of Solomon; Jn. 2:1-11; Mt. 10:37, 19: 4-6,
19:10-12, 22:23-30; Lk. 14:15-33, 20:34-36; Eph.
5:21-6:4; I Peter 2:18-3:7
FOCUS TEXT: Coulanges, The Ancient City (in library)
Read especially the foreword and books 1-2;
Coulanges Outline |
Jan. 20 The
Family of the Gods
Pomeroy, 1-13
Odyssey, I.1-120; V.1-48; VIII, 295-366 (Lay of Demodokus)
Lefkowitz and Fant (=L&F) #393 (Rape of Persephone)
FOCUS TEXT: Iliad XIV.154-360 (Seduction
of Zeus) |
Jan. 22 Matriarchy,
Patriarchy, Misogyny and Satire
Pomeroy, 13-15; 48-52;
Cantarella, 11-23
Gimbutas, Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe (in library)
L&F #54-56; 58
FOCUS TEXT: L&F 57 (Semonides' Satire on Women) |
Jan. 27 The
Homeric Family
Pomeroy, 16-31
Odyssey I, XVI, XIX, XXIII
FOCUS TEXT: Odyssey VI |
Jan. 29 The
Archaic Greek Family
Pomeroy, 33-35; 42-48; 54-58
Also Herodotus on Carian
Women, Budini
Women, Cyrenian
Women, and the Wife
of Pisistratus.
FOCUS TEXT:
Herodotus VI.126-131
(The Marriage of Agariste) |
Feb. 3 Lyric Poetry
and Burial Evidence
L&F #2-21, 234
Pomeroy 42-48; 54-58
FOCUS TEXT: L&F #1
Images: Sappho
reading / Sappho
and Alcaeus / Sappho
Page / The Divine
Sappho / Sappho
Resource
Summary and Review Due |
Feb. 17 Family Life in Sparta and Crete
Pomeroy, 35-42
L&F #76, 95-99, 401
FOCUS TEXT: Herodotus
VI.60-69 (The Story of Dermaratus) |
Feb. 19 Social Status of Athenian Women: The Problem
L&F #36-38, 237
Pomeroy, 57-62
Lacey, chapter 7 (in library)
Ehrenberg, chapter 8 (in library)
Solon (hand-out)
FOCUS TEXT: L&F #267
BONUS: Watch Pandora's Box (in library) |
| Feb. 23 .
TOGAMAN 7:30
P.M. in the Highlander Room For more information, see
TOGAMAN. |
Feb. 24 The
Athenian Family and Housing and Legal Evidence
L&F #77-87, 89-94
Pomeroy, 62-84
See Athenian Family Life: Some Legal Evidence
/ Isaeus. On
the Estate of Menecles
FOCUS TEXT:
L&F #88
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Feb. 26 The
Athenian Family in Myth and Drama
Pomeroy, 93-114
Slater, 3-74 (in library)
L&F #29-35, 59-67, 238
FOCUS TEXT: L&F #28 |
| Mar. 1 FOX
CLASSICS LECTURE. 7:30 P.M. in the Highlander Room |
Mar. 2 The
Ideal vs. the Troubled Family
Thucydides, II.34-46:
Pericles' Funeral Oration
Euripides' Medea
Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Libation Bearers
Aristophanes' Lysistrata
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Mar. 4 FIRST
UNIT EXAM
Mid-Course Evaluation Due |
Marriage
and Family in Hellenistic Greece
L&F #101-106, 407
Greek Tombstone inscriptions (slides)
Family of Alexander the Great
FOCUS TEXT: Pomeroy, 120-141
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Mar. 16 Greek
Women in Public Life
Pomeroy, 115-119
L&F 73-74, 160-164, 191-194, 202-207, 216-219, 225-227, 229, 235-236, 273-275,
303-306, 383-387, 389-392, 394-400, 402-406, 426-430 |
Mar. 18 Women and Marriage in Greek Philosophy
FOCUS TEXTS: L&F #72-74 |
Mar. 23 Sexuality
and Child Bearing in the Greek World
Pomeroy, 84-92; 142-148
Aeschylus' Eumenides (lines 656-672; 734-743))
L&F #228-232, 241-242, 248-249, 253, 338-367, 369-382, 414-417
Noonan, especially chapter 1 (in library)
FOCUS TEXT: Plato, Symposium |
Apr. 1 Stereotypes
of the Roman Family: Aeneas, the Ideal Roman Paterfamilias
and Etruscan
and Early Roman Families
Tacitus, Annals, III.33-34 (in library);
On Germany,
19-20
Vergil. Aeneid II, IV, VI (in library)
L&F # 100, 165-166, 233
Livy (in library): I, 23-26 (Horatii and Curiatii; I, 46-48 (Tullia); II, 5 (Brutus and
his sons)
1.7-14 (Sabine
Women) and III, 44-48 (Verginia) |
Apr. 6
CATULLUS (will continue for several classes)
Roman
Marriage and Matrons: The Scipios, Sempronia, Clodia
Pomeroy, 149-170; 176-189
L&F #52-53, 71, 75, 107-159; 173-174, 176-179, 181-190, 195-200, 208-223, 258-260;
270.
Making tombstone squeezes
FOCUS TEXT: L&F #51 |
Apr. 8 Cicero, Mark Antony and Their Families
FOCUS TEXT: Cicero on his daughter (handout) |
Apr. 13
Allia
Potestas and "Turia": Conjugal
Love in the Roman Empire
Pomeroy, 170-176
L&F #47, 167-172, 175-176; 243-247, 261-264
FOCUS TEXT: L&F #43
The Pompeian House
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| Apr. 15 No
class. Work on Individualized Project.
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| Apr. 20 No
class Work on Individualized Project. |
Apr. 22
The Roman
Domus and Familia: Evidence of Inscriptions
Pomeroy, 190-204
L&F #39-42; 44-46, 49, 239-240, 249-252, 254-257, 268-269, 271-272, 276-282, 368
Carcopino. Daily Life in Ancient Rome, 76-100 (in library)
Individualized Project
due.
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Apr. 27 Roman Family and
Religion;
Imperial
Families
L&F #180, 220 , 265-266
Pomeroy, 205-228
L&F #48, 50, 201, 408-413, 418-425, 431-452
The Augustan Altar of Peace (slides)
FOCUS TEXT: L&F #388
MAP/GEOGRAPHY QUIZZES |
| Apr. 29 SECOND UNIT EXAM |
| May 6 at 6 P.M. Poster
Presentations,
Course Evaluations, etc. |
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