CLAS/HIST240 Ancient Societies: The Family

1st Semester 1999-2000, 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.

Aug. 31 Course Introductions
What is a family?

FOCUS TEXT: Genesis 1-4; 29-31
Sept. 2  Modern vs. Ancient Families: Definitions and Attitudes
Friedl. Vasilika (in library)
Pomeroy, ix-xiii; 227-230
Song of Solomon; Jn. 2; Mt. 10:37, 19: 4-6, 9:12, 22:30; Lk. 14:26, 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
Sept. 7 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

FOCUS TEXT: Iliad XIV.154-360 (Seduction of Zeus)

Sept. 9 Matriarchy, Patriarchy, Misogyny and Satire
Pomeroy, 13-15; 48-52
Gimbutas, Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe (in library)
L&F #54-56; 58

FOCUS TEXT: L&F 57
Sept. 14 The Homeric Family
Pomeroy, 16-31
Odyssey I, XVI, XIX, XXIII

FOCUS TEXT: Odyssey VI
Sept. 16 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)
Sept. 21 Lyric Poetry and Burial Evidence
 L&F #2-21, 234
Pomeroy 42-48; 54-58
FOCUS TEXT: L&F #1
Sept. 23 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)
Sept. 28 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
Sept. 30 The Athenian Family and Housing

FOCUS TEXT: L&F #88
Resource Summary and Review Due
Oct. 5 Athenian Family Life: Legal Evidence
L&F #77-87, 89-94
Pomeroy, 62-84
See Athenian Family Life: Some Legal Evidence

FOCUS TEXT: Isaeus. On the Estate of Menecles

FILM: Pandora's Box
Oct. 7 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
Oct. 12 The Ideal vs. the Troubled Family
Thucydides, II.34-46: Pericles' Funeral Oration
Euripides' Medea
Aeschylus' Agamemnon  and Libation Bearers
Aristophanes' Lysistrata
Mid-Course Evaluation Due
Oct. 14 FIRST UNIT EXAM
Oct. 19 Fall Break
Oct. 21 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

FOCUS TEXT: L&F #72
Oct. 26 Marriage and Family in Hellenistic Greece
L&F #101-106, 407
Greek Tombstone inscriptions (slides)
LAB: Making tombstone squeezes in Pioneer Cemetary (2 P.M.)

FOCUS TEXT: Pomeroy, 120-141
Oct. 29 No class. Work on Individualized Project. 
Nov. 2 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
Nov. 4 Stereotypes of the Roman Family: Aeneas, the Ideal Roman Paterfamilias
Tacitus, Annals, III.33-34 (in library)
Vergil. Aeneid II, IV, VI (in library)

FOCUS TEXT: Tacitus. On Germany, 19-20
Nov. 8  Fox Classics Lecture, 7:30 P.M. in Highlander Room. Attendance Required.
Nov. 9 Etruscan and Early Roman Families
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)

FOCUS TEXTS: Livy: 1.7-14 (Sabine Women) and  Livy, III, 44-48 (Verginia)
Nov. 11-18 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.

FOCUS TEXT: L&F #51
Nov. 16 NO CLASS. Use this time to work on  your individualized project.
Nov. 23 Cicero, Mark Antony and Their Families
FOCUS TEXT: Cicero on his daughter (handout)
Nov. 25 Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 30 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
Dec. 2 The Roman Domus and Familia: The Pompeian House and the 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)

MAP/GEOGRAPHY QUIZZES
Dec. 7 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
 Individualized Project due at 9:30 A.M.
Dec. 9 SECOND UNIT EXAM
Dec. 10 Evaluation of Individualized Projects due
Dec. 15  at 8 A.M Group Presentations, Course Evaluations, etc.

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