CLAS 219 - Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD

Study of the construction of gender and sexual identities in ancient Greece and Rome. Emphasis will be on primary texts that demonstrate notions of sexual practice and/or identity, such as Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousae, Plato’s Symposium, Aeschines’ Against Timarchos, and poetry of Sappho, Catullus, Ovid, Martial, Juvenal. We will also read modern critical theorists of sexuality, and will interrogate the usefulness of their arguments for understanding ancient Greece and Rome.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: K. Ormand