CLAS 219 - Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
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 (Foucault, Halperin, Richlin, Winkler), and will interrogate the accuracy of their arguments.