LTPR 111 Monsters, Barbarians and Women
Fall Quarter 2009 MWF 9:30 – 10:40
J. Lynn (email: jklynnatucsc.edu)
Office Hours: MF 12:45-1:45 in Cowell 230
and by appointment
Books available at the Literary Guillotine, downtown at 204 Locust Street
Click here for the LTPR 111 Rules and Regulations
ERes readings are now up! The password is hermione.
Friday September 25
First meeting
Read selections from Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days (handout)
Optional: Read Zeitlin, Froma I. "Signifying Difference: The Case of Hesiod's Pandora." In Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, 53-86. ERes
Read Semonides 7 (Web link: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/sem_7.shtml)
Optional: Read Loraux, Nicole. "On the Race of Women and Some of Its Tribes: Hesiod and Semonides." In The Children of Athena. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993, 72-110. ERes
Read Homer, Odyssey 1-4; 11.436-528 (Fagles' numeration; the Greek lines are 11.385ff.)
Monday October 5 (this link includes slides from 10/05 and 10/07)
Read Homer, Odyssey 8.300-410 (Ares and Aphrodite; Greek 8.266-366); 12.1-282 (Sirens and Scylla; Greek 12.1-259); and 16
Wednesday October 7
More on the meter of the Odyssey
Read Homer, Odyssey 18-23, 24.130-225
Read Pomeroy, Sarah B. "Women in the Bronze Age and Homeric Epic." In Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves. New York: Schocken, 1975, 16-23. ERes
Optional: Read Zeitlin, Froma I. "Figuring Fidelity in Homer's Odyssey." In Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1986, 19-52. ERes
Optional: Read Foley, Helene P. "Penelope as Moral Agent." In The Distaff Side : Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey, edited by Beth Cohen. New York: Oxford, 1995, 93-116. ERes
Friday October 9
Odyssey wrap-up
Read Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Wednesday October 14
Further discussion of Agamemnon
Read Aeschylus, Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers) and Eumenides
Optional: Read Zeitlin, Froma I. "The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in Aeschylus's Oresteia." In Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, 87-119. ERes
Read Sophocles, Antigone (reader)
Read selection from Sophocles, Ajax
Wednesday October 21
First drafts of short paper due at start of class
Read Euripides, Medea (reader)
Optional: Read Bongie, Elizabeth Bryson. "Heroic Elements in the Medea of Euripides." Transactions of the American Philological Association 107 (1977): 27-56. (JSTOR link: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0360-5949%281977%29107%3C27%3AHEITMO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K)
Optional: Read Xenophon Oik. 7f. (Perseus link: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Xen.+Ec.+1.1); Soph. fr. 583 (Tereus) (ERes)
Optional: Read Demosthenes, Against Neaera (Perseus link: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Dem.+59+1)
Optional: Read Murnaghan, S. "How a Woman Can Be More Like a Man: The Dialogue between Ischomachus and his Wife in Xenophon's Oeconomicus," Helios 15 (1988): 9-22. (ERes)
Monday October 26 (links to lecture notes below)
Read selections from Aristotle, On the Generation of Animals (Web link: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-medicine339.shtml)
Read Dean-Jones, Lesley. "Medicine: The Proof of Anatomy." In Women in the Classical World: Image and Text, edited by Elaine Fantham, Helene Peet Foley, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Sarah B. Pomeroy, and H. A. Shapiro. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 183-205. (ERes)
Wednesday October 28
QUIZ on the dramas we've read so far
Come to lecture with your group's papers edited; discussion of papers with your group
Read Euripides, Trojan Women
Read Euripides, Hecuba
Optional: Read Segal, Charles. "Violence & the Other: Greek, Female, & Barbarian in Euripides' Hecuba," Transactions of the American Philological Association 120 (1990): 109-131. (ERes)
Final Drafts of short paper due at start of class
Read Aristophanes, Lysistrata (reader)
Thursday November 5 at 8 p.m.
Showing of 300 in College 8 252
Discussion of 300
Read Plato, Symposium
Optional: Read Dover, "Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behavior." In Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: readings and sources, edited by Laura McClure. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, 19-36. ERes
Optional: Read David M. Halperin, "One Hundred Years of Homosexuality." In One Hundred Years of Homosexuality. New York: Routledge, 1990, 15-40. ERes
Wednesday November 11
Veterans' Day
Read David M. Halperin. "Why is Diotima a Woman? Platonic Eros and the Figuration of Gender." In Before Sexuality, edited by David M. Halperin, John J. Winkler, and Froma I. Zeitlin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, 257-308. ERes
Monday November 16
Finish talking about Alcibiades in the Symposium
Sappho, Fragments 1, 16, and 31 Voigt (1, 4, and 8 Raynor) (Web link: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/rayor.shtml)
Read Winkler, John J., "Double Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics." In Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: readings and sources, edited by Laura McClure. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, 39-75. ERes
Wednesday November 18
Read West, Martin. "A New Sappho Poem." Times Literary Supplement. 21 June 2005. (Web link to copy of text of article with no ads and with Greek text: http://www1.union.edu/wareht/story.html)
Take a look at an image of the fragments of the new Sappho (P. Kšln Inv. Nr. 21351 and 21376r at http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie/Verstreutepub/bilder/PK21351+21376r.jpg
Friday November 20
Drafts of final paper due at start of class
QUIZ on Trojan Women, Hecuba, Lysistrata, Plato, Sappho
Read Roman poetry: Catullus 16, 50, 51 (and be sure to fool around a bit with this Catullus site, which is brilliant)
Optional: Read Wyke, Maria, "Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy." In Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: readings and sources, edited by Laura McClure. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, 192-219. ERes
Optional: Read Skinner, Marilyn. "Clodia Metelli." Transactions of the American Philological Society 113 (1983), 273-287. (JStor link: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0360-5949%281983%29113%3C273%3ACM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G)
Monday November 23
Come to lecture with your group's papers edited; discussion of papers with your group
Wednesday November 25
Day off (to make up for 11/05, and so you can get away for Thanksgiving early)
Monday November 30
Read Vergil Aeneid Books 1-3 (reader)
Wednesday December 2
Read Vergil Aeneid Book 4 (reader)
Friday December 4
LAST QUIZ on Amazons and Roman material
Final papers due at the start of class
Wednesday December 9, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Final Exam
