HUMN 224-01 Are We
Not Men? Patriarchy in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Spring 2016
Wednesdays,
1-3.45, Chestnut 20B
Course Blog:
http://arewenotmenrhetforreal.blogspot.com
Instructor:
Dale Carrico, dcarrico@sfai.edu
Office Hours: Before and after class, and by appointment.
Course Description:
The
societies of Greek, Roman, and Christian antiquity were conspicuously
patriarchal. Homeric heroes made history and conquered death with great words
and deeds in an aspirational fantasy of masculine agency. The Roman
paterfamilias, perhaps patriarchy's most quintessential expression, centered
around the authoritarian male head of the household who held an unquestionable
power of life and death over his children, female relatives, and household
slaves. But in philosophy and in poetry, in Greek tragedies and in Roman
comedies, we find glimpses of a considerably richer and more complicated world
of gendered relations, erotic imagination, and human possibility, we encounter
profound anxieties, ambivalences, and resistances to patriarchal practices and
prejudices. This course will examine these tensions. We will be reading from
Sappho, Homer, Thucydides, Gorgias, Plato, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Euripides,
Cicero, Terence, Juvenal, Quintilian, Petronius as well as contemporary
feminist and queer theorists and historians.
Course Requirements: Reading Notebook, Five Weekly Questions/Comments,
Short Reading (2-3pp.), Workshop Worksheet, Midterm Paper (4-5pp.), Course
Narrative (2pp.), Final Paper (6-7pp.)
Attendance Policy: Attendance and punctuality are expected.
Necessary absences should be discussed in advance whenever possible.
Provisional Schedule of Meetings
January
Week
One | 20 Introductions
Week
Two | 27 Homer -- First and Last Chapters of the Iliad and an excerpt from Chapter IX posted on the blog.
February
Week
Three | 3 Poems of Sappho (Post Close Reading before class)
Week Six | 24 Workshop
March
Week
Seven | 2 Plato -- Symposium (Hand in first paper)
Week
Nine | Spring Break
Week
Ten | 23 Aristophanes -- Wasps
Week
Eleven |30 Thucydides -- Book II (Preferably all of it, but at least read Pericles' Funeral Oration in Book II) from Thucydides History of the
Peloponnesian War
April
Week
Twelve | 6 Terence -- Eunuchus; Cicero -- Philippics;
Hortensia -- in the Forum
Supplement: Cicero, Against Cataline
Supplement: Cicero, Against Cataline
Week
Thirteen | 13 Marcus Cicero -- Commentariolum Petitionis; Suetonius -- Caligula; and Juvenal -- Satires
Week
Fourteen | 20 Petronius -- Trimalchio's Feast from Satyricon (The link takes you to Chapter Six -- keep reading through Chapter Ten.)
Week
Fifteen | 27 Workshop for the Final Paper
May
Week
Sixteen | 4 Concluding Remarks Final Papers Due
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Grades:
Grades
will be determined by the following numerical breakdown:
97-100: A+
94-96: A
90-93: A-
|
87-89: B+
84-86: B
80-83: B-
|
77-79: C+
74-76: C
60-73: D / Failure
|
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