Classical Studies
CLAS 260 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Society (4)
This course explores Greek attitudes towards gender roles and sexuality, drawing on primary medical texts, tragedy, comedy, didactic poetry, forensic speeches, the romance novel, philosophy, early lyric poetry, and secondary scholarship about these texts. Topics include gender construction, misogyny, hysteria, virginity, marriage, rape, seduction, inheritance, female and male desire, homosexuality, and rites of passage.
- General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Arts & Humanities; World Engagement: CV
- Offering: Triennially in spring
- Instructor: Bachvarova