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Ancient Gender and Sexuality
Andrew Scholtz, Fall 2013
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Agenda
Next Class …Sophocles’ Antigone – Antigone’s heroism?
Creon’s villainy?Problems …
Gender, Sexuality, Values, IdeologyShape of Course
Where, When, What, How
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Next Class …
Sophocles’ Antigone – Antigone’s heroism? Creon’s villainy?
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Problems …
Gender, Sexuality, Values, Ideology
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hē numphē kalē, “The bride is beautiful.”
Timodēmos kalos, “Timodemos is handsome.”
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“But in Athens, gentlemen, we have a far more admirable code .... Take
for instance our maxim that it is better to love openly than in secret, especially when the object of one’s passion is eminent in nobility and
virtue ....”(Plato Symposium 182d–e – speaker’s talking about men loving boys)
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A gladiator fights his own phallus.(1st-cent. CE Wind-chime from Pompeii)
“Woburn Marble” — an eye on the evil eye(ca. 200 CE)
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Class Reflections: What to Ask, How to Answer
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… Mr. Cornwallis observed in a flat toneless voice: “Omit: a reference to the unspeakable vice of the Greeks.” Durham observed afterwards that he ought to lose his fellowship for such hypocrisy.
Maurice laughed.
“I regard it as a point of pure scholarship. The Greeks, or most of them, were that way inclined, and to omit it is to omit the mainstay of Athenian society.”
Forster Maurice
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Discussion
What to ask?1. How openly displayed
were homosexual relationships?
2. Will killing the animal hurt the gladiator?
3. How is womanhood defined in the pottery illustration?
4. How were gender and sexuality thought of in that society?
How to answer?1. I.e., in Symposium.2. No, because an intense
internal struggle sex drive. Or not…
3. Relational identities, issues of status.
4. Attitudes. How societies view others.
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Approaches…
BiologicalHistoricistSubjective
“Means to me…”Ideological
Means what to whom?
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Issues / Thinkers
Essentialism ConstructionismFoucaultButler
Finnis Nussbaum
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Shape of Course
Where, When, What, How
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Mediterranean Sea
Rome
Greek WorldItaly
Athens
Roman Empire ca. 116 CE
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1,000 B.C. 1,000 A.D.
Greece, 550: BCE–CE 200
Rome, 200 BCE–125 CE
Trojan War ca. 1,200 BCE
Rome founded 753 BCE
Athenian democracy 400s–300s B.C.
Roman Republic, Empire510 BCE–CE 475
Periods covered in course
When…
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What (cont.)
Greece v. RomeModernity v. antiquityCONTINUITY V. SINGULARITY
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How? Through Critical…
ReadingThinkingWriting
Papers Journals