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Syllabus for CSTS119: Athenian Culture and Society in the Fifth Century

Classics at Haverford
     
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History of Lit. Theory
Plato & Sophists
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Syllabus of Assignments

 
 
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Week 8 - Women in Athens

 

Tuesday
March 21

 

READ

SEMONIDES OF AMORGOS

"An Essay on Women" (HANDOUT)

BLUNDELL, Women in Ancient Greece

"Women in Athenian Law and Society " (HANDOUT, pp. 113-149)

DEMOSTHENES

Against Neaera in Freeman, ON THE MURDER OF HERODES (pp.191-226)

WRITE

One question or comment: this can be something that you found remarkable; something that you found confusing; something that gave a new perspective to something a topic or work that we have already encountered.

 

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Thursday
March 23

 

Read

BLUNDELL, Women in Ancient Greece

"Women in Athenian Law and Society " (HANDOUT, pp. 98-112)

EURIPIDES, Medea

 

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