Postgraduate Course: Women in the Classical World (PGHC11290)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course explores the lived experience of women in ancient Greece and Rome as well as the gendered construction of women. Students will work closely with key sources, including texts, material artefacts, and artistic imagery. |
| Course description |
This course explores the ideology and reality of women's lives the Greek and Roman worlds from the Homeric period to the Imperial age. It will explore the literary and artistic constructions of women in poetry, drama, vase-painting and sculpture, in other words the gendered constructions of the female, and set them alongside sources which give evidence for women¿s actual experiences ¿ medical texts, legal documents, archaeological findings. The course will study women from different social classes and poleis within Greece and Rome; students will explore the institutions of priesthoods, prostitution, slavery, rulership etc. Students will be required to work with primary materials, both text and image, and to integrate their work in the contemporary scholarship. Students will also become aware of the recent historiography of women and gender.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate in class discussion and written work a detailed and critical command of the body of knowledge concerning women in Classical antiquity
- Demonstrate in class discussion and written work an ability to analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship concerning the nature of women's lives in Classical antiquity and the gendered construction of women
- Demonstrate in in class discussion and written work an ability to understand and apply specialised research or professional skills, techniques and practices considered in the course including textual, artistic, and cultural criticisms
- Demonstrate the ability to develop and sustain original scholarly arguments in oral and written form in seminar discussions and presentations by independently formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence considered in the course
- Demonstrate in seminar discussions and presentations originality and independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others, including peers; and a considerable degree of autonomy
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Reading List
Blundell, S. (1998) Women in Classical Athens. London, Bristol Classical Press.
Cameron, A. & Kuhrt, A. eds. (1993) Images of Women in Antiquity. 2nd edition. London, Croom Helm.
Cleland, L., Harlow, M. & Llewellyn-Jones, L. (eds) (2005). The Clothed Body in the Ancient World. Oxford, Oxbow.
Cleland, L., Davies, G. & Llewellyn-Jones, L. (2007) Greek and Roman Dress. From A-Z. London, Routledge.
Fantham, E. et al (1994) Women in the Classical World: image and text.
Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Feldman, M. & Gordon, B. (eds) (2006) The Courtesan's Arts. Cross Cultural Perspectives. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Llewellyn-Jones, L. (2003) Aphrodite's Tortoise: The veiled woman of ancient Greece. Swansea, Classical Press of Wales.
McClure, L.K. (2003) Courtesans at Table. London, Routledge.
Montserrat, D. (1998) Changing bodies, Changing Meanings: studies on the human body in antiquity. London, Routledge.
Sissa. G. (2008) Sex and Sexuality in the Ancient World. New Haven, Yale.
Skinner, M.B. (2005) Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture. Oxford, Blackwell. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Women Classical World |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Glenys Davies
Tel: (0131 6)50 3592
Email: G.M.Davies@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Rosie Edwards
Tel: (0131 6)51 7192
Email: Rosie.Edwards@ed.ac.uk |
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