Daughters of Demeter

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Daughters of Demeter Women in Ancient Greece
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follow along using Course Handbook
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CCIV 210 / WMST 206
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• Daughters of Demeter
• Women in Ancient Greece
• Instructor Marilyn A. Katz
• Office 335 Science Center
• Office Hours MW 12-1 pm
• mkatz_at_wesleyan.edu

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Course Overview

• 12 Topics / 12 weeks
• Text
• Images
• Socio-Cultural Practices

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Genesis and Generation

• Hesiod, Theogony
• origins of the cosmos / births of the gods
• daughters and inheritance
• Aphrodite Athena Pandora

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Heroes and Heroines Homer, Iliad

• Chryseis
• Briseis
• Helen
• Andromache
• women and war
• concubines mistresses

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Heroes and HeroinesHomer, Odyssey

• Circe
• Calypso
• Nausicaa
• Penelope
• weaving metaphor craft

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Farming and Fertility
Demeter

• The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• the agricultural year
• rites of Demeter

Hermes
Persephone
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Maiden Songs and Marriage Rituals
Sappho
Alcaeus

• poems of Sappho choral poetry
• marriage and wedding rituals

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The Drama of Social Life
Agamemnon

• Aeschylus, Libation Bearers
• Sophocles, Electra
• death and funerary ritual

Electra
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The Drama of Social Life
Argo

• Euripides, Medea
• the Medea tradition
• Medea and magic
• magic and religion

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The Politics of Public Life

• Aristophanes, Lysistrata
• public spaces and public monuments
• monuments of the Acropolis
• Amazons

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The Philosophy of Private Life

• Aristotle, Politics
• Aristotle, Ethics
• friendship
• symposia
• courtesans (hetaerae)

Polly (Moll) Hackabout
the procuress Needham
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The Conventions of Everyday Life

• Xenophon, Household Management
• everyday life in the Athenian household

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The Disorders of the Body

• Hippocratic Writings
• Aristotle, Generation of Animals
• medical theory and practice

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Antiochus
Seleucus I
Eresistratos
Stratonice
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The Hellenistic Heritage

• Plutarch, Life of Antony
• Alexandria
• Cleopatra

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Course Requirements

• 4 Hour Exams - 60
• online
• multiple choice
• Discussion - 40
• class discussion
• online discussion site
• No final exam
• optional paper 1 hour exam

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Hour Exams

• 2 tries permitted
• second exam not same as first
• 50 questions
• multiple choice matching short answer
• based on slide lectures and online readings
• Grades - available immediately

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Discussion Groups

• Topics on Course Materials
• one contribution each topic
• class discussion
• Web CT discussion site
• Keep copies!
• Post on Discussion Site
• only under your name topic

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Course Web Site (info)

• Course Home Page url
• http//webct.wesleyan.edu8900
• login
• username cciv210_guest
• password cciv210
• after drop/add - use your email username and
  password

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Home Page

• Course Books
• Course Schedule
• Discussion Site
• Course Materials link
• DOD FAQs - check here first
• Check Your Grades

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Course Materials

• Text assignment
• Online readings
• Image Resources
• Lecture Outlines

• Discussion Questions
• Art History Timeline
• Timed Hour Exams
• Paper Topics
• for optional papers

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Course Web Site

• link to Course Home Page
• http//webct.wesleyan.edu8900
• login
• username cciv210_guest
• password cciv210
• after drop/add - use your email username and
  password

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