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Overview of the Course
CLA 3-373-07
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Week 1
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Introduction: Multiple views of Love
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Day 1
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AM: First attempts at defining "love"
PM: love in Homer and Hesiod; Study Guide
Readings: Hesiod, Theogony 116-232
Homer, Iliad 5. 311-430; 6. 369-529; 14.153-360
Homer, Odyssey 8.266-369 (course pack)
Study Guide for Homer
and Hesiod
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Day 2
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AM: Five speeches about love:
Readings: Plato's Symposium 172a-199c; Study
Guide for Plato's Symposium
PM: Love at the Symposium: Looking at Athenian vase-painting
Images: Homosexuality
in Greece and Rome. Look especially at the sections on banquet,
courtship, kissing, male prostitution, rejection of suitor, and
sex acts.
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Day 3
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Why is Diotima a Woman?
Readings: Plato's Symposium 199c-223d
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The Sapphic Tradition
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Day 4
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Summary-Response due at 9:00 a.m.
Abstract of paper 1 due, 12:30 p.m.
AM: Sappho: Competing interpretations, 1840-present
Women as subjects in Sappho's poetry
Readings: Snyder, pp. 1-37; Study Guide for Sappho
PM: Double Consciousness in Sappho
Readings: Winkler, "Double Consciousness" (course pack)
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Day 5
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Draft of Paper 1 due, 9 a.m.
The Sapphic Tradition in antiquity: Nossis, Catullus, Propertius
Readings: Snyder, "Nossis," 77-84; Catullus, Poems 5,
11, 35, 51, 62; Propertius, Poems 2.3, 2.15; also available at
Roman
Responses to Greek Women Poets (Judith Hallett, trans.)
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Week 2
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Day 6
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AM: The Sapphic Tradition, Ovid and later
Readings: selections from Ovid's Tristia, and Heroides
15 (Sappho to Phaon) (course pack; also available at Sappho
and Latin Literature (Judith Hallett, trans.);
Louise Labé, Dedicatory Epistle, Elegies 1-3;
John Donne, Sappho to Philaenis; H.D., (course pack)
PM: Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian
Existence" (course pack)
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The Roman Elegiac Tradition
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Day 7
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AM: Catullus and early Latin epigram
Readings: Poems 6, 8, 10, 12, 23-30, 32-33, 35-36, 39, 41, 44, 48-49,
52-60, 69, 78, 81, 84, 90, 94, 99, 101, 103, 110, 112
Roman (homo)sexuality
PM: Catullus and Poetry: Poems 1, 14, 16, 22, 35, 36, 42, 50, 95
Study Guide for Catullus
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Day 8
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AM: Catullus and Lesbia:
Readings: Poems 2-3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 37, 43, 51, 70, 72, 75-6, 85-6,
92, 109
Juventius: Poems 15, 21, 24, 48, 81, 99
Catullus' longer poetry
Readings: Poems 61-64, 68
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Day 9
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Summary-Response due at 9:00 a.m.
Abstract of paper 2 due, 12:30 p.m.
Propertius' Monobiblos
Readings: Book 1;
Propertius on slavery in love (1.1, 1.10, 2.20, 3.15); on love-sickness
(1.15, 2.1, 2.28, 3.17, 3.24-25).
Study Guide for Propertius
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Day 10
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Propertius continued
Readings: on the journey of love (1.17, 2.26, 3.7); on being the
soldier of love (1.6, 2.1, 2.7-9, 2.15, 3.8, 4.8); the voice of
one's mistress (1.3, 4.7)
Read either Hallett "The Role of Women in Roman Elegy"
in Women In the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers or Wyke,
"Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy." Helios
16 (1989); rpt in Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World
and in The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations (all on reserve)
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Week 3
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Day 11
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Women in the Elegiac Tradition: Sulpicia and Gaspara Stampa
Readings: Snyder, "Women Writers in Rome," 122-36; another
translation of Sulpicia (Lee Pearcy);
Gaspara Stampa (course pack)
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The Romance Novel Tradition
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Day 12
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Heracles and Hylas, Jason and Medea in love
Readings: Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautika, Book 1. 1150-1362;
Book 3
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Day 13
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Jason and Medea on the rocks
Readings: Apollonius, Argonautika, Book 4
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Day 14
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Summary-Response due at 9:00 a.m.
Love and marriage, and marriage again
Readings: Chariton, Chaereas and Callirhoe, Books 1-4
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Day 15
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Reconciling love and marriage
Readings: Chariton, Chaereas and Callirhoe, Books 5-8
Read either Konstan, "Love in the Greek Novel," differences
2 (1990) 186-205, or Elsom, "Callirhoe: Displaying the Phallic Woman,"
in Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome (both on
reserve)
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Week 4
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Day 16
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Song of Songs: Jewish, Christian, medieval and early modern interpretations
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Day 17
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presentations of contemporary song, poem, story, or film about
love
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Day 18
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presentations continued
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