HUMN-220E-01 Patriarchy in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Spring 2022, San Francisco Art Institute
Thursdays, 4.15-7pm, MCR
Course Blog: https://patriarchyingreekandromanantiquity.blogspot.com
Course Blog: https://patriarchyingreekandromanantiquity.blogspot.com
Instructor:
Dale Carrico, dcarrico@sfai.edu
Office Hours: Before class and by appointment.
Course Description:
The societies of Greek, Roman, and Christian antiquity were conspicuously patriarchal. Homeric heroes made history and conquered death with great words and deeds in an aspirational fantasy of masculine agency. The Roman paterfamilias, perhaps patriarchy's most quintessential expression, centered around the authoritarian male head of the household who held an unquestionable power of life and death over his children, female relatives, and household slaves. But in philosophy and in poetry, in Greek tragedies and in Roman comedies, we find glimpses of a considerably richer and more complicated world of gendered relations, erotic imagination, and human possibility, we encounter profound anxieties, ambivalences, and resistances to patriarchal practices and prejudices. This course will examine these tensions. We will be reading from Sappho, Homer, Gorgias, Plato, Aristophanes, Euripides, Cicero, Terence, Juvenal, Petronius, and many others.
Course Requirements: Attendance/Participation (15%), Reading Notebook (15%), Midterm Paper, 2-3pp. (15%), Presentation 2pp. (15%), Final Paper 5-6pp. (40%)
Attendance Policy: Attendance and punctuality are expected.
Necessary absences should be discussed in advance whenever possible.
Provisional Schedule of Meetings
Week One | January 27 | Introductions
Week Two | February 3 | Poems of Sappho
Presentation: Portrait of a Girl {"Sappho"}; Portrait of Terentius Neo (two works)
Week Three | February 10 | Homer First and Last Chapters of the Iliad and an excerpt from Chapter IX posted on the blog.
Presentation: Apollo Belvedere
Week Four | February 17 | Gorgias -- Encomium of Helen; Thucydides -- Melian Dialogue and Pericles' Funeral Oration
Presentation: From the House of Jason ("House of Fatal Love"), three works: Medea; Phaedra; Paris and Helen
Week Five | February 24 | Euripides -- Hecuba
Week Four | February 17 | Gorgias -- Encomium of Helen; Thucydides -- Melian Dialogue and Pericles' Funeral Oration
Presentation: From the House of Jason ("House of Fatal Love"), three works: Medea; Phaedra; Paris and Helen
Week Five | February 24 | Euripides -- Hecuba
Presentation: The Old Drunkard {or Drunken Old Woman}
Week Seven | March 10 | Plato -- Apology and "Allegory of the Cave" from the Republic; Aristotle on Women
Week Seven | March 10 | Plato -- Apology and "Allegory of the Cave" from the Republic; Aristotle on Women
Presentation: Venus de Milo; Venus de' Medici (two works)
Week Eight | March 17 | Spring Break
Week Eight | March 17 | Spring Break
Presentation: Venus Kallipygos; Michelangelo Pistoletto: Golden Venus of Rags (1967-71) (two works)
Week Ten | March 31 | Terence -- Eunuchus -- Suetonius -- Caligula (From the House of the Vettii: Priapus and Trajan's Column)
Week Eleven | April 7 | Hortensia in the Forum (posted to the blog), Marcus Cicero -- Commentariolum Petitionis (Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros)
Week Thirteen | April 21 | Petronius -- Trimalchio's Feast from Satyricon (The link takes you to Chapter Six -- keep reading through Chapter Ten.) (The "Dionysiac Frieze" from the Villa of the Mysteries)
Week Fourteen | April 28 | Remarks on Rape Culture, Augustine from City of God
Week Fifteen | May 5 | Workshop for the Final Paper
Week
Sixteen | May 12 | Concluding Remarks, Final Papers Due
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