The ancients, however, often attribute the writing of treaties or erotic manuals to women, one such example being Philaenis. Only a few names of female authors have come down to us from ancient Greece and Rome. The seminar will also address the problems posed both by literary and non-literary source materials, and the question of how the disciplines of ancient history and classical studies have dealt with the issue of gender and sexuality in the past several decades. This seminar is designed (a) to examine how men and women lived in the ancient world, the spaces they occupied, the roles they played and the laws which governed them (b) to understand how cultures in the ancient Mediterranean defined the categories of masculine and feminine and how these categories were deployed in the discourses of literature, politics, law, religion and medicine and, finally, (c) to consider how ancient conceptions of gender have shaped our contemporary views of male and female roles. ![]() What do material and documentary sources say about ancient attitudes toward men and women, gender and sexuality? What social purpose(s) might these sources have served? These are the kinds of questions which tax the student of social history in the ancient Mediterranean world, and these are the questions which this seminar on Gender, Sexuality, Body History will address.
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