CLAS 4375:  GENDER AND RACE IN ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS

TOPIC 6 -- BEST AND WORST MYTHIC WOMEN

ASSIGNMENTS FOR TOPIC 6

[R] The types of women (Semonides)  [R] Euripides, Hecuba    Notes to Hecuba

Archaeological news on the Thracians

[R]  Cartledge, chapter 4
[R] Learn the myths cited in 2.3  [O] Read Aristotle's will,  A husband's defence
 A marriage contract
[O] Read Marriage and divorce (T. Martin)
 Inheritance and dowry (T. Martin)

MON  9/25:

2.1   Semonides 7.  Euripides, Hecuba

WED  9/27:

2.2   Women in Greek society.

FRI  9/29:

2.3 Penelope, Alcestis, Procne, Medea, Clytemnestra, Phaedra, Scylla, Medusa.  Man-killers: the Danaids, the women of Lemnos.

ADVANCED READINGS FOR TOPIC 6

[A] Read about Helen in Herodotus, Histories, Book 2.

[A] Read Stesichorus' Palinode in this translation or other contemporary translations you will find on the same library stack:   PA3622 .C3 1982

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