[Classical Studies 3310F/G] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 51 pages long Study Guide!

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C l a s s i c a l s t u d i e s 3 3 1 0 f / g. Experience / identity : gender constructs influence reality, they way that women orient their behaviour. Representation / discourse : the reality versus that truth. Women in homer: very early greek history, detailed yet imaginative stories, 750 bce. A hero that is going off to battle. Only heroes are depicted as going off to war naked. Lecture: the things that will be lost if one loses a war. The homeric family: society was an association of oikoi, an association of houses, women also had an obligation to provide children, protection, burial, support, name. Its own metrical patterns, subject matter, occasion, and musical accompaniment: variety of occasions and audiences, the erotikon, not sung at a family occasion, love poem, sappho and archilochus. The tenth muse : dubbed this by the ancients.