All Educational Materials for Regina Höschele

Lecture 1 september 7th - women in antiquity. Sources for this study: archeological material evidence, epigraphy (inscriptions), artifacts, literature

Definitions and terms: the peloponnesian wars: athens vs. sparta in 431-404 bce, athens prosperity dwindles as does the classical age, epithet: attribu

Actium: battle of actium, augusts > mark antony. Myth hymn: songs and praises iambic poetry: obscene humor type poetry, rooted from iambe. Artifacts (s

Cla 219 midterm i + ii review: h schele. Achilles character in homer"s iliad; the son of peleus and thetis, great (tragic) hero of the trojan war, kill

Cla 219 midterm ii review terms. Archon (grk. , ruler, lord) title of a public office, chief magistrate of a polis. Aste female members of the polis, n

Note: i was unable to upload images, so sorry! Cleopatra: took place in 31 bc on the ionian sea near the city of actium, at the roman province of epiru

Amazons a tribe of warrior women who cut off one breast to excel in archery; procreate once a year, female children kept, male children given away or k

Battle of actium: 31 bc octavian (later named augustus) vanquished mark antony and cleopatra; ended the hellenistic period and ushered in the imperial

Simulate union to promote fertility: these are songs of praise , often performed before the recitation of epic, e. g. The hymn to demeter, which is att

First class - intro. to the course and the goddesses. Classes run for about an hour and a half rather than 2 hours. Slides & terms will be posted on bl

Cla 219 woman in antiquity: h schele. Sex and the gender in the ancient world. Priapus, god of fertility always represented with a large phallus: prote

411 bc, performed in athens by the comic playwright aristophanes. Aristophanes lived in the second half of the 4th century and the beginning of the 3rd

Co(cid:374)ti(cid:374)uatio(cid:374) fro(cid:373) last (cid:272)lass tomb stone in sardis (asia minor), mid 2nd cent. Bc: various symbols, lily, wretch

Sometimes dates are attributed to priestesses (their year of reign) Athena: priest drawn from the eteoboutadai genos (family grouping) To get on the li

The sources of evidence for real historical women is very biased, the authors have an ulterior motive and express male viewpoints. Looking at the 4th -

Cla 219 women in antiquity: h schele. **midterm will cover everything up to the last class before it. Know the authors, the titles of the works, especi

Famous roman women: in ancient literature, the way people are portrayed doesn t necessarily correspond to reality. Some emperors portrayed as perfect e

The next midterm will be focused on the next lectures. A lot of medical texts were preserved . Many of the ancient cures were peculiar but it is intere

The choice was made by us both, we bound ourselves together. It"s torture to recall how he kissed me, when he meant to desert me, that inventor of doub

Battle of actium: naval battle near the city of actium in greece in 31 bc between marc. Antony (and cleopatra vii) and octavian (later augustus caesar)

The female role; athens 4th century bc: aristotle"s politics. And quote we may observe in living creatures both a despotic and constitutional rule; for

Release me from my cruel anxiety": to aphrodite (fr. Sappho calls on aphrodite: aphrodite asks who it is that has done sappho wrong, who she is now to

When he dies distant relatives divide his livelihood. For the man who marries a good and intelligent wife for him evil balances good in his lifetime; b

Zeus sends the flower narcissus to bait the daughter of demeter in order to aid hades capture of. Aetiological: helios blames zeus but consoles demeter

Readings for oct 30 (no course materials for the 23rd) Factored into the treatment of uterine suffocation : amulets from as widespread as lebanon, egyp

She cannot dare to lay a finger on her husband if he commits adultery (sounds about equal :/) G: care about making money and robbing their neighbors, t

Homeric hymn to demeter her: zeus sends the flower narcissus to bait the daughter of demeter in order to aid hades capture of. Aetiological: helios bla

For his slanderous poem he loses his eyesight (courtesy of her brothers: he then recants a song saying she is not to be blamed, this is part of a tradi

First class - intro. to the course and the goddesses. Classes run for about an hour and a half rather than 2 hours. Slides & terms will be posted on bl

Cla 219 woman in antiquity: h schele. Sex and the gender in the ancient world. Priapus, god of fertility always represented with a large phallus: prote

Literature (philosophical, historical, scientific, mythological, poetic, etc. ) What we know/ learn is mediated by these evidences which had been provi

411 bc, performed in athens by the comic playwright aristophanes. Aristophanes lived in the second half of the 4th century and the beginning of the 3rd

Co(cid:374)ti(cid:374)uatio(cid:374) fro(cid:373) last (cid:272)lass tomb stone in sardis (asia minor), mid 2nd cent. Bc: various symbols, lily, wretch

323-31 bc (battle of actium) thought of as starting after alexander died after he died the empire was divided into monarchs. Sparta was the arch enemy

Alexander the great started alexandria became new cultural capital of the world. Diadochoi successors of alexander: guy who got egypt = ptolemaios i so

Author of (cid:862)mi(cid:373)ia(cid:373)(cid:271)oi(cid:863: 7 preserved in full, 2 in fragments iambic, combined the two. Demeter laugh after losing

Sappho: archaic lyric poet, authentically female voice, do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)u(cid:272)h of he(cid:396, very first lesbian poet

Co(cid:374)ti(cid:374)uatio(cid:374) fro(cid:373) last (cid:272)lass tomb stone in sardis (asia minor), mid 2nd cent. Bc: various symbols, lily, wretch

But she"s still (cid:449)aiti(cid:374)g fo(cid:396) od(cid:455)sseus to (cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:271)a(cid:272)k a(cid:374)d is t(cid:396)(cid:455)i(c