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Schedule of Coursework — Assignments, Exams, etc. (Click here for syllabus)

Assignments and due-dates subject to change as required. Last corrected/updated 10-Dec-2013 .


Date Assignment
27-Aug Introduction to class, no assignment.
Sexuality/gender: Initial Foray...
29-Aug blackboard menuSophocles Antigone 1. Text access via Blackboard course site > PDF Readings.
  1. Read Antigone online study guide.
  2. Read PDF text of play, pp. 157-186 (just before Chorus at bottom of page).
  3. Post Blackboard Journal entry as per Syllabus by noon of day of class. See study guide for journal entry prompt.
  4. Henceforth, Bb journal entries for reading assignments to be posted by noon on day of class.
9-13, 16-20 Sep. Paper 1 topic conferences. Schedule via Ancient S/G Paper Conference Scheduling Calendar. Check for free times times then E-mail me with free 30-min. slot during designated weeks. For topic ideas, consult Papers > topics.
10-Sep Sophocles Antigone 2 Read pp. 186 (bottom) to end. (Text access Bb course site > PDF Readings.) Post Bb Journal entry as per online study guide.
12-Sep Butler Antigone's Claim (print text). Read study guide, as always henceforth. PLEASE READ WHOLE BOOK, pp. 1-82. Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
16-Sep Add/drop deadline.
Hetero-/Homoeroticism in the Archaic-Classical Greek World
17-Sep Foucault History of Sexuality. Vol. 2. Use of Pleasure (Print text). Study guide. Read:
  • 1-13
  • 33-77
  • 185-225
Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
19-Sep Male homoeroticism in ancient Greece: Constructed? Essence? Value system(s)? Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide, which read first.

Readings from basically TWO sources, Bb and Internet/Bingweb:

  1. Bb PDFs:
    • Halperin - 'Homosexuality': A Cultural Construct
  2. Internet/Bingweb readings:
22-Sep Paper 1 prospectus due. By 12am midnight, E-mail instructor with your idea for how to approach topic. More here.
24-Sep Aeschines Against Timarchus via Perseus Philologic. Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.

Aeschines. Against Timarchus. Perseus under Philologic. University of Chicago. 7 October (2013). http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekFeb2011&getid=1&query=Aeschin.%201>
26-Sep BU Libraries Academic Honesty Tutorial and Quiz.

Plato Symposium via Bb PDF. Post Bb Journal entry as per study Guide.

  • The Academic Honesty assignment has been postponed until further notice due to technical difficulties.
Women in the Ancient Greek World
1-Oct Women's lives, voices in ancient Greece. All readings via Bb PDFs:
  • Lefkowitz - Women's Voices, pp. 1-15
  • Paul-Zinserling - Classical Period: Women of Athens, all

Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.

QUIZ 1 on material studied 27-Aug through 1-Oct. See further QUIZ 1 study guide.

3-Oct Demosthenes Against Neaera (Pseudo-Demosthenes speech #59) via Bb PDFs. Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
8-Oct BU Libraries Academic Honesty tutorial and online quiz
  • Follow directions to enroll in Bb organization "Library Tutorials."
  • Go to the Academic Honesty Tutorial and Quiz, BU Libraries page. Take tutorial, then quiz.
  • Print out certificate and bring to Tuesday 8-Oct class
  • Reminder: completion of this assignment is required to receive a grade for this course, as per syllabus.

Artistic evidence. In-class lecture, discussion. No assignment or study guide.
10-Oct Xenophon Oeconomicus ("Dialogue on Household Management"). READ ONLY PAGES 73-114, 145-147.

Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
13-Oct Paper 1 first submission due by 5pm! Electronic copy only, upload to Turnitin (via Bb > Assignments). More here.
15-Oct Euripides Alcestis. Bb PDF. Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
17-Oct Paper 1 in-class peer-review workshop. Prior to class
  • apply detailed proof-reading markup directly to partner's paper
  • prepare and print WORD-PROCESSED peer review
all as per here.
22-Oct Aristophanes Ladies' Day (via Bb PDFs). Study guide. Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide. (Quiz 2 postponed to Th 24-Oct.)
Ancient Evidence, Modern Law
24-Oct Two things: QUIZ TWO and Romer v. Evans court case readings.
  1. QUIZ 2 study guide. (Quiz of material covered in class assignments: 3-Oct Pseudo-Demosthenes Against Neaera through 22-Oct Aristophanes Ladies' Day.)
  2. Romer v. Evans readings study guide.

Further on Romer v. Evans readings:

Read:

  • Nussbaum "Platonic Law and Colorado Law"
  • Finnis "Law, Morality, and 'Sexual Orientation' "

Access both via "Bb PDF Readings."

Exact page-ranges of assigned articles:

  • FINNIS: read entire article — much of that is endnotes (optional reading), so not that long.
  • NUSSBAUM: pp. 1515-1531 (sect. III), 1538 (sect. V)-1606

JOURNAL: See questions on study guide.

28-Oct (M) through 8-Nov (F). Paper 2 topic conferences. Schedule via Ancient S/G Paper Conference Scheduling Calendar. Check for free times times then E-mail me with free 30-min. slot during designated weeks. For topic ideas, consult Papers > topics.
The Roman World and Later Greco-Roman Antiquity
29-Oct Introduction to Roman gender & sexuality. All readings (primary and seconday) via web (links via study guide) and Bb PDFs.

JOURNAL ENTRIES: See study guide.
31-Oct From Ovid The Erotic Poems (Penguin), read pp. 166-238, The Art of Love (Ars amatoria ). Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
1-Nov "W" deadline.
5-Nov Juvenal Satires nos. 2, 6 (Penguin). Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
7-Nov Petronius Satyricon, part 1 (Meridian Classics/Penguin). Read pp. 21-88. Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
8-Nov Paper 1 final submission due by 12midnight! Electronic copy only, upload to Turnitin (via Bb > Assignments). More here.
10-Nov Paper 2 prospectus due. Before 12am midnight, E-mail instructor with your idea for how to approach topic. More here.
12-Nov Petronius Satyricon, part 2. Finish text. Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
14-Nov QUIZ 3 (see study guide). Artistic evidence (no assignment or study guide).
19-Nov Apuleius The Golden Ass (Kenney trans, Penguin) , part 1. Read pp. 7-76 (books 1-4). Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
21-Nov Apuleius The Golden Ass, part 2. Read pp. 77-146 (books 5-8). Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
26-Nov Apuleius The Golden Ass, part 2. Read pp. 147-214 (books 9-11). Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
1-Dec Paper 2 first submission due by 12am. Upload electronic copy to Turnitin (via Bb > Assignments) deliver hard copy under instructor's office door (LT 1106). NO EXTENSIONS without valid medical excuse and documentation. More here.
3-Dec Longus Daphnis and Chloe (Turner trans., Penguin), part 1. Read pp. 17-68. Post Journal entries as per study guide.
5-Dec Paper 2 in-class peer-review workshop. Prior to class
  • check your BingMail for partner's paper
  • printout partner's paper
  • apply detailed proof-reading markup directly to partner's paper
  • prepare and print WORD-PROCESSED peer review report to present to partner IN CLASS. Include:
    • your name
    • paper-author's name
    • paper title
    • detailed peer-review comments
  • UPLOAD peer review: Bb > Assignments
all as per here.
10-Dec Longus Daphnis and Chloe (Penguin), part 2. Read pp. 69-121. Post Bb Journal entry as per study guide.
12-Dec QUIZ 4 on material read 12-Nov (Petronius 2) through and including 5-Dec (Longus 1); click here for quiz study guide.

Final summing up: Blackboard Journal entry as follows:

  1. Among the bigger "take-aways" (lessons learned, that kind of thing) from the material studied, what was the least surprising, the most expected? Explain.
  2. What was the most surprising, the least expected? Explain.
  3. Did this change your view of the here and now? Of the there and then? Explain.
21-Dec Paper 2 final submission due by 12midnight! Electronic copy only, upload to Turnitin (via Bb > Assignments). More here.

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