Princeton University - Department of Classics

Prof. Froma Zeitlin

Classics 329 ~ Sex and Gender in the Ancient World

Exploration of the ideological bases of Western attitudes toward sex/gender categories in their formative periods in the ancient pagan world. Primary emphasis on Greek culture, as articulated in a wide variety of different documents and areas of thought and practice: myth and ritual, literature, art, philosophy and science, economic and political theory. Some representative problems: the "myth of matriarchy," structures of household and society, masculine and feminine archetypes, medical constructs of the body, and relations of power.

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