Women in the ancient Roman world

This course will focus on translation and discussion of Latin texts which portray Roman women in marriage, the family, and sexual relationships, and evidence male attitudes toward them, in a variety of literary forms (comedy, satire, love poetry, epic, myth,letters, history, inscriptions), from the 3rd Century BCE to the 2nd Century CE.

Readings:

Dixon, Suzanne: Reading Roman Women: Sources, Genres, and Real Life London, 201.

Fantham, E. et. al.: Women in the Classical World: Image and Text New York, 1994.