Loyola University Chicago

CLST 273G - Classical Tragedy - Women and Gender Focus

Fall Semester 2019

Medea, South-Italian krater, late 5th - early 4th c BC


This Tier 2 Literary Knowledge course surveys selected masterworks of Classical Athenian tragedy paying particular attention to concerns of women's studies and gender. How do plays written for competition in civic festivals, for a community that identified full civic participation as men's, not women's, deal with figures of women? What capacity for action and choice do the women in Athenian tragedy exercise? How do their capacities line up with Athenian culture's ideas about gender, more generally – how did the plays invite their audience to stretch their thinking, and how do they invite us? We will read, discuss, critique, perform, write, and seek to learn, how ancient plays' literary representations of women and men illuminate transcendent concerns, including women's part in justice, human dignity, the civic community, and cosmic order.

Our work will pursue four main aims (plus the fifth, of having fun with all of them):


CLST 273G-001
Monday - Wednesday - Friday, 9:20am-10:10am
Mundelein Center 603
Dr. Jacqueline Long



Office Hours: Sullivan Center 228, MWF 10:25am-11:15am, or by appointment
e-mail: jlong1@luc.edu


Texts


Policies and Assessment

Schedule of Reading Assignments and Topics

Performances and Performance-Essays

Reading Journal-Entries


Additional Resources

Basics of Academic Life: Studying and introductory Research and Writing

Women and Gender, Drama and Theaters in the ancient Greek and Roman world Support-resources at Loyola University Chicago
Loyola Homepage Classical Studies Department Find Loyolans Loyola Site Index

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