Eros the Bittersweet: Love and Desire in Classical Antiquity
CCIV 117
Spring 2010
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01
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Eros, the god of love and desire in antiquity, was powerful, revered, and feared. The course explores the different faces of eros expressed in male and female desire in a variety of contexts. We will address questions of gender roles and sexuality in antiquity; how these are acted out in different social and religious institutions, including the symposium, female rituals, and marriage; and how the power and pleasure of eros are transformed in different poetic traditions and artistic representations from Homer to the poetry of drinking parties, tragedy, comedy, and philosophy, among others. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CLAS |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYI |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Homer: Odyssey (selections); Hesiod: Theogony (selections), Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon (selections)
Euripides: Hippolytus, Medea, Alcestis; Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Ecclesiazujae
Xenophon: Oeconomicus (selections); Apollodorus: Against Neaira
Plato: Symposium, Phaedius (selections); Virgil: Aeneid (selections)
Latin love elegy (selections); Ovid: Meroides (selections); Apuleius: Metamorphoses (Cupid and Psyche)
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Examinations and Assignments:
In-class discussion of assigned readings
Regular short papers
Mid-term examination
Final project and presentation |
| Instructor(s): Visvardi,Eirene Times: .M.W... 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: DWNY100; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 11 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 19 |
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