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CL5401   Representations of Women in the Ancient World

Academic year(s): 2016-2017

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: 2

Planned timetable: TBC

This module will examine different forms of evidence for the perceptions of women, usually by men, in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Case studies will include Homeric women, Classical Athens and Sparta, queens and powerful women in the Hellenistic world and in the Roman Near East, Republican and Imperial Rome. Methodological issues will include the handling of different kinds of evidence (literary, epigraphic, legal) and influences on modern scholarship on gender.

Personnel

Module teaching staff: TBC