3-3-0

This course will look at the ways that women and men of the ancient Mediterranean world interacted with each other, and at how ideas about sexuality and gender roles afffected people's lives. Topics to be examined will include marriage and divorce, conception and contraception, masculine and feminine ideals, gender and the law, sex and social class, the effects of gender on religious expression, homosexuality, private versus public life, what ancient doctors knew about sex, how to use magic to get a lover, and deviations from ancient sexual and gender norms.





Open to first-year students