CLAS/HIST240 Ancient Societies: The Family
Department
of Classics, Monmouth College
COURSE HANDOUTS AND STUDY GUIDES
Some
Family Issues/Topics
Chronology / Timeline of Roman
History / Greek Pantheon / The Major Gods
List of Important Places / Sample Map Quiz / List
of Reserve Books /
The Bible Browser /
Some
Readings on the Modern Family in the Popular Press
/ Notes on Coulanges' Ancient City
/ Notes on Vasilika / Student
Definitions of "Family" (1994)
Diotima: Women and Gender in the
Ancient World
Homeric Epics
Odyssey, VIII.265 (Song of Demodokus:
Affair of Aphrodite and Ares)
Iliad, XIV.154-360 (Hera's
Seduction of Zeus)
Uxorilocality in Homer
The Marriage of Agariste (Herodotus VI.126-131)
/ The Story of Dermaratus (Herodotus
VI.60-69) / Isaeus.
On the Estate of Menecles / Athenian Family Life: Some Legal Evidence / Pericles'
Funeral Oration (Thucydides, II.34-46)
/ Plato, Symposium
/
Sappho 16 / Sappho's Prayer to Aphrodite
/ Images: Sappho
reading / Sappho
and Alcaeus / Sappho
Page / The Divine Sappho
/ Sappho
Archaic Greek Grave
Markers / Greek Family: Religious Duties and
Cults
Cornelia,
Mother of the Gracchi
Public Lives of Greek
Women: Study Questions
Roman Marriage Laws
Other Classics websites you may find
useful
This material has been published on the web by Prof.
Tom Sienkewicz for his students at Monmouth College. If you have any questions, you can
contact him at toms@monm.edu.
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