Loyola University Chicago

CLST 295 / WSGS 295:
Women in the Classical World

Fall Semester 2011
Dr. Jacqueline Long

two girls playing knucklebones, painted terracotta figurine-group, Capua, 3c BC; photo B. Laforse

Study Questions

These questions suggest directions for you to pursue your ideas about women in the Classical Greek and Roman world.

Questions about upcoming readings generally flag text I expect will be important in class discussions. Questions referring back to class discussions tries to pick up threads from important issues I expect us to be discussing. But the questions do not merely summarize our discussions (summary is a worthwhile, but different, kind of studying), nor do they necessarily forecast exam questions very closely. Rather, they invite you to develop interesting lines of thought. One thing exams will ask you to do is to discuss specific ideas about Classical Greek and Roman women in terms of concrete evidence in our course material. Therefore you will find it useful, as you think about even very wide-ranging questions, to identify specific pieces of evidence in the material we are covering that help demonstrate your observations and prove your insights, and to be able to explain clearly just how those pieces of evidence validate the conclusions you draw.



file in progress - perennially
The study questions in this file will be updated through the course of the semester from study questions used the last time this course was taught, when it made a slightly different arrangement of the material. Dates and emphases will be updated to fit the current class. Not that the old questions aren't still worth thinking about, just that you should double-check again later.

Wednesday 12 October

Welcome back!

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Friday 14 October

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Monday 17 October

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Wednesday 19 October

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Friday 21 October

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Monday 24 October

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Wednesday 26 October

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Friday 28 October

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Review your reading, your notes, the Study Questions in this file and the other file, the Study Guide for Exam 2, and in short all material assigned to date since Exam 1, for Exam 2 on Monday.


Monday 31 October

From today's class: For tonight's reading: Happy Hallowe'en!


Wednesday 2 November

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Friday 4 November

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Monday 7 November

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Wednesday 9 November

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Friday 11 November - Happy Veterans' Day!

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Monday 14 November

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Wednesday 16 November

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Friday 18 November

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Monday 21 November

From today's class: For tonight's reading: Happy Thanksgiving!


Monday 28 November

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Wednesday 30 November

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Friday 2 December

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Monday 5 December

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Vibia Perpetua, daughter of an upper-class Roman family in the Roman province of Africa, was executed in the arena in Carthage on 7 March 203. The account of her martyrdom (technically called a "Passion") is one of the earliest pieces of writing by a Christian woman.


Wednesday 7 December

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Friday 9 December

From today's class: For next Saturday:

Review your reading, your notes, the Study Questions in this file and the other file, the Study Guide for the final examination, and in short all material assigned to date, for the final examination next Friday. The exam will focus on material we have covered since Exam 2, but you may find interesting comparisons, among study-material or lines of thought we developed in studying, from the earlier sections of our work.

  • Good luck with the exam, and thanks for a good semester!

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