| Course Title: Cleopatra: The Not Humble Woman |
| Start Date: 08/30/2021 End Date: 12/13/2021 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2021 |
| Description: In this course Cleopatra will be considered both as a political figure of importance in her own right and also as an enemy queen, representing a presumptuous challenge to the political hegemony and cultural values of the Romans. She may serve, therefore, as a lens through which one may view social and political tensions within Roman society over the nature of authority and empire. Readings include Vergil, Horace, Propertius, Lucan, Caesar, Sallust, Plutarch and the plays of Shakespeare and Shaw, where she is ambivalently portrayed as a woman who desires power or, contrariwise, as a romantic idealist who scorns temporal powers in fulfillment of private desires. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Bruce Arnold | 413-538-2872 | barnold@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 08/30/2021 - 12/13/2021 | Lecture | Monday and Wednesday | 03:15PM - 04:30PM | CLEV - Cleveland | 001L | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Taught in English. |
| Course Tags | ||
| ANCST0001 | ANCST: Ancient Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Ancient Studies major and/or minor. |
| ANCST0001 | ANCST: Ancient Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Ancient Studies major and/or minor. |
| CLASS0001 | CLAS: Classical Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Classical Studies major and/or minor. |
| CLASS0001 | CLAS: Classical Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Classical Studies major and/or minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 28 | Enrollment: 27 | Available: 1 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Cleopatra. A Life Author: Schiff, Stacy Copyright: 2010 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780316001946 Publisher: Back Bay Books |
Required | 16.99 |
| Title: Cleopatra. A Source Book Author: Jones, Prudence J Copyright: 2006 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 080613741X Publisher: Univ. of Oklahoma Press |
Required | 24.95 |
| Title: Vergil, The Aeneid Author: Fitzgerald, Robert Copyright: 1990 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0679729526 Publisher: Vintage |
Required | 13.00 |
| Title: Antony and Cleopatra Author: Shakespeare, William Copyright: 2008 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780199535781 Publisher: Oxford World Classics |
Required | 8.26 |
| Title: Caesar and Cleopatra Author: Shaw, George Bernard Copyright: 2006 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0143039776 Publisher: Penguin Classics |
Required | 13.00 |
| Title: Civil War (tr. Braund) Author: Lucan, Copyright: 2008 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780199540686 Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press |
Required | 12.95 |
| Title: The Jugurthine War / The Conspiracy of Catiline Author: Sallust, Copyright: 1964 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780140441321 Publisher: Penguin Classics |
Required | 16.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: Most of these books have been widely circulated and are available online in relatively inexpensive used copies. |