SOCG3106
SEXUAL LIFE IN ANCIENT GREECE
1. The Social Structures of the Greek City-States
800-300 BC
2. Cultural Representations: Myth, Art and the
Body
3. Philosophical Reflections: The Moderate Use of
Pleasure makes a Man
, 1.
The Social Structures of the Greek City-States
800-300 BC
The Proliferation of Greek People & Cities: agriculture,
population, colonisation (8th and 7th centuries BC).
The Oikos (land, household, people) marriage, family, life
expectancy and inheritance.
The Polis (the citizen state: farmer, soldier, citizen); conflict and
alliance between city states; the hoplite phalanx.
Sex and the City (Athens c. 400 BC); symposia, youths, hetaera,
grades of prostitute
Sex acts: Citizens and Others; power dynamics, zero-sum
competition?
, 1.1 The Spread of Greek colonies around the
Mediterranean and Black Seas, 900-500 BC
SEXUAL LIFE IN ANCIENT GREECE
1. The Social Structures of the Greek City-States
800-300 BC
2. Cultural Representations: Myth, Art and the
Body
3. Philosophical Reflections: The Moderate Use of
Pleasure makes a Man
, 1.
The Social Structures of the Greek City-States
800-300 BC
The Proliferation of Greek People & Cities: agriculture,
population, colonisation (8th and 7th centuries BC).
The Oikos (land, household, people) marriage, family, life
expectancy and inheritance.
The Polis (the citizen state: farmer, soldier, citizen); conflict and
alliance between city states; the hoplite phalanx.
Sex and the City (Athens c. 400 BC); symposia, youths, hetaera,
grades of prostitute
Sex acts: Citizens and Others; power dynamics, zero-sum
competition?
, 1.1 The Spread of Greek colonies around the
Mediterranean and Black Seas, 900-500 BC
