From Abortion to Pederasty Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom

"This volume had its origins in a very specific situation: the teaching of ancient texts dealing with rape. Ensuing discussions among a group of scholars expanded outwards from this to other sensitive areas. Ancient sources raise a variety of issues-slavery, infanticide, abortion, rape, pederas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: McHardy, Fiona (-), Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : Ohio State University Press 2014.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : difficult and sensitive discussions / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
  • Near death experiences : Greek art and archaeology beyond the grave / Tyler Jo Smith and Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver
  • Raising Lazarus : death in the classics classroom / Margaret Butler
  • Disability in today's classics classroom / Lisa Trentin
  • Teaching ancient medicine : the issues of abortion / Patty Baker, Helen King, and Laurence Totelin
  • The "whole-university approach : to the pedagogy of domestic violence / Susan Deacy and Fiona McHardy
  • Teaching uncomfortable subjects : when religious beliefs get in the way / Polyxeni Strolonga
  • Too sexy for South Africa? : teaching Aristophanes' Lysistrata in the land of the rainbow nation / Suzanne Sharland
  • Pedagogy and pornography in the classics classroom / Genevieve Liveley
  • Challenges in teaching sexual violence and rape : a male perspective / Sanjaya Thakur
  • Talking rape in the classics classroom : further thoughts / Sharon L. James
  • Teaching the uncomfortable subject of slavery / Page duBois
  • Teaching ancient comedy : joking about race, ethnicity and slavery / Barbara Gold
  • Difficult dialogues about a difficult dialogue : Plato's Symposium and its gay tradition / Nikolai Endres
  • A world away from ours : homoeroticism in the classics classroom / Walter Duvall Penrose, Jr.
  • Queering Catullus in the classroom : the ethics of teaching Poem 63 / Maxine Lewis.