"True Love": Men vs. Women in Ancient and Modern Culture
"Eros brings bewitching grace into the heart of those he would destroy."-- Euripides, Hippolytus.
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Assignments are due on the following dates:

AL-1/A-1-E paper: due Oct. 30. Click here for style and format guidelines. 
 

AL-C/A-1-D exam: due Nov. 6.  

HC-C/H-3-B and H-2-E papers: due Nov. 6. 

"Sir, nature has already given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more"-- Dr. Johnson.

Readings
 

  • Week 2: Plato, The Symposium.
  • Week 3: Aristophanes, Lysistrata.
  • Week 4: Euripides, Medea.
  • Week 5: Chaucer, "The General Prologue, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale."
  • Week 6: Chaucer, "The Franklin's Prologue and Tale."
  • Week 7: Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew.
  • Week 8: Ibsen, A Doll's House.
  • Week 9: Ibsen, Hedda Gabler.
"What profit hath a man whose wife is gone and who is left solitary on the earth?"--epitaph on an ancient Greek burial stone

 

  Questions:  David L. Simpson (dsimpson@condor.depaul.edu) 
The School for New Learning, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60604 
 © David L. Simpson, 1998