LQBTQ Antiquity

AMS-370-1

Binghamton University

  • Semester
    Winter 26/27
  • Instructor
  • Start Date
    12-17-2026
  • Total Credits
    4
  • Call to Register
    607-777-6088

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Did you know that Hercules, arguably the most manly of Greek heroes, spent a year wearing women's clothing and doing women's work? Or that the god Dionysus lived as a girl during adolescence? In this course we will study ancient (Greek and Roman, for the most part) literature, and some art, with a particular eye (or eyes) on LGBTQ identities. We will take into consideration how identities based on gender, sexual behavior, and sexual desire (as well as how class played into this) were established in ancient Greek and Roman societies and were depicted in the surviving literature and art. There are three key questions that we will try to find answers to: 1) does historical representation matter and, if it does, how and why? 2) How were ancient Greek and Roman sexual & gender identities as well as behaviors different from our own? 3) What sorts of continuities exist between the ancient past and our modern world(s) when it comes to LGBTQ identities?
General Education Area(s): Humanities , Basic Communication
Course Area: Humanities
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Dates: 12-17-2026 - 01-15-2027
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