From abortion to pederasty [electronic resource] : addressing difficult topics in the classics classroom / edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Fiona McHardy.

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"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, pederasty, d...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin
McHardy, Fiona
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Civilization, Classical > Study and teaching (Higher)
Classical literature > Study and teaching (Higher)
Online Access:
Project Muse Open Access ebooks: 2014 (Project MUSE @ John Hopkins University)
Variant Title:
From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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.