Baths, Bars, Boudoirs: Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece

Presented on: Tuesday, July 7th at 1:30 PM EDT



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How can material culture, the physical paraphernalia of life, help us decode and understand sex and gender relations in ancient Greece? What constituted appropriate behavior for men and women in ancient Greece? With whom could men and women associate and have sexual relations? Did women have roles other than that of wife and mother? What did it mean to be a man? These are a few of the questions we will consider as we explore how the Greeks constructed gender and sexuality. Athens will stand as a test case for our exploration primarily through archaeological monuments and artistic representations. Leslie Mechem is a Lecturer in Classics who, as a classical archaeologist, studies the material culture of ancient Greece and Rome. During and after graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, she excavated and conducted field research in Greece, Turkey, Israel, and Italy. Her research interests include Roman utilitarian pottery and the economic system of the Roman world in the 4-7th centuries CE. She teaches courses on Greek and Roman art and archaeology in the art history program and courses in ancient Greek, classical mythology, and classical civilization in the Classics Department. ***Also join Leslie for a follow-up lecture, Baths, Bars, Boudoirs: Sex and Gender in Ancient Rome on July 16, 2020 at 1:30pm.