"Male-Female Polarity in the Ancient World" Workshop

Workshop's dates: Saturday 27 – Sunday 28, May 2023

CHS Greece announces the beginning of the applications' submission to the new workshop "Male-Female Polarity in the Ancient World" which will be coordinated by Spyros Ragkos, Professor of Ancient Greek Philology and Philosophy, University of Patras, and Chryssanthi Papadopoulou, Archaeologist, Harvard CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2021-2022.

Drawing from selected ancient Greek texts as well as the archaeological record, this workshop will focus on gender roles, gender stereotypes and their occasional reversals in ancient Greece. There will be a presentation of the social and ideological superstructure of classical Athens as well as Athens’ various, deviating micro-societies. We shall analyze the ways male and female bodies were presented in Greek sculpture and discuss the classical Greek notions of beauty, idealization, moderation, and modesty. Drawing on ancient Greek philosophy, poetry, history, and art we will reflect on corporeality, love, erotic desire, gender relations and their challenges.

Learn more about the workshop "Male-Female Polarity in the Ancient World."