Assignment

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(a) Why do female characters play such an important part in The Odyssey?

Doherty, L. E. (1992) ‘Gender and Internal Audience in the Odyssey', American Journal of Philology 113: 161-177.
Fletcher, J. (2008) ‘Women's Space and Wingless Words in the Odyssey', Phoenix 62: 77-91.
Mueller, M. (2010) ‘Helen's Hands: Weaving for kleos in the Odyssey', Helios 37: 1-21.
Zeitlin, F. I. (1995) ‘Figuring Fidelity in Homer's Odyssey', in B.Cohen (ed.) The Distaff Side (Oxford/New York), 117-152.

(b) It has been suggested that Hesiod's Works and Days is more about morality than practical teaching. Do you agree with this view and why?

Balot, R. K. (2001) Greed and injustice in classical Athens, Princeton (pp. 59-72).
Beall, E. F. (2005/6) ‘Hesiod's Treatise on Justice: "Works and Days" 109-380'. The Classical Journal 101: 161-182 [JSTOR].
Dickie, M. W. (1978) ‘Dike as a Moral Term in Homer and Hesiod', Classical Philology 73: 91-101 [JSTOR].
Fontenrose, J. (1974) ‘Work, Justice, and Hesiod's Five Ages', Classical Philology 69: 1-16 [JSTOR].
Gagarin, M. (1974) ‘Dike in Archaic Greek Thought', Classical Philology 69: 186-197 [JSTOR].
Hubbard, T.K. (1994) ‘Hesiod's Fable of the Hawk and the Nightingtale Reconsidered' Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 36: 161-72 [online].
Nelson, S. (1997) ‘The Justice of Zeus in Hesiod's Fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale'. The Classical Journal 92: 235-247 [JSTOR].
Zhang, W. (2009) ‘The Poet as Educator in the Works and Days'. The Classical Journal 105: 1-17 [JSTOR].

(c) How does the archaeology of the 6th century Athenian acropolis (architecture, sculpture or both) contribute to our understanding of Athenian society?

Boersma J. (2000) ‘Peisistratos' Building Activity Re-considered'. In Sancisi-Weerderung H. (ed.), Peisistratos and the Tyranny: A Reappraisal of the Evidence (Amsterdam), 49-56.
Hurwit J. (1999) The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology and Archaeology from the Neolithic to the Present (Cambridge).
Keesling C.M. (2003) The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge).
Shapiro H. (1989) Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz)
Whitley, J. (2001) The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge).

(d) To what extent did the rule of Peisistratos contribute to the development of Athenian democracy?

Anderson G. (2005) ‘Before Tyrannoi were Tyrants: Rethinking a Chapter of early Greek History'. Classical Antiquity 24: 173-222.
Andrewes A. (1956) The Greek Tyrants (London).
Raaflaub K. and van Wees H. (2009) A Companion to Archaic Greece (Malden MA), Ch. 6 and 8.
Sancisi-Weerderung H. (ed.) (2000) Peisistratos and the Tyranny: A Reappraisal of the Evidence (Amsterdam).