Study Questions on Cohen and Petersen

David Cohen, "Seclusion, Separation, and the Status of Women in Classical Athens"

1. What trend in method and conclusions does C. criticize in scholarship on Greek women?

2. What interpretive method does C. employ?

3. What specific examples does he use?

4. What is his conclusion?

Lauren Hackworth Petersen, "Divided Consciousness and Female Companionship: Reconstructing Female Subjectivity on Greek Vases"

1. How are women depicted on the vases discussed? What are they doing?

2. What is meant by the term “divided consciousness” or “double consciousness”?

3. According to P., how might women experience their own subjectivity in male-authored vase-paintings?

4. How does P. use Sappho and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter to build her argument?