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Women and Love in the Graeco-Roman world.

9 weekly sessions online, on Thursday 8 October, 6 - 7pm with Dr Guen Taietti.

Overview

2 hrs per week: 6-7 pm UK live on teams; 1 hr recorded video/material asynchronous

In this module students will explore Graeco-Roman texts that display the life of women in Ancient Greece and Rome. They will learn about the expectations and duties of a woman in antiquity, but will also meet some women who thought 'out of the box' and were not afraid to show their passions and chase their dreams. All texts are in translation and the selection covers mythology, literature (prose and poetry), and private letters. 

Syllabus

  1. The 'good girls' of Greek mythology 
  2. Sappho and her LGBTQ+ reception 
  3. Strong Greek women: Cynisca 
  4. Roman wives 
  5. Epitaph to Claudia 
  6. Pliny's letter to Calpurnia 
  7. Callimachus and Catullus: passion, jealousy and hate 
  8. Horace: finished with love 
  9. IOvid's Ars Amatoria / Advice to a rejected lover 

Course lecturer

Guendalina D.M. Taietti is an Italian Classicist based in Greece. Her research focusses on the Greek Reception of Alexander the Great from antiquity to the present day, Macedonian History, and the study of Human-Animal relationships in Antiquity. Guen completed her PhD in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool in 2017 and taught Classics both at school and University level in Italy, Greece, the UK, and China. In 2021 she joined the Continuing Education Department of the University of Liverpool as a Classics Tutor, and since April 2025 she is the Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Researcher in Ancient History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Alongside her research, Guen is extremely enthusiastic about making Classics accessible to the wider public, travelling, and learning new languages and cultures. In her free time, she is an amateur long-distance runner and an advocate for animal rights and the environment.

Course fee

  • Standard fee: £150
  • Concession fee: £75