Formatting Guidelines: 1. Your name, ID number, and section
Formatting Guidelines: 1. Your name, ID number, and section number needs to be in the top left corner of the firstpage of your assignment.2. Please use Times New Roman or Arial 12-point font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins.3. Please note the word count limit and be aware that your TA will not grade more than 6pages of your assignment. In other words, if your assignment exam exceeds 6 pages, your TA will notgrade past page 6.4. Please indicate which question(s) you are responding to for each of your 4 essays. Youonly need to note the question number from this document (e.g., Question 4); you do notneed to copy & paste the text of every question. If you choose to answer more than 4questions, your TA will only grade the first 4 on your document.5. You may either use Chicago or MLA format to cite sources, but you must be consistent.Essay Questions: 100 points total (25 points per essay)Please select 4 of the following 6 questions. You must respond in essay format to each question. Essayresponses should be supported with readings and lecture citations, as well as your own interpretation ofthe data. Each essay should be between approx. 250-300 words (1-1.5 pages double-spaced). You arewelcome to reference your notes and discussion group chats, but these essays must be composed during this week week. All essays must be your own individual work. 1. Pick a case study (either a specific place, time, or person) covered in the lecture andreadings from Week 10 (India) to discuss one or more of the themes that have carriedthrough the course. These themes include, but are not limited to:• impact of geography on women’s access to power• effectiveness of Mann’s IEMP model for women in the ancient world• how subsistence strategy affects societal organization with regard to gender• how patterns are maintained and what causes them to be broken• the degree of political centralization and how it affects women’s access and ability to holdon to power• how power is defined2. As we have learned in this class, you can tell a lot about women’s access to power in a societybased on burial practices. How does Lady Fu Hao’s tomb compare to Queen Pu’abi’s(Mesopotamia)? What can we tell about the status of these female rulers based on how they wereburied?3. Using the IEMP(F)(S) model, compare and contrast Cleopatra and Hatshepsut’s methods ofgaining power. How does their historical and social context impact their ability to gain power?4. Combine the information presented to you in the readings and lectures with a close reading of thebelow excerpts to compare and contrast female power in Greece vs. Egypt. Use IEMP(S) as a guide foryour answer. Think about how you can use these texts to reconstruct female rights in each society,but also try to identify the limitations of each text. What other lines of evidence would you like toengage to provide a more robust investigation? See below for excerpts.5. In Week 7, Dr. Cooney discussed women who gained power in Rome as well as women whoacted against Rome. Select one of these women and how IEMP(S) applied to the power she was ableto attain, if any. How does her story compare with women’s access to power in the other societieswe have studied (Egypt, the Levant, Greece, etc.)? What about the modern world?6. “To be an effective source of power, money [resources] must be exchanged in ways that requirereturns and create obligation, in other words it must be invested” (Ernestine Friedl)Select one of Mann’s four sources of power (IEMP) and discuss how the above quote by ErnestineFriedl factors into his model. What role do resources play in the origins of power? Use an examplefrom lecture or reading to illustrate your point. TEXTS FOR QUESTION 4GREECE Plutarch, SolonBut in general Solon’s laws concerning women seem very absurd. For instance, he permitted an adulterercaught in the act to be killed; but if a man committed rape upon a free woman, he was merely to be fineda hundred drachmas; and if he gained his end by persuasion, twenty drachmas, unless it were with one ofthose who sell themselves openly, meaning of course the courtesans. For these go openly to those whooffer them their price. Still further, no man is allowed to sell a daughter or a sister, unless he find that sheis no longer a virgin.Note: Plutarch lived during the first century CE. He was a Roman citizen, but a Greek at birth. Solon wasa Greek statesman and law maker during the seventh century BCEThe past activities of a courtesan. Athens, 4th cent. B.C. Apollodorus, Against NeaeraWhen they arrived, Lysias did not admit them to his house, out of respect for his own wife, who was thedaughter of Brachyllus and his own niece, and for his mother, who was somewhat advanced in years andlived in the same house. Instead, he lodged them-that is, Metaneira and Nicarete-with Philostratus ofCelonus, who was still a bachelor and also a friend of his. The women were accompanied by thedefendant Neaera, who was already working as a prostitute, though she was not yet of the proper age.The defendant Neaera drank and dined with them in the presence of a large company, as a courtesanwould do.The daughter of the defendant Neaera, whom she had brought as a little girl to Stephanus’ house, was inthose days called Strybele, but now has the name Phano. Stephanus gave this girl in marriage, as being hisown daughter, to an Athenian citizen, Phrastor, together with a dowry of 30 minas. When she went to livewith Phrastor, who was a hardworking man and who had got together his means by careful living, shewas unable to accommodate herself to his ways, but hankered after her mother’s habits and the dissoluteways of that household, being, I suppose, brought up to a similar licence. Phrastor observed that she wasnot well-behaved nor willing to be guided by him, and at the same time he found out for certain that shewas not the daughter of Stephanus, but only of Neaera, so that he had been deceived on the first occasionwhen he was betrothed to her. He had understood that she was the daughter of Stephanus and not Neaera,the child of Stephanus’ marriage with a freeborn Athenian lady before he began to live with Neaera.Phrastor was most indignant at all this, and considering himself to have been outrageously treated andswindled, he turned the young woman out of his house after having lived with her for a year and when shewas pregnant; and he refused to return the dowry.A husband’s defense. Athens, ca. 400 B.C. Lysias,On the Murder of EratosthenesMembers of the jury: when I decided to marry and had brought a wife home, at first my attitude towardsher was this: I did not wish to annoy her, but neither was she to have too much of her own way. I watchedher as well as I could, and kept an eye on her as was proper. But later, after my child had been born, Icame to trust her, and I handed all my possessions over to her, believing that this was the greatest possibleproof of affection. Well, members of the jury, in the beginning she was the best of women. She was aclever housewife, economical and exact in her management of everything.Now first of all, gentlemen, I must explain that I have a small house which is divided into two-the men’squarters and the women’s-each having the same space, the women upstairs and the men downstairs. Afterthe birth of my child, his mother nursed him; but I did not want her to run the risk of going downstairsevery time she had to give him a bath, so I myself took over the upper storey, and let the women have theground floor. EGYPT The Instructions of Ptahhotep“When you prosper and found yourHouse and love your wife with ardor,Fill her belly, clothe her back; ointmentSoothes her body. Gladden her heart asLong as you live; she is a fertile fieldfor her lord. Do not contend with her inCourt. Keep her from power, restrainHer – her eye is her storm when sheGazes. Thus will you make her stay in your house”Will of Naunakht, 1147 BCEAs for me, I am a free woman of the land of Pharaoh. I brought up these eight children of yours and gavethem a household – everything as is customarily done for those of their standing. But, look, I am grownold and, look, they do not care for me in turn. Whichever of them has given me a hand, to him will I giveof my property; whichever has not, to him will I not give my property. I am grown old, and see, they arenot looking after me in my turn. They shall not participate in the division of my one-third, but in the twothirds of their father they shall participate.
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