The Deltos Project

Highlighted Modules

Juvenal 6

By Chiara Sulprizio & Sarah Blake

Juvenal’s 6^th Satire is famous for its misogyny. In this module, we highlight key passages, suggest useful companion texts to pair with the Satire, and offer a set of discussion questions focusing on misogyny in the Imperial Roman context. A sample lecture and PowerPoint is included.

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

By Devon Harlow & Jody Valentine

This module centers the Homeric Hymn to Demeter as a literary text. We offer suggestions here for how to draw on the HHD for discussions about gender, family, and social practices in the archaic Greek world. We also share some possibilities for inviting students into imaginative engagement with the ritual context of the text.

Gender in Roman Civic Identity

By Kimiko Adler & Skylar Masuda

Examining Gender in Roman Civic Identity: Depictions of Cities and Provinces in Roman Art considers the iconography of geography in the Roman Mediterranean. In this module, students will explore three main questions: How were provinces, cities, and geographic features represented in public spaces across the Roman Mediterranean? What role does gender play in the geographic personifications? How does gender intersect with broader ideals of Roman imperialism (and conquest), peace, and prosperity?

The base module will center its lesson on examples from Roman sculpture, particularly from the Temple of Hadrian at Rome and the Basileon at Aphrodisias. In the “Further Exploration” section, we also provide secondary scholarship and additional examples, resources available for a student intending to expand upon the module in a research project.

The Dowry

By Lilly Haave

About The Deltos Project

This website provides free, open source, teaching resources generated collaboratively by diverse scholars and educators, organized and presented as modules. Each module is designed to provide material for approximately one to two weeks of a college-level course.

Modules are organized around topics (e.g., prostitution at Pompeii, Roman love elegy, Classical reception in Victorian literature), specific texts, objects, or sites (e.g., Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the Cnidian Aphrodite, The Getty Villa), or a particular figure (e.g., Sappho, Cleopatra, Sulpicia).

Each module is briefly introduced and then described in a framing discussion that provides a description of the module content and acquaints the user with the module creator’s aims. Beyond that, each module contains different categories of material, including primary sources (which may be texts or images), secondary sources, multimedia resources, and activities (such as lecture notes, discussion questions, workshops and slides). Not every module will contain material in all categories.

As we expand the number and range of modules on the site, we expect that an instructor might pull a full course of modules from the Deltos Project In the meantime, and for instructors teaching courses that include but are not exclusively defined by the topics of gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean, individual modules may be integrated into your course.

All Deltos Project materials are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/