Choose a topic below and discuss how sexuality played a role in the conflict.
Sacred Band of Thebes/ Spartan military life – the role of the Greek military cultures and sexuality 400-280 BCE
The Roman mos maiorum and laws on sexuality (Anti-homosexuality in ancient Rome) – 100 BCE – 400 CE
The Church and sexuality – Middle Ages – 800 CE – 1100CE
Renaissance and Sexuality – Italy and Germany -1380-1600 CE
The Bible and homosexuality – 600 BCE – 100 CE
The Nazis and the homosexual solution – 1933-1945
The AIDS epidemic and its effects on American perceptions of homosexuality – 1979-1989
Indigenous Americans and homosexuality (choose a tribe or tribes and demonstrate how their attitudes on sexuality differed greatly from modern ideas) – 100-1800 CE
Ancient Egyptians and homosexuality – 3000 BCE – 400 BCE
Islam, Christianity and Judaism, and homosexuality
Any of your choosing with the professor’s approval
Instructions
Answer the following questions:
What made you choose the topic this week? What interested you about that period?
Write a brief description of what class(es) are involved in your chosen topic.
What attitudes about sexuality contributed to your conflict?
How did the cultural ideals, values, and beliefs change or return to tradition during and after the conflict?
How did the people involved in your conflict perceive sexuality? Has that changed or stayed the same in that culture in modern times?
In what way did your culture’s ideas/conflict on sexuality influence modern American life and concepts of sex/gender/orientation?