Join SCPL and Brock University each month for an engaging and often revelatory dive into history, culture, or the arts. Each month features a different lecture from a Brock University professor.

What opportunities did women have to develop social networks and a sense of community in a city that restricted their participation and movement? In this lecture, we explore how status affected female networks outside the household and move beyond the urban centre with its all-male lawcourt and assembly to the demes or neighbourhoods where Athenian women held office, gathered, celebrated, and became visible. It is here they gained a sense of belonging and civic responsibility on par with their male counterparts.

---

Dr. Allison Glazebrook is Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at Brock University. She specializes in the social and cultural history of ancient Greece with a focus on women, gender, sexuality, and slavery. Her most recent publications include Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts (University of Texas Press, 2021) and Themes in Greek Society and Culture: an Introduction to Ancient Greece, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2022), co-edited with Christina Vester. She is the recipient of the 2023 Brock University Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity.

This event has been co-organized by the Humanities Research Institute and The Centre for Canadian Studies.