Beyond the Boundaries of Fantasia: An ancient imagining of the future of leadership

Reading 1: Plutarch's Antony

First, read Plutarch, Life of Antony (Dryden translation). As you are reading, make a chart that tracks gender presentation and its consequences for Antony, Fulvia, Cleopatra, and Octavia. For each character, you should produce a chart that looks something like this:
 
Masculine Trait/Action
1.
2.
3.		Consequences
1.
2.
3.		Plutarch’s Evaluation
1.
2.
3.
Feminine Trait/Action
1.
2.
3.		Consequences
1.
2.
3.		Plutarch’s Evalution
1.
2.
3.

Jeffrey Beneker, "Eros and the Fall of Mark Antony", in The Passionate Statesman: Eros and Politics in Plutarch's Lives. Oxford: 2012.
Karin Blomqvist, "From Olympias to Aretaphila: Women in Politics in Plutarch", in Plutarch and his Intellectual World, ed. J.Mossman. Duckworth: 1997.
Judith Hallett, "Fulvia: The Representation of an Elite Roman Warrior Woman", in Women & War in Antiquity, eds. J. Fabre-Serris and A. Keith. Johns Hopkins: 2015.

*Some relevant election-related gender and leadership piece. I don't want to commit to one now because I'm sure this cycle won't stop producing more material, and I want to pick something as topical as possible. One example: Jill Lepore's "The Sovereignty of Women". Another great one: Kay Steiger on Vox.

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