Prehistory to Homer-Introduction and the Minoan Civilization
Introduction: the Natural Setting, Geography and Climate
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Minoan Civilization (ca. 1800-1500 BCE)
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Prehistory to Homer-The Mycenaean Civilization and Dark Ages
Mycenaean Civilization (ca. 1500-1150 BCE)
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The Dark Ages (ca. 1150-800 BCE)
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Prehistory to Homer-Homer
Reading Assignment 1
Homer 1 - Iliad
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Reading Assignment 2
Homer 2 - Odyssey
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The Archaic Age (ca. 800-500 BCE)-The Polis and Greeks Overseas
Reading Assignment 1
The Polis
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Reading Assignment 2
"The Greeks Overseas": Colonization
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The Archaic Age (ca. 800-500 BCE)-Literacy, Lawgivers and Law Codes and Ares
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Literacy, Lawgivers and Law Codes
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Reading Assignment 4
The Works of Ares - Hoplite Warfare
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The Archaic Age (ca. 800-500 BCE)-The Lyric Poets and Hesoid
Reading Assignment 5
New Voices, the Lyric Poets
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Reading Assignment 6
Hesiod: Gods and Farmers
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Two City-States: Sparta and Athens-Sparta
Reading Assignment 1
Sparta 1- Conquest
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Reading Assignment 2
Sparta 2 - Consolidation and the Spartan Way of Life
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Two City-States: Sparta and Athens-Tyrants and Sages
Tyrants and Sages
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Two City-States: Sparta and Athens-Athens
Athens 1 - The Social and Economic Situation Through 600 BCE
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Reading Assignment 3
Athens 2 - Solon: Poetry, Politics and Economics
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Reading Assignment 4
Athens 3 - Peisistratos: Tyranny and Civic Identity
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Democracy. The Persian Wars-The End of Athenian Tyranny, Democratic Revolution, and Reforms of Kleisthenes
Reading Assignment 1
The End of Athenian Tyranny and the Democratic Revolution
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Reading Assignment 2
The Reforms of Kleisthenes
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Democracy. The Persian Wars-Herodotus and Persian Wars 1
Reading Assignment 3
Herodotus and the Creation of Historical Writing
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Reading Assignment 4
Persian Wars 1 - From the Ionian Revolt (499-494 BCE) to the Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)
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Democracy. The Persian Wars-"Wooden Walls" and Persian Wars 2
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"Wooden Walls": Themistocles and the Athenian fleet
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Persian Wars 2 - Endgame - to the Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis (480 BCE) and Plataea (479 BCE)
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"The Great 50 Years" (ca. 480-431 BCE)-The Delian League
Reading Assignment 1
The Aftermath of the Persian Wars; the Delian League
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Reading Assignment 2
From Delian League to Athenian Empire
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"The Great 50 Years" (ca. 480-431 BCE)-Pericles, Athenian Civic Life, and Antigone
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Pericles: aristocrat, orator, and radical democrat
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Reading Assignment 4
Tragedy and Athenian civic life; Sophocles' Antigone (441 BCE)
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"The Great 50 Years" (ca. 480-431 BCE)-Women in Greek Society and The Periclean Building Program
Women in Greek Society
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Reading Assignment 5
The Periclean Building Program
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The Peloponnesian War I-Writing the War and Outbreak
Reading Assignment 1
"Thucydides the Athenian Wrote the War"
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Reading Assignment 2
The Outbreak of the War (431 BCE) and Pericles' Strategy
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The Peloponnesian War I-Kleon and Athenian Civic Life
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Kleon, a "New Politician." The Peace of Nicias (421 BCE)
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Reading Assignment 4
Comedy and Athenian Civic Life
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The Peloponnesian War I-The Conquest of Melos and Alcibiades
Reading Assignment 5
War Resumes; the Conquest of Melos (416 BCE)
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Reading Assignment 6
Alcibiades: Aristocrat, General, and Libertine
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The End of the War, the End of the Century-Invasion and Athenians
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The Sicilian Expedition (416-413 BCE) and its Aftermath
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Reading Assignment 2
Slaves and Foreigners in Athenian Life
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The End of the War, the End of the Century-The End of the War and the Trial of Socrates
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The Last Years of the War; the Battles of Arginusae (406 BCE) and Aegospotami (404 BCE). The Thirty Tyrants
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Reading Assignment 4
Socrates
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The End of the War, the End of the Century-Bonus Content: Alexander and the Macedonians
The Fourth Century. Philip II and Alexander
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Conclusion
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Course Pages-Course Pages
Syllabus
Assessment and Grading