The Glory That Was Greece
CLA 2100 (section 2370) Fall 2010
SYLLABUS
ALL readings are REQUIRED, including the linked websites, texts and downloads, and should be completed BEFORE class.
KEY to the Syllabus:
Pomeroy = A Brief History of Ancient Greece by Sarah Pomeroy et al.
Dillon = Ancient Greece: Social & Historical Documents by Matthew Dillon & Lynda Garland
for the reading assignments in
Dillon, students are responsible for the explanatory material as well
as the numbered passages
page numbers are given first, then document numbers in parentheses
example: Dillon 1-3 (intro, 1.1-2) = pages 1 to 3, the chapter
introduction and the first two documents and explanatory material
link = etext linked to syllabus to be read completely (may need to be on UF-linked computer)
download = page(s) to be downloaded and read completely
website = site linked to syllabus to be read completely
All of the Quizzes and Exams are held during the assigned classtime in
the assigned classroom (same time & place as the lectures)
day
topic
reading assignment
I. The Earliest Greeks
M 8/22
Introduction
Pomeroy pp. xv-xxv (maps), 10-13, 557-561 (chronology)
Dillon pp. xii-xviii (table), 557-561 (table), 595-600 (maps)
Chronology of Ancient Greece (for reference) Download 1
W 8/24 The
Minoans
Pomeroy 15-26, Plate I
website:
www.fhw.gr/chronos/02/crete/en/index.html
F 8/26 The
Early Mycenaeans
Pomeroy 26-28
website:
www.fhw.gr/chronos/02/mainland/en/mh/index.html
M 8/29 The
Mycenaean Palaces
Pomeroy 28-36
website:
www.fhw.gr/chronos/02/mainland/en/mg/index.html
website: http://sara.theellisschool.org/shipwreck/ulusplash.html
W 8/31 The End of the Mycenaean World
QUIZ 1
Pomeroy 36-39
F 9/2
The Trojan War: Facts and Fictions
Herodotos 1.1-5 Download 2
Thucydides 1.3-12 Download 3
Kypria Download 4
M 9/5 UF Holiday
W 9/7
The Early Iron Age
Pomeroy 59-60
http://lefkandi.classics.ox.ac.uk/Toumba.html
II. Archaic Greece
F 9/9
Geometric Greece
Pomeroy 59-60, Plates II and III
QUIZ 2
Dillon 68-70 (2.31-32)
M 9/12
Colonization and
Literacy
Pomeroy 60-68
Dillon 48-49 (intro) 50 (2.3-4), 52 (2.8), 53-55 (2.10-12),
57-58 (2.15-17), 61-62 (2.23), 64-68
(2.28-30), 70-72 (2.33-37),
35-36 (1.56), 139 (4.35)
W 9/14
Material & Textual
Evidence
Pomeroy 3-10
Dillon 536-540
F 9/16
Early Greek Literature:
Epic Poetry
Pomeroy 47-50
Dillon 75-76 (3.1-2)
Iliad Book 1 Download 5
Odyssey Book 2 Download 6
Works & Days 1-382 Download 7
M 9/19 The Greek polis
Pomeroy 50-59, 70-73, 77-80, 98-100
QUIZ 3
Dillon 1-3 (intro), 3-8 (1.1-6), 32 (1.46), 35-36 (1.56),
38-39
(1.61-64), 554-555 (16.17)
W 9/21 The “Orientalizing Revolution” & the Age of Tyrannies Pomeroy 82-86, 98-100
Dillon 256-257 (intro), 29 (1.41), 68-70 (2.31-32), 171 (4.91),
257-267 (7.1-18), 272-278 (7.31-39), 291-295
(7.63-72)
F 9/23
Early Greek
Literature:
Pomeroy 87-95
Lyric,
Elegiac & Iambic Poetry
Dillon 267-268 (7.19), 270-272 (7.24-30), 59 (2.19),
63-64 (2.26-27),
125-126 (4.1-6), 129 (4.12),
277 (7.38), 131-132
(4.14), 553 (16.15)
Hipponax Download 8
M 9/26
Archaic Greek Art & Architecture
Pomeroy 86-87, Plates III-VI
QUIZ 4
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/argk/hd_argk.htm
(read the brief essay and click
through "slideshow")
W 9/28
Early Sparta
Pomeroy 102-122
Dillon 37-38 (1.60), 98 (3.46), 200-202 (5.47-50), 61-62 (2.22-23)
131-135 (4.14-23), 213-255 (intro, 6.1-81), 594
(Table IV)
F 9/30
Early
Athens
Pomeroy 124-136
Dillon 8-10 (1.7-8), 268-269 (7.21-23), 296-317 (intro, 8.1-39),
176 (4.99), 318-338 (intro, 9.1-39), 591-592 (Tables I-II)
M 10/3
Panhellenism & Greek
Athletics
Pomeroy 66-67, 96-98
QUIZ 5
Dillon 86-88 (intro, 3.26-28), 91-92 (3.36), 288-290 (7.57-59),
67-68 (2.30), 45-47
(1.76-78), 99 (3.47), 122 (3.91)
458-9 (14.12), 553 (16.14)
W 10/5 review for Exam 1
F 10/7 EXAM 1
III. Classical Greece
M 10/10
Greece vs. Persia
Pomeroy 138-154
Dillon 356-383 (intro, 11.1-45), 55-56 (2.13), 85-86 (3.20),
135-136 (4.25)
W 10/12
Aftermath of the Persian
Invasion
Pomeroy 156-160
Dillon 383-390 (intro, 11.46-57), 391-397 (intro, 12.1-6)
F 10/14 Athenian demokratia
Pomeroy 128-131, 135-139, 160-161, 164-166
Dillon 1-8 (intro, 1.1-6), 13-14 (1.16), 16-22 (1.18-19, 21-29),
26-31 (intro, 1.36-44), 341-355 (intro, 10.1-20),
400 (intro, 12.12)
M 10/17
Classical Greek Literature: History
Pomeroy 202-206
QUIZ 6
Dillon 540-548 (16.1-6), 41 (1.67)
Thucydides and Herodotos Download 9
W 10/19 The Pentakontaetia
Pomeroy 162-164, 188-191
Dillon 397-412 (12.7-33), 41 (1.69)
F 10/21
Classical Greek Literature: Attic
Drama
Pomeroy 206-212, 235-238
Dillon 538-539, 551-553 (16.13), 158 (4.67)
Aischylos Persai Link
Aristophanes Lysistrata Link
M 10/24 The Peloponnesian War
Pomeroy 217-222, 224-251
Dillon 8-10 (1.7-10), 104 (3.56), 413-446 (intro, 13.1-39), 17 (1.20)
183-184 (5.3-7), 91 (3.35), 86 (3.24)
Perikles’ Funeral Oration link (text) link (audio)
W 10/26
Law & Society
Pomeroy 127-128, 164-166, 265-270
QUIZ 7
Dillon 31-35 (1.45-54), 555 (16.18), 142-149 (4.49-54),
298-300 (8.1-4), 308-309 (8.19), 810-811 (8.23)
114 (3.78), 191-193
(5.27-28)
Lysias Download 10
F 10/28
Aftermath of the Peloponnesian
War
Pomeroy 254-260
Dillon 446-451 (13.40-43), 452-471 (intro, 14.1-23),
118-121 (3.84-89)
M 10/31
Family & Society
Pomeroy 175-185, 212-216
Dillon
123-124 (intro), 128-130 (4.9-13), 135-142 (4.25-48),
82 (3.13),149-155 (4.55-464), 106-110 (3.59-66),
196-197
(5.36-38), 203-209 (intro, 5.53-64), 73-75
W 11/2
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Pomeroy 95-96, 200, 212-217, 274-285
Dillon 77-78 (3.4-6), 93 (3.40), 105-106 (3.58), 110-111 (3.68),
112-121 (intro,
3.73-89), 205 (5.58), 206-207 (5.60), 554(16.17)
Plato Republic Download 11
Aristotle Politics Download 12
F 11/4 UF Holiday
M 11/7 Slavery in Ancient Greece
Dillon 179-196 (intro, 5.1-35), 42 (1.70)
W 11/9 Classical Greek Art &
Architecture
Pomeroy 168-175, 191-200
QUIZ 8
Dillon 10-12 (1.11-13), 76-77 (3.3)
F 11/11 UF Holiday
IV. Hellenistic to Byzantine Greece
M 11/14
Alexander & the Spread of Greek
Culture
Pomeroy 288-329
Dillon 471-495 (14.24-55)
W 11/16
Hellenistic Greece
Pomeroy 331-347
Dillon 496-535 (intro, 15.1-45)
F 11/18
Hellenistic Greek Literature &
Culture
Pomeroy 347-362
Kallimachos Download 13
Herondas
Download 14
M 11/21
Greece and Rome
Pomeroy 364-367
QUIZ 9
W 11/23 Thanksgiving Rituals in the Ptolemaic Age
F 11/25 UF holiday
M 11/28
Ancient Greek Science & Medicine
Pomeroy 202
link to UF Library page: author search "Irby-Massie, Georgia L."
go to item #2,
"Greek science of the Hellenistic era [electronic resource]"
click on “read this E-book”
then click on the hightlighted title "Greek science of the Hellenistic era"
at the bottom of the EBSCO host page beneath "Table
of Contents"
then page forward to “Introduction” (read entire Introduction, pp. 1-17)
W 11/30 The Byzantine
Empire
link to UF Library page: author search "Treadgold, Warren T."
click item #3, "A
history of the Byzantine state & society [electronic resource]"
follow links as above to the ACLS page, click on & read all of
“Introduction”
F 12/2 Ancient Greece & the Modern World
QUIZ 10
M 12/5 review for Exam 2
W 12/7 EXAM 2