Week 1 (August 25)
Part I: Course Introduction & The Western Tradition
Part II: The Homeric Age and the Origins of the Polis
Reading Assignment: Ancient Greece, Introduction and Chapter
One
Here's a link to the Study Guide
for the Introduction and Chapter One
Here's a link to the lecture on Homer Part
I (PowerPoint)
Here's a link to the lecture on Homer Part
II (PowerPoint)
Week #2 (September 1)
Part I : Community Formation, Homer Books I-II
Part II: Religion in Ancient Greece
Reading Assignment: Homer's Odyssey, Books I-III, Ancient
Greece,
Chapter Two
Here's a link to the Study Guide for
Chapter Two
Here's a link to the lecture on Greek
City Formation (PowerPoint)
Here's a link to the lecture on Greek
Religion (PowerPoint)
Here's a link to Jon's lecture on Homer
(PowerPoint)
Week #3 (September 8)
Part I: The Archaic Period
Part II:
Reading Assignment: Homer's Odyssey, Books IV-VI, Ancient
Greece, Chapter Three
Week #4 (September 15)
Part I:
Part II: The Spartan Constitution
Week #5 (September 22)
Exam I
Reading Assignment: Homer's Odyssey, Books VII-IX, AncientGreece,
Chapter
Four
Week #6 (September 29)
Part I: Athens, Part I
Part II: Athens, Part II
Reading Assignment: Homer's Odyssey, Books X-XII, Ancient
Greece,Chapter Five
Week #7 (October 6)
Part I: The Persian Wars, Part I
Part II: After the Persian Wars
Reading Assignment: Homer's Odyssey, Books XIII-XIV, Ancient
Greece,
Chapter Six
Week #8 (October 13)
Part I: Democracy & Political Thought
Part II: The Athenian Empire
Reading Assignment: Homer's Odyssey, BooksXV-XVI, Ancient
Greece,Chapter Seven
Week #9 (October 20)
Part I Herodotus
Part II: The Peloponnesian War
Reading Assignment: Ancient Greece, Chapter Eight
Week #10 (October 27)
Exam II
Reading Assignment: Homer's Odyssey, Books XVII-XVIII
Week #11 (November 3)
Part I: Ancient Athletics & The Olympic Games
Part II: TBA
Reading Assignment: Homer's Odyssey, Books XIX-XX, Ancient
Greece, Chapter Nine
Week #12 (November 10)
Part I: Greek Drama
Part II: TBA
Reading Assignment: Homer's Odyssey, Books XXI-XXII, Ancient
Greece, Chapter Ten
Week #13 (November 17)
Part I: Greece after the Peloponnesian War
Part II: Women In Ancient Greece
Reading Assignment: Homer's Odyssey, Books XXIII-XXIV
Week #14 (November 24)
No class (Thanksgiving)
Reading Assignment: Ancient Greece, Chapter Eleven
Week #15 (December 1)
Part I: Philip of Macedon
Part II: Alexander the Great
Week #16 (December 8)
Exam III