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9/20 9/22
9/27 9/29
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10/11 10/13
10/18 10/20
10/25 10/27
11/01 11/03
11/08 11/10
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12/06 12/08
12/13 12/15
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9/06 Opening Day - no classes: Beat the crowds and get books so you can bring them to class on Thursday.
9/08 If you came to class with books, you're right on schedule. While you wait for class to begin, look at the maps on the inside covers of the Powell text. Can you find the places listed at the right? Aegean Sea, Asia Minor, Macedon, Mesopotamia, Peloponnese, Athens, Delphi, Olympia (places)
9/13 Ancient vs modern democracy - fundamentals (1) Two brief extracts from Aristotle, Politics, "The Mixed Constitution," SN 29; & "The Fundamentals of Democracy," SN 6-7; (2) Extract from Old Oligarch, Constitution of the Athenians, Chapter I, SN 20-23; (3) Extract from Plato, Crito, SN pp. 126-140. Aristotle, Plato (philosophers); monarchy, oligarchy, demokratia (ancient democracy), Ecclesia, or 'Assembly,' Boule, or 'Council.'
9/15 Ancient Greece: Idea, reality, and impact. Ian Morris, Barry Powell, The Greeks: History, Culture, Society, pp. 1-28. This reading can be found on EReserves. Get EReserves directions from Sprague, or from our BB course, under "Course Info/Syllabus --> Directions and Explanations." Attic, autochthonous, Bronze Age, the Greek problem, Hellenes, polis,
9/20 (1) Myth vs history; (2) The early Aegean and the Minoans SA Foreword, all: pp. (pages) xi-xxiv. Balkan Peninsula, Crete, Cyclades, Thera, Troy (places); Bronze Age, Neolithic (cultural/developmental periods); Minoan, redistributive economy
9/22 Greece in the Bronze Age: Minoans SA Ch 1, pp 1-5 (top). Review materials on Minoans. Sir Arthur Evans (archaeologist), Minoan (civilization), Cnossos, Thebes (places); Linear A (early script)
9/27 Greece in the Bronze Age: Mycenaeans SA Ch 1, pp 5-15 (middle) Heinreich Schliemann (archaeologist); Mycenaean (civilization); Linear B, grave circles, shaft graves, tholos tomb, tripod, basileus, wanax
9/29 (1) End of the Bronze Age in the Aegean; (2) Aegean chronology SA Ch 1, pp 15-end Egypt, Pylos; Hittite Empire, Phoenicians, Sea Peoples; cyclopaean masonry
10/04 Dark Age developments SA Ch 2, pp 21-33 Cyprus, Eleusis, Ionia (places); Submycenaean, protogeometric, geometric; Iron Age; polis
10/06 Literature begins SA Ch 3 all; WWW (Iliad Extract: Shield of Achilles); SN pp 156-160 (Extract from Hesiod) Lefkandi, Euboea (places); Hesiod, Homer (poets); Iliad, Odyssey, Theogony (poems); formulae, oral composition, oral tradition
10/11 The Greek hoplite & Greek colonization: case studies WWW (Extracts from Herodotus, etc.); SN 188-189 (Tyrtaeus); SN 192-193 (Archilochus); Archilochus (poet); Black Sea, Cyrene, Delphi, Sicily (places), hoplite, mercenary
10/13 Artistic and literary developments in the Archaic period SA Ch 4 Daedalus (legendary person), aegis, canon, humanism, kouros, kourai,periodization
10/18 The aristocratic life and the age of tyrrany SA Ch 5; SN p 5 (Theognis); Samos (place), andron, aristocracy, stasis, symposium, tyrannos
10/20 Eastern Greece: Early philosophers & the Persian wars I SA Ch 6.79-84 (top); SN p 98 (Heraclitus); pp 163-164 (Xenophanes of Colophon) Miletus, Lydia (places), Persia; Anaximander, Croesus, Cyrus the Persian, Heraclitus, Thales, Xenophanes
10/25 Persian Wars II SA Ch 6 pp 85-92; SN 195 (Herodotus on the Battle of Marathon) anthropomorphism; Marathon; Thermopylae; Salamis; Miltiades; Themistocles; Xerxes
10/27 Midterm test Review
11/01 Emergence of democracy in 5th century Athens SA Ch. 7; SN p. 8 See10/20
11/03 Democracy in Athens SN 8-29: "Old Oligarch," Constitution of the Athenians; SN 10-11: Extract from Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 20-22.3; SA Ch 8 pp 112-118; WWW: Herodotus' Histories, Preface & 1.1-1.5 Solon, Cleisthenes, Alcmaeonid, archon, Council of 500, deme, gerousia, Delian League, Dionysus
11/08 Literary developments during the 5th century SA Ch 8 pp 119-134; SN pp 296-298: Pindar, Nemean VI; SN pp 269-280: Extracts from Sophocles' Antigone; Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (Athenian Tragedians); Herodotus (Ionian historian); Pindar (Boeotian poet); Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus (tragic plays);
11/10 5th century literary and artistic developments SA Ch 8 pp 134-145; Panathenaia (festival); Parthenon, Erechtheum, Temple of Athena Nike (buildings); pediment, metope, frieze (architectural terms);
11/15 Ancient Sparta SN pp. 30-44; 45-46 Lycurgus; Sparta, Laconia, Messenia (places); helot
11/17 The Peloponnesian War SA Ch 9; Speech of Archidamus, SN pp. 206-209; Melian Dialogue, SN pp. 52-58 Thucydides (historian); Melos (place);
11/22 Late 5th cen. cultural and artistic developments SA Ch 10 Aristophanes (comic author); Protagoras (sophist); sophists; herm; Thirty Tyrants; Thesmophoria;
[11/24] Thankgiving Enjoy!
11/29 Late 5th cen. cultural and artistic developments II (1) Extract from Euripides' Trojan Women, SN pp. 281-287; (2) Extract from Aristophanes' Wasps, WW; (3) Extract from Aristophanes' Clouds, SN pp. 288-289; (4) Extract from Plato's Apology of Socrates, SN pp. 107-109; Wasps, Clouds (comic plays);
12/01 Fourth century developments SA Ch 11; SN 67-70: Extract from Lysias, Against the grain merchants; SN 80: Extract from Diodorus.
Writing due! 		Pythagoras; idea; logos; The Academy; Isocrates, Demosthenes (orators); Gorgias; Macedon; Philip II; Alexander the Great;
12/06 The Hellenistic World I SA Ch 12; Hellenistic; Alexandria (in Egypt), Pergamum (places); leitourgia; koine; Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes (poets); ruler cult; Ptolemy I; Ptolemies; Altar of Zeus (at Pergamum) (monument);
12/08 Hellenistic World II SA Ch SN pp 290-295: Theocritus, Idylls 15; SN 322-325: Extract from Plutarch, Marcellus. SN 299: Posidippus, Anth. Pal. IX.359; SN 300: Metrodorus, Anth. Pal. IX.360 Theocritus; agora; Jason & Medea; Eros & Ganymede; Lysippus (sculptor); Cleopatra VII (queen)
12/13 Old cvilizations never die: the transformation of Greek culture SA Afterword, all; SN pp 223: Erycius, Anth. Pal. VII.368; Greek Anthology; epigram; "Second Sophistic;" Plutarch (author); Stoicism; Byzantium = Constantinople = Istanbul (place); Byzantine Empire.
12/15 Catchup & review WWW: Review (materials will be provided). Do you know all the keywords cold?
12/20 FINAL 11:30 am Deep Breathing
  HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY! Whew!