The Ancient World: Greece

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction
2	The Myth of Troy: Homer
3	The Archaeology of Troy: Schliemann
4	Discussion 1: Myth and History
5	Homeric Society
6	Dark Age Archaeology: Lefkandi
7	Discussion 2: History before History -Homer and Hesiod
8	The Polis
9	Exploration and Colonization
10	Discussion 3: Greeks and Barbarians -The Importance of Panhellenic Sanctuaries (Delphi)
11	The Age of Tyranny	First paper due
12	Early Sparta
13	Discussion 4: Lycurgus - Sparta’s Legendary Lawgiver
14	Early Athens and the Foundations of Democracy
15	Archaic Art and Architecture
16	Discussion 5: Democracy - Solon and Cleisthenes
17	Persia and the Greeks of Ionia
18	The Persian Wars
19	Discussion 6: Herodotus and Aeschylus, Persians
20	From Delian League to Athenian Empire
21	5th Century Athens
22	Discussion 7: Athenian Democratic Culture
23	The Origins of the Peloponnesian War	Second paper due
24	The Peloponnesian War
25	Discussion 8: Thucydides and the Rhetoric of History
26	Effects of the Peloponnesian War
27	Discussion 9: Philosophers and the City
28	The New Spartan Order
29	Classical Art and Architecture
30	Discussion 10: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
31	Boeotia and Fall of Spartan Hegemony	Outline of final paper due
32	The Rise of Macedon
33	Alexander the Great
34	Discussion 11: Plutarch’s Alexander
35	The Appeal of Alexander
36	Ancient Greece Today	Final paper due