GREEK ACHIEVEMENT

CLAS 21404

SYLLABUS

Calendar of Lectures (see syllabus for assignments). These slides and term lists are provided as a study aid. You may wish to print out lists and bring them to the lectures so you can note the terms as I discuss them. I make no guarantee that all test items will be taken from this list, but it is designed to focus on important people, places, periods and concepts that I expect you to know.

Week 1: slides, list of terms
Introduction
Greece in the Bronze Age
Bronze Age II

Week 2: slides, list of terms
Homer and Oral Poetry
The Iliad summary

Week 3: slides, list of terms
The Odyssey summary
The Odyssey II; the epic cycle
Hesiod and Greek Myth

Week 4 slides, list of terms
Hesiod II
Introduction to Archaic Period
Archaic Period II

Week 5 slides, list of terms
Panhellenic Sanctuaries
Archaic Period III; Herodotus
The Persian Wars

Week 6 slides list of terms
Persian Wars II
Examination
Introduction to Classical Athens

Week 7 slides list of terms
Origins of Tragedy
Aeschylus
Sophocles

Week 8 slides list of terms
Euripides
Euripides II
The Athenian Empire

Week 9 slides list of terms
Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War
Introduction to Greek Philosophy
The Sophists

Week 10 slides list of terms
Socrates to Plato
Plato to Aristotle
Old and New Comedy

Week 11 slides list of terms
Athenian Law and Life
Greek Medicine
Women in ancient Greece

Week 12 list of terms
Greek Religion
Examination

Week 13 slides list of terms
Philip of Macedon; Alexander the Great
Alexander II

Week 14 slides list of terms
Hellenistic science,
Hellenistic religion and philosophy
Hellenistic literature

Week 15 list of terms
Hellenism and Christianity
review or extra day


Other course materials:

time chart

study guide for Test 1

study guide for Test 2

Final Examination