TEXTS:

If anyone wants to read a history of the ancient world, including the ancient Near East and going down to the fall of Rome, there are four books on reserve:

Starr, Chester G. A history of the ancient world. Oxford 1991
Pomeroy, Sarah B. and Burstein, Stanley M. Ancient History. M. Wiener 1984
Hollister, C. Warren. Roots of the Western tradition: a short history of the ancient world. Wiley 1982
Robinson, Charles Alexander. Ancient history from prehistoric times to the death of Justinian. Macmillan 1967

A book useful for both History 13 and 14, but expensive (even on sale), is The Making of the West. Peoples and Cultures by Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, R. Po-chia Hsia, Bonnie G. Smith. St. Martin's 2003. You can buy it from Amazon.com or other places; here is one link:

The Making of the West

Some online resources:

Everyday Life in Ancient Greece by C.E. Robinson

History of Greek Culture by Jacob Burckhardt

NOTE: THIS SYLLABUS IS PROVISIONAL, SO PLEASE DON'T PRINT IT OUT AND TREAT IT AS IMMUTABLE.

August
30  Introduction

September
1  Hesiod Theogony

3  Hesiod Works and Days

6  Labor Day

Dr. J's Illustrated Pylos, Mycenae, and Tiryns

Three sites for Knossos:
University of Colorado
Bluffton College (Mary Ann Sullivan)
British School at Athens, Virtual Reality Tour

An article linking the recent Olympic games to the plurality of worlds posited by some ancient philosophers

Map of the World according to Hecataeus of Miletus

Dr. J's Illustrated Olympia and Delphi

Map of the World known to Herodotus

Map of Ancient Greece

Site with links to several maps

Index of Maps of the Ancient Greek World (a second site)

Outline of Books 1 and 5 of Herodotus

Cyrus the Great

Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions

17  Herodotus Book 7.132-239, Book 8.49-125; Strauss chapter 8

Outline of Books 6-9 of Herodotus

22  Thucydides Book 1.1-23, 66-138; Strauss Epilogue: Susa

Dr. J's Illustrated Acropolis

Outline of Thucydides Book 3

Two translations of the stasis at Corcyra

To see the site of the Battle of Sphakteria, see Dr. J's Illustrated Pylos

1  Thucydides Book 5.43-116, Book 6.8-32, 88-93

Parallel events for Peloponnesian War period

6  Thucydides Book 7.1-2, 26-30, 47-87, Book 8.1-5, 45-98

8  Fall recess

11  Aristophanes Wealth

Thoughts on Euripides' Medea

Housman's Fragment of a Greek Tragedy

15  City-states and Macedon

First Philippic of Demosthenes

Some online resources for brief chronologies:

A Detailed Chronology of Greek History from Bronze Age to Late 20th Century CE

Chronology from Bronze Age to the Death of Alexander

Chronology from End of Peloponnesian War to end of Third Punic War (146 BCE)

A List of Kings of the Three Major Hellenistic Kingdoms

    The List

25  Livy Preface (pp. 3-4) and Book 1

Outline of Livy

Some useful links for dealing with Romans:
Deciphering Roman Names
Parallel military and civil events for the early Republic

Maps showing growth of Roman influence in Italy:
Rome ca. 750 BCE
Rome ca. 390 BCE
Rome ca. 264 BCE

29  Livy Book 3.25-72

1  Livy Book 5

3  Polybius (K/W 1)

The figured speech of Agelaus of Naupactus

Dramatis Personae, 134-43 BCE complete with offices held, and some events

Pictures of Marius and Sulla (this one may look more like the Sulla of your nightmares: Scary Sulla)

Pictures of Cicero, Caesar, and Pompey

12  Letters (in Cicero Selected Works pp. 58-90, and K/W 4-6)

15  Cicero On Duties

17  Cicero Philippic II, Letters (in Cicero Selected Works pp. 90-100)

19  Laudatio Turiae, Horace, Virgil, Augustus (K/W 22, 7, 8, 9)

22  Tacitus Annales (K/W 10)

29  Tacitus Histories (K/W 11)

1  Pliny Letters (and one inscription) (K/W 14, 16, 26)

3  Diocletian's Price Edict (K/W 28); Ammianus Marcellinus On the inhabitants of Rome; Symmachus On the Altar of Victory; Ambrose's reply: Ep. 17

List of Roman Emperors from Augustus to Heraclius

Sources for lectures on Roman history by Christopher Mackay:
Early Roman History (to about middle of second century BCE)
Late Republic (Gracchi to Actium)
Early Roman Empire (to about middle of third century CE)
Late Roman Empire (to fifth century)

8  Research project due; alternatively, Extra credit research project

10  Final examination (at noon)

If you want to do self-paced Greek in the spring, send me an e-mail.

Final grade is based upon class participation, including unannounced in-class essays, a research project, one in-class test, and the final examination (25% each). Research project is due the last day of classes.

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