Notes for Classics and History 21: Greek Civilization

Narrative Background to the Iliad
Summary of the Iliad
Historical Eras Schema
Archaic Greece
Historical Background to the Iliad
Some Issues in the Iliad: Gods and Heroes
Hesiod's Works and Days
A brief note about the nature of myth
Issues in Hesiod's Theogony
The genealogies of Hesiod's Theogony
First Lecture on Herodotus
Herodotus Timeline
Introduction to Greek Tragedy.
Euripides' Suppliants
The Pentecontaetia
Athenian Democracy
Sophocles' Antigone
Aristophanes' Clouds
Apologies of Socrates
Plato's Crito
Plato's Symposium
Thoughts on Thornton Chapter 1
Thoughts on Thornton Chapter 2
Thoughts on Thornton Chapter 3
Thoughts on Thornton Chapter 4
Thoughts on Thornton Chapter 5
Thoughts on Thornton Chapter 6