Schedule
Each week has two parts: before the class meeting day, and class meeting day.
Our online meetings are: Weekdays from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m.
- Before the class meeting:
- Do the assigned readings (and think about them);
- Watch the video lectures (and think about them); and
- Complete any written assignments due that week.
- On the class meeting days:
- Come to the daily page below during the scheduled class meeting time and post and interact in the online discussion;
- Upload any written assignments (if any); and
- Take the online quiz (if there is one).
The daily pages listing assignments and hosting our discussions are linked below.
Day 1
Introduction and evidence.
Meeting date: Mon, Jan 3
Day 2
Civilization • writing • Gilgamesh.
Meeting date: Tue, Jan 4
Day 3
Sumer • Semitic Mesopotamia.
Meeting date: Wed, Jan 5
Day 4
God-kings of Egypt • New Kingdom Egypt.
Meeting date: Thu, Jan 6
Day 5
Minoans • Mycenaeans • Dawn of the Iron Age.
Meeting date: Fri, Jan 7
Day 6
Experiments in empire • Neo-Assyrians • Persians.
Meeting date: Mon, Jan 10
Day 7
The Greek Dark Age.
Meeting date: Tue, Jan 11
Day 8
Archaic Greece • Sparta • Athens • Clouds.
Meeting date: Wed, Jan 12
Day 9
Wars between the Greeks.
Meeting date: Thu, Jan 13
Day 10
The Hellenistic East.
Meeting date: Fri, Jan 14
Day 11
Early Italy • kings of Rome • Roman Republic.
Meeting date: Tue, Jan 18
Day 12
The acquisition of empire.
Meeting date: Wed, Jan 19
Day 13
Civil wars • collapse of the Republic.
Meeting date: Thu, Jan 20
Day 14
The Roman principate.
Meeting date: Fri, Jan 21