Week 1: Introduction and Evidence

Tuesday, August 30

•  Introduction

Week 2: Dawn of the Aegean

Tuesday, September 6

•  Chapter 1

Week 3: The Greek Dark Age

Tuesday, September 13

•  Chapter 2
• Read one of these primary source documents from the Reader:
  •  Homer / Agamemnon’s Insult
  •  Homer / Nausicaa and the Stranger
  •  Homer / Odysseus and the Suitors
  •  Homer / The Death of Patroclos

Week 4: Archaic Greece

Tuesday, September 20

•  Chapter 3
• Read one of these primary source documents from the Reader:
  •  Herodotus and Strabo / The Founding of Cyrene
  •  Hesiod / On Labor
  •  Hesiod / The Beginnings of Things
  •  Various Writers / Accounts of Religious Beliefs
  •  Sappho / Selected Poems

Week 5: Sparta and the Art of War

Tuesday, October 11

•  Chapter 4
• Read one of these primary source documents from the Reader:
  •  Aristotle / On the Spartan Constitution
  •  Herodotos / The Spartan Way of Living
  •  Plutarch / The Great Rhetra of Sparta
  •  Xenophon / The Spartan Polity

Week 6: Athens and the Art of Society

Tuesday, October 18

•  Chapter 5
• Read one of these primary source documents from the Reader:
  •  Solon / The Rule of Law
  •  Aeschylus / from The Persians
  •  Herodotus / The Tyranny at Corinth
  •  Various / Documents on Greek Slavery
  •  Various / Accounts of the Hellenic Games

Week 7: The Legacy of the Persian Wars

Tuesday, October 25

•  Chapter 6
• Read one of these primary source documents from the Reader:
  •  Herodotus / The Battle of Thermopylae
  •  Euripides / from Medea
  •  Antiphon / Arguments in an Accidental Homicide
  •  pseudo-Xenophon / On the Athenian Constitution

Week 8: History, Tragedy, and Comedy

Tuesday, November 1

•  Chapter 7 pp. 277-302
•  CLOUDS Intro + First half Note

Week 9: Athens in the Classical Period

Tuesday, November 8

•  Chapter 7 pp. 303-323
•  CLOUDS Second Half Note

Week 10: Meeting Canceled

Tuesday, November 15

Week 11: War Between the GreeksREVISED

Tuesday, November 22

•  Chapter 8
• Read one of these primary source documents from the Reader:
  •  Thucydides / Civil War in Corcyra
  •  Thucydides / Perikles’s Funeral Oration
  •  Thucydides / The Plague at Athens
  •  Thucydides / The Melian Dialog

Week 12: The Fourth Century CrisisREVISED

Tuesday, November 29

•  Chapter 9
• Read one of these primary source documents from the Reader:
  •  Plato / The Death of Socrates
  •  Plato / The Allegory of the Cave
  •  Andocides / A Charge of Sacrilege
  •  Demosthenes / Athenian Bankers
  •  Xenophon / The Battle of Leuctra

Week 13: The Rise of MakedonREVISED

Tuesday, December 6

•  Chapter 10
• Read one of these primary source documents from the Reader:
  •  Demosthenes / The First Philippic
  •  Demosthenes / The Last Stand
  •  Isocrates / Address to Philip
  •  Plutarch / The Murder of Philip II

REVISEDWeek 14: Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World

Tuesday, December 13

•  Chapter 11
• Read one of these primary source documents from the Reader:
  •  Aristotle / The Ideal State
  •  Arrian / Speech of Alexander the Great
  •  Plutarch / On Alexander
  •  Athenaeus / The Procession of Ptolemy II
  •  Polybius / The Destruction of Corinth