Print/PDFs
This page gathers all of the handouts and PDFs from the semester in one place, in case you need them for review or reference.
Syllabus Components
Review Materials
Research and Citations
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Bibliographies and Footnotes
Research Options
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
Citing Ancient Sources
Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
Quiz Notes
Quiz Notes are available when the quizzes are graded and returned. For the web page version, go to the Quiz Notes page.
Lecture PDFs
PDFs of the slides for each lecture are listed here and are also posed on the Slides page.
1 - Introduction and Themes (Aug 25)
2 - The Origins of Civilization (Aug 30)
3 - Mesopotamia (Sep 1)
4 - Sumer (Sep 6)
5 - Semitic Mesopotamia (Sep 8)
6 - God-Kings of Egypt (Sep 13)
7 - Egyptian Empires (Sep 15)
8 - The Bronze Age Aegean (Sep 20)
9 - Dawn of the Iron Age (Sep 22)
10 - How Not to Run an Empire: The Assyrians (Oct 6)
11 - The Success of the Persian Empire (Oct 11)
12 - The Greek Dark Age (Oct 13)
14 - Ancient Asia (Oct 20)
15 - Archaic Hellas (Oct 25)
16 - Sparta and Athens (Oct 27)
17 - The Persian Menace (Nov 1)
18 - Wars Between the Greeks (Nov 3)
19 - The Rise of Macedon (Nov 8)
20 - The Legacy of Alexander (Nov 10)
21 - Early Rome (Nov 15)
22 - The Roman Republic (Nov 17)
23 - The Acquisition of Empire (Nov 22)
24 - The Republican Crisis (Nov 29)
25 - Collapse of the Republic (Dec 1)
26 - Augustus, Princeps, Imperator (Dec 6)
27 - The Roman Principate (Dec 8)
28 - The Roman Principate (Dec 13)