Online Discussions from Past Semesters
Here are the text-based online discussions from previous semesters when the course was condicted remotely.
Follow these links to explore some of the ideas and insights other students have contributed on the topics and readings we’re discussing.
- Introduction and Evidence
- The Origins of Civilization
- The Lands of Gilgamesh
- The God-Kings of Egypt
- Climax and Collapse of the Bronze Age
- How to (and How Not to) Run an Empire
- The Greek Dark Age
- Sparta and Athens
- Wars Between the Greeks
- The Hellenistic East
- Early Rome and the Roman Republic
- The Acquisition of Empire
- Collapse of the Republic
- The Roman Principate