Schedule of Readings and Assignments

For each meeting, please come into class having read and thought about the readings assigned for that class.

Readings listed with the book icon () are from the assigned textbook, Pomeroy, Ancient Greece, 4th Edition.

Apart from Clouds, which you need to get your own copy of, the primary source selections for each week starting with Meeting 3 are from Readings from Hellas. All of the readings are available here on the website and are linked to below under the weeks they are assigned, and are also collected on the PDF/Print page.

Note:Everything listed under each meeting—the textbook readings, primary source readings, and Clouds—is fair game for the quizzes we’ll have at the start of most meetings.

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Origins

1 Introduction and Evidence

Thursday, August 31

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2 Dawn of the Aegean

Thursday, September 7

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:
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3 The Greek Dark Age

Thursday, September 14

  • Before the meeting:
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The Dawn of Hellas

4 Archaic Greece

Thursday, September 21

  • Before the meeting:
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5 Sparta and the Art of War

Thursday, September 28

  • Before the meeting:
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6 Athens and the Art of Society

Thursday, October 5

  • Before the meeting:
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The Classical Ferment

7 The Legacy of the Persian Wars

Thursday, October 12

  • Before the meeting:
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The Proposal is due Monday, October 9.

8 History, Tragedy, and Comedy

Thursday, October 19

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9 Athens in the Classical Period

Thursday, October 26

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10 War Between the Greeks

Thursday, November 2

  • Before the meeting:
    • 1Read all of the following:
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    • 2Also read one of the following:
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11 The Fourth Century Crisis

Thursday, November 9

  • Before the meeting:
    • 1Read all of the following:
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The Clouds essay is due Monday, November 6.
Hellenism and the World

12 The Rise of Makedon

Thursday, November 16

  • Before the meeting:
    • 1Read all of the following:
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Thursday, November 23

No meeting

Thanksgiving Day

13 Alexander the Great

Thursday, November 30

  • Before the meeting:
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14 The Hellenistic World

Thursday, December 7

  • Before the meeting:
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The Position Paper is due Monday, December 11.