Ancient Rome
 

 

Readings from Hellas

3 The Greek Dark Age

3.1
Homer / Agamemnon’s Insult
 
3.2
Homer / The Death of Patroclos
 
3.3
Homer / Nausicaa and the Stranger
 
3.4
Homer / Odysseus and the Suitors
 
3.5
Hesiod / The Beginnings of Things
 

4 Archaic Greece

4.1
Various / Accounts of the Hellenic Games
 
4.2
Sappho / Selected Poems
 
4.3
Hesiod / On Labor
 
4.4
Herodotus and Strabo / The Founding of Cyrene
 
4.5
Various Writers / Accounts of Religious Beliefs
 

5 Sparta and the Art of War

5.1
Plutarch / The Great Rhetra of Sparta
 
5.2
Plutarch / Sayings of Spartan Women
 
5.3
Xenophon / The Spartan Polity
 
5.4
Herodotos / The Spartan Way of Living
 
5.5
Aristotle / On the Spartan Constitution
 

6 Athens and the Art of Society

6.1
Solon / The Rule of Law
 
6.2
Herodotus / The Tyranny at Corinth
 
6.3
Thucydides / On Aristogeiton and Harmodius
 
6.4
Herodotus / The Battle of Thermopylae
 
6.5
Aeschylus / from The Persians
 

7 The Legacy of the Persian Wars

7.1
Pseudo-Xenophon / On the Athenian Constitution
 
7.2
Euripides / from Medea
 
7.3
Plutarch / Pericles and Cimon
 
7.4
Various / Documents on Greek Slavery
 
7.5
Antiphon / Arguments in an Accidental Homicide
 

10 War Between the Greeks

10.1
Thucydides / Perikles’s Funeral Oration
 
10.2
Thucydides / Civil War in Corcyra
 
10.3
Thucydides / The Plague at Athens
 
10.4
Thucydides / The Melian Dialog
 
10.5
Andocides / A Charge of Sacrilege
 

11 The Fourth Century Crisis

11.1
Plato / The Death of Socrates
 
11.2
Plato / The Allegory of the Cave
 
11.3
Cornelius Nepos / On Epaminondas
 
11.4
Xenophon / The Battle of Leuctra
 
11.5
Unknown / Athenian Bankers
 

12 The Rise of Makedon

12.1
Justin / The Beginning of Philip of Macedon's Reign
 
12.2
Demosthenes / The First Philippic
 
12.2
Isocrates / Address to Philip
 
12.3
Demosthenes / The Last Stand
 
12.4
Plutarch / The Murder of Philip II
 

13 Alexander the Great

13.1
Aristotle / The Ideal State
 
13.2
Plutarch / On Alexander
 
13.3
Arrian / Speech of Alexander the Great
 
13.4
Plutarch / Death of Alexander
 

14 The Hellenistic World

14.1
Athenaeus / The Procession of Ptolemy II
 
14.2
Theocritus / Women at the Adonis Festival
 
14.3
Diogenes Laërtius / On Zeno the Stoic
 
14.4
Polybius / The Destruction of Corinth