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 Laƫrtius / On Zeno the Stoic
14.4
Polybius / The Destruction of Corinth