Civilizations of the Ancient World
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Ancient Civ.
Readings from Hellas
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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
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