Ancient Civ.

 

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, Mathisen, Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations, 3d Edition.

Everything listed under each meeting—the textbook readings, Gilgamesh, and Clouds—is fair game for the quizzes we’ll have at the start of some meetings.

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Beginnings

1 Introduction and Themes

Thursday, January 25

  • Before the meeting:

2 The Origins of Civilization

Tuesday, January 30

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:
The Bronze Age

3 Mesopotamia

Thursday, February 1

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

4 Sumer

Tuesday, February 6

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

5 Semitic Mesopotamia

Thursday, February 8

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

Tuesday, February 13

No meeting

6 God-Kings of Egypt

Thursday, February 15

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

7 Egyptian Empires

Tuesday, February 20

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

Thursday, February 22

No meeting

8 The Bronze Age Aegean

Tuesday, February 27

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:
The Iron Age

9 Dawn of the Iron Age

Thursday, February 29

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

10 How Not to Run an Empire: The Assyrians

Tuesday, March 5

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

11 The Success of the Persian Empire

Thursday, March 7

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

12 Ancient Asia: China, India, and the Steppes

Tuesday, March 12

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

13 Midterm Exam

Thursday, March 14

The Greek Idea

14 The Greek Dark Age

Tuesday, March 19

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

15 Archaic Hellas

Thursday, March 21

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

16 Sparta and Athens

Tuesday, March 26

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

17 The Persian Menace

Thursday, March 28

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

18 Wars Between the Greeks

Tuesday, April 2

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

19 The Rise of Macedon

Thursday, April 4

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

20 The Legacy of Alexander

Tuesday, April 9

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:
The Might of Rome

21 Early Rome

Thursday, April 11

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

22 The Roman Republic

Tuesday, April 16

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

23 The Acquisition of Empire

Thursday, April 18

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

Tuesday, April 23

No meeting

Thursday, April 25

No meeting

Tuesday, April 30

No meeting

24 The Republican Crisis

Thursday, May 2

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

25 Collapse of the Republic

Tuesday, May 7

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

26 Crossing the Rubicon

Thursday, May 9

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

27 Augustus, Princeps, Imperator

Tuesday, May 14

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following: