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, August 29

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

2 The Origins of Civilization

Tuesday, September 3

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

3 Mesopotamia

Thursday, September 5

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

4 Sumer

Tuesday, September 10

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

5 Semitic Mesopotamia

Thursday, September 12

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

6 God-Kings of Egypt

Tuesday, September 17

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

7 Egyptian Empires

Thursday, September 19

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

8 The Bronze Age Aegean

Tuesday, September 24

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

9 Dawn of the Iron Age

Thursday, September 26

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

10 How Not to Run an Empire: The Assyrians

Tuesday, October 1

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

Thursday, October 3

No meeting

11 The Success of the Persian Empire

Tuesday, October 8

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

12 Ancient Asia: China, India, and the Steppes

Thursday, October 10

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

Tuesday, October 15

No meeting

13 Midterm Exam

Thursday, October 17

The Greek Idea

14 The Greek Dark Age

Tuesday, October 22

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

15 Archaic Hellas

Thursday, October 24

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

16 Sparta and Athens

Tuesday, October 29

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

17 The Persian Menace

Thursday, October 31

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

18 Wars Between the Greeks

Tuesday, November 5

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

19 The Rise of Macedon

Thursday, November 7

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

20 The Legacy of Alexander

Tuesday, November 12

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

21 Early Rome

Thursday, November 14

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

22 The Roman Republic

Tuesday, November 19

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

23 The Acquisition of Empire

Thursday, November 21

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

24 The Republican Crisis

Tuesday, November 26

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

Thursday, November 28

No meeting

25 Collapse of the Republic

Tuesday, December 3

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

26 Crossing the Rubicon

Thursday, December 5

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

27 Augustus, Princeps, Imperator

Tuesday, December 10

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

28 The Roman Principate

Thursday, December 12

  • Before the meeting, read all of the following:

29 Final Exam

Tuesday, December 17