Eras of History   Evidence   Writing   Writing an Interpretive Essay (1)
Thesis and Structure   Writing an Interpretive Essay (2)
Sources and Citations   Essay Grading

  Playlist–Ancient Greece

WEEK 1 - Introduction

  Quick Welcome and Orientation Video   The Aegean World   Eras of History   Evidence   Writing

WEEK 2 - Bronze Age Aegean

  The Minoans   Mycenaeans

WEEK 3 - Dark Age Greece

  The Greek Dark Age (1)   The Greek Dark Age (2)   Homer and the Homeric World

WEEK 4 - Archaic Greece

  The Polis and the Colony   Hoplite Warriors   Lyric Poetry and Philosophy   Hesiod   Writing an Interpretive Essay (1)
Thesis and Structure

WEEK 5 - Sparta

  The Homoioi   Spartan Society   Sparta and Greece   Writing an Interpretive Essay (2)
Sources and Citations

WEEK 6 - Archaic Athens

  Oligarchic Athens   Radical Democracy   Athenian Art

WEEK 7 - The Persian Wars

  The Persian Empire   Persian Invasions   Delian League

WEEKS 8 and 9 - Classical Athens

  Fifth-Century Athens   The City of Athens   History, Tragedy, and Comedy   Education and Sophistry   The Clouds

WEEK 10 - Peloponnesian Wars

  Breakdown of the Peace   The Archidamian War   Alcibiades, Sicily, and the War’s End

WEEK 11 - Fourth Century Crisis

  Consequences of the War   Wars of Hegemony   Law and Government

WEEKS 12 and 13 - Philip and Alexander

  Philip in Greece   The Rise of Macedon   Alexander the Great

WEEK 14 - Hellenistic East

  The Death of Alexander   The Hellenistic East   Hellenistic culture

  Playlist–Women in Antiquity

 

  Quick Welcome and Orientation Video   1) Introduction and Evidence   2) Women in the Epic of Gilgamesh   3) Queen in a Land of Kings   4) Ancient Goddesses and Gods   5) The Bronze Age and its Homeric Echo   6) Women and the Kingdom of Israel   7) Greece Emerging from the Dark Age   8) Women and the Athenian Polis   9) Living Unpublicly in Classical Athens   10) Images of Women in Athenian Literature   11) The Roman Aristocratic Matron   12) Beyond the Roman Aristocracy   13) Women and the Roman Religion   14) Women of the Cosmopolis

  Playlist–History of Ancient Rome

Week 1 - Introduction and Evidence

  Quick Welcome and Orientation Video   Stages of Roman History   Roman Names   Optional Bonus: Sample Inscription

Week 2 - Tribes and Kings

  Italy and its Peoples   The Roman Kings - Part 1   The Roman Kings - Part 2   The End of Monarchy

Week 3 - Patrician and Plebeian

  The Roman Republic   Consuls, Tribunes, and Dictators   Senate and People   The Conflict of the Orders

Week 4 - Conquering the West

  Veii and the Sack   Samnites and Pyrrhus   The First Punic War   The War with Hannibal

Week 5 - Acquisition of Empire

  Rome and the East   Acquisition of Empire

Week 6 - Optimates and Populares

  The Brothers Gracchus   Marius   Sulla

Week 7 - Crossing the Rubicon

  Pompey and Cicero   Caesar

Week 8 - End of the Republic

  Caesar's Assassination   Antony and Octavian

Week 9 - Augustus, Princeps, Imperator

  Octavian Becomes Augustus   The Reign of Augustus

Week 10 - Succession and Empire

   After Augustus (Part 1)   After Augustus (Part 2)   The Flavian Principate

Week 11 - The Roman Peace

  The World of the Principate   The Five Good Emperors

Week 12 - Third Century Crisis

  The Waning of Stability     The Third Century Crisis   Religion in the Roman Empire

Week 13 - The New Empire

  Diocletian and Constantine   Christianization

Week 14 - The End of Antiquity

  14 - The Fall of the West  

  Playlist–Civilizations of the Ancient World

WEEK 1 - Introduction

  Quick Welcome and Orientation Video   Eras of History   Evidence

WEEK 2 - Origins of Civilization

  The Origins of Sumer   Writing   The Epic of Gilgamesh

WEEK 3 - Sumer

  The City-States of Sumer   Mesopotamia and Empire   Writing an Interpretive Essay (1)
Thesis and Structure

WEEK 4 - Egypt

  Unification of Egypt   Old Kingdom Egypt   New Kingdom Egypt   Writing an Interpretive Essay (2)
Sources and Citations

WEEK 5 - Bronze Age Aegean / Iron Age

  The Minoans   Mycenaeans   Philistines and Phoenicians   The Hebrews

WEEK 6 - Iron Age Mesopotamia / Eurasia

  The Neo-Assyrian Empire   The Persian Empire   Eurasian cultures

WEEK 7 - Dark Age Greece

  The Greek Dark Age (1)   The Greek Dark Age (2)

WEEK 8 - Iron Age Aegean

  Archaic Greece   Sparta   Early Athens   The Clouds

WEEK 9 - Fifth-Century Greece

  Persian Invasions   Fifth-Century Athens (1)   Fifth-Century Athens (2)   The Peloponnesian War

WEEK 10 - Fourth-Century Greece

  The Fourth-Century Crisis   Alexander   The Hellenistic East   Hellenistic culture

WEEK 11 - Early Rome

  Early Italy (Part 1)   Early Italy (Part 2)   Rome under the Kings   The Early Republic (Part 1)   The Early Republic (Part 2)

WEEK 12 - Acquisition of Empire

  Roman Expansionism   The Punic Wars   Roman Wars in the East   The Acquisition of Empire (Part 1)   The Acquisition of Empire (Part 2)

WEEK 13 - Breakdown of the Republic

  Sulla and Pompey (Part 1)   Sulla and Pompey (Part 2)   Julius Caesar   Augustus and the Principate

WEEK 14 - Roman Principate

  The Early Principate (Part 1)   The Early Principate (Part 2)   The Roman World   Christianity and the Romans