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Tuesday Thursday
Aug 25

General Introduction
Aug 30 Sept 1
Early Greece to The Minoans, Pomeroy Ch. 1
 The Minoans and Mycenaeans, Pomeroy Ch. 1

Sept 6 8
The Mycenaeans, cont.
Introduction to Homeric World
 The "Dark Age", Pomeroy Ch. 2
Images from Ancient Greece
13 15
Iliad, Book 1 and Bk 2 to line 562 [483].
Discussion Questions--see review sheet for exam 1
 Hancock Symposium
20 22
Iliad. Book 24.
Odyssey, Book 1 and Bk 2 to line [260]
 Archaic Greece: Kebric, Ch. 1.
Paper 1 due
27 29
Odyssey. all of Book 9, Book 21, & Book 23.

 Archaic Greece, Kebric, Ch. 2 Also read the following:
   a poem of Tyrtaeus;     selections from the Lyric Poets;
   Archilochus' Cologne Fragment.

Oct 4 6
The Olympics, Kebric, Ch. 3;
Modern Olympic Games (click here)

 Exam 1
11 13
Archaic Greece, Kebric, Ch. 4, 91-110. Also read Sappho's poetry

 Sparta. Pomeroy Ch. 4
18 20
Sparta, cont.
Athens, prior to the Persian Wars. Pomeroy Ch. 5
 Athens, cont.
Paper 2 due
25 27
Herodotus and the Persian Wars: Pomeroy Ch. 5, 136-150, and Ch. 7, 196-198; (Herodotus pdf in Moodle) Exam 2

Nov 1 3
Fifth Century Life; Intro. to Greek Drama. Pomeroy Ch. 6, 153-163 & 170-180, and Ch. 7, 200-206. Extra Herodotus pdf in Moodle. Sophocles' Antigone
8 10
Aristophanes' Lysistrata
Pomeroy, Ch 8, 228-231		 Thucydides (pdf in Moodle). The Peloponessian War. Pomeroy pp 198-200, 211-216, 218-228, & 231-245.
Paper 3 due
15 17
Fifth Century Art & Architecture. Pomeroy pp 163-170 & 185-194. Exam 3
22 24
No Class: Thanksgiving Break

 No Class: Thanksgiving Break
29 Dec 1
The Fourth Century: Kebric, Ch. 7

 The Trial and Death of Socrates, Plato, The Apology
Paper 4 due

Dec 6 8
Movie; Pomeroy, pp 210-211, 247-253, 260-266
Movie, continued
Philip & Alexander, Pomeroy, pp 287-324
Paper 5 due
13
Read: Pomeroy, pp 326-359
A Taste of Ancient Greece



Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Dec 12 13 14 15 16 17


Last day of classes




3:00 pm
Exam 4 & Paper 6