Lectures (Video)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Dark Ages
- 3. The Dark Ages II
- 4. The Rise of the Polis
- 5. The Rise of the Polis II
- 6. The Greek "Renaissance" - Colonization and Tyranny
- 7. The Greek "Renaissance" - Colonization and Tyranny II
- 8. Sparta
- 9. Sparta II
- 10. The Rise of Athens
- 11. The Rise of Athens II
- 12. The Persian Wars
- 13. The Athenian Empire
- 14. The Athenian Empire II
- 15. Athenian Democracy
- 16. Athenian Democracy II
- 17. The Peloponnesian War, Part I
- 18. The Peloponnesian War, Part I (cont.)
- 19. The Peloponnesian War, Part II
- 20. The Peloponnesian War, Part II (cont.)
- 21. The Struggle for Hegemony in Fourth-Century Greece
- 22. The Struggle for Hegemony in Fourth-Century Greece II
- 23. Twilight of the Polis
- 24. Twilight of the Polis II and Conclusion
Introduction to Ancient Greek History
Course Summary
This course is based on CLCV 205 Introduction to Ancient Greek History, Fall, 2007 made available by Yale University: Open Yale under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
This is an introductory course in Greek history tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age to the end of the classical period. Students read original sources in translation as well as the works of modern scholars.
Reading Material
1. Ancient Greece - A Political, Social and Cultural History (Yale CLCV 205)Sarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts , Ancient Greece - A Political, Social and Cultural History Second Edition, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195308006
2. Problems in Ancient History (Yale CLCV 205)
Kagan, Donald. "Problems in Ancient History." In The Ancient Near East and Greece. 2nd ed., vol. 1. Prentice-Hall: New York, 1975.
3. Herodotus - The Histories
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4. Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War
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