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The Ancient World: Greece

Subject: History

Art: Matilda of Flanders, Bayeux Tapestry 4 variant, 1070 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. William Broadhead
Term: Fall 2004
Level: Undergraduate
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The Ancient World: Greece

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Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: The Myth of Troy: Homer

Lecture 3: The Archaeology of Troy: Schliemann

Lecture 4: Discussion 1: Myth and History

Lecture 5: Homeric Society

Lecture 6: Dark Age Archaeology: Lefkandi

Lecture 7: Discussion 2: History before History -Homer and Hesiod

Lecture 8: The Polis

Lecture 9: Exploration and Colonization

Lecture 10: Discussion 3: Greeks and Barbarians -The Importance of Panhellenic Sanctuaries (Delphi)

Lecture 11: The Age of Tyranny

Lecture 12: Early Sparta

Lecture 13: Discussion 4: Lycurgus - Sparta’s Legendary Lawgiver

Lecture 14: Early Athens and the Foundations of Democracy

Lecture 15: Archaic Art and Architecture

Lecture 16: Discussion 5: Democracy - Solon and Cleisthenes

Lecture 17: Persia and the Greeks of Ionia

Lecture 18: The Persian Wars

Lecture 19: Discussion 6: Herodotus and Aeschylus, Persians

Lecture 20: From Delian League to Athenian Empire

Lecture 21: 5th Century Athens

Lecture 22: Discussion 7: Athenian Democratic Culture

Lecture 23: The Origins of the Peloponnesian War

Lecture 24: The Peloponnesian War

Lecture 25: Discussion 8: Thucydides and the Rhetoric of History

Lecture 26: Effects of the Peloponnesian War

Lecture 27: Discussion 9: Philosophers and the City

Lecture 28: The New Spartan Order

Lecture 29: Classical Art and Architecture

Lecture 30: Discussion 10: Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Lecture 31: Boeotia and Fall of Spartan Hegemony

Lecture 32: The Rise of Macedon

Lecture 33: Alexander the Great

Lecture 34: Discussion 11: Plutarch’s Alexander

Lecture 35: The Appeal of Alexander

Lecture 36: Ancient Greece Today