HIST 2650 - [Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander the Great]

(crosslisted) CLASS 2675
(HB) (HA-AS)

Fall. Next offered 2017-2018. 4 credits.

B. Strauss.

A survey of Greece from the earliest times to the end of the Classical period in the late fourth century B.C. The course focuses on the Greek genius: its causes, its greatness, its defects, and its legacy. The Heroic Age, the city-state, ancient democracy, and the intellectual ferment of the Greek Enlightenment are the main topics of study. Readings in translation from Homer, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and from the evidence of ancient inscriptions, coins, art, and architecture.