HIST412/512: Ancient Greece
This is the syllabus for the Winter Term 2010

John Nicols, Professor of history and of Classics

Lectures/discussion: TR 12:00 to 13:50
Classroom: 41 Library
CRN: 25589 (for HIST412); 25590 (for HIST512)
Contact: nic@uoregon.edu; ph. 541.346.4817
Office: 385 McKenzie Hall
Office hours: Fr 12 to 2pm, by appointment

How to contact me... Full addresses, phone and FAX numbers may be found on this link.



SCHEDULE OF LECTURES.

T 1.5 Introduction: geography, problems, sources.
R 1.7 The Bronze Age;, classroom report on sources


T 1.12 Homer.
R 1.14 Dynamics of the Polis. Classroom report.


T 1.19 The Greek State in outline; Archaic Sparta
R 1.21 Archaic Athens society and culture. Classroom report on Athens and Sparta

 

T
1.26
The Persian Wars I. Chronology
R
1.28
Persian Wars II Classroom Report on Persian Wars

 

T 2.2 The Athenian Empire. Midterm Examination Posted.
R 2.4 The Greeks in the West; Classroom Report: Athens as a tyrant-state?


T
2.9
Midterm Examination
R
2.11
Periclean Athens


T 2.16

Understanding your midterm grade
The Intellectual Revolution; Thucydides

R 2.18

Peloponnesian War I; Classroom report on the Intellectural Revolution


T 2.23 Peloponnesian War II
R 2.25 The Hegemony of Sparta; the Hegemony of Thebes;


T 3.2

Persian Gold and Diplomacy; Pro and Contra; Classroom report on the Time of Troubles

R

3.4

Economic and Social Conditions; Socrates, Plato, Literature and Science.


T 3.9

Philip and Macedonia.Classroom report on Ec&Soc

R 3.11 Alexander and the Conquest of Persia; classroom report?? depends on time available

 


Final Examination: Thursday 18 March 8:00 to 10:00