HIST412/512: Ancient Greece
This is the schedule for the Winter Term 2012;

John Nicols, Professor of history and of Classics

Lectures/discussion: TR 15:00 to 16:50
Classroom: 41 Library
CRN: 26728 (for HIST412); 26769 (for HIST512)
Contact: nic@uoregon.edu; ph. 541.346.4817
Office: 301 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 1.10 Introduction: geography, problems, sources.
R 1.12 The Bronze Age;, classroom report sources2012; for comparison: sources2010)


T 1.17 Homer.
R 1.19 Dynamics of the Polis. Classroom report2012.


T 1.24 The Greek State in outline; Archaic Sparta
R 1.26 Archaic Athens society and culture. Classroom report on Tyranny

 

T
1.31
The Persian Wars I. Chronology
R
2.2
Persian Wars II

 

T 2.7 The Athenian Empire. Midterm Examination Posted.
R 2.9 The Greeks in the West; Classroom Report: Athens as a tyrant-state?


T
2.14
Midterm Examination
R
2.16
Periclean Athens Report on metics and slaves


T 2.21

Understanding your midterm grade
The Intellectual Revolution; Thucydides
. Report on Intellectual Revolution.

R 2.23

Peloponnesian War I; Classroom report on the Thucydides & Corcyra


T 2.28 Peloponnesian WarII
R 3.1 The Hegemony of Sparta; the Hegemony of Thebes;


T 3.7

Time of Troubles: Persian Gold and Diplomacy; Pro and Contra; Classroom report on disunity among the Greeks.

R

3.9

Politics and Philosophy; Socrates, Plato, Literature and Science.


T 3.14

Philip and Macedonia.Classroom report on Ec&Soc

R 3.16 Alexander and the Conquest of Persia; classroom report?? depends on time available

Final Examination


Final Examination: Monday 19 March 2012 from 13:00 to 15:00 [1 to 3pm]