The basic idea with the project is to prepare a manuscript illustrating an aspect of Greek history. This project may be a visual representation of an important battle, a map illustrating the major and minor sanctuaries of the Greek world, the relationship between colony and mother-city; the layout of a Greek household, a representation of the Athenian constitution, and many more. As you prepare the projects, bear in mind that the 'audience' is the university undergraduate (that is, you cannot make too many assumptions about what the audience knows)

The project needs to be developed with two components. The first is the visual representation of the material, the second component presents the most relevant ancient evidence. The evidence may be archaeological (and summarized in map form) or literary (as for example the description of a battle or of the functioning of an instituition. You may use power point to assemble the material, but that is not necessary; the material may be hand-drawn and submitted on paper.

Bear in mind that you will need to relate the your project to the themes of the course.

Where relevant, change over time needs to be represented and discuused.

On the checkpoints:

• First Checkpoint: Describe the project and the sources you are using
• Second Checkpoint: A developed argument / thesis
• Third Checkpoijt

The best projects may be professionally developed and made available to students here and elsewhere; that is you have a chance for digital publication.

Access to my collection of maps: http://www.uoregon.edu/~klio/maps/gr/

Work in groups of 1 to 3

Projects:  Some preliminary suggestions.  More information as we get closer to the term.

The rise and fall of Greek tyrants W.G. Forrest, Greek Democracy; A Andrewes, The Greek Tyrants; Kathryn Morgan (ed.), Popular Tyranny and its Discontents in Ancient Greece. E.g., Athens, Corinth, Megara, Sicyon, elsewhere. For this subject you may as an individual choose ONE tyrant to work on, or if you prefer to work in a group, then at least three tyrants. For a list of tyrants, see the text book

Greek colonization of Sicily and Italy. Thuc. 6.2ff. A.G. Woodhead, The Greeks in the West; T. J. Dunbabin; Luca Cerchiae, et al. The greek cities of magna graecia and sicily. Individual papers on colonies in Sicily or Italy, or Black Sea or North Africa

Related: Phoenician colonies and the competion between Greeks and Phoenicians. Use the Cambridge Ancient History

Geographical factors Greek history: Cary, Geographical Background to Greek and Roman History; E. Sempel.

• Rainful
• Topography
• Natural resources (fish, agricultural; olives, grain, etc.)

Mapping Trade and Commerce in the Greek World.

The Physical Layout/ Configuration of cities esp coastal cities. Collect city plans of as many cities as you can in the Greek World (including Italy, Sicily, Black Sea, Anatolia and Greece proper). What was the configuation of Greek cities? What kinds of physical qualities did they value? Arrange and categorize (one can select a sub-set of cities, as for example in Sicily or the Peloponnesus. Here you may want to look at the nautical maps mentioned by Jablonski in his presentation.

Battles

• The Campaigns of Darius (in Western Asia and Greece, see Herodotus).
• Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea
• Mantineia, Leuctra
• Chaironeia

The Events during the “50 Years” (481-431) or "Pentecontaetia" (Thuc. I 89-118)

• Part I Persian Wars to 451
• Part II 451 to 431

A  representation of the argument of the Apology and of the Crito.

Origins of Major Greek Authors.  Geographical…where from?  Where did they go?  Where were they active? Several subsections here. Origins of historians...of sophists...philosophers...etc. A student may choose a century of authors; a group three centuries.

Construction of major buildings in Athens, 480 to 400.

The Athenian household based on the Oeconomicos of Xenophon.