HIST412/512: Ancient Greece
Winter Term, 2008

John Nicols, Professor of history and of Classics
Lectures/discussion: MW 14:00 to 15:50
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; DATES OF EXAMINATIONS AND PROJECT SUBMISSION.

M 1.7 Introduction: geography, problems, sources.
W 1.9 The Bronze Age
M 1.14 From the 'Dark Age' to Age of Expansion: Homer, Troy and the Dorians; stability and recovery
W 1.16 The Polis, Colonization; first checkpoint on project--subject and sources.
M 1.21 MartinLutherKing Day - holiday
W 1.23 Archaic Sparta and Athens society and culture.
M 1.28 Your Projects...please check for suggestions on content and collaborators.
Report on the archaeological and oral tradition of the bronze age
Tyranny; Persia, Ionia and Marathon
W 1.30 The Persian Invasion and its Political Consequences. Chronological Notes. Report on polis
M 2.4 The Athenian Empire. Midterm Exmaination Posted.
W 2.6 The Greeks in the West; review and discussion for the midterm.
M 2.11 MIDTERM EXAMINATION ; state of your projects
W 2.13 Periclean Athens
M 2.18

Understanding your midterm grade
The Intellectual Revolution; Thucydides: Report on Plague
W 2.20

Peloponnesian War I: (43 of 51 students present)
Second Checkpoint for projects: outline and/or draft
M 2.25 Peloponnesian War II ; project feedback
W 2.27 The Hegemony of Sparta; the Hegemony of Thebes
M 3.3

Persian Gold and Diplomacy ; Pro and Contra
W

3.5

Economic and Social Conditions; Socrates, Plato, Literature and Science.
Two Projects are due ;

M 3.10

Philip and Macedonia.

Four Projects from: Keven/Teddy//Matt // Aaron and Tim// Ross&Christina./Stephen Staley, et al.
W 3.15 Six Projects: ChrisTodd etal. // Madeleine et al. // Cleo et al. // Desiree, et al //

Final Examination: Wednesday 19 March 3:15 to 5:15