SyllabusW06

HIST412/512: Ancient Greece: Winter 2008
Herodotus	John Nicols, Professor of history and of Classics Course Assistant for Projects:
	Lectures/discussion: MW 14:00- 15:50
	Classroom: 41 Library
	CRN: 25589 (for HIST412); 25590 (for HIST512)
	Office hours: Fridays 12 to 2pm and by appointment in 385 McKenzie Hall.
	Contact: nic@uoregon.edu; ph. 541.346.4817 or 541.306.3935.

Student Workload:There will be

a midterm and
a final examination.
and a project, namely to prepare a manuscript illustrating an aspect of Greek history. This project may be a visual representation of an important battle, a map of major and minor sanctuaries, the relationship between colony and mother-city; the layout of a Greek household, a representation of the Athenian constitution, and many more. The best projects may be professionally developed to be used in western civilization courses. For more information please go to the course lecture page and follow the link to projects.

Lectures and Updates / Announcements will be posted in a timely manner to the course lecture page

TEXTS

AG = S. Pomeroy, et al., Ancient Greece: A political, social and cultural history, Oxford UP, 1999.
ACG = M. Crawford and D. Whitehead, Archaic and Classical Greece, Cambridge, 1984.
ESHAG = M. M. Austin & P. Vidal-Naquet, Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1980.
HA = Robert Morkot, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece
Other texts including Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Plato will be made available on-line as needed.

LECTURES AND ASSIGNMENTS (unless otherwise noted, the numbers refer to chapters or sections, not to pages)

M	1.7	Introduction: geography, problems, sources. There is some overlap in these readings, especially on the sources and their limitations. Read to understand the nature, variety and limitations of the material. AG pp. 1-8; ACG pp. 1-23; 1A, 5-6; ESHAG I 1; II 1 HA Part I
W	1.9	The Bronze Age: Legend, Archaeology and History AG pp. 8-37; ESHAG I 2; II 2; The readings in Homer, books 6, 9 and 24, are available on the internet (should you not have your own copy). These selections from "The Internet Classics Archive" for the poetic, but somewhat archaic English of Samuel Butler; otherwise go to the "eBookMall" for a prose translation.

1.14

From the 'Dark Age' to Age of Expansion: Homer, Troy and the Dorians; stability and recovery. Polis Part I

AG pp 37-90
ACG 3-4
HA Part II

1.16

The Polis, Colonization and Culture of the Early Archaic Period
first checkpoint on project--subject and sources

AG pp.90-130;
ACG 7, 9, 14-15, 16b-19;
ESHAG I 3; II 3;
Herodotus I 26-33; VII 100-105. corrected link!

1.21

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday

1.23

Archaic Sparta and Athens, their Constitutions

ESHAG I 4; II 4; review pp. 70-72 and related documents.
ACG 21-3, 26-8, 30-2, 40, 44-61, 63-70, 72-80, 82, 89, 119;
AG pp. 131-178;
Herodotus, III 39-60; Thucydides, I 1-19.

1.28

Persia, Ionia and Marathon

AG pp. 178-192;
ACG 90-100; 101-8
HA Part III

1.30

The Persian Invasion and its Political Consequences

AG pp. 192-200;
ACG 109-117, 121-8, 166-7.
Herodotus, VII 32-152, 172-232.

2.4

The Athenian Empire

AG Chp 6;
ACG 129-140, 169-71, 173;
The web selection on Thucydides comes in two parts, Thucydides, I 89-117 and the 118-123

2.6

The Greeks in the West; review and discussion for the midterm.

2.11

MIDTERM EXMINATION

2.13

Periclean Athens

ACG 141-148, 150-7, 158-64, 175;
AG Chp 7;
ESHAG I 5; II 5;
Thucydides, II 34-46.

2.18

The Intellectual Revolution; Thucydides

Pre-Socratics (follow this link);
Herodotus, I 192-200 (Assyriology); II 19-31 (the Nile);
Thucydides, I 20-23 (historiography); II 47-55;
Aristophanes, (follow this link to the Clouds)

2.20

Peloponnesian War I

AG Chp 8
ACG pp. 333-6 and sections 165, 176-88, 190-5, 197-201, 207-12

2.25

Peloponnesian War II

Thucydides, III 69-85;
ACG 202-6, 213-6, 217-240

2.27

The Hegemony of Sparta

AG Chp 9;
ACG 242-8b, 249, 252-63;
ESHAG I 6; II 6

3.3

The Hegemony of Thebes

ACG 264-75, 319-20 ACG 264-75, 319-20

3.5

Economic and Social Conditions; submit projects

ACG ss 276-90, 292-3, 298-302;
ESHAG I 7; II 7

3.10

Socrates, Plato, Literature and Science. Also a discussion of the "forces at work" in the 4th C. Come prepared to share your ideas on this subject (see last lecture and this one for a outline.

Plato, Apology;
ACG 303-15;

3.12

The Rise of Macedonia; Art and Architecture; Review and Discussion

AG Chp 10

Final Examination: Tuesday18 March 3:15 to 5:15