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Monday Wednesday
Aug 28 30
General Introduction Early Greece to The Minoans, Pomeroy Ch. 1

Sept 4 6
Labor Day
No Class

The Minoans and Mycenaeans, Pomeroy Ch. 1
11 13
The "Dark Age", Pomeroy Ch. 2

Iliad, Book 1 and Bk 2 to line 562 [483].
Discussion Questions--see review sheet for exam 1
18 20
Iliad. Book 24.
Odyssey, Book 1 and Bk 2 to line [260]
Hancock Symposium

25 27
Odyssey. all of Book 9, Book 21, & Book 23.

Archaic Greece: Kebric, Ch. 1.
Paper 1 due


Oct 2 4
Archaic Greece, Kebric, Ch. 2 Also read the following:
   a poem of Tyrtaeus;     selections from the Lyric Poets;
   Archilochus' Cologne Fragment.
Exam 1

9 11
Sparta. Pomeroy Ch. 4

Sparta. Pomeroy Ch. 4, continued

16 18
Kebric, Ch 3 (Olympics) and Kebric, Ch. 4, 91-110. (2 interesting things). [Optional Sappho's poetry]

Athens, prior to the Persian Wars. Pomeroy Ch. 5
Paper 2 due
23 25
Herodotus and the Persian Wars: Pomeroy Ch. 5, 136-150, and Ch. 7, 196-198; (Herodotus pdf in Moodle) Fifth Century Life; Intro. to Greek Drama. Pomeroy Ch. 6, 153-163 & 170-180, and Ch. 7, 200-206. Extra Herodotus pdf in Moodle.

30 Nov 1
Exam 2

Sophocles' Antigone
Write down 2 interesting things from the play

6 8
Aristophanes' Lysistrata
Pomeroy, Ch 8, 228-231
Write down 2 interesting things from the play
Thucydides (pdf in Moodle). The Peloponessian War. Pomeroy pp 198-200, 211-216, 218-228, & 231-245.
Paper 3 due
13 15
Fifth Century Art & Architecture. Pomeroy pp 163-170 & 185-194. Exam 3

20 22
No Class: Thanksgiving Break

No Class: Thanksgiving Break

27 29
The Fourth Century: Kebric, Ch. 7

The Trial and Death of Socrates, Plato, The Apology
Paper 4 due

Dec 4 6
Movie; Pomeroy, pp 210-211, 247-253, 260-266
Movie, continued
Philip & Alexander, Pomeroy, pp 287-324
Paper 5 due
11
Read: Pomeroy, pp 326-359
A Taste of Ancient Greece



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Dec 11 12 13 14 15 16


Last day of classes









3:00 pm
Exam 4 & Paper 6