21H.130 The Ancient World: Greece

Faculty: Prof. Eric Driscoll

Schedule: Lecture: MW 12-1 Recitation: F 1-2 or 2-3

Info: HASS-H, CI-H

History of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. Major social, economic, political, and religious
trends. Homer, heroism, and the Greek identity; the hoplite revolution and the rise of the city-state; Herodotus, Persia, and the (re)birth of history; Empire, Thucydidean rationalism, and the Peloponnesian War; Aristotle, Macedonia, and Hellenism. Emphasis on use of primary sources in translation.