Faculty: Prof. Eric Driscoll
Schedule: Lecture: MW 11-12
Recitation: F 11-12 or 12-1
Info: CI-H
Explores the civilization of the ancient Greek world, from its origins in the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age until the Roman conquest of the eastern Mediterranean world near the end of first millennium BCE. Introduces major historical developments, social and political achievements and failures, and cultural accomplishments and transformations such as the Mycenaean and Minoan palatial systems, Homeric epic, the aristocratic ethos of early Greece, the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, religion, money, the spread of democratic government, and Alexander’s conquest of the Middle East. Interpretation of archaeological and artistic material as well as literary, historical, and philosophical texts.
