History 510:201  ANCIENT GREECE                      Summer 2009 (July 7-Aug. 13)

Tuesdays and Thursdays 6-9:40 PM, Murray Hall 204

SPECIAL NOTE: The Aug. 13 meeting (for the Final Exam) has been added to make this a 12-meeting (not 11-meeting) class; therefore each meeting (except the Final) ends at 9:40, not 9:55.

Jack Cargill, Prof. Emeritus

Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 4 to 5, Van Dyck Hall 213C

E-mail address:  jcargill@rci.rutgers.edu

 

BOOKS (ordered at New Jersey Books ONLY):

            Text = Pomeroy, Burstein, Donlan, & Roberts, ANCIENT GREECE: A POLITICAL, SOCIAL, & CULTURAL HISTORY, 2nd edition (Oxford Univ. Press 2008)

            Readings = Nagle & Burstein, READINGS IN GREEK HISTORY: SOURCES & INTERPRETATIONS (Oxford Univ. Press 2007)

 

            All assignments are for the week, not for the individual lecture; it is recommended that you do all the week’s reading prior to the Tuesday evening meeting, since topics discussed will not always follow precisely the order of the assignments.

            Text is assigned by Roman-numbered Chapters (I, II, etc.), usually two per week.

            Readings are assigned by Arabic-numbered Chapters and capital-lettered subdivisions within chapters (1B, 4A-C, etc.); subdivisions include all numbered sub-subdivisions (4A = 4A.1-7, 6B = 6B.1-4, etc.).

            Tuesdays will be the heavy-lecturing nights, with essentially two full-length lectures separated by a coffee (etc.) break.

            At every Thursday meeting except the Final, some form of video or movie will be shown – even on the evening of the Mid-Term Exam (July 23).

 

Week of July 7 & 9:  INTRO., EARLY GREECE, BRONZE & DARK AGES, 8C RENAISSANCE

            Text:  Intro. and Chaps. I & II

            Readings:  1A, C, G; 2C

            Video on Crete & Mycenae

 

Week of July 14 & 16:  ARCHAIC GREECE & SPARTA

            Text:  Chaps. III & IV

            Readings:  1B, D-F, H, I; 2A, B, D, E; 4A-C

            Video on Sparta

 

Week of July 21 & 23: ARCHAIC ATHENS & PERSIAN WARS

            Text:  Chap. V

            Readings:  3A-C

            Mid-Term Exam on Thurs., July 23 (begins promptly at 6; ends at 7:30 – before the videos)

            Videos on Athenian Democracy & Golden Age of Athens

 

Week of July 28 & 30:  RIVALRIES, ATHENIAN EMPIRE, WAR LOOMS

            Text:  Chaps. VI & VII

            Readings:  5A-C

            Videos on Thucydides & Aristophanes

 

Week of August 4 & 6:  PELOPONNESIAN WAR, 4C CRISES, PHILIP

            Text: Chaps. VIII, IX, & X

            Readings:  4.D-G; 5D-F; 6A-E; 7A-D

            Videos on Alexander

 

Week of August 11 & 13:  ALEXANDER, SUCCESSORS, & HELLENISTIC WORLD

            Text:  Chaps. XI & XII and Epilogue

            Readings:  7.E-I; 8.A-H

            Final Exam on Thurs., August 13 (begins promptly at 6, ends at 7:30)