History 510:201  ANCIENT GREECE       Syllabus           Summer 2010 (July 12-Aug. 18)
Mondays and Wednesdays 6-9:40 PM, Scott Hall 215
Jack Cargill, Prof. Emeritus
Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 4 to 5, Van Dyck Hall (room TBA)
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, 2^nd edition (Oxford Univ. Press 2008) [ISBN-13: 9780195308006]
            Readings = Nagle & Burstein, READINGS IN GREEK HISTORY: SOURCES & INTERPRETATIONS (Oxford Univ. Press 2007) [ISBN-13: 9780195178258]
 
            Text is assigned by entire Roman-numbered Chapters (I, II, etc.), usually one per meeting.
            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.). Because this can be confusing, pages for readings are also specified (which sometimes include brief introductions preceding the actual readings).
            Videos are scheduled on the assumption that (as in past years) they will be available; those that are not will be replaced or deleted.
 
            Mondays will be the heavy-lecturing nights, with essentially two full-length lectures separated by a coffee (etc.) break.
            At every Wednesday meeting except the Final, some form of video or movie should be shown – even on the evening of the Mid-Term Exam (July 28).
 
Wk #1  M  July 12:  INTRO., EARLY GREECE, BRONZE AGE           
            Text:  Intro. & Chap. I     Readings:  1A (pp. 2-7, incl. top of p. 2); 2C (pp. 49-53)
             W  July 14:  DARK AGE & 8C RENAISSANCE
            Text:  Chap. II     Readings:  1C (pp. 10-20), 1G (pp. 28-29)
            Video on Crete & Mycenae
 
Wk #2  M  July 19:  ARCHAIC GREECE
            Text:  Chap. III     
            Readings:  1B (p. 1 + pp. 7-10), 1D-F (pp. 21-27), 1H.2-3 (pp. 30-33), 1J (pp. 40-42); 2A-B (pp. 43-49), 2D-E (pp. 53-66); 4A-C (pp. 98-122)
             W  July 21:  SPARTA         
            Text:  Chap. IV     Readings:  1H.1 (p. 29), 1I (pp. 33-40)
            Video on Sparta
 
Wk #3  M  July 26: ARCHAIC ATHENS & PERSIAN WARS
            Text:  Chap. V     Readings:  3A-C (pp. 67-97)
             W  July 28:  Mid-Term Exam (begins promptly at 6; ends at 7:30 – before the videos)
            Videos on Athenian Democracy & Golden Age of Athens
 
Wk #4  M  August 2:  ATHENIAN EMPIRE & GOLDEN AGE
            Text:  Chap. VI     Readings:  5A-C.2 (pp. 145-161)
             W  August 4:  WAR LOOMS
            Text:  Chap. VII
            Videos on Thucydides & Aristophanes
 
Wk #5   M  August 9:  PELOPONNESIAN WAR & 4C CRISES
            Text: Chaps. VIII (War) & IX (Crises)
            Readings:  (War) 4D-G (pp. 123-144); 5C.3-5 & 5D (pp. 161-179);
                            (Crises) 5E & 5F.2-6 (pp. 179-182 & bottom p. 183-188); 6A-E (pp. 189-208); 7A-B.3, 7B.4 (Plato & Xenophon passages), and 7C (pp. 209-225, 227-229, 230-238)
             W  August 11:  PHILIP OF MACEDON
            Text:  Chap. X    
            Readings:  6.F.1 (p. 183); 7.B.4 (Isocrates passage, pp. 226-227); 7D (pp. 238-246)
            Videos on Alexander
 
Wk #6   M  August 16:  ALEXANDER, SUCCESSORS, & HELLENISTIC WORLD
            Text:  Chaps. XI (Alexander) & XII and Epilogue (after Alexander)
            Readings:  (Alexander) 7.E-I (pp. 246-266); (after Alex.) 8.A-H (pp. 267-303)
             W  August 18:  Final Exam (begins promptly at 6, ends at 7:30)