Eric D. Huntsman,
Assistant Professor of Ancient Scripture;
Affiliate Faculty, Classics and Ancient History
ClCv/Hist 304
Winter 2005 Syllabus
(v. 1.1)
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Course Contents
Course Outline and Presentation links
Related courses
Sources for Greek history
Source Analysis
Announcements:
- The bookstore failed to cross-list ClCv with Hist
247. Consequently, books were only ordered for ClCv 304.
Additional texts have been ordered, but in the meantime, I have scanned the
readings for the first couple weeks' of classes, and links appear with each
presentation below.
Upcoming Dates:
Easter Preparations
Winter 2005 Presentations, Handouts, and
Reviews
-
Introduction
- Course description
- Tour of Greece video clip
- The study of Greek history
- "Doing" Ancient History: Methodology
- Sources
Unit 1: Early Greece
PREHISTORIC GREECE
- 3. The
Greek Dark Age (c. 1150- 750 B.C.)
[Pomeroy, 37-48]
- The End of the Mycenaean
World
- Dorians and "Sea Peoples"
- A Proposed Solution
- Characteristics of and
Sources for the Greek Dark Age
- "Archaeological Obscurity"
- Submycenaean (c. 1125-1050)
- Protogeometric (c. 1050-900
B.C.)
- Age of Migrations
- Aiolis, Ionia, Doris
- Geometric Revival (s.
900-750 B.C.)
ARCHAIC GREECE
- 5. Early Archaic Greece
(as outline) [Pomeroy, 71-90; Morkot,
48-49]
- Eighth Century Renaissance
- Late
Geometric Phase, 750-700 B.C.
- Orientalizing
Phase, 700-650 B.C.
- Characteristics
- population
growth, eastern contacts, the Greek alphabet, panhellenism, heroic
revivals
- Development of aristocracies
- Rise of the polis
- variations
on a theme: chora and asty
in different states
- developing
governmental institutions
- magistrates, boule
, and agora
- 6. Colonization
(as outline)
- Terms and sources
- Causes
- Procedures
- Characteristics
- Results
- Overview of Greek colonial activity
- Kyrene;
Italy and Sicily; Megara and the Propontis; Miletos and the Black
Sea; Phokaia, Massilia, and the West
- Archaic Society
(as
outline)
- Aristocracies and Aristotle's "Middle"
- Hesiod
on aristocracy, dike (justice),
and morality
- The idea of citizenship
- Military changes
- Tyrtaios
and hoplite warfare
- the
"Hoplite Revolution"
- Greek Tyranny
(as outline)
- Aristocratic Crisis
- case
study: the seacoast trading states
- Pheidon's military monarchy
- Tyrannos: the
term and the position
- Tyrant prototypes
- Pittakos
of Mytilene; the Kypselids in Korinth; the Orthagorids of Sikyon;
Theagenes in Megara; Polykrates of Samos
- Contributions of the tyrants
- Archaic Culture
- Sculpture
- Doric architecture
- Early Attic Black Figure
- Lyric poetry
- Archilochos
on heroism, Sappho on love
- Intellectual developments
- The
Ionian School: materialists and idealists
- Xenophanes
on anthropomorphism and religion
- Early
Sparta (as outline)
- Sources
- Earliest Sparta
- Messenian Wars
- Lykourgos and his reforms
- Government
- kings; Gerouisia; Apella; ephors
- Social restructuring:
the agoge
- the Spartiates
- Formation of the Peloponnesian League
- Early Athens
(as outline)
- Sources
- Emergence of archaic Athens
- Mycenaean Atttika
- the Dark Ages
- the fading of kingship
and aristocratic government
- devolution of power
- magistrates; Areiopagos; Ekklesia
- Sixth Century Instability
- stasis
- Kylon's attempted
tyranny
- Drakon's law code
- Solon's reforms
- the Peisistratids
- Political unrest
and factionalism
- Rise of Peisistratos
- Peisistratid government
- means and maintenance of power
- image and policies
- Peisistratid Succession
- Kleisthenes and Athenian Democracy
(as outline)
- The Alkmaionid Clan
- The Myth
of the Tyrannicides
- Harmodios
and Aristogeiton; death of Hipparchos
- Hippias'
tyranny grows harsher
- Sparta
and the fall of the Peisistratids
- Oligarchy
and a renewal of stasis
- Isagoras
bests Kleisthenes
- Kleisthenes
and the demos
- Reaction
and Revolution: the Spartan intervention
- Reforms of
Kleisthenes
- Demes
- Trittyes
- Phylai
- Council
of 500
- prytaneis
- duties of the new boule
- the
military under the new system
- later
developments
- klerosis ek prokriton (not
until 487/6 B.C.?)
- ostracism
- Democracy
under attack and its successes
Unit 1 Review
(Winter 2003 but good for 2004)
Unit 2: Fifth Century Greece (The
Rise and Fall of Athens)
- The Persian Menace
(as outline)
- Near
Eastern Background
- Sources
- Herodotus of Haikarnssos
- Herodotus' Histories
- Lydia
and East Greece
- Rise
of Persia
- Ionian
Prelude
- Histiaios and Atistagoras
- Miletos and Naxos
- The
Ionian Revolt
- Athenian
Politics
- Persian
punitive measures
- Greek Asia
- Mardonius in Europe
- Datis' naval invasion
- Battle of Marathon, 490 B.C.
- Athenian
Politics again
- the reforms of 487/6 B.C.
- Themistokles' naval policy
- Xerxes
and the invasion of Greece
- 481 B.C. Isthmus Conference
- Thermopylai and Artemesion, 480 B.C.
- Salamis
- Plataia and Mykale, 479 B.C.
- The
Delian League
(as outline)
- Thucydides
as source
- methodology
and sources; his speeches
- Introduction; archailogia
; pentekontaetia;
annual account of the war
- Ionian rejection
of Sparta
- "The Athenians
and Their Allies"
- Themistokles
after Persia
- Early actions
of the league
- Eion
- Skyros
- Karystos
- Naxos'
revolt
- Eurymedon
- Thasos'
revolt
- End of Dualism
- Sparta
and the helot revolt of 464 B.C.
- Kimon
loses face
- Ephialtes
and radical democracy
- Periklean
Athens
- League becomes
empire
- types
of allies
- means
of control
- observations
of "the Old Oligarch" ([Xen.] Ath. Pol.)
- The "First"
Peloponnesian War
- Megara
- Overextension
of the empire
- a
brief land empire
- Disaster
- destruction of the Egyptian expedition
- Peace of Kallias?
- Congress Decree
- Defeat at Koroneia
- Classical Greek Culture
- Classical
Ideals and Forms
- the
Hellenic Good Life
- Principles
of Classicism
- Classical
Humanism
- the
Classical Achievement
- Developments
in poetry
- Lyric
- Tragedy
- development and characteristics of Greek tragedy
- the art of Aeschylus, lyric tragedy
- Sophocles
- Euripides
- Comedy
- Sculpture
- Severe
Style
- High
Classical Style
- Late
Classical
- Intellectual
developments
- Natural
philosophy
- reconciliation of materialists and idealists
- Democritus and the atomic theory
- Sophism
- rhetoric and public speaking
- effect on traditional culture and values
- Perkilean
building program
- 454
B.C. move of the Delian League treasury to Athens
- Propylaia
- Parthenon
- Later building
- Ionic
Style as a national, wartime style
- Erectheion
- The
Outbreak
of the Peloponnesian War
(as
outline)
- Thirty Years
Peace
- Thucydides
and the Causes of the War
- Pretexts
- Kerkyra and Epidamnos
- Potidaia
- Aigina
- Megarian Decrees
- The
"truest cause"
- Spartan fear of the growing power of Athens
- Debate
at Sparta
- The spark:
Thebes' attempted seizure of Plataia
- Sources reviewed
- Peloponnesian
League reviewed
- The
Archidamian War, 431-421 B.C.
(as outline)
- Periklean
policy
- Peloponnesian
strategy
- the
first year: Acharnai and its reaction
- Funeral Oration
of Perikles
- praise
of democracy
- the
reality of Athenian character
- the plague
- the Mytilenean Debate
- Stasis in Kerkyra
- Pylos and
Sphakteria
- Brasidas
and the Chalkidike
- Amphipolis
- The
Peace of Nikias and the Sicilian Expedition (as
outline)
- Terms of the peace treaty
- New Alliances
- The Melian Incident
- Thucydides' "Melian Dialogue" and "Might Makes Right"
- The Sicilian Expedition
- Profanation of the Mysteries
- The role of Alkibiades
- Sparta's involvment: Gylippos
- Siege of Syracuse and the Destruction of the Expedition
- The Fall of Athens: the Ionian and Dekeleian Wars (as
outline)
- Agis at Dekeleia
- Ionian Theater
- Persian involvement and the Spartan fleet
- Tissaphernes and Pharnabazos, Persian satraps with different policies
- Lysandros, Spartan commander
- Oligarchic Reaction in Athens: the 400, the 5,000, and "Floating
Democracy"
- Hellespontine battles: Kynossema and Kyzikos
- Alkibiades and Notion
- Arginusai and the Trial of the Generals
- Aigispotamai
- The End
- Theramenes and Peace terms
- Postwar
Athens (as outline)
- Lysandros at Athens
- Sparta and the Aegean
- The Decree of Drakontides and the Regime of the Thirty
- Interim Regimes: Piraeus Democracy, 3,000, Reconciliation
- Socrates and Postwar Athens
Unit
2 Review
Unit 3: Fifth Century and Hellenistic Greece
-
Spartan Dominance
(as outline)
- The Spartan empire—garrisons, harmosts,
and narrow oligarchies
- the recall of Lysandros
- Sparta’s support for the insurgency
of Kyros
- Xenophon’s Anabasis
; Agesilaos, a would-be Agamemnon
- the Korinthian War
- the Koine Eirene
or “King’s Peace,” 386 B.C.
- The Revival of Athens
(as outline)
- Phoibidas’ coup in Thebes
- Sphodrias’ feint on Athens, its result
- the Second Athenian Confederacy
- Battles of Naxos (376 B.C.)
and Kerkyra
- the Peace of Kallias and Epameinondas’
rejection of it (371 B.C.)
- The Rise and
Fall of Thebes
(as outline)
- Pelopidas and the Sacred Band
- Epameniondas’ leadership of Thebes
- Jason of Pherai
- Leuktra, 371 B.C.
- Theban intervention in the Peloponnesus
- the Battle of Mantineia
and the death of Epameinondas, 362 B.C.
- Athens in the Mid 4th
Century (as outline,
but there are many images, so the handout may be better)
- The Social War, 357-354 B.C.
- Mausolos and Karia
- a model of a peripheral state
- Democracy and Justice
- dicasteries
- money and democracy: pay for offices
- Intellectual developments
- Plato and his philosophy, especially the Theory of
Forms or Ideas
- Isocrates and his educational program
- Aristotle and his method
- Fourth century art
- The
Rise of Macedonia
(as
outline)
- Early Macedonia
- Philip II and his reforms
- Phokis and the Sacred Wars
- the Delphic Amphictyony
- Philomelos and the Battle of Neon
- Onomarchos, Thessaly, the Battle of the Crocus Fields,
and Thermopylai
- Overview: the weakness of the fourth century
poleis
- Philip and Athens
- the end of Phokis
- the Peace of Philokrates, 346 B.C.
- the Halonnesos Incident
- a new sacred war
- Chaironeia (338 B.C.) and its aftermath
- Common Peace of 338 B.C.
- the League of Korinth
- Philip's last days
- Kleopatra and her father Attalos
- Alexander's fall
- Pasuanias and Philip's murder
- Alexander
the Great
(as
outline)
- Alexander's first challenges
- enemies on every side
- destruction of Thebes
- Preparations for the Persian expedition
- Persia and Alexander
- Granikos, 334 B.C.
- conquest of Asia Minor
- Miletos and Alexander's "non-naval" policy
- Ada and Karia
- the Gordian Knot
- Issos, 333 B.C.
- Alexander, Lord of Asia
- Tyre and Gaza
- Egypt
- Alexandria
- Zeus-Ammon at Siwah
- Gaugamela, 331 B.C.
- Babylon
- Persia and Persepolis
- Media and Ekbatana, dismissal of the Greeks
- Eastern Campaigns
- Death of Dareios
- Alexander "medizing?" Macedonian
dissatisfaction and conspiracies
- Baktria
- Marriage to Roxane
- India
- Alexander's final days
- the difficult march back, Nearchos' exploration
- the satrapies in chaos
- marriage at Susa and Mutiny at Opis
- premature death, 323 B.C.
- Hellenistic World
(as outline)
- Legacy of Alexander: results and plans
- The Succession Crisis
- Alexander IV and Philip III Arrhidaois
- Compromise and Regency
- The Diadochoi or
"Successors"
- First Phase: Perdikkas' regency
- Lamian War (323-322 B.C.) in Greece
- Rebellion of Antigonos Monophtholmos
- Ptolemy and Egypt
- Second Phase: formal division and conflict
- Settlement at Triparadeisos (320 B.C.)
- Antipatros in Europe
- Antigonos in Asia
- Lysimachos, Ptolemy, Seleukos
- Shifting Tides
- death of Antipatros
- Antigonos and Demetrios basileis
- Battle of Ipsos, 301 B.C.
- Third Phase: equilibrium
- Antiognid Macedonia
- Seleukid Syria/Mesopotamia
- Ptolemaic Egpyt
- For interest only
- Jewish Interlude
- Ptolemaic and Seleukid strife over Palestine
- Antiochos IV Epiphanes and Hellenization
- the Maccabean Revolt
- the Hasmonean Dynasty
- Roman Conquest of the Mediterranean
- Hellenistic Culture (also
for interest only)
- Hellenistic culture and literature
- Hellenistic Religion and Philosophy
- Hellenisitic Art
Unit 3 Review (Final Exam,
v. 2.1 13 Apr 04 adjusted a bit after final day of class)