CIVILIZATION OF ANCIENT GREECE: CLASSICS 204; SPRING 2007

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BARRY B. POWELL bbpowell@wisc.edu

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm TR Anthropology 163

Office hours: 11:00-12:00 TR

Graduate Assistants: LeAnn Lewis, Allen Herring; office hours to be announced

A survey of Greek civilization in its many aspects. We will read a modern text that discusses all aspects of Greek civilization and along the way several Greek plays and selections from major Greek authors. We will see a lot of slides and attendance at lecture is important. Your grade will be based on two midterms and a final exam.

REQUIRED TEXTS

The Greeks: History, Culture, Society, by Ian Morris and Barry B. Powell, Prentice-Hall. (=MP); Univ. of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, Vol. I, The Greeks, ed. A. Adkins et al. (=A); Greek Tragedies I, trans. R. Grene, R. Lattimore = (GL)

Week 1. Jan. 16-18

Introduction: Who were the Greeks? MP Chapters 1, 2

Week 2. Jan. 23-25

Greek economy, prehistory. MP Chapters 3, 4

Week 3. Jan. 30-Feb. 1

Dark Age, Homer. MP Chapters 5, 6.; A 6-21 NOTES FOR THESE LECTURES

Week 4. Feb. 6-8

Religion and myth. MP Chapter 7; GL Agamemnon; Prometheus NOTES FOR THESE LECTURES

Week 5. Feb. 13-15

Archaic Greece. MP Chapters 8, 9; A 22-43NOTES FOR THESE LECTURES

Week 6. Feb. 20

Sparta and Athens. MP Chapter 10; A 44-46 NOTES FOR THIS LECTURE

FIRST MIDTERM EXAM: Feb 22 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

Week 7. Feb. 27-March 1

Persia and the Greeks. MP Chapter 11; A 47-56 NOTES FOR THESE LECTURES

Week 8. March 6-8

The Great War. MP Chapter 12. Oedipus the King. NOTES FOR THESE LECTURES

SPRING BREAK

Week 9. March 20-22

Fifth-century Greece. MP Chapters 13, 14; A 181-217 NOTES FOR THESE LECTURES

Week 10. March 27-29

Drama. MP Chapter 15. GL Antigone NOTES FOR THESE LECTURES

Week 11. April 3-5

Peloponnesian War. MP Chapter 16; A 57-157 NOTES FOR THESE LECTURES; STUDY GUIDE MIDTERM 2

Week 12. April 10-12

Greek politics in the fourth-century BC. MP Chapter 17 NOTES FOR THIS LECTURE

SECOND MIDTERM EXAM: April 12

Week 13. April 17-19

Greek culture in the fourth-century BC. MP Chapter 18. A 217-227; GL Hippolytus NOTES FOR THESE LECTURES

Week 14. April 24-26

Macedon and Alexander. MP Chapter 19 NOTES FOR THIS LECTURE

NO LECTURE ON APRIL 26

Week 15. May 1-3

Hellenistic culture. MP Chapters 20, 21; A 325-347 NOTES FOR THESE LECTURES

FINAL EXAM: THURSDAY, MAY 10, 10:00 AM – 12:00. PLACE TO BE ANNOUNCED.