Herodotus, conflicts in Greece and between Greece and Persia (continued)

• Introduction to Herodotus: please print out this sheet and bring it to class
• AGW pp. 235-261
• Hdt. 1.131-170; 2.2-105, 142-147; 4.89-118
• Perseus Encyclopedia on Herodotus; Prooimion to Herodotus' Histories
• Map of the Aegean Sea, with Halicarnassus

Ionia & Persia: the Ionian Revolt and First Persian War (499-490 BCE)

• AGW pp. 261-264
• D&G pp. 181-182, nos. 7.2-17
• Hdt. 5.93-6.42; 6.93-121, 132-140

Preparations for the 2nd Persian Invasion; Thermopylae

• AGW p. 264
• D&G 7.18-30
• Hdt. 7.1-238

Second Persian War: Salamis; political freedom

• Everyone read AGW pp. 264-270; D&G 7.31-51
• Surnames A-D: read Hdt. book 8
• Surnames E-L: read Hdt. book 9
• Surnames M-Z: read Plut. Life of Themistocles

Tragedy, the stage and the polis

• Aeschylus Persians

The foundation of the Delian League; problems of chronology and ideology

• Per 1-13
• Plutarch Aristides

The Pentekontaetia, 479-449
Project: short essay due. Please include a copy of this Academic Integrity Checklist.

• Plutarch Cimon
• D&G pp. 215-216, nos. 8.1-19
• Thucydides pentekontaetia (pp. 1-10)

The rise of radical democracy: the early years of Pericles' ascendancy

• Per pp. 14-24, 32-39, 109-115
• Plutarch Pericles

Problems in the Empire: revolutions and responses

• Sophocles Antigone

The Pentekontaetia, 449-432: the Periclean "Golden Age"

• Per pp. 40-48
• Thucydides pentekontaetia (pp. 11-14)

The Athenian legal system: women, metics and citizens

• Lysias Against Eratosthenes
• Apollodorus Against Neaira
• Athenian Citizen: lawcourts