Introduction

• AGW pp. xv-xvi

What is history?

• AGW ch. 1: Lelantine Plain

Sources & dating; periodization of history; topography & geography

• AGW ch. 2
• D&G ch. 14 (pp. 441-461: 441-445 read carefully; skim 445-461 for examples of each genre)
• Hdt. prooimion (book 1, 1st paragraph)
• Thuc. 1.1-12 (Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, bk.1, chs.1-12) (.pdf file if Perseus link doesn't work)

Bronze Age Greece: Minoan & Mycenaean cultures

• AGW pp. 41-43
• Minoan-Mycenaean Civilizations

Iron Age Greece: Dark Age, migrations, recovery
Essay 1: assignment

• AGW pp. 43-66
• Greek dialect maps (German; English)
• Lefkandi on Euboea, ca. 950 BCE: plan; QTVR (Metis)

Archaic Greece's renaissance and revolution: epic poetry, introduction of alphabet, rise of the polis

• AGW pp. 67-83
• Shield of Achilles (please print out and bring to class)
• Avdo Mededovic: "Wedding Guests"
• Prof. Albert Lord, "Composition in Performance in Oral Traditional Literature" (Skidmore, 1990)

Panhellenic sanctuaries and panhellenic sentiments

• AGW pp. 83-91, 270-275
• Olympic events

Colonization
Essay 1: final draft due

• AGW pp. 93-117
• D&G pp. 1-2, nos. 1.2-4, 7, 9-1.10, 13, 15, 18, 25-27, 33
• Hdt. 4.150-167, 200-204
• Hoplite warfare: Chigi Vase, ca. 640 BCE
  • Full vase; detail
• Mediterranean; Greece; Asia Minor; Phoenicia; Italy

Delphi, colonization and the ritualization of religion
Return Essay 1 - see the Web Resources page on the Skidmore Guide to Writing and the Skidmore Writing Center

• Metis tour of Delphi
• Reconstruction of sanctuary
• Athenian Treasury QTVRs (search: Perseus Virtual Reality Collection)
• Siphnian Treasury
• Herodotus, Croesus and Delphi: Herodotus 1.1-94 (book 1, chaps. 1-94)

Leadership and the polis

• AGW pp. 119-127
• Plut. Theseus