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THEMES:
TERMS:
GREEK MIRACLE
Epic Poets:
Homer: Iliad, Odyssey; Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days
Tragedians:
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroi, Eumenides; Euripides: Bacchae, Medea,
Hippolytus; Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Ajax
Comedy:
Aristophanes: Frogs, Lysistrata, Clouds
Historians
Herodotus, Thucydides
Philosophers
Plato: Apology, Republic, Phaedo
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, De Anima, Poetics
Pelasgians
HOMER (c.750)
Iliad, Odyssey
Epic Cycle
Cypria, Iliad, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Persis Iliou, Nostoi, Odyssey
Oral poetry, Dactyllic Hexameter, Milman Parry, Formulae, Body shield, Boar’s
tusk helmet, chariots, Mycenaean towns
DARK AGE
Theogony
Generation of the gods, Chaos, Gaia (earth), Nyx (Night), Erebus, Tartarus, Eros;
Gaia + Ouranos (sky) = Titans (e.g. Cronus, Rhea), Cyclopes, Hekatoncheires (100
handed); Cronus + Rhea = Hestia, Demeter, Poseidon, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon
(Olympians); Titans vs Olympians; Prometheus, Mekone (sacrifice), Fire (theft),
Pandora (All-gifts), Misogyny, Pithos (jar, not box), Elpis (Hope)
Olympic games (776 BCE), population growth, return of building, pottery, writing
(alphabet, Phoenicians); excess population, colonization, Asia Minor, Black Sea,
Sicily, S. Italy
Polis
synoecism, citizenship, separate coinage, calendar, rituals, constitution, laws etc.
competition, democracy
Hoplite Warfare
hoplite, hoplon, phalanx, property qualification
ATHENS
The textbook’s purpose is to provide context for the ideas, events, civilizations,
personalities that I discussed in class. At best, it should be used to supplement your
notes (both the ones I posted and the ones you took in class); it should not
substitute for them.
Ancient Greece: Introduction, 22-46, 46-49, 51-53, 64-67, 84- 88, 99-101, 102-104,
116-120, 120-124, 181-185 (but omit Kylon, Draco or Solon)
A Brief History: Introduction, 15-26, 26-40, 47-50, 55-57, 59-62, 70-75, 80-83,
124-128 (but omit Kylon, Draco and Solon)
Note:
The test will consist of 60 multiple choice questions. You will have one hour and
fifteen minutes to write the test. After a fifteen break, I will lecture for an hour or
so. See you next week.