Ancient Greeks

Gold Star Memorial (WWI), Des Moines, Iowa (early 1920s)

Handouts (Word Documents)

• Was There a Trojan War? Archaeology (2004)
  
• Historical Introduction & Excerpts from The Iliad Homer, Book 22
  
• History & Film: Some Observations & Questions
  
• The Ten Commandments Past Imperfect (1995)
  
• The Iliad & History Rediscovering Homer (2006)
  
• Excerpts from In Search of the Trojan War (1985)
  
• "Troy's Lost Treasure" Time Magazine (1996)
  

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• Why study the Greeks?
  
• The Origins of Evil: Pandora & Eve
  
• Sparta & Athens excerpts from Twelve Greeks & Romans Who Changed the World
  
• Hoplites from Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander
  
• The Persian Wars excerpts from Twelve Greeks & Romans Who Changed the World
  
• Herodotus & the Persian Wars
  
• Herodotus: Battle of Marathon to Plataea excerpts from Histories
  
• The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization [Video Questions]
  
• Pericles: Democratic Reformer from Twelve Greeks & Romans Who Changed the World
  
• Drama in the Age of Pericles from Twelve Greeks & Romans Who Changed the World
  
• More Human Than Human [VOD Questions]
  
• How Art Made the World (2005) by Nigel Spivey
  
• The Peloponnesian War
  
• Greek Tragedy: The Swollen-Footed King
  
• Excerpts from The Beginnings of Western Science (1993)
  
• The Visual Arts (2004)
  
• The Peloponnesian War (2003) by Donald Kagan
  
• Plato's Crito: The Socratic Method
  
• Plato: Founder of Western Philosophy excerpts from Twelve Greeks & Romans Who Changed the World
  
• Plato (The Republic) & Aristotle (Politics)
  
• Alexander the Great excerpts from Twelve Greeks & Romans Who Changed the World
  
• Excerpts from "The Walls of Thebes" by Bernard Knox (1993)
  
• Excerpts from The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)
  
• Greek Ruins (Americans Losing Classical Knowledge) (1998)
  
• Excerpts from The Simpsons and Philosophy (2001)
  
• Alexander the Great: Napoleon's Memoirs (1823)
  
• Ancient Greeks: Internet Assignment
  
  

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Web Resources

• Introduction to Ancient Greek History, Donald Kagan (Yale University)
  
• Prehistory to Early Christianity