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1. INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS HISTORY? WHY STUDY HISTORY THROUGH PRIMARY
SOURCES? (2/28) |
SPIELVOGEL: Preface; Introduction to Students of Western Civilization
ROGERS: Preface
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2. THE FIRST HUMANS: FROM THE OLD STONE AGE TO THE BIRTH OF CIVILIZATION
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SPIELVOGEL: From the Hunter-Gatherers, through the Agricultural Revolution to the Emergence of Civilization
ROGERS: Handouts
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3. CIVILIZATION OF MESOPOTAMIA (3/6) |
SPIELVOGEL: The City-States and Empires in Ancient Mesopotamia
ROGERS: The Reign of Sargon; The Code of Hammurabi; The Epic of Gilgamesh; The Mesopotamian View of Death, 6-13
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4. EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION: "THE GIFT OF THE NILE"
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SPIELVOGEL: The Old and Middle Kingdom; Society and Economy in Ancient Egypt
ROGERS: Building of the Pyramids; Mummification (Herodotus), 15-17
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5. THE NEW KINGDOM (3/11) |
SPIELVOGEL: From Chaos to a New Order; Culture, Religion and Daily Life in Egypt
ROGERS: Instructions of Kagemni; The Pyramid Texts; The Book of the Dead: Negative Confession; Humn to the Aton, 24-30
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6. EMPIRES AND PEOPLES: THE INDO-EUROPEANS AND THE HEBREWS
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SPIELVOGEL: The Spiritual Dimension of Israel; The Neighbors of the Hebrews
ROGERS: The Hebrew Bondage; The Ten Commandments; Solomon's Decline, 40-47
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7.THE ASSYRIAN AND THE PERSIAN EMPIRES (3/14) |
SPIELVOGEL: Governing the Empires; Assyrian Culture and Persian Religion
ROGERS: Handouts
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8. EARLY GREECE (3/18) |
SPIELVOGEL: Minoan Crete and the Mycenaeans
ROGERS: The Trojan War: The Wrath of Achilles; The Death of Patroclus, (The Iliad, Homer)59-65
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9. THE GREEKS IN A DARK AGE (3/20) |
SPIELVOGEL: Homer
ROGERS: The Adventure of the Cyclops; Odysseus in the Underworld; The Return of Odysseus (The Odyssey, Homer), 66-72
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10. THOUGHT AND VALUES OF EARLY GREEKS (3/21) |
SPIELVOGEL: Early Greek Philosophy
ROGERS: Thales of Miletus; Anaximenes; Pythagoras, 74-76
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11. THE WORLD OF THE GREEK CITY-STATES (3/25) |
SPIELVOGEL: The Polis; The Rise of Tyrants; Sparta; Athens
ROGERS: The City State of Sparta: Reforms of Lycurgus (Plutarch); Spartan Discipline (Plutarch); The City State of Athens: Funeral Oration of Pericles (Thucydides); A Critic of Democracy, The "Old Oligarch", 76-85
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12. CLASSICAL GREECE AND THE CHALLENGE OF PERSIA
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SPIELVOGEL: The High Point of Greek Civilization: The Challenge of Persia
ROGERS: The Spartans at Thermopylae (Herodotus); The Defense of Athens; The Battle of Salamis (Aeschylus), 86-89
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13. THE GROWTH OF ATHENIAN EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF PERICLES
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SPIELVOGEL: The Peloponnesian War and the Decline of the Greek States
ROGERS: From Confederacy to Empire (Thucydides); The Mytilenian Debate; The Melian Dialogue (Thucyhdides); The Trial of Socrates (Plato) 89-111
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14. THE CULTURE OF CLASSICAL GREECE (4/8) |
SPIELVOGEL: Greek Literature and Religion; Daily Life in Classical Athens
ROGERS: Oedipus the King (Sophocles); Antigone (Sophocles); The Trojan Women (Euripides); Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 89-108
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15.GREEK PHILOSOPHY (4/10) |
SPIELVOGEL: The Culture of Classical Greece
ROGERS: Allegory of the Cave (Plato); The Equality of Women in the State (Plato); Virtue and Moderation: the Doctrine of the Mean (Aristotle); The Status of Women (Aristotle) 134-146
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16. MIDTERM (4/11) |
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17. THE HELLENISTIC WORLD (4/15) |
SPIELVOGEL: The Rise of Macedonia and the Conquests of Alexander
ROGERS: The First Philippic (Demosthenes); Address to Philip (Isocrates); On the Crown (Demosthenes), Alexander and the Brotherhood of Man (Plutarch),125-133
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18. THE WORLD OF HELLENISTIC KINGDOMS (4/17) |
SPIELVOGEL: Economic and Social Trends
ROGERS: Hellenistic Science: Archimedes (Plutarch), 149
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19.CULTURE IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD (4/18) |
SPIELVOGEL: New Directions in Literature and Art; Philosophy: New Schools of Thought; Religion
ROGERS: Golden Maxims (Epicurus); The Principles of Skepticism (Sextus Empiricus), 146-149
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20. THE EMERGENCE OF ROME (4/22) |
SPIELVOGEL: The Greeks and Etruscans; Early Rome
ROGERS: Handouts
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21. THE ROMAN REPUBLIC (4/24) |
SPIELVOGEL: The Roman State; The Roman Conquest of Italy
ROGERS: Handouts
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22. THE ROMAN CONQUEST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
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SPIELVOGEL: Struggle with Carthage; The Eastern Mediterranean; The Nature of Roman Imperialism
ROGERS: The Growth of Latifundia (Appian); The Murder of Tiberius Gracchus; The Breakdown of Roman Unity (Sallust); "Absolute Tyrany" (Appian) 158-161
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23. SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE ROMAN WORLD
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SPIELVOGEL: Family in Imperial Rome; The Gladiatorial Shows
ROGERS: Marcus Licinius Crassus (Plutarch); Catiline Plots Revolt (Sallust); "The Enemy Within," (Cicero), 162-166
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24. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
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SPIELVOGEL: A New Role for the Roman Army; Marius and Sulla; The Collapse of the Republic
ROGERS: The Wrath of Sulla "Absolute Tyranny," (Appian); "The Die Is Cast": Caesar Crosses the Rubicon; "We Must Trust the Mercy of the Storm", Cicero; The Assassination of Julius Caesar (Plutarch), 161-171
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25. THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS (5/2) |
SPIELVOGEL: The New Order
ROGERS: Cleopatra's Influence over Mark Antony (Plutarch); The Power and Authority of the Emperor (Dio Cassius); The Transition from Republic to Principate (Tacitus); Res Gestae: The Accomplishments of Augustus (Augustus), 174-177
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26. THE FIVE GOOD EMPERORS (5/6) |
SPIELVOGEL: The Roman Empire at Its Hight: Frontiers and Provinces; Prosperity in the Early Empire
ROGERS: Formalism of the State Religion (Pliny); Sacrifices for the Emperor Nero; The Deification of Augustus, 189-190
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27. ROMAN CULTURE AND PHILOSOPHY (5/8) |
SPIELVOGEL: The Golden and Silver Ages of Latin Literature
ROGERS: The Peace of Augustus (Horace); "To Spare the Conquered and Crush the Proud" (Virgil), 181-183; The Stoic Philosophy: Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, 248-249
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28. ROMAN SOCIETY (5/9) |
SPIELVOGEL: The Roman Family; The Gladiatorial Shows
ROGERS: "The Rural Life of a Roman Aristocrat (Pliny the Younger; The Proper Treatment of Slaves; Legislation Against the Abuse of Slaves (Gaius); Trimalchio: A Wealthy Freedman (Petronius), 239-242
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29. RELIGION IN THE ROMAN WORLD (5/13) |
SPIELVOGEL: The Religious World of the Romans; The Jewish Background; The Rise of Christianity
ROGERS: Invasion of the Eastern Cults (Minucius Felix); Orgiastic Frenzy (Apuleius), 190-191
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30. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
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SPIELVOGEL: The Reforms of Diocletian and Constantine; The Growth of Christianity; The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
ROGERS: The Persecution Under Nero (Tacitus); The Correspondence Between Trajan and Pliny; The Persecution Under Diocletian (Lactantius); A Christian Defense (Tertullian), 203-207
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31. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ROMAN WORLD
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SPIELVOGEL: The New Kingdoms; The Socierty of the Germanic Peoples
ROGERS: The Germanic Tribes (Tacitus); News of the Attacks (Jerome), 252-255
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32. THE ROLE AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN CHURCH
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SPIELVOGEL: Organization and Religious Disputes; The Power of the Pope; The Monks and Their Missions; Christianity and Intellectual Life
ROGERS: The First Principles of the Early Church (Origen); The City of God (Saint Augustine); The Petrine Theory (Pope Leo I), 210-217
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33. THE EARLY BYZANTINE EMPIRE (5/22) |
SPIELVOGEL: The Reign of Justinian; From East Roman to Byzantine Empire
ROGERS: The Secret History of Justinian and Theodora; The Nika Riot (Procopius); The Digest of Roman Law, 270-274
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34. ROME'S LEGACY (5/23) |
SPIELVOGEL:
ROGERS: The Barbarization of Civilization (M.I. Rostovtzeff), 258; Handouts
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35. THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD IN RETROSPECT
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36. FINAL EXAMINATION |