I.) END OF THE MYCENAEAN AGE, END OF THE "DARK AGE"

1. Dorians from the North, 1200 ff; Chadwick's thesis about nature of the Greeks
2. Ionians beyond Athens to the Aegean Sea borders (an online resource)
3. The Classical Polis: Gov't & Society changed
4. Greek Colonization & Trade; Coinage in Lydia
5. Hoplite Phalanx: Defense, Arete; Sexism &(Solon who began the creation of Athenian democracy)

II.) THE TWO CLASSIC EXAMPLES OF CLASSICAL GREEK POLEIS

1. Sparta: Conservatism solved National security, economics, crime, equality
2. Lycourgos' Constitution, ca. 650 B.C.: Cf. Demaratus on Spartan Law
   • Demos as Sovereign Ekklesia: Class dissolved by the Sussiton into Homoi
   • Gerousia-Senate the Steering Committee of Power
   • Annually-elected Ephors only as Executive Magistrates: Eunomia?
   • Women in Sparta; Family; Helot & Perioikoi classes
3. Athens: Progressivism solved National security, ec, life of the mind, equality
   • Solon's Plutocracy Re-Divided Political Power, not Land/Wealth, 595
   • Pisistratos' Tyrrany Levelling the Pentakosiomedimnoi, 546-28
   • Cleisthenes:-- Democracy: Re-District the Demes, ended factional Stasis
   • Pericles Paid Magistrates & Jurors: Equality of Citizenry
   • Eunomia in his Funeral Oration

III.) CLASH OF THE TITANS: FIRST WORLD WAR, GREEKS vs THE PERSIANS

1. Herodotos and the Invention of History: Classical Texts online
2. Revolt of Miletos and Darius's attempted Revenge on Athens
3. Ethnicity Invented: "Barbarian" Opposed Eastern World-View in Darius on democracy
4. Battle of Marathon, 490: Clisthenic Constitution Corroborated!
5. Xerxes' Invasion, 480:King Leonidas at Thermopylae
6. Athens Destroyed, yet victorious at Salamis
7. Creation of the Delian League, 479 ff; Herodotos' "Inquiry"
8. Thasos' Revolt in 465; Pericles' moved the Treasury to Athens, ca. 454
9. Pericles, his Lover Aspasia & the Athenian Empire; The Parthenon
10. Culture in the Golden Age of Pericles: The Olympic Games

IV.) PELOPONNESIAN WAR

1. Thucydides the Psychological Historian; a Critical Analysis of his work
2. Death of Pericles, 428 & Cleon's Leadership Policies: Mitylenian Debate
3. The Melian Dialogue: Thucydides as a historian: How did he know?
4. Sparta's Final Victory in the Swamps near Syracuse; end at 404

V.) HELLENISTIC LIFE

• A re-built Greek Temple in the British Museum; Greek Theater
• The Term "Hellenistic" -- Philip of Macedon & his son Alexander the Great;
• Why Alexander "the Great"?. Spread of a new Life of the Mind to the World from a small place
• Culture + Education = Paideia
  • Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: All else a footnote?
  • Art &Architecture, Literature, Math, Science, Drama, Geography, History, et