CLAS1210 | Greek History 1: The history of Greece from Archaic times to the death of Alexander Greek history and society, c. 750-479 BCE

Syllabus 2013 (ed. 2)

M W F 10-10:50 AM Location: J. Walter Wilson 201 (corner of Brown and Waterman)

Course leader: Prof. Graham Oliver; e-mail: [email protected] Office hour: Wednesday 2-4 pm and by appointment (Macfarlane 104) Office phone: 401-863-7836 TA: Keith Fairbank; office hour: Tuesday 10-11 am (Wilbour 005); e-mail: [email protected] TA: Joe McDonald; office hour: Monday 11-12 (Wilbour 005) ; e-mail: [email protected] Semester 1 Fall 2013 | CLAS1210 | 15366 | Syllabus

GREEK HISTORY c. 750-479 BCE

Required books

Monographs HotAGW = Hall, J. M. A history of the archaic Greek world: ca. 1200-479 BCE, Malden, MA, 2014, 2nd edition. ISBN 978-1118301272

GitM = Osborne, R. G. Greece in the making, 1200-479 BC, 2nd edition, London, 2009. ISBN 978-0415469920.

Sources Herodotus = The Landmark Herodotus, ed. R. B. Strassler, New York, 2007. ISBN 978-1400031146. D&G = Matthew Dillon & Lynda Garland, Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander, 3rd edition, New York, 2010. ISBN 978-0415473309. [Will be used also for CLAS1220] GLP = M. West (ed. and transl.), Greek Lyric Poetry: A Selection, Oxford, 1995.

Students will find frequent reference made to the following titles: Edited books Fisher, N. R. E. and van Wees, H., eds, Archaic Greece: new approaches and new evidence, London and Oakville CT, 1998. ISBN 978-0715628096. Blackwell Companion = Raaflaub, K. A. and Van Wees, H., eds, A Companion to Archaic Greece, Oxford/Malden, MA, 2009. ISBN 978-1118451380. Cambridge Companion = Shapiro, A., ed., Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece, Cambridge, 2007. ISBN 978-0521529297.

Aims To enable students to understand the major historical debates of Archaic Greek • history To provide students with an experience of the skills used by ancient historians to • use a wide range of evidence in understanding Archaic Greek History To develop and enhance writing skills • To facilitate the oral expression of ideas and complex arguments • To enhance understanding of the spatial and temporal development of Greek • history from the 8th to the early 5th centuries Outcomes Students taking the course will gain a good understanding of the Greek world from the 8th to the early 5th centuries. The course will provide students with an opportunity to develop written skills in assignments and examinations. Students will enhance their understanding of the use of documentary evidence and gain an appreciation of the engagement of modern scholarship with Archaic Greek history.

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Assessment

Papers and exams (undergraduates) 20% = Mid-term exam – Map test; short essay 35% = Final exam – two short essays and one commentary question 10% = Paper I: Commentary on a short text/document 15% = Paper II: Commentary on a short text/document 20% = Paper III: Essay

Exams: mid-term 10/21 (50 min.) • final exam (December 13, 2 hours) • Midterm is worth 20%; final exam is worth 35%

Specimen exams will be supplied.

Short papers* I: Oct 2 (W week 5; 4-6 pp.) II: Oct 30 (W week 9; 4-6 pp.) III Nov. 27 (W week 13; 4-6 pp.)

Paper (I) 10%, (II) 15%, (III) 20%

*Deadlines for all short papers are by the start of class on the relevant Wednesday.

Please note: Juniors and seniors (and sophomores by permission) have the choice of writing, instead of short papers II and III, a research paper on a topic of their choice (12-15 pp.). Those who do so must discuss their decision with the professor. The topic, a short abstract, and a research plan (including readings) are due no later than Wednesday, October 30th. The research paper itself is due no later than the start of class on Wednesday, November 27th.

Attendance: is required. If students are absent for good cause, please contact the course organizer.

Map test: details of the map used for the test will be published on CANVAS and presented in lectures.

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Schedule

Week 1 Introduction

1 W Sept 4 The Greeks and the Mediterranean 2 F Sept 6 Problems in Reading the Greeks

Week 2 Themes

3 M Sept 9 The Greeks’ Early Histories: Memory-Building 4 W Sept 11 Directions: “Dark Ages” and “Regeneration”? 5 F Sept 13 Writing

Week 3 Trends

6 M Sept 16 Mobility in the Mediterranean 7 W Sept 18 Identities in the Mediterranean Th Sept 19 Last day to add course [11.59 pm]

8 F Sept 20 Settlements and Growth in the Mediterranean

Week 4 Means

9 M Sept 23 Commerce 10 W Sept 25 Conflict 11 F Sept 27 Cult

Week 5 Connections

12 M Sept 30 West to East/East to West Tu Oct 1 Last day to change from audit to credit

13 W Oct 2 Magna Graecia and Beyond 14 F Oct 4: North Africa: Cyrene

Week 6 Reaching out from Greece and the Aegean

15 M Oct 7 Colonizing Communities: Miletus and Corinth 16 W Oct 9 Northern Aegean, Macedon, Thrace, Black Sea, 17 F Oct 11 Colony/Inter-City Relations

Week 7 Society M Oct 14 Fall Break – No Class

18 W Oct 16 Elite tastes 19 F Oct 18 Everyday Life? F Oct 18 Last day to change from credit to audit

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Week 8 Centripetal Cult

20 M Oct 21 MID-SEMESTER EXAM 21 W Oct 23 Delphi 22 F Oct 25 Olympia

Week 9 Ruling the Polis

23 M Oct 28 Ruling and Governing the Polis 24 W Oct 30 The Argolid – Tyrant Families 25 F Nov 1 The Aegean – Tyrants and Song

Week 10 Laws

26 M Nov 4 Making Law: Sacred Law and Social Codes 27 W Nov 6 The Mirage? Sparta and Lycurgus 28 F Nov 8 Maquillage? Solonian Law

Week 11 Sparta and Athens in the Sixth century

29 M Nov 11 Sparta and 6th Century Greece 30 W Nov 13 Pisistratid Visions of Athens and Beyond 31 F Nov 15 Democracies?

Week 12 Persia and the Greeks

32 M Nov 18 Persia in the 6th Century 33 W Nov 20 Panhellenism Before 480/79 BC ? 34 F Nov 22 First Persian Invasion – the 490s

Week 13 The Emerging Powers

35 M Nov 25 Interstate Relations and Persian Power 36 W Nov 27 Changing States: Archaic Economies F Nov 29 Thanksgiving – No Class

Week 14 The Problems of Archaic Greek History

37 M Dec 2 Writing Archaic Greece: Herodotus and Documents 38 W Dec 4 Mediterranean Fragilities 39 F Dec 6 Conclusion and Review

[Reading period Dec 8-12]

[Exam period Dec 13-21]

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