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HISTORY 351-PERSIA AND THE GREEKS
DR. Norman TOBIAS
HIST 351 - Ancient Greece and the Persian Empire (3 credits)
Prerequisites: Hum 101, Hum 102 and one from among Hum 211, Hum 212, and Hist 213 or their
equivalents R510:200 through 299 or R512:200 through 299 or their equivalents with a grade of C or better.
Course description: The political, institutional, and cultural developments of Ancient Greece and the Persian
Empire from the Mycenaean period to the King's Peace (386 B.C.).The course is divided into three parts.
The first traces the rise of the Greeks and the Persians after brief description of Archaeology
and the Bronze Age. The second portion covers the Persian War and the rise of Athens. The last
part deals with the Great Peloponnesian War and the impact it had on the Greek World prior to the
rise of Macedon.
Textbooks:
The first part of the course will be primarily on the lectures with handouts, the remainder on the
following two books:
 Peter Green, The Greco-Persian War (ISBN 0-520--20313-5) Noted as GREEN
BELOW
 Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War. (ISBN 0-670-03211-5) Noted as KAGAN
BELOW
Course Calendar:
WEEK ONE: INTRODUCTION, ARCHAEOLOGY, MYCENAEAN AND DARK AGES
(FROM LECTURES)
WEEK TWO: EARLY GREEK POLIS-SPARTA AND THE TYRANTS (FROM LECTURES)
WEEK THREE: THE GREEK POLIS-ATHENS (FROM LECTURES)
WEEK FOUR: THE RISE OF PERSIA GREEN PART 1 AND 2
WEEK FIVE:THE BEGINNINGS OF THE PERSIAN CONFLICT GREEN PART 3 AND 4
WEEK SIX: THE PERSIAN WAR- PART ONE GREEN PART 5 AND 6
WEEK SEVEN; THE PERSIAN WAR- PART TWO GREEN PART 7
WEEK EIGHT: THE GREEK WORLD AND THE RISE OF ATHENS KAGAN PART 1 AND 2
WEEK NINE: THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR- ARCHIDAMIAN PHASE
KAGAN PARTS 3 AND 4
WEEK TEN: THE PEACE OF NICIAS AND THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION
KAGAN PARTS 4 AND 5
WEEK ELEVEN: THE AEGEAN WAR KAGAN PART 6
WEEK TWELVE: THE FALL OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE AND THE RISE OF SPARTA
WEEK THIRTEEN: THE IMPACT OF THE WAR ON GREEK SOCIETY
WEEKS FOURTEEN AND FIFTEEN WILL CONCLUDE WITH THE FINAL AND STUDENT
PRESENTATIONS
BEFORE EACH EXAMINATION THERE WILL BE A PERIOD DEVOTED TO QUESTIONS
AND A REVIEW.
Graded Work: There are two exams, a midterm and a final paper which serves as the final exam.
Additionally, each student must make a presentation on a selected topic at the end of the
course. REVIEWS ARE ALWAYS BEFORE THE EXAMINATIONS.
Grading Schema:
Exam I
Exam II (Final Paper)
33%
33%
Student Presentation (Oral and written documentation)
34%
Total
100%
Academic Integrity Policy:
Students are expected to comply with the university’s Academic Integrity Policy, found on the web
at http://www.njit.edu/academics/pdf/academic-integrity-code.pdf. The following behaviors will not
be tolerated:
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Cheating: deceiving or attempting to deceive by misrepresenting that one has learned
information pertinent to an academic exercise.
Fabrication: using or attempting to use invented or false information in an academic exercise.
Plagiarism: using or attempting to use written, oral or graphic work which was authored or
prepared by another and submitting it as one's own.