Download CL1550 Greek History and the City State

CL1550 Greek History and the City-State
Lecture plan
1. Introduction to the Greek world 499-362 B.C.
2. Political organisation, civic duties, and public finance
3. Sources for Greek history. What do we know? How do we know?
4. Citizens, civic identity, and non citizens
5. Democracy in practice: the Athenian democracy in the fifth and fourth centuries
6. Sparta and other oligarchies
7. Greeks and non-Greeks: the Ionian Revolt and the Persian Wars.
8. The Delian League and the Athenian Empire 479-431
9. The Peloponnesian War 431-404/3
10. Oligarchy at Athens
11. Liberation betrayed. Sparta, Persia, the Korinthian War (395-386) and the King's
Peace (386)
12. From Imperial Power to 'Little Sparta'. The rise and decline of Sparta 386-362
13. Farming, trade, and manufacturing
14. Greek families, gender and sexuality
15. Religion in the Greek world
Seminars
1. The nature of the Athenian Empire
2. Moderates and Partisans: oligarchy at Athens
3. The Second Athenian Naval Confederacy
4. Public expenditure and private benefactors: financing the Athenian democracy
5. Slaves, metics, and citizens; gender and sexuality: a case study