Lectures on Greek History and Culture

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Outlines of Greek History

Lecture 1: Synopsis of all of Greek history

Lecture 2: The Pre-Greek Cultures of the Cycladic Islands and Crete

Lecture 3: The Late Bronze Age (AKA Mycenaean Age)

Lecture 4: The Dark Age

Lecture 5: The Archaic and Classical Ages

Lecture 6: The Hellenistic Age

Chapter 2: Greek Material Culture: A Survey of Pottery, Statuary, and Temples

Lecture 1: Statuary of the Archaic Style

Lecture 2: Statuary of the Severe or Transitional Style

Lecture 3: Statuary of the Classical Period

Lecture 4: Statuary of the Late Classical and Hellenistic Periods

Lecture 5: Pottery Shapes Part 1

Lecture 6: Pottery Shapes Part 2

Lecture 7: Pottery Shapes Part 3 (Review)

Lecture 8: Dating Pottery by Styles Part 1

Lecture 9: Dating Pottery by Styles Part 2

Lecture 10: Greek Temples Part 1

Lecture 11: Greek Temples Part 2

Lecture 12: Greek Temples Part 3

Chapter 3: Homer and Homer's Iliad

Lecture 1: Homer's Post-Apocalyptic World

Lecture 2: The Invention of the Alphabet

Lecture 3: The Oral Tradition

Lecture 4: The Iliad Book 01

Lecture 5: The Iliad Book 03

Lecture 6: The Iliad Book 04

Lecture 7: The Iliad Book 05

Lecture 8: The Iliad Book 06 (1)

Lecture 9: The Iliad Book 06 (2)

Lecture 10: The Ekphrasis of Achilles's Shield

Lecture 11: The Iliad Book 06 to the End (1)

Lecture 12: The Iliad Book 06 to the End (2)

Lecture 13: The Iliad Book 24

Lecture 14: Iliad: After the Iliad

Lecture 15: What did the Greeks think of Helen?

Lecture 16: The Defense of Helen by Gorgias

Lecture 17: The Trial of Helen in Euripides's Trojan Women

Lecture 18: Iliad: Review of Key Images and Texts

Chapter 4: The Persian Threat

Lecture 1: Dark Ages To Cyrus the Great

Lecture 2: The Ionian Revolt

Lecture 3: The Battle of Thermopylae

Lecture 4: The Battles of Artemisium and Salamis

Lecture 5: The Spartans

Chapter 5: Greek Philosophers

Lecture 1: Introductory Comments on Greek Philosophies

Lecture 2: The Milesians

Lecture 3: Parmenides And Heraclitus

Lecture 4: The Sophistic Movement

Lecture 5: Socrates

Lecture 6: Execution Of Socrates

Lecture 7: Plato Phaedo 1 Of 7

Lecture 8: Plato Phaedo 2 Of 7

Lecture 9: Plato Phaedo 3 Of 7

Lecture 10: Plato Phaedo 4 Of 7

Lecture 11: Plato Phaedo 5 Of 7

Lecture 12: Plato Phaedo 6 of 7

Lecture 13: Plato Phaedo 7 Of 7

Lecture 14: Aristotle Introduction

Lecture 15: Aristotle "The Ethics"

Lecture 16: Aristotle "Hard" Teachings

Lecture 17: Epicureanism I

Lecture 18: Epicureanism II

Lecture 19: Epicureanism III