HIST 1270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles
19 Oct 2014
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In this course we will study the history and culture of the ancient greeks, from the minoan and mycenaean bronze age, to the evolution of homeric and. Hellenic societies in the iron age, to the rise of the city-states and the age of. The course will engage with material in various genres with ancient historical writing (herodotus, thucydides, plutarch), epic (homer), didactic poetry (hesiod), lyric poetry (archilochus, sappho, alcaeus, etc. ), tragedy (aeschylus, sophocles, euripides), comedy (aristophanes), philosophy (the. Presocratics, plato, and aristotle), and with visual sources (statues, vases, architecture). Discussions of social issues, gender, art, and religion are integrated into each unit. Bronze age (3000-1200 bce): cycladic, minoan, and mycenaean civilizations. Our laws, our literature, our art, have their roots in. But the main reason for a classical education is precisely its uselessness. True learning is practically useless; and it should be.
