COURSE LECTURES
Three lectures for classes recorded in early 2021 to accomodate remote learning under COVID-19 safety protocols.
301 Classical Mythology
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: Myth Theory and Greek Gods
Lecture 3: The Troy Saga
Lecture 4: Odyssey 1-4
Lecture 5: Odyssey 5-8
Lecture 6: Odyssey 9-10
Lecture 7: Odyssey 11-14
Lecture 8: Odyssey 15-19
Lecture 9: Odyssey 20-24
Lecture 10: Play Production in Athens
Lecture 11: Agamemnon
Lecture 12: Libation Bearers
Lecture 13: Eumenides
Lecture 14: Oedipus the King
Lecture 15: Antigone
Lecture 16: Philoctetes
Lecture 17: Hippolytus
Lecture 18: Bachhae
Lecture 19: Alecstis
Lecture 20: Vergil Introduction and Aeneid 1
Lecture 21: Aeneid 2
Lecture 22: Aeneid 4
Lecture 23: Aeneid 6-7
Lecture 24: Aeneid 12
323 Greek History
Lecture 1: Introduction, Geography, Chronology
Lecture 2: The Bronze and Iron Ages
Lecture 3: Troy: Fact and Fiction
Lecture 4: Homer, Religion, and Myth
Lecture 5: Archaic Era I
Lecture 6: Archaic Era II
Lecture 7: Archaic Era III
Lecture 8: Persian Wars I
Lecture 9: Persian Wars II
Lecture 10: Origins of the Delian League
Lecture 11: From League to Empire
Lecture 12: On the Eve of War
Lecture 13: Peloponnesian War I
Lecture 14: Peloponnesian War II
Lecture 15: Peloponnesian War III
Lecture 16: Philosophy
Lecture 17: Socrates I
Lecture 18: Socrates II
Lecture 19: Athenian Play Production
Lecture 20: Women and Gender in Ancient Greece
Lecture 21: Greek Sports and Athletics
Lecture 22: Fourth-Century Greece
Lecture 23: Philip II of Macedon
Lecture 24: Alexander the Great I
Lecture 25: Alexander the Great II
Lecture 26: Course Wrap-up
324 Roman History
Lecture 1: Introduction, Geography, Chronology
Lecture 2: Foundation Myths, Republican Institutions
Lecture 3: Value System, Twelve Tables
Lecture 4: Conquest of Italy
Lecture 5: 1st Punic War
Lecture 6: 2nd Punic War
Lecture 7: Punic War Concluded
Lecture 8: Rome and the Greek East
Lecture 9: Roman Religion
Lecture 10: Roman Philosophy
Lecture 11: The Gracchi and Marius
Lecture 12: The First Trimuvirate
Lecture 13: The Second Trimuvirate
Lecture 14: Imperator Caesar Augustus
Lecture 15: Virgil / Cicero
Lecture 16: Catullus
Lecture 17: First Century CE
Lecture 18: Pliny and Vesuvius
Lecture 19: Roman Women
Lecture 20: 2nd/3rd Centuries
Lecture 21: Rise of Christianity
Lecture 22: Decline and Fall
Lecture 23: Decline and Fall Concluded