CLAS 302 - History of Classical Greece

3 Credit Hours

Greek history from the Persian Wars to Alexander the Great, with an emphasis on the 5th-4th centuries BCE. Readings and discussion to include economy and society in Classical Athens and Sparta; the Peloponnesian War; Socrates, the sophists and intellectual responses to democracy and empire; crises of the Greek city-states; Philip II, Alexander the Great and the rise of Macedon; and ancient and modern historiographies of Classical Greece. Writing-emphasis course.

(Same as History 302.)

Undergraduates

Graduate Students

CLAS 302 - History of Classical Greece