CLAS111-15S1 (C) Semester One 2015

Greek History

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 May 2015

Description

The history of the Greek world from Homer to the Hellenistic age.

The course covers the history of the Greek world from the Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great.  Students can see the Greeks develop (under an external threat) from insignificant city-states to the point when two of them, Athens and Sparta, aspire to "empire" both within and without Greece.  Although neither entirely succeeds, as a by-product of Philip's and Alexander's conquests Greek culture expands to cover most of the ancient Near East at the advent of the so-called Hellenistic Age when the course closes.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Victor Parker

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 25%
Essay 20%
Final Exam 50%
Map Quiz 5%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Buckley, Terry; Aspects of Greek history 750-323 BC : a source-based approach ; 2nd ed; Routledge, 2010.

Herodotus. , De Selincourt, Aubrey, Marincola, John; The histories ; New ed; Penguin Books, 1996.

Thucydides. , Warner, Rex, Finley, M. I; History of the Peloponnesian War ; [Rev. ed.; Penguin Books, 1972.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $697.00

International fee $2,913.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

All CLAS111 Occurrences

  • CLAS111-15S1 (C) Semester One 2015