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Classics: Course Outline: Honors 214: Warfare in Antiquity

Date   Topics Readings Battle or Campaign General Images of War Presenters
Sept 7 Intro          
  9 Near East F 1-2 Megiddo      
  14 Bronze Age W10-23 Troy      
  16 Floyd          
  21 Homer F3 Thyrea Agamemnon Iliad  
  23 The Hoplite F4; S1 Marathon Miltiades Vase Painting Carter, Elliot
  28 Persian Wars W24-39; Hdt 7-8 Thermopylae Mardonius Gates of Fire Zangueneh, Marinucci, Pluim
  30 Salamis and Plataea S2-3 Salamis Themistocles  300 Spartans Tetrault, Selden
  5 Peloponnesian War W40-53; Thuc 1-4 Sphacteria Brasidas Trojan Women Kim, Pluim, Tetrault
Oct 7 Fall of Athens S4; Thuc 5-8 Seige of Syracuse Alcibiades The Acharnians Marinucci,
  14 Fall Break          
  16 Rise of Thebes W54-69; F5 Leuctra Pelopidas Lysistrata Tetrault, Colvin
  19 Philip the Great F5-6 Chaeronea Philip Anabasis Butler, Marinucci
  21 Alexander W70-85; S5 Gaugamela Alexander The Persian Boy Martinkosky, Elliot, Kim
  26 Hellenistic Warfare W86-99 Raphia Xenophon Computer Games Wortham, Smith
  28 Rome and Pyrrhus W100-113 Cape Ecnomus Pyrrhus Miles Gloriosus Elliot, West
  2 First Punic War W114-129 Cannae Hannibal Aeneid Smith, Martinkosky
Nov 4 Hannibalic War S6 Zama Scipio Jupiter's Darling Wortham, Kim
  9 Marius' reforms W130-143 Cynoscephalae Marius First Man in Rome Pluim, Colvin
  11 The Jugurthine War Sallust Jugurtha Numidia Sulla French Academics Wortham
  16 Pompey W144-157 Carrhae Pompey Lucan, Pharsalia Colvin, Martinkosky
  18 Caesar in Gaul Caesar Gallic Wars Alesia Vercingetorix Asterix West, Selden, Butler
  23  Civil War W158-173 Pharsalus Caesar Paul Anderson Zangueneh
  25 Thanksgiving          
  30 Augustus W174-187 Actium Antony Cleopatra movies Smith, Zangueneh
  2 Varus POV Paper due Teutoberg Forest Arminius Roman Sculpture Selden, Carter
Dec 7 The Empire W188-203 Masada Boudicca The Antagonists Butler, Carter
  9 The Barbarians W204-217 Adrianople  Atilla Spartacus West
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