HIST 302 (Greece and Rome: Leadership in the Ancient World)

"We serve Caesar best by serving God first."

Reading Schedule: Texts for the Final Exam (40%)

Zack Snyder, 300 (Sep 15), Pierre Manent, "What is a Nation?" (Sep 17)

Lycurgus (Sep 22), Solon (Sep 24)

Themistocles (Sep 29), Cimon (Oct 1)

Pericles (Oct 6), The Athenian Empire

Nicias (Oct 13), The Peloponnesian War

The Sicilian Expedition, Alcibiades (Oct 20)

Agesilaus (Oct 27), Alexander (Oct 29)

Cato (Nov 3), Aemilius Paullus (Nov 5)

Tiberius Gracchus (Nov 10), Gaius Gracchus (Nov 12)

Marius (Nov 17), Sulla (Nov 19)

Pompey (Nov 24), Republican Rome

Caesar (Dec 1), The Roman Empire

Antony (Dec 8), The Birth of Europe

Prepared Leadership Summaries (18%)

200 words due on each date above wherever a leader's name is highlighted in bold. (18 in total.)

 

Tutorial Participation (12%)

Follow the progress of our historical simulation of The Fall of Rome

Classics of Strategy and Diplomacy

The Byzantine Doctrine: "Take Me Back to Constantinople"

Victor Davis Hanson: Military Historian

 

Major Research Paper (30%)

What does the making of Europe owe to Greece and Rome?

Be sure to read Christopher Dawson on The Making of Europe, pp.3-95.

Christopher Dawson on "Europe and the Seven Stages of Western Culture" is also an excellent resource.

Rémi Brague on Roman "secondarity" and Western civilization is highly recommended.

Philippe Némo on What is the West? is also exceptional.

Jacques Maritain, On the Philosophy of History (New York: Scribner, 1957), is one of my favorites.

On-line editions of the Classics (including Plutarch): English, Greek, Latin

The Historian's Craft The Making of Europe Plutarch Greek Lives Plutarch Roman Lives

 

The Fall of Rome: Classroom Simulation