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Western Civilization I
Ancient Near East to 1648
Unit 2: Ancient Greece and Hellanistic Civilization
Updated October, 2006

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Ancient Greece and Hellenistic Civilization (15-17%)
Political evolution to Periclean Athens
Periclean Athens to Peloponnesian Wars
Culture, religion, and thought of Ancient Greece
The Hellenistic political structure
Culture, religion, and thought of Hellenistic Greece

Video

From The Western Tradition
The Rise of Greek Civilization
Democracy and philosophy arose from Greek cities at the edge of the civilized world. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

Greek Thought
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle laid the foundation of Western intellectual thought. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

Alexander the Great
Alexander's conquests quadrupled the size of the world known to the Greeks. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

The Hellenistic Age
Hellenistic kingdoms extended Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

Text

Ancient Greece from Exploring Ancient World Cultures. See Chronology, Essays, Texts

PBS Empires Series Click on The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

Who Owns the Past? Click on Greece. Follow link to Background Material on Plato and Socrotes and Athens and the Pantheon

Lectures

The Persian Wars (Knox)
The Peloponnesian War (Knox)
Alexander the Great (Knox)

Lecture 5: Homer and the Greek Renaissance, 900-600BC (Kreis)
Lecture 6: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy (Kreis)
Lecture 7: Classical Greece, 500-323BC (Kreis)
Lecture 8: Greek Thought: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle (Kreis)
Lecture 9: From Polis to Cosmopolis: Hellenization and Alexander the Great, 323-30BC (Kreis)

Quiz

Ancient Greece from Exploring Ancient World Cultures. Click on Greek Mythology Quiz

Library

938 Camb Cartledge, Paul ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece

Resources

the Perseus Project (Tufts University)
The Encyclopedia of World History

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