Free Online Course from YaleCourses: Introduction to Ancient Greek History

Yale University, through its YaleCourses YouTube platform, is offering a free online course titled "An Introduction to Ancient Greek History". This is an introductory course in Greek history tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age to the end of the classical period. Students read original sources in translation as well as the works of modern scholars.

Course Syllabus:

Topics Covered Include:

• Introduction.
• The Dark Ages.
• The Rise of the Polis.
• The Greek "Renaissance" - Colonization and Tyranny.
• Sparta.
• The Rise of Athens.
• The Persian Wars.
• The Athenian Empire.
• Athenian Democracy.
• The Peloponnesian War, Part I
• The Peloponnesian War, Part II
• The Struggle for Hegemony in Fourth-Century Greece.
• Twilight of the Polis.

About YaleCourses:

YaleCourses is a YouTube channel of Yale University. Yale University is a private research university in the USA. Founded in 1701, this university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in America and employs 19 Nobel Prize winners. The Yale Courses channel provides entry into the core of the University--its classrooms and academic programs--including complete sets of lectures from the Open Yale Courses initiative. Complementary syllabi, transcripts, and other resources may also be accessed from the Open Yale Courses website.

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