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WEEK 1
WED 8/31	INTRODUCTION
WEEK 2
MON 9/5	LABOR DAY
WED9/7	Mesopotamia
WEEK 3
MON 9/12	Mesopotamia, concl.
WED 9/14	Egypt
WEEK 4
MON 9/19	Bronze Age Greece
WED 9/21	Mycenean Greece and the Homeric Poems
WEEK 5
MON 9/26	The Archaic Polis
WED 9/28	Archaic Polis; Greek Religion
WEEK 6
MON 10/3	Religion and Rationalism; The Persian Wars I
WED 10/5	Xerxes' Invasion; Consequences of the Persian Wars in Athens: Democracy, Empire
WEEK 7
MON 10/10	Athenian Democracy, Spartan Oligarchy
WED 10/12	The Peloponnesian War; Thucydides
WEEK 8
MON 10/17	MIDTERM
WED 10/19	Aftermath of the Peloponnesian War and the Greek World in the Fourth Century B.C.
WEEK 9
MON 10/24	Philip II, the Greeks and his Plans
WED 10/26	Alexander the Great
WEEK 10
MON 10/31	Alexander's Legacy: The Hellenistic Kingdoms
WED 11/2	Society, Culture and Religion in the Hellenistic World
WEEK 11
MON 11/7	Concl. Hellenistic East; Introduction to Rome
WED 11/9	The Entry of Rome into the Hellenistic World: Roman Expansion in Italy and the Mediterranean
WEEK 12
MON 11/14	Rome and Greek Culture; Family, Society and State I
WED 11/16	Family, Society and State in Republican Rome; Conflict of the Orders
WEEK 13
MON 11/21	The Roman Revolution I
WED 11/23	The Roman Revolution II
WEEK 14
MON 11/28	The Nature of the Principate; the Empire during the Pax Romana
WED 11/30	Religions of the Empire
WEEK 15
MON 12/5	Crisis and Continuity: Christianity, Paganism and the Roman State
WED 12/7	Fall of Rome; Continuity and Transformation