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WEEK 1
WED 8/30	Introduction
WEEK 2
MON 9/4	LABOR DAY
WED 9/6	Mesopotamia I
WEEK 3
MON 9/11	Mesopotamia II and Israel
WED 9/13	Egypt
WEEK 4
MON 9/18	Bronze Age Greece
WED 9/20	Mycenean Greece and the Homeric Poems
WEEK 5
MON 9/25	The Archaic Polis
WED 9/27	Aspects of the Archaic Polis
WEEK 6
MON 10/2	Greek Religion and Ionian Rationalism
WED 10/4	Spartan Oligarchy, Athenian Democracy
WEEK 7
MON 10/9	The Persian Wars and Their Consequences
WED 10/11	The Peloponnesian War; Thucydides
WEEK 8
MON 10/16	MIDTERM
WED 10/18	The Aftermath of the Peloponnesian War and Fourth Century Greece
WEEK 9
MON 10/23	The Rise of Macedon
WED 10/25	Alexander the Great
WEEK 10
MON 10/30	Alexander's Legacy: The Successors and the Hellenistic Kingdoms
WED 11/1	Society, Culture and Religion in the Hellenistic World
WEEK 11
MON 11/6	Introduction to Rome
WED 11/8	Rome and Greek Culture; Family, Society and State
WEEK 12
MON 11/13	Roman Expansion
WED 11/15	Conflict of the Orders/Roman Revolution I (to Catilina)
WEEK 13
MON 11/20	The Roman Revolution II and the Principate (Caesar to Augustus)
WED 11/22	No class (Happy Thanksgiving!)
WEEK 14
MON 11/27	The Principate and Pax Romana
WED 11/29	Roman Religion
WEEK 15
MON 12/4	The Third-Century Crisis
WED 12/6	The Fall of Rome; Islam; the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires