Introduction to the Ancient Greek World

Harvard FAS

This course will cover the history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean palace civilizations to the Roman conquest of the East Mediterranean. Attention will be paid to the major political, social, economic, and cultural transformations, all set within their Mediterranean and west Asian environments. Students will explore the wide variety of textual sources (in translation) and archaeological evidence out of which historians seek to understand ancient Greece.