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GKROMST 2HA3

ATHENS AND SPARTA: DEMOCRACY, OLIGARCHY, AND WAR

Undergraduate

Winter 2026 · Athens&Sparta:Dem, Olgchy, War · C01

Readings

  • Etext Aspects Of Greek History 750-323bc - 6 Month Access
    Buckley · Required
    ISBN 9781135281830; 9780415549776
Winter 2026 · C01

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Overview of Greek history
  • The Greek Renaissance
  • State Formation and the Rise of the Polis
  • Colonization
  • Tyranny
  • Lycurgan Sparta I
  • Lycurgan Sparta II
  • The Development of Hoplite Warfare
  • Greek Athletics
  • Archaic Athens
  • The Peisistratids
  • Cleisthenes
  • The Persian Wars I
  • The Persian Wars II
  • The Persian Wars III
  • Matters outstanding
  • The Delian League
  • The Pentekontaetia
  • The First Peloponnesian War
  • Periclean Athens I
  • Periclean Athens II
  • Periclean Athens III
  • Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
  • Archidamian War
  • Peace of Nicias
  • The Sicilian Disaster
  • Ionian War
  • Athenian Defeat
  • Xenophon and The Ten Thousand
  • Agesilaus and the Corinthian War
  • Struggle for Hegemony
  • Matters Outstanding
  • Final Assessment (during exam period)

Readings

  • M. Dillon and L. Garland, Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander (Routledge, 3rd ed. 2010), https://doi-org.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/10.4324/9780203854556
    See source
  • Video module (ATL) Martin, Bronze Age (ATL)
    See source
  • Martin, Dark Age (ATL)
    See source
  • Martin, City-State (ATL) D&G docs. 1.1-1.3, 1.45-1.48, 1.51, 1.55-1.56
    See source
  • Buckley 30-39; D&G docs. 2.5, 2.8, 2.11, 2.12, 2.23, 2.28, 2.28-30
    See source
  • Buckey 40-52; D&G docs. 7.1-7.47, 7.60-7.66
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  • Buckley 55-77; D&G docs. 4.79, 6.16.19, 6.45-6.50, 6.66-6.67, 6.74
    See source
  • Buckley 77-82; P. Cartledge The Spartan State (on ATL); D&G docs. 6.20-6.26, 6.52.-6.60
    See source
  • D&G docs. 2.32, 6.9-6.11; additional material to be posted on ATL
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  • D&G docs. 1.76- 1.78, 3.27-3.29; additional readings to be posted on ATL
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  • Buckley 83-100; D&G docs. 8.1-8.2, 8.5-8.7, 8.11-8.12, 8.168.17, 8.23, 8.31
    See source
  • Buckley 101-131; D&G docs. 9.1-9.3, 9.16, 9.21, 9.30, 9.329.34, 9.40-9.41; Herodotus 1.59-64
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  • Buckley 117-131; D&G docs. 10.1-10.7, 10.17-10.19
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  • Van de Meiroop, Achaemenid Persia (ATL)
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  • https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mcmu/detail.action?docID=484755 ↗
  • https://doi-org.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/10.4324/9780203854556 ↗
Sources