(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 2353
Taught by Elizabeth Vandiver
Whitman College
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Course Lecture Titles
1. Herodotus and History
2. "Inquiry" and the Birth of History
3. Myth, Legend, and Oral Tradition
4. Homeric Epic and the East-West Conflict
5. The Ionian Enlightenment
6. Athens in the Archaic Age
7. Politics and Culture in Fifth-Century Athens
8. Scope, Design, and Organization of the Histories
9. The Beginnings of the Conflict
10. Croesus, Solon, and Human Happiness
11. Cyrus and the Foundation of the Persian Empire
12. Herodotus' Account of Egypt
13. The Ascension of Darius
14. Darius and the Scythians
15. Sparta and the Spartan Way of Life
16. The Ionian Revolt and the Battle of Marathon
17. Xerxes and the Threat to Greece
18. The Battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium
19. The Victory of Greece
20. Persons, Personalities, and Peoples
21. The Gods, Fate, and the Supernatural
22. History or Literature-Or Both?
23. Herodotus, the Peloponnesian War, and Thucydides
24. Aftermath and Influence