Date

Topic

Readings

Tuesday, Jan. 9

Introduction to the course.

Assignments

Thursday, 
Jan. 11

to c. 3000 BCE

Tuesday, Jan. 16

& Jan. 18

c. 3000 - 1200 BCE

Turin Royal Canon (=King List)  picture

Abydos King List
  Picture 1
  Picture 2
  Picture 3

Manetho's King List picture

Dating Techniques from Emuseum MNSU

Sources for Ancient History:  Archaeology:  burials

Timeline of Developments from UCL (UCL)

Pyramids (PBS)

Grave goods  (Akhet Archaeology)

Death in Ancient Egypt (Oriental Institute, U. Chicago)

Mummies in Ancient Egypt (TourEgypt)

Tomb Robbery (TourEgypt)

Aspects of Life in Ancient Egypt (Reshafim.org)

Funerary Practices (Reshafim.org)

Mourning & Burial (Reshafim.org)

Mummification (Reshafim.org)

Royal Graves of Ur British Museum

Royal Tombs of Ur U. Pennsylvania

Map of Ancient Egypt

Hymn to the Nile
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hymn_nile.html
(From Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.)

Herodotus:  Mummification
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-mummies.html 
(From Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.)

Thursday, Jan. 18

Tuesday, Jan. 23

Samarran Pottery (State Dept.)

Counting Tokens (Sumerian.org)

Stele of Ushumgal (MMA)

Images of Mesopotamia (Syracuse.edu)

Code of Hammurabi (R. Orsinger)

Threat to World Heritage in Iraq (Oxford U.)

Map of Tigris/Euphrates  (wikipedia.org)

Map of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon (Flinders.edu)

Map of Sumer-Akkad (Science Museum of Minnesota)

Map of Babylon (Pathlight.com)

Reports from Magicians and Astrologers At Babylon & Nineveh.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/bablylonian-astrology.html
(From Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.)

Advice of an Akkadian Father to His Son
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2200akkad-father.html
(From Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.)

Reading Texts/Documents

Tuesday, Jan. 23

Thursday, Jan. 25

Sources for Ancient History: Archaeology:  inscriptions

Tour of Hattusas from the German Institute of Archaeology (English)

Hittite Tablets (UNESCO.org)

Treaty of Qadesh (AncientAnatolia.com)

In-class assignment:  epigraphy

Letter of Suppiluliuma, King of Hatti to Akenaten (from Reshafim.org)

Treaty of Kadesh  (from allaboutturkey.com)

Thursday, Jan. 25

Tuesday, Jan. 30

Kenoyer's Ancient Indus sites

Elamite Writing (from AncientScripts.com)

The Indus Script (from AncientScripts.com)

Map of Elam and surrounds  (from Wikipedia.org)

Map of Dilmun and surrounds (from School of Oriental & African Studies, UK)

Map of India to 500 BCE  (from WorldHistory@fsmitha.com)

Kenoyer's Around the Indus: essay

Tuesday 
Jan. 30

Thursday, Feb. 1

Minoan Architecture from Oklahoma University

Queen's Bathroom from Sewerhistory.org

Dolphin Fresco,    from BrynMawr.edu

Boys  Boxing from wikipedia.org

Saffron Gatherers from Wikipedia.org

Minoan Art from Historywiz.com

Frescoes  Women in Chariot, Battle, Lyre Player, from UTexas, Frescoes from Oklahoma University

Reconstruction of Palace at Mycenae from Oklahoma University

Minoan & Mycenaean slides from Hartzler.org

Sources for Ancient History:  Literature

Reading Texts/Documents

Map of Minoan  Crete from UTexas Intro. to Archaeological Studies

The Minotaur (assorted ancient sources from Theoi Project)

Bull Leaping Fresco (from the Greek Ministry of Culture)

Bull Leaper (from Wikipedia.org)

The Mycenaeans:  Cotterell:  210-215
Troy:  Cotterell:  141-143

Map of Aegean, including Troy from W.E. Major 

Homer:  The Iliad, Book IX (9) trans:  Ian Johnston  (From Malaspina University-College)

Listen to Homer being read:  Classical Language Instruction Project from Princeton - click on Homer.  (Turn off popup blockers)

Tuesday, Feb. 6

c. 1200 - 600 BCE

Sources for Ancient History:  Historical Linguistics

Mycenaean/Dark Age artifacts (from W.E. Major.)

Motel of the Mysteries Assignment due Tuesday, Feb. 6

Map of Incursions  (Sea Peoples) from Jewish Virtual Library

Graphic with Indo-European Languages  (from the University of Toronto, History of the English Language)

Proto-Indo European Exploration & Demonstration Website  from UT San Antonio (Scan and read what interests you.)

Thursday, Feb. 8

Aspects of Ancient History:   Warfare

The Near East & War from M. Gaddis, Syracuse U.

Mitanni links from Penn State

Map of Assyria (from guitarsite.com)

Map of the Mitanni from Sarissa.org

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III  (from MU.edu)

Picture of Black Obelisk (from British Museum)

Sennacherib Attacks Judea (from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook)

Tuesday, Feb. 13

c. 600 - 400 BCE

Sumerian Accounting Records from Science Museum of Minnesota

Evolution of Alphabets from Prof. Robert Fradkin U. MD

Map of Egypt (from Project Shum)

Map of Phoenicia & Phoenician trade routes (from Wikipedia.org)

Tyrian Purple (from Wikipedia.org)

Cedar of Lebanon (from Wikipedia.org)

Writing Timeline (from AncientScripts.com)

Alphabet (from AncientScripts.com)

Proto-Sinaitic (from AncientScripts.com)

Phoenician (from AncientScripts.com)

Greek (from AncientScripts.com)

Latin (from AncientScripts.com)

Thursday, Feb. 15

Israel:

Joshua  - Joshua 2-11
Queen of Sheba 1 Kings 10
Babylonia Captivity Psalm 137
Prophet  Jeremiah 21

For online access, use the Bible Gateway at: http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi_bin/bible Choose the translation you prefer or compare several. No preference? Use the NIV (first choice).  

Tuesday, Feb. 20

Sources for Ancient History:  Pottery

Early Corinthian alabastron  from U Penn Museum

Macmillan aryballos from the British museum

Corinthian Pottery from Sikyon.com

Archaic Vases from Oneonta.edu

Proto Attic funerary amphora, detail 1, detail 2,   from U Texas 

Black Figure Kylix with Dionysius, exterior view ; Achilles slaying Penthesilea, Achilles & Ajax, detail ;  (Exekias)  from U Texas

Black Figure pottery from Beloit College

Black Figure pottery from the Hermitage Museum

Apollo figure  from U Texas 

Plan, Reconstruction and colors of Wood Temple to Apollo at Thermon

Daedalic style Maiden (Kore) from U Texas

Archaic Kouros (Youth)  from U Texas 

Calf-bearer from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture

Early Lydian Coin from rjohara.net

Early Coins from U. Sask.

Ancient Greek money & modern Euro  from M. Lahanas

Greek 1 Euro  from MSN Money

Archaic Greece:  Cotterell:  215-223
Phrygia and Lydia:  Cotterell:  144-146

Map of Lydian Empire from wikipedia.org

Map of Phrygia from wikipedia.org

Map of Aegean and surrounding areas from U. Penn. Museum

Alcaeus of Mytilene Prayer for Safety at Sea
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~sparta/topics/articles/academic/poetry.htm#alcaeus
(From Sparta Home page)

Archilochus (from wikipedia.org)  Includes translations.

Thursday, Feb. 22

Pictures of Etruscan linen book  from the Etruscan Liber Linteus 

Sarcophagus of the Spouses from the Louvre

Wall paintings from the Tomb of the Leopards from Prof. Boccolini, Università di Bologna

Etruscan art of all types with good pictures  from the Mysterious Etruscans Site.

Bronze She-Wolf with Romulus and Remus from Capitoline Hill  -  from VRoma.org

Interior of Cloaca Maxima from underoma.com

Cloaca Maxima from sewerhistory.org

Map of Greek Colonies from Wesleyan U.

Maps showing locations of Greeks, Italian tribes and Etruscans    from the Shefton Museum

Herodotus/Strabo: Founding of Colony of Cyrene (c. 630)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/630cyrene.html
(From the Ancient History Sourcebook.)

Reports on the Etruscans 
(From the Ancient History Sourcebook.)

The Rape of the Sabine Women (Livy, from WLGR)

Tuesday, Feb. 27

The Polity of The Athenians by the Old Oligarch
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/424pol-athens.html 
(From the Ancient History Sourcebook.)

Pericles' Funeral Oration by Thucydides
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.html
(From the Ancient History Sourcebook.)

Thursday, Mar. 1

Persepolis from Persia.org

Cyrus Cylinder from Biblehistory.org  

Behistun Rock from Livius.org

Fire Temple from Raphael Kessler

Modern Fire Temple from Livius.org

Modern temple with fire from Baku pages

Ahuramazda from Livius.org

Map of the Persian Empire  from Herodotus Website

Maps of Persian Empire/Iran at various periods  from CAIS at SOAS, UK

Herodotus on the Customs of the Persians   (From the Ancient History Sourcebook.)

Herodotus on the Persian War - selections  (from the U. of Saskatchewan)

Tuesday, Mar. 6

Virtual Reconstruction of Parthenon from The Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology (ICEMT) and the Iowa State University Department of Architecture

The Acropolis from MLahanas.de

Reconstruction of Athena Parthenos from Oneonta.edu

Greek Art from Greek Landscapes.com

Greek Sculpture from Boston College

Map of Classical Greece from Oxford Tutorials

Plato:  Phaedo - Socrates' death scene (from Clarke.edu)

Dream Generator http://66.70.212.116/sogno/  (from Morelight.net)

c. 400 - 146 BCE

Thursday,
Mar. 8

wreath , chest, site,  Vergina - Royal Macedonian tombs - possibly Philip?

Bactria  from Livius.org

The Khyber Pass from Livius.org

The Gedrosian Desert  from Livius.org

pictures of Greek towns Ai Khanum, Kandahar, and the Gedrosian Desert  from Maxwell/Syracuse.edu

Macedonian Phalanx with sarissa  from pieria.forthnet.gr 

Pictures of Greek Hoplites  Athenian Hoplite with Gorgon Shield top left, Spartan with long hair and red cloak right side and down  from Holy Cross College

Hellenistic Art from ETSU.edu

Archimedes from Crystalinks.com

Map of Alexander's route  from the Mary Renault site

Alexander's Empire and Neighbors in 323 BCE  from U. of TN, Knoxsville

Demosthenes:  The Third Philippic (from 4literature.net)

Arrian:  Speech of Alexander the Great (from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.)

Theophrastus:  On Stones & On Plants  (on Reserve)  Cancelled

Tuesday, Mar. 13

Thursday, Mar. 15

Tuesday, Mar. 22

Art of the Mauryan Empire from UA Birmingham

Ancient Maps from Cartographic Images/Henry Davis Consulting

Town Plan of Catal Hoyuk c. 6200 BCE  from article by John Brock in Measure & Map

Drawing of plan showing volcano    from article by John Brock in Measure & Map

Sargon of Akkad period map  from Cartographic Images/Henry Davis Consulting

Turin Papyrus , drawing with translation  from Cartographic Images/Henry Davis Consulting

Reconstruction of world according to Hecataeus   from Cartographic Images/Henry Davis Consulting

Reconstruction of world according to Herodotus  from Cartographic Images/Henry Davis Consulting

Reconstruction of world according to Eratosthenes   from Cartographic Images/Henry Davis Consulting

Reconstruction of world according to Strabo   from Cartographic Images/Henry Davis Consulting

Comparison of Greek World views  from Cartographic Images/Henry Davis Consulting

Alexander's conquests in 323 BCE  from Ian Mladjov, U. Michigan

Map of the Successor States from UNF

Map of all the Alexandria's in the World from the Alexandria homepage (just for fun)

Arrian:  The Death of Alexander  (from Livius.org)

Arrian:  Indica  (from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook)

Thursday, Mar. 22

c. 146 BCE - 312 CE

Bust of Scipio Africanus (older)  from judithmathes.de

Roman Portrait bust (Republican period)  from Detroit Institute of Art

Coin showing Hannibal  from Syracuse U.  

Bust of Hannibal from Abacci.com

Other Carthaginian & Roman artifacts from Syracuse U.

Take home midterm due at beginning of class  Now due 3/29.

The Mediterranean c. 264 BCE from Ian Mladjov, U. Michigan

The Mediterranean c. 218 BCE from Ian Mladjov, U. Michigan

First Punic War  from wikipedia.org

Second Punic War  from wikipedia.org

Third Punic War from wikipedia.org

Polybius  History, 6:  Rome & Carthage Compared
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/polybius6.html#Rome and Carthage Compared
(From the Ancient History Sourcebook.)

Tuesday, Mar. 27

Animation of the eruption of Vesuvius from the Explore Italian Volcanoes home page.

Bikini Mosaic from Piazza Armerina, entire painting, from kzu.ch

Italy
Pompeii & Herculaneum  from the  Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei (also Pompeii:  unraveling ancient mysteries  from Harcourt School Publishers - a kid's site, but interesting.  You can even watch Vesuvius erupt - to access click on the Search button on the left and type in:  Vesuvius, then hit enter.)  

Ostia  from Ostia Antica  

Europe
Roman Britain 

Londinium  From the Museum of London 

Bath  from RomanBaths.com  

Germany  Hechingen-Stein  from the Roman Open Air Museum  

Middle East/Europe
Dura Europas (AKA Dura Europos) from Simon James, U. of Leicester  

Africa

Lepcis Magna (AKA Leptis Magna) from Kings College, London  

Berenike from Archbase.com 

Aqueducts  from KET Distance Learning  

Catacombs  from Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra  

Roman Roads  from KET Distance Learning 

Final okay on presentations due by the end of class, in print.  

All "Mediterranean in"  maps from Ian Mladjov, U. Michigan

The Mediterranean in 129 BC (Roman expansion into Africa and Asia)

The Mediterranean 129 BCE  (after Roman expansion and peace w. Seleucids)

The Mediterranean in 44 BC (at the death of Caesar)

The Mediterranean in AD 14 (Roman provinces at the death of Augustus)

The Mediterranean in 117 (the death of Trajan)

The Mediterranean in 180 (Roman provinces at the death of Marcus Aurelius)

The Mediterranean in 211 (Roman provinces at the death of Septimius Severus)

Roman Provinces from the Dalton School

Letters from Pliny the Younger (from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook)

Use print preview or you will get over 100 pages!

1. XXXVIII To Fabatus
On Patronage

2. LIV To Marcellinus
Death of a Friend’s Daughter

3. LIX, LX To Calpurnia
To his wife

4. LXXII To Maximus
About gladiators

5. C To Junior
On Boys will be boys

Letters between Pliny & the Emperor Trajan (from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook)

Pliny to Tacitus on the Eruption of Vesuvius (from Eyewitnesstohistory.com) 

Thursday, Mar. 29

c. 146 BCE - 312 CE

Take home midterm due at beginning of class 3/29

All "Mediterranean in"  maps from Ian Mladjov, U. Michigan

The Mediterranean in 211 (Roman provinces at the death of Septimius Severus)

The Mediterranean in 271 (the Crisis of the Third Century)

The Mediterranean in 337 (at the death of Constantine I)

Slavery in the Roman Republic (from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook)

Slavery in the Roman Empire:  Numbers & Origins (John Madden, University College, Dublin)

Aspects of Slave Life (from the University of Pennsylvania) turn off popup blocker

Tuesday, Apr. 3

Sepphoris from Bible Places

Roman Graffiti about Christians. sketch  (Early 2nd C CE, written in Greek)  from Halsall, U. of N. FL

Orant from the Catacomb of Priscilla, c. 200 CE from St. Thomas U.

Christ as Good Shepherd from Catacomb of San Callisto from U. FL

Catacombs of Rome   from Instituto Salesiano San Callisto 

Necropolis under St. Peter's  more, from Prof. Gaddis at Syracuse U.

Papyrus Bodmer II 66,  Papyrus Bodmer XV, 75, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus  from the Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web

Christ as the Sun god from the Tomb of the Julii from The JesusPolice.com

Dura Europos from Contra Costa CC.

Vatican Home Page

Greek Orthodox Church (Greece)

Ecumenical Patriarch

Martyrdom of Sts. Perpetua & Felicitas
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/perpetua.html
(From PBS.org)

The Acts of Paul & Thecla (From PBS.org)

c. 312 - 642 CE

Thursday, Apr. 5

Irenaeus:  Against Heresies  (from Newadvent.org)
    Valentinus
    Simon Magus
    Ebionites
    Ophites & Sethites
    Cainites

Jerome to Marcella on the Montanists (from CCEL.org)

Elaine Pagels  The Gnostic Gospels (from PBS.org)

The Gospel of Mary  (from PBS.org)

Tuesday, Apr. 10

Julius Caesar from Beloit.edu

Augustus Prima Porta from egl.ku.dk

Trajan from Canterbury.ac.nz

Diocletian  from wikipedia.org

Constantine from siba.fi

Head of Constantine from Fordham.edu

Theodosis I from imperiumromanum.com

Roman Portraits from Fayyum  from the Berger Foundation

The Mediterranean in 117 (the death of Trajan)  
from Ian Mladjov, U. Michigan

The Mediterranean in 395 (the death of Theodosus I) from Ian Mladjov, U. Michigan

Ibeji, Mike.  Vindolanda.  Read entire article.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/vindolanda_01.shtml
(from the BBC)

Pope Leo I and Attila the Hun
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/attila2.html
(From Internet Medieval History Sourcebook)

The readings below are no longer due for class, but interesting if you have time.  They will NOT be on the final exam.

Chinese Accounts of the West (from the East Asian History Sourcebook)  Skim, 20+ pages.

Tactius  Excerpts from the Germania.  (from Internet 

Sidonius Apollinaris on Life in Barbarian Gaul  (from Internet Medieval Sourcebook)

Procopius:  Alaric's Sack of Rome  (from Internet Ancient History Sourcebook).

Procopius:  On the Plague (from Internet Medieval Sourcebook)

Thursday, Apr. 12

Map of Barbarian Invasions (5th C CE) from  the American School of Milan 

Map of the Barbarian Kingdoms (c. 500 CE) from  the American School of Milan 

Map of Germanic Kingdoms and later migrations c. 450 - 535 CE from Catholic University 

Virtual tours of Ravenna from vista.it

Justinian and Theodora from sbc.edu

The monuments of Ravenna from ou.edu

All "Mediterranean in"  maps from Ian Mladjov, U. Michigan

The Mediterranean in 500  

The Mediterranean in 565

The Mediterranean in 600

The Mediterranean in 750

The Byzantine Empire in 1025  from Explore Byzantium

Pact of Umar between Muslims and "People of the Book"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pact-umar.html  (From Internet Medieval History Sourcebook)

Sources for the Arab Conquest of Egypt (From Internet Medieval History Sourcebook)

Tuesday, Apr. 17

Outline & bibliography for presentation due.

Thursday, Apr. 19

Tuesday, Apr. 24

Thursday, Apr. 26