Title:
CLCV 205: Introduction to Ancient Greek History Lecture 13 - The Athenian Empire
Speaker:
Professor Kagan
Subject:
the Persian Wars, etc.
Area:
Classics
Type of school:
university
School name:
Yale University
Country:
United States
Course language:
English
Course media:
Video
Course duration:
Contributor:
pbp
Comments:
CLCV 205: Introduction to Ancient Greek History Lecture 13 - The Athenian Empire
Overview:
In this lecture, Professor Kagan traces the development and the power of the Persian empire. He also shows how the Persian empire and the Greek world eventually came into conflict through a few incidents concerning Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor, which eventually turned into the Persian Wars. Professor Kagan ends this lecture with a description of the events of the battle of Marathon in which the Athenians defeated the Persians.
Reading assignment:
Pomeroy, Burstein, Donlan and Roberts. Ancient Greece. Oxford University Press: New York, 1999, pp. 200-215.
Plutarch, The Rise and Fall of the Athens: Aristides, Cimon.
Kagan, Donald. "Problems in Ancient History." In The Ancient Near East and Greece. 2nd ed., vol. 1. Prentice-Hall: New York, 1975, chapter 5.
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book I: pp. 89-117.