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  1. Bronze Age (Aegean) civilizations
    1. Minoan culture
    2. Mycenaean Civilization
  2. The Heroic Age
    1. Homer and the Iliad
    2. the Greek gods
  3. The Greek City-State and the Persian Wars
    1. polis
    2. the Persian wars
    3. Herodotus
  4. Athens and the Greek Golden Age
    1. from oligarchy to democracy
    2. Pericles' glorification of Athens
    3. The Olympic games
    4. Greek Drama
      1. festivals to worship Dionysus
      2. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aristophanes
    5. The Individual and the Community
      1. Sophocles' Antigone
      2. Aristotle on tragedy
  5. Greek Philosophy: the Speculative Leap
    1. Naturalist philosophy: pre-Socratics
      1. a Thales; Heraclitus
      2. Leucippus; Democritus
      3. Pythagoras; Hippocrates
    2. Humanist philosophy
      1. the Sophists
      2. Socrates and the quest for virtue
        1. dialectical method
        2. the nature of virtue
        3. the Crito
      3. Plato
        1. the Theory of Forms
        2. the just society (The Republic)
      4. Aristotle
        1. the empirical method
        2. the science of logic
        3. the golden mean





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