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The Ancient World: Greece and Rome
People
Pericles, Socrates, Plato, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Augustus,
Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, Alexander the Great, Atilla, Cleopatra, Saul
of Tarsus (St. Paul)
Topics
- The Minoans: Knossos, Crete, and the Minotaur
- Slavery in the Ancient World
- The Phoenicians
- Greek Theatre
- Democracy in Ancient Greece
- The Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece
- The Original Olympics
- The Religions of the Ancient World
- Sparta: the warrior's life
- The Philosophies of Greece/Rome
- Education in Ancient Greece/Rome
- Athens
- The Rise of the Roman Republic
- Roman Entertainment
- Roman Technology
- The Latin Language
- Gladiators
- The Roman Legion
- Roman Law
- The Fall of Rome
- The German "Barbarians"
Reading
- Homer, The Odyssey, The Illiad
- Plato, Dialogues, The Republic,
The Symposium
- any play by Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes,
or Aeschylus
- Virgil, The Aeneid
- Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way
- Isaac Asimov, The Greeks: a Great Adventure
- Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire
- Robert Graves, The Golden Ass, I,Claudius
- Mary Renault, The King Must Die, The
Bull from the Sea, The Last of the Wine
- Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
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