Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GREEK CIVILIZATION: FROM HOMER TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** ARCHITECTURE RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** The artisitic, political, scientific, and religious achievements of Greek civilization imprinted themselves on the Western world in such a way that all of Western history, literature, art and thought up to the present has been fundamentally influenced by the Greeks. This course will survey the Greek achievement from Homer through the birth of democracy in Athens to the spread of Greek civilization by the consequences of Alexander the Great. ***** Also offered as CLAS 207 and HIST 207.