Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: History

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 ***** 'Greek Civilization: From Homer to Alexander the Great.' The artistic, 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 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 conquests of Alexander the Great. No prerequisites. ***** Also offered as CLAS 207 and HUMA 109.