Readings: Ancient Greece

Homer and the Archaic Period

1. Homer, The Iliad
   • The Argument
   • Hector and the Homeric Code
   • Achilles v. Hector
2. Herodotus, The History
   • The Persian Wars
   • Croesus and Solon
3. Sappho, Cleis
4. Greek Verse
   ( Western Civilization Course, Skip Knox, Boise State University)

Internet Resources

• First Palaces in the Aegean
  ( Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Michigan)
• Aegean Prehistory
  (Dartmouth University)
• Halai Archaeological Project
  (Cornell University)
• The Ancient Greek World
  ( Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania)