Greek Society: Emergence to Late Hellenistic Period

Pre-requisites: No prerequisites

Course objectives: Acquiring fundamental knowledge about greek society from the Mycenaean era to the post-hellenistic period

Course description: Focusing on narrative and documentary sources, this course examines social development in the hellenic world during the mycenaean, homerian, archaic, classical and hellenistic period. Beginning with the concepts of family, gender and tribes up to state and polis-level organization, social relations in hellenic communities will be analyzed through forms of land ownership, functions of religious organizations and other private-legal and public-legal relations.

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge of the greek social world from ancient times to the fall of the greek state under rome.

Literature/Reading:

• V. Ehrenberg, The Greek State, London 1969
• R. Osborne, Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC, London 1996
• S. Hornblower, The Greek World 479-323 BC, London 2002
• L. H. Jeffery, Archaic Greece. The City-States c. 700-500 B.C., London 1976
• R. Sealey, A History of the Greek City States ca. 700-338 B.C., Berkeley 1976
• R. Meiggs, The Athenian Empire, Oxford 1972.