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May 01, 2024
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2022-2023 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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HIST 389 - Greece, Rome, and Early Christians
Credits: 3
Greece, Rome, and Early Christians: Understanding the Ancient Mediterranean. This course is designed to provide students with a survey of historical, cultural and social developments relating to the histories of Greece and Rome during the period of ancient history. Areas to be covered will include the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures, the Greek Dark Age, Homer and the Archaic Period, Classical Greece and its culture, Alexander and the Macedonian conquests, the Hellenistic Era and Hellenistic culture, Pre-Roman Italy, the Etruscans and Magna Graecia, the Origins of Rome, the Roman Republic, the Punic Wars, the Roman Civil Wars, the origin and development of the Celts, Celtic culture, the Roman conquest of the Celts, Augustus and the beginning of the Imperial Period, the Julian and Flavian emperors, the period of the Five Good Emperors, Roman culture and Greek culture under the Empire, the Crisis of the 3rd Century, the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine, the Conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity, the End of the Western Empire in the 5th Century, attempted revival under Justinian, the Arab conquest of Syria, Palestine and Egypt. [P; W; S; I]
General Education Area: Social Science
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