High School Program: Year One

The Rise of Civilization through the Hellenistic Period

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Year One scheduling suggestions.


High Level Texts:
StarrAncient History, Chapters 1-21
GombrichThe Story of Art(Intro.; ch. 1-4)
Or
JansonHistory of Art (Intro.; Part I, Ch. 1-5)


Primary Sources and Subject Texts
-----Good subject text on neolithic, beginnings of cities/agriculture, prehistory? Items we used long out of print, and not so stellar as to search out.
KramerHistory Begins at Sumer (ch. 1, 2, 6, 7, 13, 16, 17, 25, 37, 39)
-----Epic of Gilgamesh
Mayer & PrideauxNever to Die (pp. 15-57, 63-96,101-166)
Old TestamentGenesis, Exodus chapters 1-20, 1st & 2nd Samuel, 1st Kings ch 1-11, Job, Psalms (selected)
HomerIliad
HomerOdyssey
---The Homeric Hymns (selections)
HerodotusHistory (Persian War parts)
HamiltonGreek Way (ch. 11, 15)
AeschylusAgamemnon
SophoclesAntigone and/or Oedipus Rex
EuripedesThe Bacchae and/or Medaea
AristophanesLysistrata or The Birds or The Frogs
PlatoSymposium (selections)
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Republic (allegory of the cave)
ThucydidesThe Peloponnesian War
XenophonThe March Up Country
MenanderDyskolos
PlutarchLife of Alexander




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