CLCV 205 - Introduction to Ancient Greek History

Lecture 13 - The Athenian Empire

author: Donald Kagan, Department of History, Yale University
recorded by: Yale University
published: Feb. 1, 2010, recorded: October 2007, views: 3716
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In this lecture, Professor Kagan traces the development and the power of the Persian empire. He also shows how the Persian empire and the Greek world eventually came into conflict through a few incidents concerning Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor, which eventually turned into the Persian Wars. Professor Kagan ends this lecture with a description of the events of the battle of Marathon in which the Athenians defeated the Persians.

Reading assignment:

Pomeroy, Burstein, Donlan and Roberts. Ancient Greece. Oxford University Press: New York, 1999, pp. 200-215.

Plutarch, The Rise and Fall of the Athens: Aristides, Cimon.

Kagan, Donald. "Problems in Ancient History." In The Ancient Near East and Greece. 2nd ed., vol. 1. Prentice-Hall: New York, 1975, chapter 5.

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book I: pp. 89-117.

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1 suzanbatu, June 24, 2011 at 2:04 p.m.:

am I missing something or didn't christian europeans conquer and enslave much of the world??

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