UNIT 1: The Genesis of Philosophy - Muthos vs. Logos

The World Before Philosophy:

• The Rise of Civilization
• The Rise of the Greeks
• The Poetic Tradition of Archaic Greece

The Archaic Period and the Beginning of Philosophy:

• The Art, Architecture, and Culture of the Archaic Period
• The Presocratic Philosophical Traditions

UNIT 2: Reason vs. Emotion

The Ascendancy of Athens:

• The Art, Architecture, and Culture of the Classical Period
• The Athenian Empire
• The Peloponnesian War
• Sophokles
• Aristophanies

The Socratic Tradition:

• Sokrates: The Beginning of Moral Philosophy
• Euthyphro
• Apology
• Krito
• Protagoras

The Platonic Tradition:

• Plato: From Virtue to a Theory of Everything
• Phaido
• Republic

UNIT 3: The Rational Universe - Aristotle

The Man and his Mission

• The Macedonian Invasion and the Unification of Greece
• Alexander the Great vs. the World
• Aristotle: The Encyclopedic Approach

Logic: The Organon - On the Method of Philosophy

• Categories
• On Interpretation
• Posterior Analytics

Science: On Theoretical Knowledge

• Physics
• Metaphysics

UNIT 4: The Conquest of Reason

Hellenism and the Greco-Roman World

• The Art, Architecture, and Culture of the Hellenistic/Roman Period
• The Hellenized World

Philosophy in the Hellenistic Period

• Epicureanism
• Stoicism
• Skepticism

• Unit 1 Worksheet
• Unit 2 Worksheet
• Unit 3 Worksheet
• Unit 4 Worksheet

Timelines:

• An Overview of the Ancient Civilizations
• An Overview of Western Intellecutal History
• An Overview of the Ancient Aegean Civilizations
• An Overview of the Ancient Greek History
• The Ancient Greek Philosophical Tradition
• Ancient Greek Philosophers (pt. 1)
• Ancient Greek Philosophers (pt. 2)
• The Greek Artistic Tradition
• Ancient Political Events
• Roman Emperors

Videos on History and Archaeology of the Ancient Greek World:

• Island of the Minotaur
• Mycenaean Culture - "In Search of Helen"
• A Short Video on Mycenaean and Minoan Palaces
• The Bronze Age Collapse
• Greek Religion
• Greek Homes and Life
• Spartan Civilization
• A Short Video on Key Greek Battles of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars
• The Spartans (part 3)The Spartans (part 3)
• Genius of the Ancient World - Socrates

Videos of Artistic Development in the Ancient Greek World:

• Art and Architecture From the Minoan to Mycenaean Period
• Art and Architecture in the Archaic Period
• Art and Architecture in the Classical Period
• Art and Architecture in the Hellenistic Period

Maps:

• The Greek Colonial World
• The Greek World During the Peloponnesian War
• The Empire of Alexander the Great
• The Roman Empire

Downloadable Texts:

• Hesiod:
  • Theogeny

• Sophocles:
• Oedipus Rex
• Antigone
• Aristophanes:
• The Clouds
• Epictetus:
• The Discourses
• The Encheridion

• Epicurus:
• The Letter to Menoeceus
• Principle Doctrines
• Marcus Aurelius:
• The Meditations