Outline
I. The Epic of Gilgamesh
II.  Conceptions of justice in Hammurabi's Code, Exodus, and Greek Mythology
III. Early Aegean Civilizations and the Greek Dark Age (2500 to 750 BCE)
IV.  The City-State and the "Greek Awakening" (750 to 500 BCE)
V. Inclusion and exclusion in the polis
VI. Greek conceptions of slavery
VII. Culture and economy in the Archaic period
 

Terms from today's class
Akkadian
Sumerian
Gilgamesh
Uruk
Enkidu
Humbaba
Ishtar
Bull of Heaven
Utnaphishtim
Lydians
Herodotus
Gyges
Candaules
Croesus
Oedipus
Archaic Period
Greek Awakening
Aegean
Minoans
Crete
Mycenaeans
Peloponnesus
Dorians
Greek Dark Age
city-state
polis
acropolis
Athena
Parthenon
Whiggish history
hoplites
Aristotle
Euripides
Stoics
Phoenicians
Hesiod
Homer
Iliad
Odyssey
Sappho

"There are people ... who consider owning slaves as violating natural law because the distinction between a slave and a free person is wholly conventional and has no place in nature, so that it rests on mere force and is devoid of justice."  Aristotle

"That thing of evil, by its nature evil, /Forcing submission from a man to what/ No man should yield to."  Euripides