Week 1
Describe the values and society as found in the Precepts of Ptah-Hotep.
What, if anything, is the significance of flood story in the Gilgamesh epic for our understanding of the expansion and modification of civilization?
Week 2
How would you compare the civilization of the early Greeks as represented in the Iliad with that of the Near Eastern peoples around them? Is there anything in the presentation of these early Greeks that suggests anything significantly different from the peoples of the Near East?
Week 3
Perry comments that Homer's works demonstrated the attitude that there was a universal order to the world. Do the readings this week support this contention? Comment.
How is it that states as different from one another as Sparta and Athens could be considered representatives of the polis ideal?
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