Classics 189:Greek Science

Spring, 1995

Professor Gregory Crane

Overview of course

• Classics 189: Inventing Science:
  From Thales to Euclid

Selected Reading assignments

Week of April 3: The rise of the "social sciences"

• Herodotus Book 2:his account of Egypt and the beginnings of "social" science (in this case ethnography).
• Thuc. 1.1-23: Demonstration of Scientific Methodology for History.
• Thuc. 2.48-55: Thucydides' account of the plague at Athens.
• Thuc. 3.69-85: case study of Civil War at Corcyra.

Student Projects

• Short papers and presentations
• Final papers

Help for web projects

• HTML and tagging: what does it all mean?
  -A quick and dirty guide to making a web document

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