Place of Greece in genealogy of Western civilization

• art, architecture
• politics
• philosophy
• mathematics
• tensions and duality

Geography and topography

• map of Eastern Mediterranean
• map of Aegean region
• climate and agriculture
• trade and communications
• political and social organization

Chronology

• End of Bronze Age (c. 1200) - fall of Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations.
• Dark Age (1200-900) - search for order, rationality, harmony
• loss of writing
• introduction of alphabet (c. 1000)
• protogeometric art
• Period of colonization (9th to 6th centuries)
• Homer (9th or 8th century)
• principally around 750
• development of polis
• aristocracies
• warfare
• geometric art: an 8th century amphora
• Sixth century
• rise of Persia
• money (coins)
• tyrannies
• Fifth century - Classical period
• Persian wars
• Athenian democracy and empire
• Athenian art, architecture, literature and philosophy
• Peloponnesian wars
• Fourth century
• Corinthian war
• King's Peace
• Plato and Aristotle
• Decline of Sparta
• Rise of Macedon
• Alexander

Mathematical outline and chronology

• Greek mathematicians and their origins
• arithmetic vs. geometry (discrete vs continuous)
• sparse sources for practical mathematics
• development of theory and proof
• Pythagoras (late 6th century.)
• Incommensurability (by 400)
• Archytas, Theaetetus, Eudoxus [Plato] (4th century)
• Euclid (c. 300)
• Archimedes (later 3rd century)

Sources

Up to Day 14.