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GENTRAIN 1/401: PREHISTORY AND EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS TO 1200 BCE
August 24, 26, 31 and September 2, 7, 9, 14, 16.
Human origins: where, when, and how. Cave paintings and prehistoric world views. The agricultural and urban revolutions, and two of the planet's first great cultures: Sumeria and Egypt.
GENTRAIN 2/402: FOUNDATIONS OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD - 1200-500 BCE
Septemberber 21, 23 , 28, 30 and October 5, 7, 12, 14.
Minoan, Mycenaean, and Hebrew civilizations. Agamemnon, Helen and the Trojan war, and Homer: the Heroic Age. The heroes of the Old
Testament. Greek art and Greek and Hebrew history, religion, literature, and world views.
GENTRAIN 3/403: THE GOLDEN AGE OF GREECE - 500-300 BCE
October 19, 21, 26, 28 and November 2, 4, 9, 11.
One of the most amazing periods in Western history: the Persian Wars, Plato and Aristotle, the Parthenon and Greek sculpture, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; and as the context for all of this, the world's first experiments in democracy.
GENTRAIN 404A /THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND RISE OF EMPIRE - 500 BCE-14CE
November 16, 18, 23, 30 and December 2, 7, 9.
Law, engineering, military tactics, political institutions, literature, religion and philosophy, art and architecture of the origins from the Roman Republic through the transition to Empire under Augustus.
