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This seminar accompanies and encourages students to become involved in a Digital Humanities project that seeks to transform our understanding of ancient history by creating networks and maps that express distance in real terms (i.e., in terms of travel time and cost incurred), allowing us to reconstruct the `true¿ shape and structure of entities such as the Roman Empire and thereby providing a new foundation for our understanding of its emergence, functioning, and unraveling.

I have stolen my title from Braudel¿s famous book, but this Philip II is the one from Macedon (382-336 BCE). Since the 1980s many archaeologists and historians have increasingly looked at Greece in its Mediterranean context; this seminar will examine the Mediterranean¿s geography, climate, and demography in the first millennium BCE and then survey developments in some of the major regions (Assyria, Persia, Levant, Egypt, Italy, and the west), finally locating Greece and Macedon in this broader context.

The first modern historical rewritings of ancient Greece: What made them modern? How did they shape what Greek history is today? Texts and things in the modern recovery of the Greek past; women, colonies, democracy and art as modern subjects of ancient Greek history; modern historiographical methods and theories in their social and cultural contexts; modern historicity and the Greek past. Reading includes ancient historians, Renaissance antiquarians, eighteenth-century Greek histories and Enlightenment writings on ancient Greeks, and current scholarship.

Political philosophy in classical antiquity, focusing on canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Historical background. Topics include: political obligation, citizenship, and leadership; origins and development of democracy; and law, civic strife, and constitutional change.

The development and practice of law and legal procedure in the ancient Greek world, emphasizing the well documented case of classical Athens. Constitutional, criminal, and civil law, approached through analysis of actual laws and speeches by litigants in Athenian courtrooms. Review of a growing scholarship juxtaposing Greek law to other prominent legal traditions and exploring the role of law in Greek social relations, economics, and literature.