CLAS 405:Leaders of Ancient Greece

A biographical study of some of the leading personalities in ancient Greece (e.g., Solon, Lycurgus, Themistocles, Pericles, Alcibiades, Timoleon, Pelopidas, Epaminondas, Aristides, Philopoeman, Pyrrhus, Lysander). The study involves a critical examination of the sources, the methodological approaches to biography, and an assessment of the judgments in character sketches.