Course Syllabus:

• Aristophanes: "Lysistrata"
  Various editions available, full text publicly available, e.g at https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Lysistrata.php

• Diamond, Jared M.: "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies"
  New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005

• Hansen, Victor Davis: "Carnage and Culture"
  Anchor, 2002

• Pernoud, Regine: "Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths"
  San Francisco: Ignatius 2000

• The New Testament
  

Recommended reading schedule:

• Lecture 01: Aristophanes - 1st half
• Lecture 02: Diamond - Chapters 1-5
• Lecture 03: Diamond - Chapters 6-10
• Lecture 04: Aristophanes - 2nd half
• Lecture 05: Hansen - Chapters 1-4
• Lecture 06: New Testament - The 4 Gospels
• Lecture 07: Pernoud - Chapters 1-4
• Lecture 08: Pernoud - Chapters 5-8
• Lecture 09: New Testament - The Rest
• Lecture 10: Diamond - Chapters 11-14
• Lecture 11: Hansen - Chapters 6-7
• Lecture 12: Diamond - Chapters 15-19
• Lecture 13: Lecture review (No reading assigned)