Part I: Lecture 1. Herodotus and history
Lecture 2. "Inquiry" & the birth of history
Lecture 3. Myth, legend & oral tradition
Lecture 4. Homeric epic & the East-West conflict
Lecture 5. The Ionian enlightenment
Lecture 6. Athens in the Archaic age
Lecture 7. Politics & culture in fifth-century Athens
Lecture 8. Scope, design, & organization of the Histories
Lecture 9. The beginning of conflict
Lecture 10. Croesus, Solon, & human happiness
Lecture 11. Cyrus & the foundation of the Persian Empire
Lecture 12. Herodotus' account of Egypt.
Part II: Lecture 13. The ascension of Darius
Lecture 14. Darius & the Scythians
Lecture 15. Sparta & the Spartan way of life
Lecture 16. The Ionian revolt & the battle of Marathon
Lecture 17. Xerxes & the threat to Greece
Lecture 18. The battles of Thermopylae & Artemisium
Lecture 19. The victory of Greece
Lecture 20. Persons, personalities, & peoples
Lecture 21. The gods, fate & the supernatural
Lecture 22. History or literature
Lecture 23. Herodotus, the Peloponnesian War, & Thucydides
Lecture 24. Aftermath & influence.