Between the Rivers: A History of Ancient Mesopotamia will illuminate that shadow, taking you back to a time when the first cities arose in Mesopotamia and kings created complex bureaucracies to rule expanding territories, thus fostering the invention of writing and other technologies.
It is truly a remarkable journey and adventure, through a land where the real history is even more astounding than its legends. Your guide, Dr. Alexis Q. Castor, has twice been named Most Influential Professor by Franklin & Marshall's senior class. Experienced both in the classroom and on archaeological digs, she plunges you into the daily life of cultures such as Sumer and Akkad and animates peoples such as the Assyrians and Medes, weaving together her own evocation of Persian culture with the works of the great Greek historians, Herodotus and Thucydides.
Course Lecture Titles
1. The Iraq Museum
2. Geography and Environment
3. Discovering Mesopotamia
4. Archaeological Methods
5. Farming and Early Settlements
6. The Uruk Phenomenon
7. Writing
8. Temples
9. Mesopotamian Deities
10. Gilgamesh—Hero and King
11. The Early Dynastic Period
12. Warfare and Diplomacy
13. The Royal Cemetery at Ur
14. The Akkadians
15. Ideology of Kingship—Naram-Sin and Gudea
16. The Ur III Dynasty
17. Life in a Mesopotamian City
18. Food and Drink
19. Assyrian Trade Networks
20. Hammurabi of Babylon
21. Zimri-Lim of Mari
22. Laws
23. Medicine, Science, and Math
24. Poetry and Literature
25. Internationalism
26. Assyrian Expansion
27. Sargon II
28. Ideology of Empire
29. Control and Revolt
30. Medes and the Neo-Babylonian State
31. The Rise of the Achaemenids
32. Persians in Egypt and Greece
33. Xerxes’s Invasion of Greece
34. Persian Art and Culture
35. Alexander the Great
36. After Alexander
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