• Ancient Greece and their world
• Making Ancient Greece come alive
• Understanding the key forces shaping international relations today
• The beginnings of European theorizing
• Classical literature
• Plague outbreaks
• Develop sensational storytelling skills
• History that resonates across time and place
• Ancient Greece by Ancient Greeks
• Achaemenid Persia and its Greek neighbors
• Old and new Greece and Greek civilization
• Narrative military history
• History and practice of war
• Wars over the ages
• Futility of War since Helen of Troy
• Understanding classical Greece
• How the Plague changed history
• Understanding Thucydides
• Sexual relationships in Greek and Roman antiquity
• Historians and how they think and write