1. The Isles of Greece! 2014 The Southern Cyclades THE isles of Greece! the isles of Greece Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.

2. Historical Overview PREHISTORIC GREECE : The Stone Age Paleolithic 400-13 KYBP Homo heidelbergensis (Petralona), Homo neanderthalis (~150-30 KYBP), Homo sapiens (~26 KYBP) end of ice age Mesolithic 13-9 KYBP Neolithic 7000-3600 BCE First Cycladic cultures: Sáliagos Sáliagos Antiparos

3. PREHISTORIC GREECE : The Bronze Age Early Bronze Age 3600-2100 BCE Early Cycladic Middle Bronze Age 2100-1600 Middle Cycladic; Minoans; destruction of Akrotiri 1628 Late Bronze Age 1600-1100 Late Cycladic; Mycenaeans Dark Age 1100-750 Homer, Panhellenism, Egalitarianism, Polis Particularism Friedrich, Fire in the Sea Prehistoric Thera Plato, Timaeus Homer, Odyssey

4. ANCIENT GREECE Archaic 750-480 BCE Colonization, Hoplites, Tyranny, Philosophy Classical 480-323 Persian Wars 490-479, Athenian Empire, Peloponnesian War 431-404, Alexander Hellenistic 323-146 Seleucids, Macedonians, Ptolemies Roman 146 BCE-330 CE Corinth and Constantinople Pindar, Odes Aeschylus, Agamemnon Herodotus on the Foundation of Thera Pericles’ funeral speech Plato Acts, Corinthians

5. MEDIEVAL GREECE Byzantine 330-1453 The Franks 1204-1456 Tourkokratia 1453-1821 Orthodoxy, Diaspora

6. MODERN GREEK HISTORY Revolution 1821-32 Absolutism and Reform 1832-1909 Irredentism, nationalism, and the Megali Idea: Crete and Venizelos A Half-century of War Balkan War 1912-13, WW I 1914-18, Catastrophe 1922-23, Metaxas 1936-41, WW II 1940-44, Civil War 1946-49. Reconstruction and Dictatorship Karamanlis1955-63, NATO and the EEC, Cyprus The Colonels 1967-74 Byron Greek poetry Leigh Fermor Kazantzakis Merrill Miller

7. COMTEMPORARY GREEK HISTORY Karamanlis’s ND 1974-81, 1990-93, 2004-9 Papandreou’s PASOK 1981-89, 1993-2004, 2009- The European Debt Crisis