disc 1. Why study the Greek world? ; Bronze Age Greece : Minoans and Myceneans ; Dark Age and Archaic Greece ; Classical Greece : the age of Pericles ; Alexander the Great : Greek culture spreads -- Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Baghdad -- disc 2. Modern ideas of ancient Greece ; The birth of the Greek nation-state ; Greek mythology : monsters and misfits ; Greek religion : dangerous gods, tricky heroes ; The sensuality of Greek sculpture; The perfection of Greek architecture -- disc 3. The monumentality of Greek painting ; Homer's humanity : the epic experience ; Greek theater : producing and staging plays ; Greek drama : laughter and tears ; Greek politics, law, and public speaking ; Greek historians : the birth of history -- disc 4. Greek philosophy : man and nature ; Greek science : discovery and controversy ; The Greek way of waging war ; Greek language, literacy, and writing ; Eating and drinking among the Greeks ; What does Greece mean to us today?