Reasoning: Greek History Review #6

I've been organizing my Greek History studying in order to put it into a coherent pattern and create a "syllabus" [1]. In tracing the history, I am not focusing on the Minoan and Mycenean developments because I although I have some interest in archaeology, it is not my primary interest nor something about which I have a lot of background. Some of this I have related before, but not in an organized fashion.

So here is my reading for Greek History from c.2000-600 BCE [2]:

Minoans, Myceneans, Early Dark Ages, and Sources:

Secondary Sources (General background on Early Greece)

• Early Greece by Oswyn Murray, chapters 1-2 (pages 1-34)
• Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History by Pomeroy et al, chapter 1 (pages 1-40)
• The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C.by Jeffrey Hurwit chapter 1 (pages 15-32)
• Archaic and Classical Greek Art by Robin Osborne chapter 1 (pages 1-21)
• "The Emergence of the State in the Prehistoric Aegean" [3] by John F. Cherry. 

Primary Sources (The Greeks on their own early history)

•  Histories by Herodotus 1.56, 2.53
• The History of the Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides 1.1-8, 1.12

The Dark Age (c.1100-750): 

Primary Sources (Possible evidence for Dark Age aristocracy and politics)

•  Odyssey by Homer, Books 1-19 (I will read through 24 in order to check it off my reading list)
• Agamemnon by Aeschylus. Lines 1-907.

Secondary Sources (The Dark Age and Homer as a Historical Source)

• Early Greece by Oswyn Murray, chapters 3-4 (pages 35-68)
• Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History by Pomeroy et al, chapter 2 (pages 41-81)
• The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C.by Jeffrey Hurwit, chapters 2-3 (pages 33-125)
• Archaic and Classical Greek Art by Robin Osborne chapter 2 (pages 23-41)
• Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth by Peter Rose, chapter 1-3 (pages 43-130) [4]
• "The Use and Abuse of Homer" Ian Morris (JSTOR)

The Early Archaic Age (c.750-600): 

Primary Sources (Early Archaic politics and the beginnings of the polis)

•  The Works and Days by Hesiod

Secondary Sources (Politics in the Early Archaic and the Influence of Trade)

• Early Greece by Oswyn Murray, chapters 4-5
• Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History by Pomeroy et al, chapter 3 (pages 82-130)
• The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C.by Jeffrey Hurwit, chapter 4 (pages 125-202)
• Archaic and Classical Greek Art by Robin Osborne chapter 2 (pages 21-40) 
  
• "Hesiod and His World" [3] by Paul Millett
  

Endnotes

1. I borrowed significantly from the Greek History syllabus from the class I took in Fall 2008. My own additions primarily are the art and archaeology sources (some of which I borrowed from my classical world survey course), and some textbook background on Greek History. I also changed many of the translations used either because I liked the editions or translations better, or they were more easily accessible.
2. These dates are going to overlap a lot, and each of the articles and chapters deal with different eras. I am going to go by the traditional dates of the Mycenean's arriving in Greece c.2000 and the Dark Age beginning c.1100.
3. I realize that this literary analysis-- and specifically an unorthodox Marxist literary analysis-- is a bizarre choice for a history reading list. However, I really like Rose's work and his methodology, and I think that his readings try to situate the reader in the culture of the period, and specifically in terms of what relations between ruling groups.
4. The Cambridge Philosophical Journal: The Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (1984). I happened upon this article when I was looking for the Hesiod article and I ended up enjoying it.