1. What civilizations preceded Hellenic Greece? What was the relationship of these civilizations to each other? What did they contribute to Hellenic culture?
2. How did the Greek polis rise? What were its mature characteristics, and how did Athens embody those characteristics? How did Sparta differ from the typical polis?
3. How did the Greek city-states decline and ultimately lose their independence?
4. What were the works of Homer and Hesiod? How did these contribute to later Greek philosophy and humanism?
5. How did Olympian religion supplant the earlier chthonic cults? What did the mystery religions offer that Olympianism did not?
6. How did Hellenic philosophy break with the myth-making habit of Near Eastern thought?
7. Who were the Cosmologists? What did they try to accomplish? What early scientific concepts emerged from their thought?
8. What did the Sophists try to accomplish?  How did their principles and methods resemble and differ from those of the Cosmologists? What were the implications of their principles and methods for Athenian society?
9. What did Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle contribute to Greek philosophy?  What principles and methods did they share? How did they apply those principles and methods differently?
10. What did Greek philosophy pass on to later philosophical and religious thought?