The format of the first exam will be relatively straightforward: a series of questions of the multiple choice, fill in the blank, and/or matching variety, and some 'free form' identifications, in which I'll ask you to identify the significance, in a sentence or two, of various people, places, or events. In setting an exam, I generally try to make 80% of it questions that anyone who has paid reasonable attention to the readings and lectures should have little trouble answering, and the remaining 20% a bit more challenging; that way a grade of 'B' should be readily available to responsible students, and an 'A' achievable by those who have worked especially hard.

As I mentioned in class, the exam will cover material from the readings, even if it has not been covered explicitly in class. A good place to begin preparing for the exam, then, is to review the reading assignments so far, or, if you've been taking notes on your readings as you do them the first time, to review them. Reviewing your lecture notes would also be a good idea. As a rule of thumb, if you can look at the lecture outlines I've posted each week and feel that you know something about the subjects I've called your attention to, you should be in good shape. I won't hold you responsible for any material covered only in your recommended reading, but looking over the relevant sections from Burn or another Greek history text would, I think, be helpful, as much of it has been covered in lectures.

Below is a list of people, things, and events that I might ask you about. That does not mean I won't ask you about things not on the list, it's just meant as a study aid.

Bronze Age	Hoplite shield	Cleisthenes
Dark Age	'Corinthian' helmet	Cyrus
Archaic Period	'Hoplite reform'	Crosesus
Classical Period	Tyranny	Cambyses
Indo-European	Tyrtaios	Darius
Minoan	Helots	Megabazus
Mycenean	Spartan kings	Artaphernes
Shaft graves	Ephors	Aristagoras
Cyclopean walls	Agoge	Megabates
Linear B	Krypteia	Ionian revolt
Homer	Sysition	Mardonius
Dorian invasion	'Battle of Champions'	Datis
Trojan war	'Peloponnesian League'	Xerxes
Return of the heroes	Peisistratus	Demaratus
Chariots	Miltiades	Leonidas
'Heroic code'	Hippias	Themistocles
Hoplite panoply	Cleomenes	Pausanias
Hoplite phalanx	Isagoras

Below is a list of places: I might ask you to identify them on a map, or I might ask you about things that happened there. Again, this is not meant to be comprehensive (although I won't ask you to identify anything on a map that is not on this list).

Mycenae	Argos	Pylos
Athens	Knossos	Troy
Thebes	Sparta	Messenia
Tegea	Eleusis	Megara
Salamis	Delphi	Miletus
Chalcis	Eretreia	Naxos
Sardis	Thrace	Macedonia
Corinth	Plataea	Marathon
Thermopylae	Artemisium	Mycale

Good luck. Feel free to see me during office hours or by appointment for any problems. I'm also available by e-mail, and you should feel free to use the class mailing list to discuss exam-related questions.