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COURSE GUIDE
Professor Timothy B. Shutt
KENYON COLLEGE
Wars That Made the Western World:
The Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War,
and the Punic Wars
Professor Timothy B. Shutt
Kenyon College
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Wars That Made the Western World:
The Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War,
and the Punic Wars
Professor Timothy B. Shutt
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Course Syllabus
Wars That Made the Western World:
The Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War,
and the Punic Wars
About Your Professor......................................................................................................4
Introduction ...................................................................................................................5
Lecture 1 The Persian Wars: Greece and Persia,
the Opening Rounds..................................................................................6
Lecture 2 The Persian Wars: Darius, Miltiades, and the
Battle of Marathon ..................................................................................10
Lecture 3 The Persian Wars: Xerxes, Leonidas and the
300 Spartans, the Battle of Thermopylae................................................15
Lecture 4 The Persian Wars: Xerxes, Themistocles, and
the Battle of Salamis................................................................................20
Lecture 5 The Persian Wars: Mardonius and the Final Victory
of Greece: The Battles of Plataea and Mycale........................................24
Lecture 6 The Peloponnesian War: The Outbreak,
Pericles, and the Plague..........................................................................28
Lecture 7 The Peloponnesian War: Melos and Mytilene,
Athens Overreaches................................................................................32
Lecture 8 The Peloponnesian War: Alcibiades, Nicias,
and Syracuse; Sparta Sends a General..................................................36
Lecture 9 The Peloponnesian War: Arginousai, Aegospotomoi,
Lysander and the Bitter End....................................................................40
Lecture 10 The Punic Wars: Rome and Carthage, the
First Punic War........................................................................................45
Lecture 11 The Punic Wars: The Second Punic War,
Hannibal Crosses the Alps, Lake Trasimene..........................................50
Lecture 12 The Punic Wars: Carthage Triumphant, the Battle of
Cannae, Fabius Maximus—Cunctator.....................................................54
Lecture 13 The Punic Wars: Rome Wins at Last,
Scipio Africanus and Zama......................................................................58
Lecture 14 The Punic Wars: “Cartago Delinda Est,”
the Third Punic War.................................................................................64
Course Materials............................................................................................................68
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About Your Professor
Timothy B. Shutt
For nineteen years, Professor Timothy Baker Shutt has taught at Kenyon
College, famed for splendid teaching, for its literary tradition, and for its unwa-
vering commitment to the liberal arts. No teacher at Kenyon has ever been
more often honored, both by the college and by students, for exceptional skills
in the classroom and as a lecturer. Professor Shutt’s courses in Kenyon’s
interdisciplinary Integrated Program in Humane Studies and in the Department
of English alike are always heavily oversubscribed, and he lectures on Homer,
Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, the Greek historians, Virgil, and Dante every year to
a packed house.
Shutt is a native of Ohio, raised in Michigan and schooled in Connecticut.
During his high school years at the Hotchkiss School, he was honored as an
All-American swimmer and devoted much of his time to drama. He majored in
English as an undergraduate at Yale (’72). After three years at St. Mark’s
School of Texas, where he taught English and history, and coached swim-
ming, Shutt went on to graduate school in English, specializing in medieval lit-
erature and the history of ideas at the University of Virginia as a Du Pont
Fellow. After earning his Ph.D. in 1984, Shutt spent two further years at
Virginia as Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and took a position at
Kenyon in 1986, where he has taught happily ever since, deeply enjoying his
contacts with his students and the peaceful life of the Ohio countryside.
Shutt is a jovial extrovert and a polymath—a born teacher and lecturer—inter-
ested in nearly everything and everybody. In the Integrated Program in Humane
Studies, he teaches literature, philosophy, history, art history, religious studies,
and, at times, the history of science. He has written on military history, baseball,
and birding in addition to his academic studies and gives regular talks at the
Brown Family Environmental Center at Kenyon on migratory birds and on obser-
vational astronomy and the lore of the stars. He also works, when time permits,
as a sports announcer for Kenyon football games, and for championship swim-
ming meets nationwide, claiming longtime Detroit Tiger announcer Ernie Harwell
as his inspiration. Shutt also travels regularly as a spokesperson for Kenyon, giv-
ing talks and lectures on behalf of the college from coast to coast. But his real
vocation is reading and the classroom.
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