Lecture notes taken as a teacher at the University of Edinburgh

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-1828/2
• Dates of Creation:1912-1940s
• Physical Description:
  27 notebooks
  2 folders

• Scope and Content

  This series contains the notes taken by Alexander Giles as a teacher and lecturer of Classical History at the University of Edinburgh, on his own lectures.

  • Minute book of the Argonauts, 1912-1913.
  • Greek History I and II - Alexander to the Roman Conquest (two volumes). Used for the class of Ancient History from 1914 to 1917.
  • Greek History I and II (two volumes). Used for class of Ancient History from 1918 to 1927
  • Greek History, 433-386 BC, from the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War to the King's Peace. Used for lectures from 1918 to 1936.
  • History of the Roman Empire to the Foundation of Constantinople. Used for Class of Ancient History from 1916 to 1927
  • Tacitus I, II and III (three volumes). Used for lectures to the Ordinary Latin Class from 1917 to 1919.
  • History of the Roman Republic, I and II (two volumes). Used for lectures from 1918 to 1927.
  • Roman History, 60 BC - 14 AD, I and II (two volumes). Used for lectures from 1919 to 1941.
  • Roman History, 60 BC - 14 AD. 1940s.
  • Roman History, 133-60 BC, 1936.
  • Roman Empire, 14-96 AD. Used for lectures from 1920 to 1936.
  • Roman Empire, 14-96 AD. Written in 1932 and, mostly, in 1942.
  • History of the Roman Empire 133-60 BC, I and II (two volumes). Used for lectures from 1921 to 1933.
  • Greek History, 621-490 BC. Used for lectures from 1922 to 1937.
  • The Early History of Athens, to the reform of Christhenes. Used for lectures from 1922 to 1948.
  • Greek History - introductory course I and II (two volumes), 1928.
  • The Roman Republic (unbound lecture notes, in two folders), 1928.
  • The Roman Empire from Augustus to Constantine, I and II (two volumes). Used for lectures from 1928 to 1933.
  • Roman History Papers, Hadrian. Julius Caesar: creator or destroyer?, undated.

• Subjects

  Lectures and Lecturing