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Ancient Greek civilization / Jeremy McInerney.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsLanguage: English Series: Great courses (DVD). Ancient history. | The Great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 1998.Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 103 p. ; 19 cm.)ISBN:
  • 1565855728
  • 9781565855724
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 M478a 1998
Contents:
Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1 Greece and the Western world ; Lecture 2 Minoan Grete ; Lecture 3 Schliemann and Mycenae ; Lecture 4 The long twilight ; Lecture 5 The age of heroes ; Lecture 6 From Sicily to Syria: The growth of trade and colonization -- Disc 2. Lecture 7 Delphi and Olympia ; Lecture 8 The Spartans ; Lecture 9 Revolution ; Lecture 10 Tyranny ; Lecture 11 The origins of democracy ; Lecture 12 Beyond Greece: the Persian empire. Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13 The Persian wars ; Lecture 14 The Athenian empire ; Lecture 15 The art of democracy ; Lecture 16 Sacrifice and Greek religion ; Lecture 17 Theater and the competition of art ; Lecture 18 Sex and gender -- Disc 4. Lecture 19 The Peloponnesian war: Part I ; Lecture 20 The Peloponnesian war: Part II ; Lecture 21 Socrates on trial ; Lecture 22 Slavery and freedom ; Lecture 23 Athens in decline? ; Lecture 24 Philip, Alexander, and Greece in transition.
Summary: Why do the ancient Greeks occupy such a prominent place in conceptions of Western culture and identity? The Greeks are a source of much that we esteem: democracy, philosophy, tragedy, epic and lyric poetry, history-writing, ideals of athletic competition, aesthetic sensibilities, and more. Spanning roughly 1,000 years, the lectures cover the Late Bronze Age (1500 B.C.E.) to the time of Alexander the Great in the late 4th century (400 B.C.E.). Greek civilization experienced a period of magnificent achievement, and then plunged into darkness, from which blossomed a second flowering of that civilization, giving us the foundation of our own.
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Course no. 323
Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each
Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, maps, timeline, biographical notes, and bibliography.

Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1 Greece and the Western world ; Lecture 2 Minoan Grete ; Lecture 3 Schliemann and Mycenae ; Lecture 4 The long twilight ; Lecture 5 The age of heroes ; Lecture 6 From Sicily to Syria: The growth of trade and colonization --
Disc 2. Lecture 7 Delphi and Olympia ; Lecture 8 The Spartans ; Lecture 9 Revolution ; Lecture 10 Tyranny ; Lecture 11 The origins of democracy ; Lecture 12 Beyond Greece: the Persian empire. Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13 The Persian wars ; Lecture 14 The Athenian empire ; Lecture 15 The art of democracy ; Lecture 16 Sacrifice and Greek religion ; Lecture 17 Theater and the competition of art ; Lecture 18 Sex and gender --
Disc 4. Lecture 19 The Peloponnesian war: Part I ; Lecture 20 The Peloponnesian war: Part II ; Lecture 21 Socrates on trial ; Lecture 22 Slavery and freedom ; Lecture 23 Athens in decline? ; Lecture 24 Philip, Alexander, and Greece in transition.

Why do the ancient Greeks occupy such a prominent place in conceptions of Western culture and identity? The Greeks are a source of much that we esteem: democracy, philosophy, tragedy, epic and lyric poetry, history-writing, ideals of athletic competition, aesthetic sensibilities, and more. Spanning roughly 1,000 years, the lectures cover the Late Bronze Age (1500 B.C.E.) to the time of Alexander the Great in the late 4th century (400 B.C.E.). Greek civilization experienced a period of magnificent achievement, and then plunged into darkness, from which blossomed a second flowering of that civilization, giving us the foundation of our own.

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