- Subjects
- Published
-
[Chantilly, Va.] :
Teaching Company
[1998]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Course workbook in PDF format edition. [PDF workbook version]
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: History ; Subtopic: Ancient historyy"--Cover.
"Course number 323"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (4 3/4 in.)
- Format
- DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
- ISBN
- 9781490690438
- disc 1. Greece and the Western world
- Minoan Grete
- Schliemann and Mycenae
- The long twilight
- The age of heroes
- From Sicily to Syria, the growth of trade and colonization
- disc 2. Delphi and Olympia
- The Spartans
- Revolution
- Tyranny
- The origins of democracy
- Beyond Greece, the Persian empire
- disc 3. The Persian wars
- The Athenian empire
- The art of democracy
- Sacrifice and Greek religion
- Theater and the competition of art
- Sex and gender
- disc 4. The Peloponnesian war, part 1
- The Peloponnesian war, part II
- Socrates on trial
- Slavery and freedom
- Athens in decline?
- Philip, Alexander, and Greece in transition.