From Achilles to Alexander the Great
THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREEK CIVILIZATION
The Great Shah-n-Shah, the King of Kings, Master of the
Earth Xerxes, the Lord of the Four Quarters dismissed them
(the Greeks) as a gaggle of impudent rabble rousers. It was
a mistake his predecessors and ancestors also had made.
The Lord of the Four Quarters descended upon the Greeks
with an army and navy of over a million men, the legend
says. One year later his armada lay at the bottom of the sea
and the bones of his soldiers lay scattered all over Greece.
Ever a fractious bunch, the ancient Greeks could pull
together when occasion demanded and perform incredible
feats. But many suspected that it was, in fact, their perennial
fractiousness that propelled them to their landmark
accomplishments in war, politics, art, architecture, philosophy
and theology.
They worshipped the same gods, they spoke mutually
intelligible dialects, they had a common literary heritage, they
all hailed Achilles as the greatest of warriors, they traded with
one another, and they warred against one another. Not until
the “semi-barbaric” Alexander brought them to heel did the
land of the Greeks feel the winds of peace – but only briefly.
In this series of lectures we will trace the rise and fall of
ancient Greek civilization from its Bronze Age beginnings in
the Aegean to the three-continent empire of Alexander the
Great; and, finally, examine the continuing legacy of ancient
Greece.
The lectures will be richly illustrated with images, and course
material will include detailed lecture notes and an extensive
syllabus including maps and ground plans.
LECTURES:
Ten lectures.
210 DVD. 10 lectures on DVD $68.00.
211 CD. 10 lectures on audio CD $50.00.
THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREEK CIVILIZATION
The Great Shah-n-Shah, the King of Kings, Master of the
Earth Xerxes, the Lord of the Four Quarters dismissed them
(the Greeks) as a gaggle of impudent rabble rousers. It was
a mistake his predecessors and ancestors also had made.
The Lord of the Four Quarters descended upon the Greeks
with an army and navy of over a million men, the legend
says. One year later his armada lay at the bottom of the sea
and the bones of his soldiers lay scattered all over Greece.
Ever a fractious bunch, the ancient Greeks could pull
together when occasion demanded and perform incredible
feats. But many suspected that it was, in fact, their perennial
fractiousness that propelled them to their landmark
accomplishments in war, politics, art, architecture, philosophy
and theology.
They worshipped the same gods, they spoke mutually
intelligible dialects, they had a common literary heritage, they
all hailed Achilles as the greatest of warriors, they traded with
one another, and they warred against one another. Not until
the “semi-barbaric” Alexander brought them to heel did the
land of the Greeks feel the winds of peace – but only briefly.
In this series of lectures we will trace the rise and fall of
ancient Greek civilization from its Bronze Age beginnings in
the Aegean to the three-continent empire of Alexander the
Great; and, finally, examine the continuing legacy of ancient
Greece.
The lectures will be richly illustrated with images, and course
material will include detailed lecture notes and an extensive
syllabus including maps and ground plans.
LECTURES:
- The Minoan Thalassocracy.
- The Mycenaeans: Warriors and Merchants.
- The Wrath of Achilles: The Trojan War.
- Greeks are Political Animals: The Polis.
- The Golden Age of Ancient Greece.
- Suicide: The Peloponnesian War.
- The Rise of the Macedonians.
- Alexander the Great.
- The Hellenistic Empires.
- The Legacy of Ancient Greece.
Ten lectures.
210 DVD. 10 lectures on DVD $68.00.
211 CD. 10 lectures on audio CD $50.00.
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