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1 online resource (1 audio file (1440 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Great courses. History. Ancient religion.
Spoken word.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Lecturer: the author. |
| Summary |
Immerse yourself in this comprehensive survey of ancient Greece from 750 to 323 B.C. - from the emergence of Greece at the end of the Dark Ages to the final disintegration of Greek autonomy through the Macedonian kings Philip II and Alexander the Great. These 48 riveting lectures delivered by Professor Ian Worthington of the University of Missouri, Columbia tell the story of ancient Greek institutions and the people who molded them during the Archaic and Classical periods. Concentrating on the city-states of mainland Greece, with a special focus on Athens, Professor Worthington guides through some of history's most hard-fought struggles - from armed conflicts to political and social struggles. As you explore innovative Athenian approaches to democracy, law, and empire, you discover how these approaches served as the bedrock for ideas and practices that you live with every day. You also encounter a wealth of intriguing links to many of our own contemporary institutions and attitudes about democracy, law, and empire. By the end of Professor Worthington's final captivating lecture, you discover that there was nothing inevitable about democracy, the Western concept of justice, or any of the other traditions and institutions that now play such central roles in the politics of the modern Western world. The story of how this tentative structure transformed into the firm foundation of our contemporary world is gripping, enlightening, and immensely rewarding. All Lectures: 1. Three Mainstays of Ancient Greece 2. The 8th-Century Renaissance 3. Politics and Tyranny in Greece 4. The Exercise of Political Power in Athens 5. Dracon of Athens and the Birth of Greek Law 6. Solon of Athens - Social and Economic Reforms 7. Solon, Democracy, and Law 8. From Anarchy to Tyranny in Athens 9. Pisistratus, Tyrant of Athens 10. Tyranny Overthrown - The Sons of Pisistratus 11. Democracy Restored - Cleisthenes of Athens 12. Cleisthenes, the Real Father of Democracy? 13. Sparta, the Odd-Man-Out State in Greece 14. Death or Glory - Spartan Military Education 15. "Come Back Carrying Your Shield or On It" 16. From Sparta to Persia 17. Marathon - End of the First Persian Invasion 18. Thermopylae and the 300 Spartans 19. Greece Triumphs - The End of the Persian Wars 20. From the Archaic to the Classical Period 21. The Delian League - Origins and First Steps 22. From Delian League to Athenian Empire 23. Ephialtes, Founder of Radical Democracy 24. Rhetoric - A New Path to Political Power 25. Democracy and Political Speech - Then and Now 26. The Causes of the Peloponnesian War 27. The War's Early Years and the Great Plague 28. Athenian Successes and a Temporary Peace 29. War Resumes - The Athenian Disaster in Sicily 30. Democracy Fails - Oligarchy in Athens 31. Final Battles - Sparta's Triumph over Athens 32. Why Athens Lost - The Impact on Greece 33. The Household in the Polis 34. Athenian Law and Society 35. Historical Development of the Legal Code 36. The Judicial Machinery of the Legal System 37. Types of Cases, Sycophants, and Pretrial 38. Going to Trial in Ancient Athens 39. Macedonia, North of Mount Olympus 40. Philip II - "Greatest of the Kings of Europe" 41. Philip II and Macedonian Imperialism 42. Greece Conquered - The End of Greek Autonomy 43. Philip's Assassination and Legacy 44. Alexander the Great - Youth, Early Kingship 45. Alexander as General 46. Alexander as King 47. Alexander as Man - and God? 48. Beyond the Classical - The Greeks and Us |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
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| Added Author |
Worthington, Ian.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781682764282 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1682764281 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12398192 |
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