Introduction to Ancient Greek Philosophy
Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D., "Greek Legacy: Classical Origins of the Modern World" [The Great Courses]
Arnold was suggesting that our basic assumptions about virtually all of the major building blocks of our culture (law, government, religion, science, medicine, drama, architecture, and more) derived ultimately from the ancient Greeks.
In this course of 12 lectures you explore the continuing influence of the classical Greek achievement on contemporary life. The point of the lectures is not the often tedious claim that there is nothing new under the sun. Rather, it is to underscore the remarkable continuity of the Greek perspective and ethos preserved over several millennia.
Your guide to the Greek achievement is Professor Daniel N. Robinson, a member of the Philosophy faculty at Oxford University, where he has lectured annually since 1991. He is also Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at Georgetown University, on whose faculty he served for 30 years. He was formerly Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Columbia University.
In his introduction, Professor Robinson traces the rise, fall, and return of Greek influence on Western culture. He then explores the "Greek Legacy" in specific aspects of our lives.
Literature and the Arts
Literature. Professor Robinson explains the profound Greek contribution:
"The great literary themes that have dominated creative writing over the past two millennia were developed and bequeathed to us by a handful of ancient Greek poets and dramatists. There is scarcely a corner of the 'human dilemma' not first uncovered and then illuminated in the works of Greek antiquity.
"To achieve this abiding influence, the literary minds of that culture must have understood what is virtually universal in the human experience
Introduction to Greek Philosophy
TTC Video - Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature
We can look to modern historians for perspectives on the origins of their own discipline, and on the two thinkers, Herodotus and Thucydides, whose contributions to that discipline were immense. To political scientists for the links between the U.S. Senate and the councils of Athens. And to teachers of philosophy for insights to illuminate the deepest implications found in Plato.
But there is an entirely different perspective found in another of their great legacies
TTC Video - Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean
CHAPTERS:
1. Who Were the Greeks? Who Were the Romans?
2. Trade and Travel in the Mediterranean
3. Democratic or Republican
4. Law and Order
5. Less than Fully Human
6. Close Encounters, 750–272 B.C.
7. The Velvet Glove, 272–190 B.C.
8. How the Two Polytheisms (Almost) Merged
9. The Iron Fist, 190–146 B.C.
10. The Last Hellenistic Dynasts, 146–31 B.C.
11. Why the Greeks Lost, Why the Romans Won
12. Philhellenism and Hellenophobia
13. The Two Languages
14. Leisure and Entertainment
15. Sex and Sexuality
16. Death and the Afterlife
17. From Mystery Religion to Ruler Cult
18. Greek Cities under Roman Rule
19. Greeks in Rome, Romans in Greece
20. The Hellenism of Augustus
21. Art, Looting, and Reproductions
22. Architecture, Sacred and Secular
23. Science and Technology
24. Disease, Medical Care, and Physicians
25. The Greek Epic and Its Roman Echo
26. Tragedy and Comedy
27. Love Poetry, Satire, History, the Novel
28. Greek Influences on Roman Education
29. Greek Philosophy and Its Roman Advocates
30. Hellenomania from Nero to Hadrian
31. Jews, Greeks, and Romans
32. Christianity's Debt to Greece and Rome
33. The Apotheosis of Athens
34. The Decline of the West
35. The Survival of the East
36. The Enduring Duo
Professor: Robert Garland
Country: USA
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TTC - Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean
TTC - Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean
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In the 1st century B.C., Rome's matchless armies consolidated control over the entire Mediterranean world, and Greece lay vanquished along with scores of other formerly independent lands?yet the Roman poet Horace saw something special in Greece when he wrote "Greece, the captive, made her savage victor captive."
CHAPTERS:
1. Who Were the Greeks* Who Were the Romans?
2. Trade and Travel in the Mediterranean
3. Democratic or Republican
4. Law and Order
5. Less than Fully Human
6. Close Encounters, 750?272 B.C.
7. The Velvet Glove, 272?190 B.C.
8. How the Two Polytheisms (Almost) Merged
9. The Iron Fist, 190?146 B.C.
10. The Last Hellenistic Dynasts, 146?31 B.C.
11. Why the Greeks Lost, Why the Romans Won
12. Philhellenism and Hellenophobia
13. The Two Languages
14. Leisure and Entertainment
15. Sex and Sexuality
16. Death and the Afterlife
17. From Mystery Religion to Ruler Cult
18. Greek Cities under Roman Rule
19. Greeks in Rome, Romans in Greece
20. The Hellenism of Augustus
21. Art, Looting, and Reproductions
22. Architecture, Sacred and Secular
23. Science and Technology
24. Disease, Medical Care, and Physicians
25. The Greek Epic and Its Roman Echo
26. Tragedy and Comedy
27. Love Poetry, Satire, History, the Novel
28. Greek Influences on Roman Education
29. Greek Philosophy and Its Roman Advocates
30. Hellenomania from Nero to Hadrian
31. Jews, Greeks, and Romans
32. Christianity's Debt to Greece and Rome
33. The Apotheosis of Athens
34. The Decline of the West
35. The Survival of the East
36. The Enduring Duo
Professor: Robert Garland
Country: USA
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TTC VIDEO - Ancient Empires Before Alexander (2011)
Ponder the term "the ancient world" for just a moment. What personalities, images, and events come to mind? For most of us, the legacy of the ancient world is symbolized by the twin pillars of Western civilization: the empires of Greece and Rome. But what about the empires that came before them?
Although realms such as Akkad, Assyria, Babylon, Hatti, and Ur dwell on the fringes of recorded history, they nevertheless represent human civilization's first experiments in empire building. Their intriguing reigns
gave birth to the political, judicial, religious, and military systems that would influence the administration of subsequent empires;
steered earlier societies on a course that would eventually lead to our modern world's intricate system of nations, states, and countries; and
played key roles in episodes in ancient history, such as the Babylonian captivity, the Trojan and Peloponnesian wars, and the eventual rise of the Greek and Roman empires.
The fascinating stories behind these empires are required knowledge for you to develop a full understanding of the ancient world in its entirety.
Ancient Empires before Alexander is your opportunity to finally complete your knowledge of the ancient world with a comprehensive look at history's first empires. Professor Robert L. Dise Jr. of the University of Northern Iowa
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TTC Video - Ancient Greek Civilization (ENG)
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The Ancestors of Us All
Clearly, the Greeks are a source of much that we esteem in our own culture: democracy, philosophy, tragedy, epic and lyric poetry, history-writing, our aesthetic sensibilities and ideals of athletic competition, and more. Blazoned above the portal of Apollos temple at Delphi were the words, "Know thyself." For us, this injunction to self-awareness also commands knowledge of the Greeks.
With Professor Jeremy McInerney as your teacher, youll come away with fresh knowledge on one of humanitys most golden ages. A native Australian, Professor McInerney is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He has excavated Greek sites in Israel, at Corinth, and on Crete.
Our customers are very enthusiastic about Professor McInerney. "The quality of the course is so high, I hate to see it end," writes one. Another says, "Professor McInerneys lectures are among the finest I have ever heard. He is articulate, thoughtful, and engaging. I learned more from this course than from any book I have read on the subject."
Our Mediterranean Origins
Spanning roughly 1,000 years, from 1500–400 B.C.E., this course covers the Late Bronze Age to the time of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great in the late 4th century B.C.E. Professor McInerney traces the complex web of links between our present and its Mediterranean origins. With him, you explore ancient Greek civilization in the light shed by the newest and best research and criticism. The course expands understanding of history, literature, art, philosophy, religion, and more.
The lectures pay special attention to the two crucial centuries from 600–400 B.C.E.—the era of the Persian and Peloponnesian wars and of classical Athens as described in the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides and the philosophic dialogues of Plato.
Magnificent Minoan Crete and Mycenae
The first 12 lectures introduce you to Greek civilization from its earliest discernible beginnings up to the Persian War. In them, you learn to see ancient Greece split in two: a period of magnificent achievement that plunged to darkness, and a second flowering of that civilization that is the foundation of our own.
Minoan civilization on the island of Crete and Mycenaen civilization on the mainland were the two great Greek civilizations of the Bronze Age. They left behind magnificent ruins, art, and artifacts, but no written histories. In Lectures 1–8 you:
Explore these extraordinarily advanced cultures
Learn why their collapse around 1200 B.C.E. puzzles scholars to this day
Hear the full story of Heinrich Schliemann, who found Mycenae by following clues in Homers poems
Review the finding made only in the 1950s that showed us that Mycenae was, in fact, Greek
See how a new and distinct Archaic culture—one that revered Homers epics—arose in the Age of Heroes after the collapse of Crete and Mycenae
Discover how much the Greeks gained from their contacts with other ancient societies (the alphabet, among other things, came from the Semitic peoples of Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean)
Understand how Spartan warrior culture was forced on the Spartans because they enslaved a nearby region
Explore the causes and effects of Greek colonization from France to the Ukraine
See how a uniquely "Greek" identity was based in part on the Oracle at Delphi and the Olympic Games; non-Greeks were not admitted to either.
The first section of the course examines the origins of democracy, which grew out of authoritarian government. And you see here how much of our freedom we owe to Cleisthenes, who created the democratic government under which Athens flourished for two centuries—and how he ingeniously designed it to undermine established power and allegiance.
The Persians, the Peloponnesian War, and the Arrival of the Macedonians
The courses second 12 lectures include the compelling histories of the Persian War (490–479 B.C.E.) and the Peloponnesian War (431–404 B.C.E.).
First united by their common enemy in Persia, Professor McInerney explains how much the Persian War came to define the Greeks—and us. The notion of freedom they developed in response to Persian power is one we inherit. After the Persian War, the Greeks developed their sense of identity as the antagonists of the Eastern world, a tension to which the West has been heir ever since.
After the defeat of the Persians, Athens rose to hegemony over the Greek world. You see how the Athenians trade and power were developed and imposed on the Mediterranean. And you learn some surprising facts about this Golden Age:
Greek tragedy began as a religious ritual to purge the audience of "uncivilized" emotions.
Greek art was often an intensely and explicitly competitive enterprise.
Athenian culture depended heavily on slavery. Professor McInerney addresses the charge that Athens only prospered because it had slaves under its heel.
Two lectures are devoted to the clash between Athens and Sparta in the Peloponnesian War. Socrates served as a soldier in that struggle.
After Athens was defeated, its philosophers rose to their full achievement in the work and lives of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, reinforcing the old axiom that defeat is the greatest muse for political philosophy. Professor McInerney delivers a provocative interpretation of the trial of Socrates.
In its postwar "decline," Athens defined the contours of philosophy and science for more than 1,000 years and produced great drama, art, and literature.
Toward the end of the 4th century B.C.E., Macedonian kings dominated Greece. Philip and his son, Alexander (who was tutored by Aristotle), created a Pan-Hellenic culture again to unite the Greeks against their common enemy—Persia.
In short decades, Greek power would extend from Egypt to the Hindu Kush.
Differences and Affinities
Just as the divide between East and West still exists, so does one separating our world from that of the ancients. We must remember that the Hellenic world had many values, beliefs, and mores at odds with our own. In ancient Greece:
Slavery was common
Women suffered complete exclusion from public life
Homosexuality was an accepted aristocratic practice in Athens, Sparta, and other city-states.
As Professor McInerney shows, such differences do not imply that the culture of ancient Greece holds no meaning for us. Rather, it should spur us to deepen our engagement with the Greeks, for their differences can teach us as much as our affinities with them.
Greece and the Western World
Minoan Crete
Schliemann and Mycenae
The Long Twilight
The Age of Heroes
From Sicily to Syria—The Growth of Trade and Colonization
Delphi and Olympia
The Spartans
Revolution
Tyranny
The Origins of Democracy
Beyond Greece—The Persian Empire
The Persian Wars
The Athenian Empire
The Art of Democracy
Sacrifice and Greek Religion
Theater and the Competition of Art
Sex and Gender
The Peloponnesian War, Part I
The Peloponnesian War, Part II
Socrates on Trial
Slavery and Freedom
Athens in Decline?
Philip, Alexander, and Greece in Transition
Professor: Jeremy McInerney
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TTC Video - Freedom: The Philosophy of Liberation
Course Lecture Titles:
1. Freedom in the Ancient World
2. The Advent of Freedom in the Modern World
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TTC Video - Thomas Williams - Reason and Faith: Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Are philosophy and religion reason and faith fundamentally at odds? From todays strict division between questions of logic and questions of belief, one might think so. But for 1,000 years during a pivotal era of Western thought, reason and faith went hand in hand in the search for answers to the most profound issues investigated by Christianitys most committed scholars:
Can Gods existence and attributes be established by reason alone?
Are there Christian doctrines that are beyond the scope of logical demonstration?
How can Christian beliefs be defended against objections and made internally consistent?
These questions posed by the great philosophers of the Middle Ages bear no resemblance to the stereotypical medieval dispute about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin a problem that apparently no one in the Middle Ages discussed. Instead, they are emblematic of an extraordinarily rich period of intellectual ferment, when the best minds of the age participated in a common struggle with transcendent questions, using reasoning in the service of faith.
From Augustine to Ockham
Reason and Faith: Philosophy in the Middle Ages examines this ambitious project. In 24 half hour lectures, you will learn about the great Christian philosophers from Augustine to Ockham, following their efforts to illuminate the full scope of Christian doctrine using philosophical tools inherited, in large part, from the ancient Greeks. Far from being Dark Ages, this was an era when faith was not blind and reason was not godless, when the great philosophers and the great theologians were the very same people, and no one saw anything surprising about that.
Your teacher is Professor Thomas Williams, an award winning educator and noted historian of medieval philosophy. Belying the image of the recondite medieval scholar, Professor Williams lectures with spontaneity, humor, enthusiasm, and warmth. He is especially well qualified to take you through the key texts of the period; he has published translations of several of them. Furthermore, he has made his own translations of all of the extracts used in the course, which include material that is not available elsewhere and is therefore left out of most introductory college courses on the subject.
Why Study Medieval Philosophy?
Today, medieval philosophy is an often overlooked period between ancient philosophy and the Enlightenment. You will find it rewarding to explore for many excellent reasons:
A bridge between ancient and modern: The ideas of ancient thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle were rediscovered by medieval philosophers, who applied them to theological problems. Modern philosophy, in turn, began as a response to the medieval project.
Tools for understanding Christianity: Medieval philosophers probed deeply into the fundamental nature of Christian teachings. Perhaps no other thinkers worked so diligently to show how the Christian faith is consistent with what can be demonstrated by reason.
An intellectual challenge: What are the limits of reason? Medieval philosophers continually tested these boundaries, and by thinking critically about their arguments you can enhance the rigor of your own ideas.
A exemplar for philosophical inquiry: Whatever your own beliefs, engagement with the different styles of careful argument employed by medieval philosophers can inspire you in your own search for wisdom.
Professor Williams notes that medieval Christian philosophy was largely disengaged from the political and cultural currents of the time, so that these lectures necessarily concentrate almost exclusively on philosophy. Nonetheless, it is significant that so much intellectual energy went into addressing issues of faith. If you are interested in medieval history this course will serve as a fascinating philosophical backdrop to illuminate debates that occupied many of the greatest minds of the era.
Eight Extraordinary Philosophers
Who were these great minds? Among the philosophers you will encounter in this course, you focus on eight in detail:
Augustine of Hippo (354
TTC Video - World Philosophy by Kathleen M. Higgins
Course Lecture:
1. Beginnings
2. Western metaphysics
3. Soul and Body
4. The Good Life and the Role of Reason
5. Western and African Thought Compared
6. Traditional Beliefs and Philosophy
7. American Indian Thinking
8. Mesoamerican Thought
9. Ethics and Social Thought in Latin America
10. Indian Though on Supreme Reality
11. The Dualism of the Samkhya School
12. Vedic Thought and Monism
13. The Bhagavad Gita
14. The Buddha
TTC - History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective (The Great Courses)
And even though each day finds you, in ways almost too numerous to mention, paying tribute to this ancient past, it is too often without an awareness that you are even doing so.
TTC Video - Great Battles of the Ancient World
Course Lecture Titles
Why Study Battles? What Is War?
The Problem of Warfare's Origins
Sumer, Akkad, and Early Mesopotamian Warfare
Egyptian Warfare from the Old to New Kingdoms
The Battles of Megiddo and Kadesh
The Trojan War and Homeric Warfare
The Assyrian War Machine
The Sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem
A Peculiar Institution? Hoplite Warfare
The Battle of Marathon
The Battle of Thermopylae
Naval Warfare and the Battle of Salamis
The Athenian Expedition to Sicily
The March of the Ten Thousand
Macedonian Military Innovations
Alexander's Conquest of Persia
The Legions of Rome
The Battles of Cannae and Zama
Legion versus Phalanx-Six Pitched Battles
The Sieges of Alesia and Masada
Caesar's World War
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Catastrophe at Adrianople
Reflections on Warfare in the Ancient World
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TTC Video - Philosophy as a Guide to Living
All of us have asked ourselves this question. But for philosophers through the ages, it was the first question of many, for they needed to know whether such a question was even answerable by philosophy. And if it was, they needed to ask whether any positive answer could be pursued through the practice of philosophy itself.
Today, these questions remain as timely and controversial as ever. But following the pathway of proposed answers on anything other than a level surface—no matter how fascinating we find the subject—can often be difficult for those untrained in philosophy and the profound rigor of its arguments and language.
01. The Axial Model
02. Kant’s Hopeful Program
03. The Kantian Legacy
04. Kant and the Romantic Reaction
05. Hegel on the Human Spirit
06. Hegel on State and Society
07. Hegel on Selfhood and Human Identity
08. Schopenhauer’s Pessimism
09. Schopenhauer’s Remedies
10. Alienation in Marx
11. Marx’s Utopian Hope
12. Kierkegaard’s Crises
13. Kierkegaard’s Passion
14. Why God Died—Nietzsche’s Claim
15. Nietzsche’s Dream
16. Freud’s Nightmare
17. Freud on Our Origins
18. Psychoanalytic Visions in and after Freud
19. Heidegger on the Meaning of Meaning
20. Heidegger on Technology’s Threat
21. Heidegger’s Politics and Legacy
22. The Human Situation—Sartre and Camus
23. Power and Reason—Foucault and Habermas
24. Today’s Provocative Landscape—Thresholding
Professor: Stephen A. Erickson
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TTC Video - Greek and Persian Wars
Did it all really happen like that?
Behind this renowned tale of legendary Greek heroism is another, more intricate story, one that you encounter in The Greek and Persian Wars. Spanning more than two centuries, these historic conflicts forged a new world order, sparking developments in battle strategy, naval technology, world exploration, and art and culture that affect the world even today.
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Now is your opportunity to survey this globe-spanning conflict, as well as its enduring impact on the world at large. From the ancient battlefields of Thermopylae, Marathon, and Gaugamela, to the imperial halls of Persepolis, to the bustling marketplace of Athens, investigate the clash of the Greeks and the Persians over the course of 24 fascinating lectures.
Your guide on this epic journey is award-winning Professor and Director of Liberal Studies at the University of Louisville John R. Hale. An accomplished archaeologist and teacher, Professor Hale captures the human experience behind some of the most remarkable episodes in ancient history. He traces the gripping trajectory of surprising upsets and changing allegiances, as Spartans, Athenians, and Persians constantly shift sides, make and break alliances, and exchange partners for enemies in a seemingly endless dance of battle and truce.
Be Transported Back in Time
It's a perspective on history you'll find virtually nowhere else. Bringing together both sides of the story—Greek and Persian—and providing remarkable details from ancient history, archaeology, and the stratagems of warfare, Professor Hale creates a complex and informative account of this world-changing era.
It's also a gripping saga. A gifted storyteller, Professor Hale weaves a spellbinding narrative that is both accurate and cinematic. You experience the sweep of history, but you also glimpse the more intimate stories behind the saga. With each anecdote, Professor Hale creates a picture in words, recounting vivid dialogue and delving into the internal psychology of the historic figures that shaped their world and the world we inhabit today.
You hear about famous turncoats, such as the Athenian Alcibiades, who helped the Spartans overthrow his native city, allied himself with the Persians, and finally returned to Athens to lead his hometown fleet. Treacherous allies, broken covenants, unity among strange bedfellows—all are a part of the twisting, turning saga of the Greek and Persian wars.
With Professor Hale's expert guidance, you gain a grand and nuanced perspective on the complicated relationship between these two remarkable cultures and rethink what you know about the Greeks and the ancient world. This course serves as a wonderfully detailed introduction to these two great civilizations and the world they built.
How an Epic Conflict Shaped the World
What you find is a world that was virtually re-created over the course of two centuries through the struggle of the Persians and the Greeks. In the words of Professor Hale, "The roots of our contemporary world lie in this period, in the 6th to the 4th centuries B.C., and above all, in that great split between East and West, which still dominates world affairs today."
As Professor Hale demonstrates, the Greek and Persian wars served as the crucible in which the most important cultural events in the history of the Western world occurred, including the invention of medicine, history, philosophy, and drama, as well as remarkable achievements in sculpture and architecture.
Many of the Greeks' greatest enduring cultural contributions were generated by their ongoing struggles with the Persians:
History: To commemorate the greatest battles, Greek chroniclers such as Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon literally invented a new literary form—history.
The arts: One of the greatest artistic achievements of ancient Greece, the drama was created when naval veteran Aeschylus crafted the first play.
Politics: Perhaps the Greeks' most remarkable cultural invention, democracy was born of the city-state's opposition to the imperial advances of its Persian neighbors.
But the Greeks were not alone in their ingenuity. Known for their relentless pursuit of victory in the face of nearly insurmountable obstacles, the Persians undertook remarkable engineering projects, from the bridging of the Hellespont to the diversion of major waterways.
These wars also drove new innovation in naval technology, as Greeks and Persians alike took to the sea on enormous warships called triremes. These military ventures helped to expand the water-based network of trade relationships, bringing about an unprecedented cross-pollination of cultures that resulted in a vibrant cosmopolitan world community.
Sworn Enemies, Strange Bedfellows
The course begins with an introduction to the major protagonists—Greeks and Persians—and a breathtaking portrait of the extraordinary civilizations they founded.
On the one side, you meet the Persians—hardy nomads and horsemen who left the bleak uplands of the Middle East to build an intricate, exotic culture that dazzled the world with its luxurious cities, its ingenious engineering skills, and the exercise of political control built on the ceremonial display of power.
What was the battle like for the invading Persian force?
What challenges did they encounter, despite their vast numbers, in facing the Spartan enemy?
And why did they initially lose so many men before overwhelming the small Greek force?
On the other, you encounter the Greeks—as diverse as their many city-states, but united by their love of debate, admiration of intellectual cunning, and fierce commitment to freedom. Taking center stage in the Greek arena are the Athenians, who seized power early on by building one of the first strong naval forces, and their rivals, the Spartans, who countered the Athenian love of democracy and philosophy with a rigorous militarism.
Finally, you glimpse the cosmopolitan world imagined by the "last" great Greek, Alexander, the Macedonian conqueror who dared to envisage an empire in which Persia and Greece would at last be truly united.
On the Field of Battle
"Half of winning a battle," explains Professor Hale, "is persuading your enemy to fight a battle that they shouldn't." An expert on methods of ancient warfare, Professor Hale takes you out of the history books and onto the field of battle, with rare insights into how each skirmish was lost and won.
You go beyond the movement of troops and delve deeply into the strengths and foibles of the Greek and Persian leaders, the decisions they made, and the risks they took. You compare the different military technologies pioneered by each side, from the Greeks' deadly phalanx formation to the Persians' masterful marshaling of tributary forces, and learn why some flamboyant and seemingly deadly innovations—such as the use of elephants on the battlefield or scythed chariot wheels to mow down enemy troops—failed to live up to their daunting potential.
But Professor Hale, the recipient of numerous awards for distinguished teaching, including the Panhellenic Teacher of the Year Award and the Delphi Center Award, offers more than just textbook descriptions. An accomplished archaeologist, he provides rare and valuable insights gleaned from years of field work. From the depth of the Aegean Sea to the site of the Delphic oracle, Professor Hale has walked in the tracks of these ancient people.
So when he describes how the Persian fleet of Darius the Great was destroyed during a storm in the Aegean Sea, he can also tell you about his deep-water expedition to the site of the wreck, during which he and his colleagues discovered a priceless artifact.
From an analysis of the landscape of the battlefield of Marathon to modern archaeological surveys of the ground where Xerxes and his engineers dug an 80-foot-wide canal across an Aegean cape, Professor Hale marshals the latest scientific discoveries to test and confirm the legendary accounts of these ancient events.
Join Professor Hale for this journey and gain a new perspective on this monumental chapter in ancient history. To study The Greek and Persian Wars with this master teacher is to gain new insights into one of the most influential clashes of cultures the world has known.
The First Encounter
Empire Builders—The Persians
Intrepid Voyagers—The Greeks
The Ionian Revolt
From Mount Athos to Marathon
Xerxes Prepares for War
The Athenians Build a Fleet
Heroes at the Pass
Battle in the Straits
The Freedom Fighters
Commemorating the Great War
Campaigns of the Delian League
Launching a Golden Age
Herodotus Invents History
Engineering the Fall of Athens
Cyrus, Xenophon, and the Ten Thousand
The March to the Sea
Strange Bedfellows
The Panhellenic Dream
The Rise of Macedon
Father and Son
Liberating the Greeks of Asia
Who Is the Great King?
When East Met West
Professor John R. Hale
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TTC Video - Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition
Ranging from the anonymous author of the Epic of Gilgamesh in ancient Mesopotamia to William Faulkner writing about 19th- and 20th-century Mississippi 3,600 years later, Western writers have each played important parts in establishing the West's rich literary tradition. Their landmark themes, unique insights into human nature, dynamic characters, experimental storytelling techniques, and rich philosophical ideas helped create the vibrant storytelling methods we find reflected in today's authors. They've also played critical roles in Western history and culture as well, influencing everything from religion to politics.
Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition is your chance to survey over 70 literary geniuses and masterpieces of Western literature. In 84 lectures taught by five award-winning professors who are experts in particular literary time periods, you explore the vast collection of Western writers and their respective works.
With its broad historical scope and its depth of insight, this course is a veritable encyclopedia of Western literature's greatest writers. It's your chance to get a look at their works, styles, themes, and relationships with one another without having to pour through thousands upon thousands of pages of their writing. And you'll see the role they played both within the context of their own time and within the larger span of literary history.
What Is the Western Literary Tradition? What do the words "Western" and "literature" mean in the context of writers as diverse as the ancient Greek poet Homer, the anonymous author of Beowulf, the metaphysical poet William Blake, and Modernist Samuel Beckett? How can we draw connections between writers who lived throughout the centuries in places as widely separated as the Near East and the New World?
The Western literary tradition, you discover in this course, derives as its main sources of inspiration the Bible and ancient Greek and Roman literature. While we sometimes think of literature as anything written, it is in fact writing that lays claim to consideration on the grounds of beauty, form, and emotional effect. To present you with an effective and comprehensive survey of Western writers, this course considers history, biography, essays, and philosophical works in addition to poems, plays, and prose fiction.
Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition is divided into seven parts consisting of 12 lectures each. The parts are grouped around various themes in the history of Western literature, from its origins in the Near East and the Mediterranean world to the literary heavyweights of the Renaissance and the men and women who defined the traditions of Modern literature in the 20th century. The end result is a course that spans 40 centuries of literary masterpieces.
Witness the Birth of Literary Genres and Movements
Throughout Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, you witness how brilliant writers created and developed the various literary genres now considered staples of Western storytelling. Some of the many genres you explore include:
Epics: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are the first fully developed epics in Western culture. They were composed orally sometime before the invention of the Greek alphabet in the 8th century B.C., and they are the models for virtually all subsequent epics.
Biographies: Composed in the first century A.D., Plutarch's Parallel Lives was immensely popular for centuries and served as the model for later biographies
TTC VIDEO - Alexander The Great and the Hellenistic Age
In all the annals of the ancient world, few stories are more gripping than that of the Hellenistic Age. Between the conquests of Alexander the Great and the rise of Rome, Greek culture became the heart of a world-historical civilization whose intellectual, spiritual, and artistic influence endures to this day.
Caesar?s Shame
Julius Caesar lamented when he was in his early 30s that by his age Alexander had conquered the world, "and I have done nothing."
In just 10 years, this young prince from the small, hill kingdom of Macedon subdued the largest tract of the earth?s surface ever conquered by one individual. His vast empire?encompassing all or part of 23 present-day countries?stretched from Mount Olympus and the Sahara Desert to the frontiers of India and Central Asia.
In the opening lectures, we explore the enigma of Alexander, son of a brilliant father, yet always at odds with the man whom he succeeded. We trace his early campaigns against the Persians and follow him to Egypt, where he was acclaimed as the son of god.
We look at his career after this and find in him a blend of greatness and madness as he strove to replace the Persian empire of the Achaemenid dynasty with a new, mixed ruling class of Macedonians and Persians.
Alexander?s death in 323 BC ushered in a period of catastrophic change as ambitious warlords carved up Alexander?s realm into their own separate empires. It is said that as the 33-year-old Alexander lay dying in Babylon in 323 B.C., he was asked who would inherit his empire. "The strongest," he answered.
Their struggle created three kingdoms, ruled by a small group of Macedonian nobles, that spanned from the eastern Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush:
?Ptolemaic Egypt (323-31 B.C.), whose last ruler was Cleopatra
?Seleucid Syria (323-64 B.C.), whose attack on the Temple in Jerusalem in 166 B.C. led to the Maccabean revolt
?The Attalid Empire in Asia Minor (281-133 B.C.), which, while smaller than the other two, produced a cultural flourishing in its capital Pergamum that rivaled Alexandria in Egypt.
North Africa. In the Nile valley, the Ptolemies played the role of pharaohs and were treated by their subjects as gods. At the same time, however, their capital, Alexandria, was cut off from Egypt and run by Greek bureaucrats. Greek culture thrived here in the museum and library, and the Ptolemies were great patrons of the arts. The library itself boasted half a million books.
The Middle East. In the Seleucid empire, the rulers also built Greek cities, such as Antioch, but in older regions, including Mesopotamia, they too were ready to be worshipped as living gods. On the edges of the Hellenistic world, in places as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Greek cities grew up around trading posts and military settlements. Here, philosophy and literature from old Greece went hand in hand with gymnasiums and theaters to plant Greek culture far from the Mediterranean. By military and cultural conquest, then, much of central Asia was incorporated into the Greek world.
Despite the geographic extent of this civilization, we see that the heartland remained the eastern Mediterranean. It was here, in such new cities as Alexandria and Pergamum and such old ones as Athens, that Greek culture developed its distinctive Hellenistic appearance.
Hellenistic Culture
Philosophy. Philosophy became more academic, as different schools of philosophy emerged. Stoicism, epicureanism, and skepticism all looked for ways to teach people to avoid the emotional upheavals of life in an age of anxiety.
Art and Architecture. At the same time, art rejoiced in exploring the very same turmoil of the age. Hellenistic sculptors looked at the old, the young, the ugly, and the tortured instead of merely fashioning images of the perfect athlete. Differing sharply from the Classical art that precedes it, Hellenistic art is gargantuan, often "excessive," and nakedly emotional. It explores aspects of human experience previously outside the concerns of the Greeks.
Literature. Novelists also played with themes of the reversal of fortune in the lives of their characters, because such tumult was part of the experiences of so many people. Piracy, brigandage, physical hardship, and the supreme power of great kings were all realities of the age and left their marks on ordinary people.
Religion and Magic. As we see, these conditions helped spawn a vital interest in magic, spells, and incantations and in religions that offered people the promise of redemption and salvation. The cults of Isis, Serapis, and Cybele all grew in popularity throughout the Hellenistic world. This was the climate of the world in which Christianity was born.
Captured Greece? Captured Rome?
Although the Hellenistic Age would result in some of the greatest accomplishments in Greek culture, especially in the poetry of Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius, the political power of the age was overshadowed by the growth of Rome.
Hence, we conclude the lectures with a study of the growth of Roman power, its expansion into the eastern Mediterranean, and the inevitable clash of Greek and Roman civilizations. We see that Rome conquered, but Rome would be forever changed by the contact with Greek culture. In the words of the Roman poet Horace, "Captured Greece took captive her captor."
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