| Edition |
Library edition. |
| Description |
12 audio discs : digital; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.) inside containers. |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Lecturer: Professor Garrett G. Fagan, Pennsylvania State University. |
| Note |
In 2 containers. |
| Summary |
24 lectures on the battles history of ancient world. |
| Contents |
part I: lecture 1. Why study battles? What is war? -- lecture 2. The problem of warfare's origins -- lecture 3. Sumer, Akkad, and early Mesopotamian warfare -- lecture 4. Egyptian warfare from the old to new kingdoms -- lecture 5. The battles of Megiddo and Kadesh -- lecture 6. The Trojan war and Homeric warfare -- lecture 7. The Assyrian war machine -- lecture 8. The sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem -- lecture 9. A peculiar institution? Hoplite warfare -- lecture 10. The battle of Marathon -- lecture 11. The battle of Thermopylae -- lecture 12. Naval warfare and the battle of Salamis -- part II: lecture 13. The Athenian expedition to Sicily -- lecture 14. Tha march of the ten thousand -- lecture 15. Macedonian military innovations -- lecture 16. Alexander's conquest of Persia -- lecture 17. The legions of Rome - lecture 18. The battles of Cannae and Zama --lecture 19. Legion versus Phalanx - Six pitched battles -- lecture 20. The sieges of Alesia and Masada -- lecture 21. Caesar's world war -- lecture 22. The battle of the Teutoburg forest -- lecture 23. Catastrophe at Adrianople -- lecture 24. Reflections on warfare in the ancient world. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Battles.
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Military history.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Ancient world |
| ISBN |
1598030493 |
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9781598030495 |
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