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Author Castor, Alexis Q.

Title Between the rivers : the history of ancient Mesopotamia / Alexis Q. Castor.

Publication Info. Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2006]
©2006

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  DVD 935 CASTOR    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  DVD 935 BET  DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  DVD 935 BET  DISC 3-4    Check Shelf
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Description 6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm.).
Series The great courses
Great courses (DVD)
Note "Ancient & medieval history"--Container cover insert.
Course consists of 12 lectures in 3 parts. Each part consists of 2 videodiscsh and each videodisc consists of six lectures.
Course No. 3180.
System Details DVD.
Performer Professor Alexis Q. Castor, Assistant Professor of Classics, Franklin & Marshall College.
Note Course guidebooks contain outlines of each 30 minute lecture. With bibliographical references.
Summary "In this course, we will explore Mesopotamian societies from the Neolithic era (c. 9,000 B.C.) to the defeat of the great Persian Empire at Gaugamela by Alexander the Great (331 B.C.) The study will take us from the world of international diplomacy with powerful neighbors in Egypt, Syria, and Anatolia to the mundane issues of daily life, such as providing food for the family, curing disease, and settling legal disputes. It examines archaeological discoveries, historical documents, and literary texts to explore how these lands between the rivers created a civilization that has contributed to the development of our own. A recurring them of the course is the creation of an urban lifestyle, which becomes increasingly sophisticated and complex as cultures expand."-- p. 1 of guidebook.
Contents Part 1. The rise of civilizaton. Lecture 1. The Iraq Museum -- Lecture 2. Geography and environment -- Lecture 3. Discovering Mesopotamia -- Lecture 4. Archaeological methods -- Lecture 5. Farming and early settlements -- Lecture 6. The Uruk phenomenon -- Lecture 7. Writing -- Lecture 8. Temples -- Lecture 9. Mesopotamian deities -- Lecture 10. Gilgamesh - hero and king -- Lecture 11. The early dynastic period -- Lecture 12. Warfare and diplomacy.
Part 2. The great city-states. Lecture 13. The Royal Cemetery at Ur -- Lecture 14. The Akkadians -- Lecture 15. Ideology of kingship - Naram-Sin and Gudea -- Lecture 16. The Ur III dynasty -- Lecture 17. Life in a Mesopotamian city -- Lecture 18. Food and drink -- Lecture 19. Assyrian trade networks -- Lecture 20. Hammurabi of Babylon -- Lecture 21. Zimri-Lim of Mari -- Lecture 22. Laws -- Lecture 23. Medicine, science, and math -- Lecture 24. Poetry and literature.
Part 3. Empires of the East. Lecture 25. Internationalism -- Lecture 26. Assyrian expansion -- Lecture 27. Sargon II -- Lecture 28. Ideology of empire -- Lecture 29. Control and revolt -- Lecture 30. Medes and the neo-Babylonian state -- Lecture. 31. The rise of the Achaemenids -- Lecture 32. Persians in Egypt and Greece -- Lecture 33. Xerxes's invasion of Greece -- Lecture 34. Persian and art culture -- Lecture 35. Alexander the Great -- Lecture 36. After Alexander.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Iraq -- History -- To 634.
Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634.
Added Author Teaching Company.
Added Title History of ancient Mesopotamia
ISBN 1598032607: $199.90
9781598032604
Music No. 3180 Teaching Company
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