Description |
6 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 265 pages : maps ; 22 cm.). |
Series |
The great courses. Ancient & medieval history |
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Great courses (DVD). Ancient & medieval history.
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Note |
Course no. 3372. |
System Details |
DVD. |
Cast |
Lecturer: Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University. |
Credits |
Producer, James Blandford ; director, Jon Leven ; editors, Rich Bernett, David Ladd, Karl Richard. |
Bibliography |
Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 252-265). |
Note |
In three containers. |
Summary |
The ancient Greek historian Thucydides called it "a war like no other" -- arguably the greatest in the history of the world up to that time. The Peloponnesian War pitted Athens and her allies against a league of city-states headed by Sparta. Thucydides's eyewitness account of the war has been a classic for 24 centuries and is still studied for its profound truths about the nature of human strife. In The Peloponnesian War, Professor Kenneth Harl draws on this masterpiece and other ancient sources to give you a full picture of the Greek world in uneasy peace and then all-out war in the late 5th century B.C. |
Contents |
v. 1. lecture 1. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War -- lecture 2. Greek way of war -- lecture 3. Sparta, perceptions and prejudices -- lecture 4. Sparta and her allies -- lecture 5. Athenian democracy -- lecture 6. Athens and the navy -- lecture 7. Victory over Persia, 490-479 B.C. -- lecture 8. Athens or Sparta, a question of leadership -- lecture 9. Cimonian imperialism -- lecture 10. Sparta after the Persian Wars -- lecture 11. First Peloponnesian War -- lecture 12. Thirty years' peace. |
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v. 2. lecture 13. Triumph of the radical democracy -- lecture 14. From Delian League to Athenian Empire -- lecture 15. Economy and society of imperial Athens -- lecture 16. Athens, school of Greece -- lecture 17. Crisis in Corcyra, 435-432 B.C. -- lecture 18. Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War -- lecture 19. Strategies and stalemate, 431-429 B.C. -- lecture 20. Athenian victory in northwest Greece -- lecture 21. Imperial crisis : the Chalcidice and Mytilene -- lecture 22. Plague, fiscal crisis and war -- lecture 23. Demagogues and stasis -- lecture 24. Pylos, 425 B.C., a test of leadership. |
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v. 3. lecture 25. New leaders and new strategies -- lecture 26. Peace of Nicias -- lecture 27. Collapse of the Peace of Nicias -- lecture 28. From Mantinea to Sicily, 418-415 B.C. -- lecture 29. Sparta, Athens and the western Greeks -- lecture 30. Athenian expedition to Sicily -- lecture 31. Alcibiades and Sparta, 414-412 B.C. -- lecture 32. Conspiracy and revolution, 411 B.C. -- lecture 33. Alcibiades and Athens, 411-406 B.C. -- lecture 34. Defeat of Athens, 406-404 B.C. -- lecture 35. Sparta's bitter victory -- lecture 36. Lessons of the Peloponnesian War. |
Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
Subject |
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
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Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
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Genre/Form |
Educational films.
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Filmed lectures.
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Nonfiction films.
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Teaching Company.
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ISBN |
1598033700 |
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9781598033700 |
Music No. |
3372 Teaching Co. (set) |
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PD3372-01--PD3372-03 Teaching Co. (discs) |
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