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Author Vandiver, Elizabeth, 1956-

Title Herodotus, the father of history / Elizabeth Vandiver.

Publication Info. Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2002]
©2002

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Department  GREAT COURSES 938.03 VANDIVER PT 1&2    Check Shelf
Edition Library ed.
Description 12 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (22 cm).
Series The great courses
Great courses (Compact disc)
Note Compact discs and books.
Performer Lectures presented by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver.
Note "The Great Courses - Literature & English Language"--Container.
Summary An introduction to the work of Herodotus, the first Greek historian. Considers Herodotus' work in its cultural context, both as history and as literature.
Contents Part I: lecture 1. Herodotus and history -- lecture 2. "Inquiry" & the birth of history -- lecture 3. Myth, legend & oral tradition -- lecture 4. Homeric epic & the East-West conflict -- lecture 5. The Ionian enlightenment -- lecture 6. Athens in the Archaic age -- lecture 7. Politics & culture in fifth-century Athens -- lecture 8. Scope, design, & organization of the Histories -- lecture 9. The beginning of conflict -- lecture 10. Croesus, Solon, & human happiness -- lecture 11. Cyrus & the foundation of the Persian Empire -- lecture 12. Herodotus' account of Egypt.
Part II: lecture 13. The ascension of Darius -- lecture 14. Darius & the Scythians -- lecture 15. Sparta & the Spartan way of life -- lecture 16. The Ionian revolt & the battle of Marathon -- lecture 17. Xerxes & the threat to Greece -- lecture 18. The battles of Thermopylae & Artemisium -- lecture 19. The victory of Greece -- lecture 20. Persons, personalities, & peoples -- lecture 21. The gods, fate & the supernatural -- lecture 22. History or literature -- or both? -- lecture 23. Herodotus, the Peloponnesian War, & Thucydides -- lecture 24. Aftermath & influence.
Subject Herodotus.
Herodotus. History.
History, Ancient.
Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
Herodotus. (OCoLC)fst00040347
History (Herodotus) (OCoLC)fst01356346
History, Ancient. (OCoLC)fst00958352
Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
Chronological Term To 146 B.C.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Teaching Company.
ISBN 9781565852891
1565852893
Music No. 2353 Teaching Company
2353-01 Teaching Company
2353-02 Teaching Company
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