| Description |
18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 266 pages, maps; 19 cm). |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Lectures delivered by Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Course no. 3372. |
| Summary |
Cover the reasons for and the events of the Peloponnesian War and adjacent time periods. |
| Bibliography |
Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-265). |
| Contents |
pt. 1. lecture 1. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War -- lecture 2. The Greek way of war -- lecture 3. Sparta, perceptions and prejudices -- lecture 4. Sparta and her allies -- lecture 5. The 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. The first Peloponnesian War -- lecture 12. The thirty years' peace. |
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pt. 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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pt. 3. lecture 25. New leaders and new strategies -- lecture 26. The 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. The Athenian expedition to Sicily -- lecture 31. Alcibiades and Sparta, 414-412 B.C. -- lecture 32. Conspiracy and revolution, 411 B.C. -- lecture 33. The Alcibiades and Athens, 411-406 B.C. -- lecture 34. The defeat of Athens, 406-404 B.C. -- lecture 35. Sparta's bitter victory -- lecture 36. Lessons of the Peloponnesian War. |
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Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
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Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.) (OCoLC)fst01353967
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History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) (OCoLC)fst01356140
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Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
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Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
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| Chronological Term |
431-404 B.C
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| Genre/Form |
Sound recordings. (OCoLC)fst01411639
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Instructional and educational works. (OCoLC)fst01919931
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sound recordings.
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Instructional and educational works.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598033697 |
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9781598033694 |
| Music No. |
3372 Teaching Co. |
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