Edition |
Library ed. |
Description |
12 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (22 cm). |
Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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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. |
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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.
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Herodotus. History.
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History, Ancient.
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Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
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Herodotus. (OCoLC)fst00040347
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History (Herodotus) (OCoLC)fst01356346
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History, Ancient. (OCoLC)fst00958352
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Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
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Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C.
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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ISBN |
9781565852891 |
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1565852893 |
Music No. |
2353 Teaching Company |
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2353-01 Teaching Company |
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2353-02 Teaching Company |
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