| Description |
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 169 pages ; 19 cm) |
| Series |
Great courses, Ancient & Medieval history |
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Great courses (DVD)
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Performer |
Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each by Garrett G. Fagan, The Pennsylvania State University. |
| Credits |
Producer, Tamara Stonebarger ; director, Jon Leven ; editor, Sal Rodriguez ; academic content supervisor, Pamela Greer ; camera operators, Alexis Doty, Jared Bourgeois. |
| Note |
Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography. |
| Summary |
Hollywood has gone to elaborate lengths to recreate the violence and mayhem of ancient warfare in movies, but what were ancient battles really like? What weapons, tactics, armor, training, and logistics were used? What were the crucial factors that could turn the tide of battle, giving one side victory and consigning the other to slaughter, capture, or, at best, escape to fight another day? These lectures examine some of the most notable battles fought in the Mediterranean region from prehistoric times to the 4th century A.D., scrutinizing those few hours that determined the fates of empires. |
| Contents |
Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1 Why study battles? What is war? ; Lecture 2 The problem of warfare's origins ; Lecture 3 Sumer, Akkad, and early Mesopotamian warfare ; Lecture 4 Egyptian warfare from the Old to New Kingdoms ; Lecture 5 The battles of Megiddo and Kadesh ; Lecture 6 The Trojan war and Homeric warfare -- Disc 2. Lecture 7 The Assyrian war machine ; Lecture 8 The sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem ; Lecture 9 A peculiar institution? Hoplite warfare ; Lecture 10 The battle of Marathon ; Lecture 11 The battle of Thermopylae ; Lecture 12 Naval warfare and the battle of Salamis. |
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Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13 The Athenian expedition to Sicily ; Lecture 14 The march of the ten thousand ; Lecture 15 Macedonian military innovations ; Lecture 16 Alexander's conquest of Persia ; Lecture 17 The legions of Rome ; Lecture 18 The battles of Cannae and Zama -- Disc 4. Lecture 19 Legion versus phalanx: Six pitched battles ; Lecture 20 The sieges of Alesia and Masada ; Lecture 21 Caesar's world war ; Lecture 22 The battle of the Teutoburg Forest ; Lecture 23 Catastrophe at Adrianople ; Lecture 24 Reflections on warfare in the ancient world. |
| Subject |
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
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Caesar, Julius.
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History, Ancient.
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Battles -- History.
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Military history, Ancient.
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Armies -- History -- To 1500.
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Military art and science -- History -- To 500.
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Military art and science -- Rome -- History.
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Siege warfare -- History.
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Strategy -- History.
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Tactics -- History.
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Cavalry drill and tactics -- History.
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Naval battles -- History.
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Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
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Rome -- History, Military.
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Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. (OCoLC)fst01800513
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Caesar, Julius. (OCoLC)fst00031693
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Armies. (OCoLC)fst00814802
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Battles. (OCoLC)fst00828915
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Cavalry drill and tactics. (OCoLC)fst00849864
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History, Ancient. (OCoLC)fst00958352
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Military art and science. (OCoLC)fst01020874
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Military history, Ancient. (OCoLC)fst01021234
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Naval battles. (OCoLC)fst01034974
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Siege warfare. (OCoLC)fst01118183
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Strategy. (OCoLC)fst01134406
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Tactics. (OCoLC)fst01141865
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Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
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Rome (Empire) (OCoLC)fst01204885
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Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.) (OCoLC)fst01353599
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| Chronological Term |
To 1500
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| Genre/Form |
Lectures. (OCoLC)fst01919935
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Video recordings. (OCoLC)fst01692913
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Nonfiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710269
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Educational films. (OCoLC)fst01726235
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Military history. (OCoLC)fst01411630
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Lectures.
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Nonfiction films.
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Educational films.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Fagan, Garrett G., 1963-2017
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Stonebarger, Tamara.
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Leven, Jon.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598030507 |
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9781598030501 |
| Music No. |
PD3757-01 Teaching Company |
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PD3757-02 Teaching Company |
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3757 Teaching Company |
