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Classical archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome [videorecording (DVD)] / John R. Hale.

by Hale, John R., 1951-

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Teaching Co., 2006.

DVD 930.1 H162c

Classical antiquities.

Archaeology -- Greece.

Archaeology -- Italy.

Greece -- Antiquities.

Rome -- Antiquities.

Great courses (DVD). Ancient history.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. Classical archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 276 p. ; 19 cm.)

Course no. 3340.

"36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Closed-captioned.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Disc 1. Archaeology's big bang -- "Ode on a Grecian Urn" -- A quest for the Trojan War -- How to dig -- First find your site -- Taking the search underwater -- Disc 2. Cracking the codes -- Techniques for successful dating -- Reconstructing vanished environments -- "Not artifacts but people" -- Archaeology by experiment -- Return to Vesuvius -- Disc 3. Gournia, Harriet Boyd and the Mother Goddess -- Thera, a Bronze Age Atlantis? -- Olympia, games and gods -- Athens' Agora, where Socrates walked -- Delphi, questioning the oracle -- Kyrenia, lost ship of the Hellenistic Age -- Disc 4. Riace, warriors from the Sea -- Rome, foundation myths and archaeology -- Caesarea Maritima, a Roman city in Judea -- Teutoburg, battlefield archaeology -- Bath, healing waters at Aquae Sulis -- Torre de Palma, a farm in the far West -- Disc 5. Roots of classical culture -- The texture of everyday life -- Their daily bread -- Voyaging on a dark sea of wine -- Shows and circuses: Rome's "virtual reality" -- Engineering and technology -- Disc 6. Slaves: a silent majority? -- Women of Greece and Rome -- Hadrian, mark of the individual -- Crucible of new faiths -- The end of the world: a coroner's report -- A bridge across the Torrent.

Lecturer: Professor John R. Hale, University of Louisville.

Classical archaeology, the excavation and analysis of ancient Greek and Roman sites, has been one of the leading branches of archaeology, pioneering its basic methods and major innovations. In these 36 half-hour lectures, Dr. John R. Hale of the University of Louisville guides the listener through 18th-century excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii, tours many important archaeological sites or discoveries, from the Bronze Age to late antiquity, and takes a thematic approach in exploring what archaeology has contributed to knowledge of ancient diet, entertainment, engineering, slavery, religion, the role of women, and other topics.

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