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The Greek world [videorecording (DVD)] : a study of the history and culture / Professor Robert Garland.

by Garland, Robert, 1947-

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The Teaching Company, 2020.

Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.

Greece -- Social life and customs.

Great courses (DVD). Civilization & culture.

Great courses (DVD).

Alternate title:

Great Courses. The Greek world [videorecording (DVD)] : a study of the history and culture

[videorecording (DVD)] :

4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (242 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

Course No. 3189.

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

Closed-captioned.

Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook.

Disc 1. Why study the Greek world? -- Bronze Age Greece: Minoans and Myceneans -- Dark Age and Archaic Greece -- Classical Greece: the age of Pericles -- Alexander the Great: Greek culture spreads -- Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Baghdad. Disc 2. Modern ideas of ancient Greece -- The birth of the Greek nation-state -- Greek mythology: monsters and misfits -- Greek religion: dangerous gods, tricky heroes -- The sensuality of Greek sculpture -- The perfection of Greek architecture. Disc 3. The monumentality of Greek painting -- Homer's humanity: the epic experience -- Greek theater: producing and staging plays -- Greek drama: laughter and tears -- Greek politics, law, and public speaking -- Greek historians: the birth of history. Disc 4. Greek philosophy: man and nature -- Greek science: discovery and controversy -- The Greek way of waging war -- Greek language, literacy, and writing -- Eating and drinking among the Greeks -- What does Greece mean to us today?

Lecturer, Robert Garland, Colgate University.

The ancient Greeks, more than any other early culture, have given the template for Western civilization. The course takes viewers from the great Classical and Hellenistic eras through Greece's dramatic modern history. Discover Greek culture in examples such as Athenian democracy; Greek religious beliefs; Greek drama, epic poetry, and philosophy; and Greek sculpture, vase painting, and architecture.

Educational films.

Filmed lectures.

Films for the hearing impaired.

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