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The Peloponnesian war [videorecording (DVD)] / Kenneth W. Harl.

by Harl, Kenneth W.

Teaching Co., c2007.

DVD 938.05 H283p

Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.

Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.

Great courses (DVD). Ancient & medieval history.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. The Peloponnesian war [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

6 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 265 p. : maps ; 22 cm.)

36 lectures / 30 min. per lecture.

Course no. 3372.

Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (p. 252-265).

pt. 1. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War -- The Greek way of war -- Sparta : perceptions and prejudices -- Sparta and her allies -- The Athenian democracy -- Athens and the navy -- Victory over Persia, 490-479 B.C. -- Athens or Sparta : a question of leadership -- Cimonian imperialism -- Sparta after the Persian Wars -- The First Peloponnesian War -- Thirty years' peace.

pt. 2. Triumph of the radical democracy -- From Delian League to Athenian Empire -- Economy and society of imperial Athens -- Athens, school of Greece -- Crisis in Corcyra, 435-432 B.C. -- Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War -- Strategies and stalemate, 431-429 B.C. -- Athenian victory in northwest Greece -- Imperial crisis : the Chalcidice and Mytilene -- Plague, fiscal crisis and war -- Demagogues and stasis -- Pylos, 425 B.C. : a test of leadership.

pt. 3. New leaders and new strategies -- The Peace of Nicias -- Collapse of the Peace of Nicias -- From Mantinea to Sicily, 418-415 B.C. -- Sparta, Athens and the western Greeks -- The Athenian expedition to Sicily -- Alcibiades and Sparta, 414-412 B.C. -- Conspiracy and revolution, 411 B.C. -- Alcibiades and Athens, 411-406 B.C. -- The defeat of Athens, 406-404 B.C. -- Sparta's bitter victory -- Lessons of the Peloponnesian War.

Taught by: Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University.

The ancient Greek historian Thucydides called it "a war like no other" -- arguably the greatest in the history of the world up to that time. The Peloponnesian War pitted Athens and her allies against a league of city-states headed by Sparta. Thucydides's eyewitness account of the war has been a classic for 24 centuries and is still studied for its profound truths about the nature of human strife. In The Peloponnesian War, Professor Kenneth Harl draws on this masterpiece and other ancient sources to give you a full picture of the Greek world in uneasy peace and then all-out war in the late 5th century B.C.

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