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Tuck, Steven L.
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Cities and towns, Ancient.
Cities and towns -- History.
Sociology, Urban -- History.
Extinct cities.
Urban archaeology.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City dwellers -- History.
Civilization, Ancient.
Çatal Mound (Turkey)
Erech (Extinct city)
Kahun (Extinct city)
Olynthus (Extinct city)
Karanis (Extinct city)
Pergamum (Extinct city)
Ostia (Extinct city)
Thamugadi (Extinct city)
Jericho -- History.
Mohenjo-Daro Site (Pakistan)
Deir el-Medina Site (Egypt)
Tell el-Amarna (Egypt)
Knossos (Extinct city)
Akrōtērion (Greece)
Athens (Greece) -- Civilization.
Alexandria (Egypt) -- Civilization.
Rome -- Civilization.
Constantinople -- Civilization.
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Tuck, Steven L.
Cities and towns, Ancient.
Cities and towns -- History.
Sociology, Urban -- History.
Extinct cities.
Urban archaeology.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City dwellers -- History.
Civilization, Ancient.
Çatal Mound (Turkey)
Erech (Extinct city)
Kahun (Extinct city)
Olynthus (Extinct city)
Karanis (Extinct city)
Pergamum (Extinct city)
Ostia (Extinct city)
Thamugadi (Extinct city)
Jericho -- History.
Mohenjo-Daro Site (Pakistan)
Deir el-Medina Site (Egypt)
Tell el-Amarna (Egypt)
Knossos (Extinct city)
Akrōtērion (Greece)
Athens (Greece) -- Civilization.
Alexandria (Egypt) -- Civilization.
Rome -- Civilization.
Constantinople -- Civilization.
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Cities of the ancient world [videorecording (DVD)] / Steven L. Tuck.
by
Tuck, Steven L.
Teaching Co., c2014.
Call #:
DVD 307.7609 T889c
Subjects
Cities and towns, Ancient.
Cities and towns
--
History
.
Sociology, Urban
--
History
.
Extinct cities.
Urban archaeology.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City
dwellers
--
History
.
Civilization, Ancient.
Çatal Mound (Turkey)
Erech (Extinct
city
)
Kahun (Extinct
city
)
Olynthus (Extinct
city
)
Karanis (Extinct
city
)
Pergamum (Extinct
city
)
Ostia (Extinct
city
)
Thamugadi (Extinct
city
)
Jericho
--
History
.
Mohenjo-Daro Site (Pakistan)
Deir el-Medina Site (Egypt)
Tell el-Amarna (Egypt)
Knossos (Extinct
city
)
Akrōtērion (Greece)
Athens (Greece)
--
Civilization.
Alexandria (Egypt)
--
Civilization.
Rome
--
Civilization.
Constantinople
--
Civilization.
Series
Great courses (DVD)
Great courses (DVD). Ancient
history
.
ISBN:
9781629970837 (set)
Alternate title:
Great Courses. Cities of the ancient world [videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Description:
4 videodiscs (ca. 12 hrs.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 177 p. ; 19 cm.).
Notes:
"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Book contains lecture transcripts and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Home use only.
Contents:
Disc 1. The lure of the
city
--
Çatalhöyük: first experiment in urban living
--
Jericho and its walls
--
Uruk:
City
of Gilgamesh
--
Mysterious Mohenjo-daro
--
Kahun: company town in the desert.
Disc 2. Work and life at Deir el-Medina
--
Amarna: revolutionary capital
--
Knossos: palace,
city
, or temple?
--
Akrotiri: bronze age Pompeii-- Mycenae, Tiryns, and the Mask of Agamemnon
--
Athens: civic buildings and civic identity.
Disc 3. Athenian domestic architecture
--
Hippodamian planning: Miletus and Ephesus
--
Olynthus: a classical Greek
city
preserved
--
Wonder and diversity at Alexandria
--
Pergamon: the new theatricality
--
The good life in Rome.
Disc 4. The lives of the poor in Rome
--
Ostia: middle-class harbor town
--
Timgad: more Roman than Rome
--
Karanis: on the fringes of the Empire
--
Constantinople: the last ancient
city
--
Lessons and legacies of ancient urban life.
Performers:
Lecturer, Professor Steven L. Tuck (Professor of Classics at Miami University).
Summary:
These 24 half-hour lectures tackles a number of large questions about cities: why they were founded in the first place; what they meant to their inhabitants; how their forms reflect the social, political, and religious structures of their societies; and what aspects led to the success or failure of particular cities.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
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