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The Greek and Persian wars [videorecording (DVD)] / John R. Hale.

by Hale, John R., 1951-

Teaching Co., 2008.

DVD 938.03 H162g

Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.

Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.

Greece -- Civilization.

Iran -- History -- To 640.

Great courses (DVD). Ancient history.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. The Greek and Persian wars [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 140 p. : maps ; 19 cm).

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

Course number 3356.

Course guidebook includes course outline, a timeline, glossary, biographical notes and a bibliography.

Disc 1. The first encounter -- Empire builders : the Persians -- Intrepid voyagers : the Greeks -- The Ionian revolt -- From Mount Athos to Marathon -- Xerxes prepares for war -- Disc 2. The Athenians build a fleet -- Heroes at the pass -- Battle in the straits -- The freedom fighters -- Commemorating the great war -- Campaigns of the Delian League -- Disc 3. Launching a golden age -- Herodotus invents history -- Engineering the fall of Athens -- Cyrus, Xenophon, and the ten thousand -- The march to the sea -- Strange bedfellows -- Disc 4. The Panhellenic dream -- The rise of Macedon -- Father and son -- Liberating the Greeks of Asia -- Who is the great king? -- When east met west.

Producer, James Blandford ; editors, Rich Bernett, John McNeill.

Lecturer: John R. Hale, University of Louisville.

From the ancient battlefields of Thermopylae, Marathon, and Gaugamela, to the imperial halls of Persepolis, to the bustling marketplace of Athens, survey the conflicts between the Greeks and the Persians, as well as its impact on the world at large.

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