The joy of Ancient History

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 930 Jo Oversize	4-week checkout	Due 05-17-2024

Course no. 9002.
Compact discs.
The Joy of Ancient History, an eclectic and insightful collection of 36 lectures curated from our most popular ancient history courses. Guided by some of our most highly rated and award-winning professors (including archaeologists, classicists, military historians, and religion scholars), you'll hopscotch around the world and across time to experience the fascinating variety of what ancient history has to offer.
Lessons of the Peloponnesian War -- Parthenon and Acropolis -- Heroes at Thermopylae -- On Athenian Tragedy -- Parable of the Cave -- Famous Greeks--Solon -- Aristotle's View of the Natural World -- Battles of Megiddo and Kadesh -- Greco-Roman Views on Death--and Beyond -- Gaius Julius Caesar -- Early Germanic Europe -- Gladiatorial Games -- Dining in Imperial and Republican Rome -- (Mad) Emperor Caligula -- Being a Rich Roman -- Mystery Cults -- Herodotus's Account of Egypt -- Great Pyramid of Giza -- Being an Egyptian Worker -- Cleopatra--The Last Pharaoh -- What Do the Mayan Glyphs Say? -- Amazon--Civilization Lost in the Jungle -- Chalice of Blood in Ancient Peru -- Attila the Hun--Scourge of God -- Mesopotamian Creation Stories -- Empire of Hammurabi -- Epic of Gilgamesh -- Chariot Revolution -- Assyrian War Machine -- Art and Architecture of Power -- Cyrus, Xenophon, and the Ten Thousand -- Opening the First Dead Sea Scroll -- Jesus in His Context -- Legend of Troy -- Qin and the First Emperor of China -- Alexander Invades India.
Various professors.

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