Herodotus, the Father of History
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Lecture 1. Herodotus and history -- lecture 2. "Inquiry" and the birth of history -- lecture 3. Myth, legend and oral tradition -- lecture 4. Homeric epic and the East-West conflict -- lecture 5. The Ionian enlightenment -- lecture 6. Athens in the Archaic age -- lecture 7. Politics and culture in fifth-century Athens -- lecture 8. Scope, design and organization of the Histories -- lecture 9. The beginning of conflict -- lecture 10. Croesus, Solon and human happiness -- lecture 11. Cyrus and the foundation of the Persian Empire -- lecture 12. Herodotus' account of Egypt.
Lecture 13. The ascension of Darius -- lecture 14. Darius and the Scythians -- lecture 15. Sparta and the Spartan way of life -- lecture 16. The Ionian revolt and the battle of Marathon -- lecture 17. Xerxes & the threat to Greece -- lecture 18. The battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium -- lecture 19. The victory of Greece -- lecture 20. Persons, personalities, and peoples -- lecture 21. The gods, fate and the supernatural -- lecture 22. History or literature, or both? -- lecture 23. Herodotus, the Peloponnesian War, and Thucydides -- lecture 24. Aftermath and influence.
Lectures presented by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver.
An introduction to the work of Herodotus, the first Greek historian. Considers Herodotus' work in its cultural context, both as history and as literature.
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PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2002.
Year Published: 2002
Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (19 cm).
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
156585702X
9781565857025
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Teaching Company.
SUBJECTS
Herodotus.
Herodotus.
Hecataeus, -- of Miletus.
Homer.
Homer.
Thales, -- approximately 634 B.C.-approximately 546 B.C.
Anaximander.
Heraclitus, -- of Ephesus.
Croesus, -- King of Lydia, -- active 560 B.C.-546 B.C.
Solon, -- approximately 630 B.C.-approximately 560 B.C.
Cyrus, -- the Great, King of Persia, -- -530 B.C. or 529 B.C.
Darius -- I, -- King of Persia, -- 548 B.C.-485 B.C.
Xerxes -- I, -- King of Persia, -- 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C.
Thucydides.
History, Ancient.
Myth.
Mythology, Greek.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Trojan War.
Mythology, Scythian.
Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.
Greece -- History -- Ionian Revolt, 499-494 B.C.
Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Athens (Greece)
Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C.
Sparta (Greece)
Feature films.
Feature films -- United States.
Educational films.
Filmed lectures.