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Ancient Greek civilization, Jeremy McInerney

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Ancient Greek civilization, Jeremy McInerney

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eng

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historylectures speeches

Main title

Ancient Greek civilization

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Jeremy McInerney

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Great courses on tape

Summary

Lectures on Greek history from the late Bronze Age to the time of Alexander the Great, concentrating on the period from 600 to 400 B.C

Table Of Contents

pt. 1: lecture 1. Greece and the Western world -- lecture 2. Minoan Grete -- lecture 3. Schliemann and Mycenae -- lecture 4. The long twilight -- lecture 5. The age of heroes -- lecture 6. From Sicily to Syria, the growth of trade and colonization -- lecture 7. Delphi and Olympia -- lecture 8. The Spartans -- lecture 9. Revolution -- lecture 10. Tyranny -- lecture 11. The origins of democracy -- lecture 12. Beyond Greece, the Persian empire -- pt. 2: lecture 13. The Persian wars -- lecture 14. The Athenian empire -- lecture 15. The art of democracy -- lecture 16. Sacrifice and Greek religion -- lecture 17. Theater and the competition of art -- lecture 18. Sex and gender -- lecture 19. The Peloponnesian war, part 1 -- lecture 20. The Peloponnesian war, part II -- lecture 21. Socrates on trial -- lecture 22. Slavery and freedom -- lecture 23. Athens in decline? -- lecture 24. Philip, Alexander, and Greece in transition

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