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Famous Greeks

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Overview

Examine a gallery of historical characters who shaped the story of Greece from the Trojan War through the rise of Rome in this course taught by a renowned classicist.

Syllabus

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  • 01: Theseus
  • 02: Achilles and Agamemnon
  • 03: Hector
  • 04: Odysseus
  • 05: Lycurgus
  • 06: Solon
  • 07: Croesus
  • 08: Xerxes
  • 09: Leonidas
  • 10: Themistocles
  • 11: Pausanias
  • 12: Pericles
  • 13: Anaxagoras, Phidias, and Aspasia
  • 14: Sophocles
  • 15: Thucydides
  • 16: Alcibiades
  • 17: Nicias
  • 18: Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War
  • 19: Lysander and Socrates
  • 20: The Trial of Socrates
  • 21: Xenophon, Plato and Philip
  • 22: Alexander the Great
  • 23: Pyrrhus
  • 24: Cleopatra

Taught by

J. Rufus Fears

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