<p>Take a fresh look at the phenomenal legacy of the ancient Greeks and immerse yourself in the spectrum of Greek achievements that have so deeply imprinted Western civilization.</p>
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Why Study the Greek World?
- 02: Bronze Age Greece: Minoans and Myceneans
- 03: Dark Age and Archaic Greece
- 04: Classical Greece: The Age of Pericles
- 05: Alexander the Great: Greek Culture Spreads
- 06: Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Baghdad
- 07: Modern Ideas of Ancient Greece
- 08: The Birth of the Greek Nation-State
- 09: Greek Mythology: Monsters and Misfits
- 10: Greek Religion: Dangerous Gods, Tricky Heroes
- 11: The Sensuality of Greek Sculpture
- 12: The Perfection of Greek Architecture
- 13: The Monumentality of Greek Painting
- 14: Homer’s Humanity: The Epic Experience
- 15: Greek Theater: Producing and Staging Plays
- 16: Greek Drama: Laughter and Tears
- 17: Greek Politics, Law, and Public Speaking
- 18: Greek Historians: The Birth of History
- 19: Greek Philosophy: Man and Nature
- 20: Greek Science: Discovery and Controversy
- 21: The Greek Way of Waging War
- 22: Greek Language, Literacy, and Writing
- 23: Eating and Drinking among the Greeks
- 24: What Does Greece Mean to Us Today?
Taught by
Robert Garland
