Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
The Great Courses (2008), 12 hours, 24 lecturers
Description
From the ancient battlefields of Thermopylae, Marathon, and Gaugamela, to the imperial halls of Persepolis, to the bustling marketplace of Athens, survey the conflicts between the Greeks and the Persians, as well as its impact on the world at large.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
7.5 inches
Local notes
[1] First encounter [2] Empire builders: The Persians [3] Intrepid voyagers: The Greeks [4] Ionian revolt [5] From Mount Athos to Marathon [6] Xerxes prepares for war [7] Athenians build a fleet [8] Heroes at the pass [9] Battle in the straits [10] Freedom fighters [11] Commemorating the great war [12] Campaigns of the Delian League [13] Launching a golden age [14] Herodotus invents history [15] Engineering the fall of Athens [16] Cyrus, Xenophon, and the ten thousand [17] March to the sea [18] Strange bedfellows [19] Panhellenic dream [20] Eise of Macedon [21] Father and son [22] Liberating the Greeks of Asia [23] Who is the great king? [24] When east met west