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12 sound discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.).
During the 5th century B.C. Athens witnessed a dramatic increase in power and prestige. It became a center of culture, extraordinary power, and full participatory democracy. Professor McInerney uses the career of Pericles as a prism for examining the achievements of Athens in its golden age, from the height of their power to defeat at the hands of Sparta.
pt. 1. lecture 1. The Agora, an ancient marketplace -- lecture 2. Athens and the Persian wars -- lecture 3. The Athenian empire -- lecture 4. The career of Pericles -- lecture 5. Aspasia -- lecture 6. Parthenon and Acropolis -- lecture 7. Panathenaea, the festivals of Athena -- lecture 8. Paideia, education in ancient Athens -- lecture 9. Marriage in Pericles' Athens -- lecture 10. Family and property -- lecture 11. Coins, trade, and business -- lecture 12. Death and burial --
pt. 2. lecture 13. Aeschylus and early tragedy -- lecture 14. Sophoclean tragedy -- lecture 15. Euripides -- lecture 16. Comedy in the age of Aristophanes -- lecture 17. Athenian courts and justice -- lecture 18. Democracy and government -- lecture 19. The age of moderation -- lecture 20. Freedom, equality, and the rights of man -- lecture 21. Athens after Pericles -- lecture 22. Socrates and the Sophists -- lecture 23. Plato --lecture 24. An elegy to Athens.
"History"--Container. "Ancient & medieval history"--Cover of course guidebooks.
In 2 containers (26 x 19 cm.), with 6 sound discs and 1 course guidebook in each container.
Accompanying course guidebooks contain professor biography, course scope, lecture outlines, maps, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references.
Lecturer, Jeremy McInerney, Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania.