The age of Pericles /
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 th...
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2004]
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| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- 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.