Title:
Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans the foundations of Western Civilization
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ISBN:
9781402544842
9781402544835
Publication Information:
Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2003.
Physical Description:
7 sound discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (128 p. ; 22 cm.)
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14 lectures ; 7 compact discs.
In container (26 cm.).
Spoken compact disc.
Contents:
Lecture 1. Overview and backgrounds: Ancient cultures -- Lecture 2. The Hebrew Bible: Overview and Genesis -- Lecture 3. The Hebrew Bible: Exodus, David, the Prophets and Job -- Lecture 4. Homer and The Iliad -- Lecture 5. Homer: The Odyssey and the Birth of Tragedy -- Lecture 6. The Birth of Tragedy: Aeschylus and the Greek Drama -- Lecture 7. Herodotus and Thucydides: Historians and Hellenism -- Lecture 8. Socrates and Plato -- Lecture 9. Plato and Aristotle -- Lecture 10. Virgil and Rome -- Lecture 11. Virgil and Ovid -- Lecture 12. The Christian Bible: The Gospels -- Lecture 13. The Christian Bible: The Diaspora and St. Paul -- Lecture 14. Plotinus, St. Augustine: The End of Antiquity and the Medieval Synthesis.
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Summary:
This course examines the foundations of Western Civilization in antiquity. Shutt looks at the culture of the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, as well as how these cultures interacted with each other. He pays most of his attention to events taking place and ideas coming to birth in the Mediterranean basin, the fundamental homeland, or cultural hearth of Western Civilization from about 1200 BCE, before the Common Era, to about 600 CE: that is to say, from about the time of the events memorialized as the Trojan War and the Exodus to the end of Antiquity.
