Ancient Greece
Constructing a chronology
-
For the purposes of study,
academics divide the history of Greece into several periods:
Neolithic (New Stone
Age) - 6000 - 2900 BC
Greek Bronze
Age
Early Bronze Age
- 2900 - 2000 BC
Helladic
Cycladic
Middle Bronze Age
Minoan -
3000 - 1450 BC
Late
Bronze Age
Mycenaean
- 1600 - 1100 BC
Ancient Greece
Iron
Age
Dark Ages 1100 -
750 BC
Archaic 750
- 500 BC
Classical (Hellenic)
500 - 336 or 323 BC
Greco-Persian
Wars 499 - 449 BC
Peloponnesian
Wars 431 - 404 BC
Alexander
the Great 336 - 323 BC
Hellenistic
336 or 323 - 146 BC
( 336 BC marks the start Alexander's campaign of conquest and 323 marks the year of his death)
Roman 146 BC
- 285 AD
Byzantine Greece -
285 AD - 1453 AD
Medieval Greece
Ottoman -
1453 - 1828
Modern -
1828 - present
Introduction
to Ancient Greek History
Donald Kagan, Yale U., Autumn 2007
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Crete
The Sea of Crete
The Agean Sea
Crete
Minoan Crete and neighbouring civilisations
Chronology
Early Minoan Period -
3000 - 2200 BC
Middle Minoan Period -
2200 - 1500 BC
First
Period of Palaces (temples) - 1900 - 1700 BC
Palaces
(temples) destroyed - 1700 BC
Palaces
(temples) rebuilt - 1700 BC
Second
Period of Palaces (temples) - 1700 - 1450 BC
Late Minoan Period 1500
- 1000 BC
Second destruction of palaces
- 1450 BC
Mycenean domination
- 1450 BC
Palaces inhabited by Myceneans - 1450 - 1375 BC
Minoan is a modern name
or term applied to the Bronze Age inhabitant s of Crete.
It is derived from the name of the mythical Cretan king Minos.
The Inhabitants of Crete
in the Minoan Age (or Bronze Age) were in close contact with the other peoples of the eastern Mediterranean. They
traded with Egyptians in the Nile River Delta and with the inhabitants of the Levant, the Peloponnese, the islands of
the Aegean Sea, the island of Cyprus and the coast of Asia Minor (Anatolia).
According to recent DNA
tests, the inhabitants of Bronze Age Crete were Indo-European.
Cretan hieroglyphs on
seals
Cretan hieroglyphs are
the oldest known writing system found on Crete.
Cretan hieroglyphs have
yet to be deciphered. They were not Greek. They were in use before 1900 B. C. and used until 1450 B. C.
Transcription by
British archaeologist Arthur Evans of Linear
A script inside
a Minoan cup.
Tablet with Linear
A script found at the archaeological site of Zakro in eastern Crete
Tablet with Linear A script
from Knossos
Linear A script
was one of the two scripts used by the Minoans between 1900 and 1450 B. C.
Tablets with Linear
A script have been found mostly on the Mesara Plain of central southern Crete.
Linear A script has yet to be deciphered. It
is not a Greek language.
Some scholars believe that Linear A script
resembles Indo-Iranian hieroglyphics.
Linear A script was replaced by an Archaic
Greek script, Linear B, in 1450 B. C. when the Myceneans, who were Greeks from the Peloponnese, invaded Crete. The
Myceneans
developed their own script, Linear B, from
the Linear A script. Linear B script is Archaic Greek.
Minoans
Episode from the BBC documentary series Timewatch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEBqJloMdwk
The Minotaur ("The Bull
of Minos"), a mythical character. He was part-man and
part-bull. The mythical story was c reated
by Cretans after the Minoan period. He was the son
of Minos's queen, who fell in love with Minos's bull.
The Minotaur
Episode from the documentary series Clash
of the Gods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PGG4P7xZfA
The Minoan labyrinth (maze)
on one side of an ancient coin from Crete. The labyrinth was built for King Minos to contain the Minotaur because he attacked
and ate people.
The Quest
for the Minotaur's Labyrinth
Episode from the documentary
series Myth Hunters
About Arthur Evans and
his research on Crete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xppHTAD_YuU
The Ancient Minoans
Documentary (23:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Rk3UQUNAY
Theseus, son of King Aegeus
of Athens,
entered the labyrinth and slayed the Minotaur. A
jar from the 500s B. C.
Theseus and the Minotaur
"Upload by a student"
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgLAz3HOg7I
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W1VnONayvc
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7rogJaLfpU
Theseus and the Minotaur
Episode from
the Canadian cartoon series Mythic Warriors - Guardians of the Legend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdHsC8NOfLA
Theseus
Lecture
# 1 of 24 by J. Rufus Fears from the course on Famous
Greeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QagkBQOwU0Y
The Minotaur's Island
2003 documentary with Bettany Hughes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LZ6JzBcXjU (1 hr. 34 min.)
The Minoans
2004 documentary with
Bettany Hughes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e47PjzY-wsA hr. 41 min.)
or, the same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev-WeyQjCWk
Meet the Minoans!
Episode from Conversing
the Classics
Interview with Christine
Morris
Uploaded in 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkeqU4sc_Lc
Crete and Atlantis
Secrets of
the Island of Minos
Episode fr om the documentary series Secrets of Archeology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neaL_6CgQm4
or, the same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ijXS_q-mM
Mystery of
the Minoans
Episode from the BBC documentary
series Ancient Apocalypse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRrgCSmONPE
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAfrrUrqTw
Sinking Atlantis
Episode from the documentary
series Secrets of the Dead (2008 - 2009)
Santorini volcano in 1600
B. C. also destroyed Crete
Features Canadian archaeologist
Alexander (Sandy) MacGillivray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-3no8SLOko (52:12)
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIhhEaM-EGc (begins repeat at 51:00 mark)
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSsDmey1vQI (repeats at 54:50 mark)
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHQs5qkS0mk
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The Minoan
Civilization
Discussion on the Thursday
BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests John
Bennet, Ellen Adams and Yannis Hamilakis
7 July 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01292ts
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VzCQx5mofw
Tablet with Linear B script
found in Knossos, Crete
Linear B script was developed
from Linear A script by Mycenean Greeks who invaded Crete in 1450 B. C.
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Minoan Palaces
Archeologists believe
the Minoan palaces were religious temples, civic administrative centres and storage centres
The Knossos Palace
and the Archeological Museum in Heraklion, Crete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRkiayfQi3w
Phaistos Palace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS2x8Y5uPu4
Malia Palace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXy0Xmck5_8
Archeological Museum
Chania, Crete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M37GX6QhKMA
Historical Archives Museum
Chania, Crete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CC8WM49LnQ
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Crete Vacation
Travel Video Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAW4LDoekWk
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Pavlopetri
City Beneath the Waves
2011 BBC documentary about
the ruins of a city off the coast of southern Greece believed to have been inhabited since the Early Bronze Age (Middle
Minoan Period) or 2800 BC and submerged in 1000
BC
Removed
from You Tube
See instead:
Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6vvBzAvN0w
Also:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD0SbWwHHuk
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kepaQu4uerg
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Gods
Chaos -
Titans -
Olympians -
Heroes
Source:
https://ludios.org/greekgods/greek-tree-full.png
Mount Olympus, tallest
mountain in Greece, home of the Gods
Greek
Gods
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOL0oAAO9LA
or in 4 clips:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRe389uQhmo&feature=related
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9cojMxsgZY&feature=relmfu
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqiKUzkGC3g&feature=relmfu
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR57FjeY_lk&feature=relmfu
Gods & Goddesses
Documentary from the History Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MSEsh6jgHE
or the same with
a different narrator in 6 clips:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEKterwV9k
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ipMAW5FfY
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaHrsRSCLXc
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXY_p6IgWv0
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebhU1HtZZW4
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGsY-8lrEhw
Zeus
Zeus
Episode
from the documentary series Clash of the Gods
Faulty upload
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOe6c20U8XU (1:03:03)
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Hades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqYsvY_kmg&feature=relmfu
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Heroes
Greek
Myths
Tales
of Travelling Heroes
2010 BBC
documentary with Robin Lane Fox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwfup7dpJdY
Hercules
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=tFQIIQ76OpU&feature=related
Hercules
Movie with Steeve Reeves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVRPE5y34KQ&feature=fvsr
Hercules and Deianira , oil painting
by Antonio del Pollaiuolo (ca. 1475 – 80)
Unintended
Consequences: Antonio del Pollaiuolo’s Hercules and Deianira
Lecture # 2 of the lecture
series Let This Be a Lesson: Heroes, Heroines, and Narrative in Paintings at Yale by John Walsh, Yale U. Art Gallery,
Friday, Fall 2013
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV91yeY2jQQ
Yale:
http://artgallery.yale.edu/education/lesson/lecture-2
Medusa (Gorgon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaQpsKGnyoQ
Bronze sculpture
of Perseus and the Gorgon
by Benvenuto Cellin i
in 1545
Perseus and the Gorgon
by
Jim Henson
(3 clips)
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhpRU7Dvxjo&feature=related
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8irbnrgaHlI&feature=related
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erETU14xkKc&feature=related
Orpheus and Urydice
Orpheus
Michael Köhlmeier (with
English translation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teJ_UkIQQQs
Orpheus en Eurydice
By Jim Hensen
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTJXUvfyFdk
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkztiqIQO4U
Orpheus
Documentary (44:04)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjA_07PPC7E
The Greek Myths D iscussion
on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In
Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg With guests Nick Lowe, Richard Buxton and Mary Beard 13 March 2008 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0093z1k
Thebes
Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio
programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Edith Hall, Samuel Gartland and Paul Cartledge
23 November 2017
Hesiod
(ca. 750 - ca. 650 BC)
Hesiod
Hesiod's Theogony is about Greek myths
and heroes
Aldus Manutius published
the first printed edition of Theogony in 1495
videos go here
Hesiod's Works
and Days is about
the life of the common
peasants
videos go here
Demetrius Chalcondyles
published the first printed edition of Works and Days in 1493
Hesiod's Poetic
Theology as Homeric Context
Lecture by Melissa Schubert
Uploaded in 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuKMRIf-XTM
Mycenean Greece
Map of Mycenaean
Greece 1400-1200 BC: Palaces, main cities and other settlements.
Source: Ιστορία
του Ελληνικού Έθνους, Εκδοτική
Αθηνών, τ. Α' χάρτες σε σελ.
263-265, σελ. 290, 292-293
Source: Rita Roberts
Myceneans of the Peloponnese
D ocumentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdDUDU9qTj8&feature=relmfu
Mycenaeans
The Civilization of Heroes
Episode from of
the documentary series Secrets of Archeology (00:00 - 23:10 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btg5B98Zb-Q
Introduction to Ancient Greek History
Donald Kagan, Yale U., Autumn 2007
Lecture 2. The Dark Ages
1. The Minoan civilization (Crete) 7. Results of the fall
The
Mycenaeans and Minoans Today:
Revivals
of Bronze Age Greece
Lecture by Bryan
Burns at the University of New Hampshire on April
29, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUm-A1MYlYc
Idomeneo
Idomeneo,
re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante
(Idomeneus,
King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante)
Opera seria
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed in 1781
Overture
Bernard Haitink,
Glyndebourne (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16eKtH91Tes
Ilia's aria
- Se il padre perdei
Yvonne Kenny, Glyndebourne
(1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQXHQEgGwqw
Tablet with Linear
B script from the 1200s B. C. found in Messinia in the southwestern Peloponnese
Myceneans speaking
Archaic Greek developed Linear B script from the Linear A script in Crete after 1450 B. C.
Linear B is the
oldest known script of the Greek language.
Linear B script
has been deciphered.
Linear B script
disappeared in the 1100s B. C.
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Collapse of the Bronze Age
The Sea Peoples
The
Dark Ages
The Collapse of the Bronze Age
Lecture # 9 of 12 of the course Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations by
Kenneth W. Harl
Produced by The Great Courses (The Teaching Company)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUA0CYwuWwQ
Apocalypse
Secrets of the Aegean Apocalypse
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WufY2cpEGw
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlViYeOLc5M
The Bronze
Age Collapse
Discussion on the weekly
BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests John Bennet, Linda Hulin and
Simon Stoddart
16 June 2016
The programme can be downloaded from the webpage
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh
Sea
Peoples
The Invasions of the "Sea Peoples" and others from ca. 1250 to ca.
800 B. C.
Source: Source: Alexikoua, after the Atlas of World History, Oxford University Press, 2002,
ISBN 019521921X, 9780195219210, page 37.
The End of the Bronze Age
By Luwian Studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz5uFA9IWJ8
1177 B. C.
The Year Civilisation Collapsed
Lecture by Eric Cline
Bethesda, Maryland
8 October 2016 (01:10:17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4
The Collapse of Cities and Civilisation at the End of the Late
Bronze Age
Lecture by Eric Cline
Yale U.
7 July 2016 (1:01:35)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppzMdQqm_6M
The Philistines inhabited
a pentapolis - five settlements or cities - in Canaan:
Three cities on the coast:
Gaza
Ashkelon
Ashdod
and two cities inland:
Ekron
Gath
From the "Collapse of the Bronze
Age" and a general upheaval in the eastern Mediterranean from 1300 to 1100 B. C.
to the conquest of Canaan by
the Assyrians c. 600
B. C.
Arch-Enemy: The Philistines
Episode from the A
& E documentary series Mysteries of the Bible with Richard Kylie and Jeanne Simmons (1995)
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6rem2GUidk
The Philistines
or
Last Days of the Philistines
Short documentary from
the 1993 series Archaeology - Mysteries of the
Holy Land with John Rhys-Davies
or
or
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoQrZ6mN5eU
Ashkalon
Seaport of the Philistines
Lecture by Lawrence Stager at Harvard University in May
2012
(1 hr. 12 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viTTWG6wrHU
or (1 hr.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idm_bQUFXaI
New
Light on the Biblical Philistines
Lecture by Aren Maeir at the
U. of Chicago in April 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAZPJRtdjmk
New Persepctives
on the Philistines in Light of Recent Excavations at Tell-El Safi/Gath
Lecture by Aren Maeir at the
College de France on 25 February 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJC8OAhm1f4
New Light on the Biblical
Philistines in Light of the Excavations at Philistine Gath
Excavations at the Philistine site of Gath and their significance
for biblical history
Lecture by Aren M. Maeir at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah
on May 17, 2013
Ekron of the Philistines
From Sea Peoples to Olive Oil Industrialists
Lecture by Sy Gitin at the Lanier
Theological Library in Houston, Texas on March 17, 2012 (01:04:47)
Philistines in Canaan till 604 B.
C.
Q. & A.
Archeologists discover Philistine cemetery
2016
The Eastern Mediterranean
after the invasion of the Sea Peoples and the Dark Ages
Source: Ali Rezaian (website)
"Dark Ages" of the Eastern
Mediterranean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yz0VxXIaIg&feature=related
Was an inscription
forged by an archeologist?
Kupanta-Kurunta, king of Mira,
and Muksus, a prince of Wilusa, leaders of the "Sea People"
A copy of a copy
of a Luwian inscription on a 95-foot-long limestone frieze found in Beykoy in Turkey by French archeologist Georges Perrot
in 1878. Perrot made a copy of the inscription before the tablet was taken apart by villagers for building
material. Perrot's copy was lost or destroyed but a copy of it was made before. Researchers translated the text in
1950. It was published in 1985.
A copy of the inscription,
shown above, was
given to the Luwian Studies Foundation in Switzerland in 2017.
The tablet, dated to 1190
B. C., was commissioned by King Kupanta-Kurunta, son of Mashuittas, king of Mira, a late bronze age kingdom in western
Asia Minor. The Luwian inscription recounts how Kupanta-Kurunta conquered the tributaries of the Hittites to the east
and how he built a fleet with other western Anatolians. The fleet, led by four princes,
invaded coastal areas of the Levant. One of the four princes, Muksus of Wilusa (Troy), led a fleet, conquered Ashkelon
and built a fortress there.
There is some question
about the authenticity of the inscription.
Was it forged by a famous
British archeologist, James Melaart, renowned for his excavation of the 9,500-year-old site of Catal Huyuk in
Anatolia from 1958 to
1965?
3,200-year old
inscription reveals that the sea people were from Anatolia
Uploaded 11 October 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr7488Unmfs
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The Trojan War
Iliad, Odyssey, Epic Cycle . . .
Homer
Homer's Rock, above the sea on the east coast of the Aegean island of Chios,
facing the Anatolian coastline. Homer sat here and composed.
Chios (in circle)
The important people and places in the Iliad and the
Odyssey
Introduction to Ancient Greek History
Donald Kagan, Yale U., Autumn 2007
L ecture 3. The Dark Ages (continued)
1. The Importance of Homeric poems
You Tube:
The
Olympian Gods and the Trojan War
The
Olympian Goddesses and the Trojan War
Homer
The Iliad
Audio
Episode from IntelliQuest World 100 Greatest Books (1995)
The Iliad
Illustrated
Introduction by Carey
Harrison
Part 1.
Part 2.
Part 3.
Helen of Troy
1956 movie
Part 1.
Part 2.
Helen of Troy
2004 movie (2:47:14)
Helen of Troy
2006 BBC documentary with Bettany Hughes
History of Trojan War
3
parts
1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBMEYIOIF8k
2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkIQT_mWWak
3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5eKLRGUvDc
A transcript of a translation
of The Iliad by Homer
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Iliad1.htm
In Search of the Trojan War
BBC documentary series with Michael
Wood(1985)
6 episodes
1. The Age of Heroes
2. The Legend Under Siege
3. The Singer of Tales
4. The Women of Troy
5. Empire of the Hittites
6. The Fall of Troy
Extra - Michael Wood Interview (2004 )
The Truth of Troy
2004
BBC Horizon documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCP71_l3ihM
The True Story of
Troy
2007 History Channel documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj4CVdXkQ6Y
Siege
of Troy
Documentary about the Trojan
War from the Ancient Discoveries series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru8khMGxS2s
The Odyssey of Troy
Documentary from the Ancient
Histories series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vksAumV6Rjg
The Trojan War - Myth or Fact
Lecture by Brian Rose, U. of Penn, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHD2hCx3-rU
Was
there a Trojan War?
Recent Excavations at Troy
Lecture by Brian Rose
University of Pennsylvania Museum
5 December 2012
The Iliad
Book One
Read in Ancient Greek by Stanley Lombardo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NssnanW93fI
The Iliad
Alexander Pope translation,
recited
Book 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28RNGOCIzYI&feature=related
Book 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2shMTp8qkFg&feature=relmfu
The
Trojan War
Discussion
on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Edith Hall, Ellen Adams and
Susan Sherratt
31 May 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01j6srl
The Iliad
Discussion
on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall
and Barbara Graziosi
13 September 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/b0bh5x1y
Achilles and Agamemnon
Lecture
by J. Rufus Fears, # 2 of the course on Famous Greeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2560XBiEuB4
Hector
Lecture
by J. Rufus Fears, # 3 of the course on Famous Greeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7DcdV7PR4U
Fury of Achilles
Movie (1962)
Achilles and Hector fight
The Greatest Fight
of All Time -
Achilles challenges
Hector
The Wrath of Achilles
After a feud with Agamemnon over
slave girls, Achilles quit the war. He refused to lead his army of Myrmidons back into battle against the Trojans.
The Trojans, led by Hector, son
of Priam, King of Troy, drove the Greeks back to the sea.
Achilles' comrade, Patroclus,
took Achilles' armour and led the Myrmidons and other Greeks against
the Trojans and pursued them back to Troy. But Patroclus was wounded. And
Hector finished him off.
Enraged, Achilles returned to the war.
He led his men after the Trojans. He chased Hector around the
walls of Troy. Eventually, Hector turned
to fight and was killed by Achilles.
Here is a Hollywood version:
Excerpt from the 2004 Hollywood movie Troy
with Brad Pitt as Achilles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ62frK74u0
or
http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf4IoxEUmHM
Troy
Entire movie (2004) (3:05:49)
With Brad Pitt as Achilles and Peter O'Toole as Priam,
King of Troy
https://vimeo.com/208085259
Achilles' Heel
The death of Achilles
Homer's epic of the Trojan War,
the Iliad , did not include the death of Achilles. In ano ther
ancient epic, Paris killed Achilles. In yet another epic, Achilles
was shot and killed by an arrow while attempting to storm the walls of Troy.
Excerpt from the same Hollywood
movie, Troy (2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGW4cVmp4F4
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGW4cVmp4F4
In an ancient Greek myth, when
Achilles was born his mother dipped him in
the magic waters of the River Styx to make him immortal. She held him by one heel and it remained dry. Thus, that heel was
his only vulnerable spot.
Oxford English
Dictionary
Achilles heel (noun)
- weak spot, weak point, weakness,
vulnerable spot, soft underbelly, shortcoming, failing, imperfection, flaw, defect, deficiency, fault, foible, chink in one's
armour; downfall, undoing, nemesis, Waterloo
‘the cost of the process
may prove to be its Achilles heel’
[Antonyms] strength . . .
Origin: early 19th century: alluding to the vulnerability
of Achilles
Medical term -
Achilles' Heel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2e6LmQsJps
Monsieur Schliemann
découvre Troie
Alain
Decaux raconte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPILkOvvhYI
The Luwians
A Lost Civilization Comes Back
to Life
Lecture by Eberhard Zangger in Klosters,
Switzerland on 18 January 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNyA90f_aw
Earliest
papyrus fragment of a text of Homer from Egypt in the 2nd cent. (100s) B.C.
Papyrus fragment of Homer's Iliad from the 100s to 200s
AD.
Pisistratus
Episode 13 of the series
Famous Men of Greece 101online
Homer's epics was only a bardic
tradition until Peisistratus, tyrant of Athens from 561 to 527 B. C., ordered them put into writing in an
ordered form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xULWfcuJxKs
Venetus
A
Page
with the beginning of the Iliad from the Venetus
A (Marcianus Graecus 454) , a manuscript of 645 parchment pages from the 900s A. D. It is the oldest surviving manuscript of the Iliad. It is in the public library
of St. Mark in Venice , Italy
Imaging the
Iliad
A Dig ital
Renaissance
Documentary
about the scanning of the Venetus A in 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri6X1Dz4Ycg
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Guido
de Columnis
The Trojan War
A
Talk by Eberhard Zangger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJWnW2QZgw
----------------
Demetrius Chalcondyles
published the first printed editions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey in Florence, Italy in 1488
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The
Odyssey
The wanderings of Odysseus
Homer
- The Odyssey
A description of Ulysses/Odysseus and
the Odyssey
From
IntelliQuest World's 100 Greatest Books (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfRqxMuq4LI
Odysseus
and the Gods
Clash
of the Gods - The Odyssey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lO1lGPwf_w
Homer's Odyssey
Summary
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCXRxD85Xc0
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj0K8OpuK0I
3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8XKXsnmqS4
Ulysses
Movie (1954) (by
Mario Camerini and Mario
Bava)
(1 hr. 57 min. long when released)
1 hr. 42 min. 36
sec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dsa_MKwyp0
In ten clips (without
the ending) (auto):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7NA55h0Edo&list=PL05F269B22840C294
and part of the
ending:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkWthM8pf-M
In French:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoA9fnMk8bs (1:39:33)
Entire film dubbed in German (1:37:39)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RQPKmZPCgs
L'ODYSSEE
Franco Rossi (1968)
avec Bekim Fehmiu et
Irene Papas
Version francaise
1° épisode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjN_merCA0Q
2° épisode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKcH8ZvqzZw
3° épisode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww3291Av4hE
4° épisode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK5eTjQB6MM
The
Odyssey
Movie with Armand Assante,
Greta Scacchi, Irene Papas and Vanessa Williams (1997) (2 hrs. 53 min. 25 sec.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_8y-McLo&feature=related
or
https://vimeo.com/104506614
Odysseus
Lecture by J. Rufus Fears, # 4 of the course on Famous Greeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5-bR-7sSnU
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Greek Mythology 3500 B. C. to A. D. 2014
Lecture by Ken Dowden at the University
of Birmingham
2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCaDjvcaWpo
Greece in the Archaic Period
ca. 750 B. C. Source: National Geographic
The Archaic Period
Greece and Greek colonies
Phoenicia and Phoenician colonies
Etruria
Greek, Phoenician
and Etruscan colonies in the Mediterranean in 650 B. C.
22-letter Phoenician
alphabet
Ancient Greek alphabet Source:
Hellenism.Net
The oldest example of writing is Ancient or Archaic Greek,
Archaic Greek was written from right to left on a horizontal
The Greek letters
appear on the top line of the chart above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b5DtbR_6CM&feature=related
Phoenician
and Early Greek compared in the chart above
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Olympic
Games
776 B. C. - A. D. 394
Discus
Modern map
of Greece with Olympia indicated
Ruins
of Olympia today
Plan
of Ancient Olympia
Games
were held every Olympiad, or every four years, between athletes of the many Greek city-states, in honor of Zeus.
Ancient Olympic
Games History
Olympic Games in Ancient Greece
(by a blogger)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j2DGdAfxjs&feature=related
Ancient Olympia
with
Brian Blessed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv0OCj9LMLI
Ruins of Ancient
Olympia today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CySi8rM3-M&feature=fvwrel
The Statue
of Zeus at Olympia
Seven Wonders
of the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQI58xjcNVg
The Temple of Zeus in
ancient Olympia
The statue of Zeus in
ancient Olympia
The
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Lecture by Tom Tartaron
Penn Museum, April 1,
2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ngny7zfrTU
Olympic
Games revived, Athens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Uq5amGfBg&feature=related
The
Story of Ancient Olympia
Lecture # 8 from Great
Tours: Greece and Turkey, from Athens to Istanbul by John R. Hale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35qtBe6F-iw
or
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/AncientOriginsSummerGames.aspx?freeCatid=4&ai=69667&cm_mmc=youtube-_-nonbrand-_-olympics-_-na
Ancient
Olympics
Let The Games Begin
History
Channel documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM_ng8yuUQI
Wrestling
Boxing
Foot race
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Sappho
c. 630 - c. 570 B. C
Poetess from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in Archaic Greece
Alcaeus and Sappho on an Attic red-figure kalathos (vase in the
shape of a basket) from Akragas (Agrigentum in Latin and Agrigento n Italian) in Sicily circa 470 B. C.
Sappho
Love and Life on Lesbos
2015 BBC documentary with Margaret Mountford
Sappho sings Poetic Fragment 2 in original Archaic Greek
A Song of Sappho
New York Greek Drama Company (1987)
Final scene (of perfromance)
Sappho's Ode to Aphrodite
Sappho
The Venus of Lesbos
1960 French-Italian movie (1:29:12)
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Persia Timeline
8,000 BC - present
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9thMnTy_ik
Iran
(Persia) - 7000 years
Documentary about the history of the region about
Persia from the Ancient Civilization series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SqdZ3lHmRI
The Persian Empire
Advertisement for the course of 36
lectures by John Lee on The Great
Courses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03zQ-P7Nrxo
For details about the course:
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=3117&ai=58096&cm_mmc=youtube-_-brand-_-video-_-3117
3 lectures
by John Lee from The Great Courses :
1. Rethinking the Persian Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TEz-wfV2vs
2. Questioning the Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCSrog0zcxM
3. The World before Cyru s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJaKqt
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Zorastria
Zoroastrianism
A clip from the BBC series The Story of God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGRgzFLcMMQ&feature=related
Zorastrianism
Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by
Melvyn Bragg
With
guests Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Farrokh Vajifdar and Alan Williams
11 November 2004
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005bc5v
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUglGHtm5Ms
The
Persians
Documentary with Peter
Weller from the series Engineering an Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQcEmiGCaCo
Greek and Persian Wars
24
lectures by John R. Hale
Great
Courses
Details about the course:
2.
Empire Builders - The Persians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfqIidSxIMw
3. Intrepid Voyagers - The Greeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgDcecea4to
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Cyrus
the Great
559 - 530 B. C.
In Search
of Cyrus the Great
Brief advertisement about an unfinished
documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YebB4nVw_Mg
The Persian Empire
Lecture
# 4 of the course by John Lee
Cyrus and Cambyses,
Founders of the Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-DX05fniI8
Persopolis
Persopolis
Documentary
film
(2
clips)
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zSgmDhappc
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmv3lmCtIBw
Persopolis Recreated
2004
documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIN-3WmfBWM&feature=related
Persopolis
Discussion
on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg.
With Lloyd
Llewellyn-Jones, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Lindsay Allen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b4z075
From
Mesopotamia, Akkadia, Babylonia, Assyria, Chaldea to Persia
Persian Empire c. 500 BC
King
Darius I (Darius the Great) of Persia
550 - 486 BC
Darius
I
The Persian Empire
Five
lectures from the course by John Lee
5.
Darius I, Creator of the Imperial System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2I9OHWZPY
6. Persian Capitals and
Royal Palaces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgngEPCyheg
7. The Great King
- Images and Realities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8EvA0OrKIM
8. Royal Roads and Provinces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrxxmNxF4k
9. East of Persopolis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ08bYl2dvg
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Greco-Persian Wars
492 - 449 B. C.
Ionian revolt
against Persian rule aided by Athens
Greek colonization toward
the end of the Greek Archaic Period (800 - 480 B. C.)
Herodotus
c.
484 – 425 BC
Herodotus of Halicarnassus
("Father
of History")
Overview of Herodotus
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3xVdkLbHKg
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_J5SpWlczI&feature=relmfu
Introduction to Ancient Greek History
Yale. U., Autumn 2007
Two lectures on the Greco-Persian Wars by Donald Kagan from the
24-lecture course
12. The Persian Wars
- Consequences of Tyranny to Greek
LifeCoup d'État
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E28PaeQQQC0&feature=relmfu
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-12
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/163/clcv-205
13. The Athenian Empire
- The
Rise of the Persian Empire
- Clashes
with the Persian Empire
- The
Beginning of the Persian Wars
- Further
Developments Leading to the War with Persia
- The
Battle of Marathon
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuvkY7l8w-Y&feature=relmfu
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-13
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/164/clcv-205
The Persian Empire
Two
lectures from the course by John Lee
10. Challenges in the West, 513 - 494 BC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqtfz38nrdA
11.
Across the Bitter Sea, 493 - 490 BC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-JsWQAl8M
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Battle of Marathon (490
B. C.)
Battle of Marathon
Episode from the documentary series Decisive Battles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgijJ-zdHow
Or
3 clips:
1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4PusEalnA
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPinrH-akvc&feature=relmfu
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng5diP1VISY&feature=relmfu
Who were the Greeks?
Two-part BBC documentary with Michael Scott (2013)
Part 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQGlBAnmGn0
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XU5TJoiJ0w
Part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SbWagumGSo
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmyvz9GrtO0
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Xerxes the Great of Persia
519
- 465 B. C.
Xerxes I (Xerxes the Great)
Xerxes
Lecture by J. Rufus Fears, # 8 from the course on Famous Greeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odwCbgQIGsk
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Battle of Thermopylae
480 B. C.
Thermopylae
Episode from the documentary series Decisive Battles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhgMn9rvn_Y
Last Stand of the 300
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NHmOG11vLQ&feature=related
300 - Rise of an Empire
Excerpt from the 2006 Hollywood movie 300 - Rise of an Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdNn5TZu6R8
History Buffs: 300
Review of the film 300 Rise of an Empire by Nick Hodges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXZt-IlClhs
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Battle of Salamis
480 B. C.
Route of the Persian navy
Straights of Salamis
Battle
of Salamis
Documentary from the
series History's
Turning Points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwEBTcM2kFE
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KijaUpcQysQ
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R0_dZVl3h0
The Battle of Salamis
Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted
by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Paul Cartledge, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Lindsay Allen
23 March 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08j99jl
The Battle
of Salamis
Excerpt from The Histories of Herodotus
Audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ59EZyIC-w
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The
Battle of Plataea
479 BC
The Oath of Plataea
Revisiting the Persian Wars Again - and Again - and Again . . .
Lecture by Paul Cartledge, author of After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars
The Hellenic Centre, London
12 November 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Ui9uHMoVc
Introduction to Ancient
Greek History (CLCV 205)
Yale U. (Fall 2007)
A lecture on the Greco-Persian
Wars by Donald Kagan
Lecture
14. The Athenian Empire (continued)
1. Consequences of Greek victory over the Persians (479 BC)
6. The rise of the Athenian Empire
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMD_evdcMUA&feature=relmfu
Yale U:
Transcript:
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The Golden Age of Greece
c. 500 - c. 300 B. C.
Map of Classical Greece ca. 450 B. C.
The Greeks
Crucible of Civilisation
Three-part 2000 PBS documentary of the Empires Special series
Narrated by Liam Neeson
1. The Revolution
508 BC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2tFoTa-i6w
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dwWocwd160
2. The
Golden Age
490 BC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GZN_qCmARs
3. The
Empire of the Mind
399 BC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08UtxuyI9ok
All three parts in one (2:20:09):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz7ebSkY2_8
Athens
Modern map of Greece
Map
with ancient sites
Athens and
the port of Pireaus and walls
Athens
The Dawn of Democracy
Episode 6 of 7 of the BBC documentary series The Ancient
Worlds with Bettany Hughes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPnUK176AR0
Athens
The
Dawn of Democracy
Documentary with Bettany
Hughes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtn-BZH_xU0&list=PLC173FBD874991F7A
"The
Age of Pericles"
Pericles
Athens and Pericles
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR84c-kr0f4
Pericles
Lecture # 12 by J. Rufus Fears from the course Famous Greeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRZSY2VoVFs
The
Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens
The
Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens
The
Mystery of the Parthenon
Documentary or Secrets of the Parthenon or Parthenon
(Acropolis) Steven Zucker and
Beth Harris Parthenon Frieze Steve Zucker and Beth Harris East Pediment sculptures of the Parthenon, including Helios, Horses and Dionysus
(Heracles?) Steve Zucker and Beth Harris Parthenon Metopes Steven Zucker and Beth Harris Victory (Nike) Adjusting Her
Sandal, Temple of Athena Nike Acropolis Steven Zucker and Beth Harris
Anavysos Kouros Steven Zucker and Beth Harris Peplos Kore from the Acropolis Steven Zucker and Beth Harris The Erechtheion Steve Zucker and Beth Harris Caryatid and column from the Erechtheion Steven Zucker and Beth Harris In Focus: The Elgin Marbles The "Cleaning" of the Elgin Marbles ---------------------------------
Peloponnesian War
431 - 404 B. C.
Thucydides
(460 - 395 BC)
Thucydides
Thucydides
Discussion
on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With
guests Paul Cartledge, Katherine Harloe and Neville Morley
29
January 2015
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050bcf1
You
Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNpBCKWnMHI
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbu6PQ-Moh8
The
Peloponnesian War
Four lectures on the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan from the course,
Introduction
to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205), at Yale. U., Fall 2007
Lecture 17.
The Peloponnesian War, Part I
The importance of the Peloponnesian
War and Its continuing value - The origins of
the war - Athens - M ultiple battles -
Reversal of fortune - The Four Months
Truce and subsequent Thirty Years Peace
Yale
U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-17
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMlkvfFJYPo
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/168/clcv-205
Hand-out:
Thucydides, The Revisionist Historian of the Peloponnesian War
http://oyc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/10peloponnesianwari_1.pdfhttp://oyc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/10peloponnesianwari_1.pdf
Lecture 18.
The
Peloponnesian War, Part I (cont.)
Preserving the Thirty Years
Peace - The Pan-Hellenic colony of Thurii - Testing the peace
- Civil War at Epidamnus and the question of honor - Athens votes on a defensive alliance
You
Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7xOLKKcm2s&feature=relmfu
Yale
U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-18#transcript
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/169/clcv-205
Lecture 19.
The Peloponnesian War, Part II
Lead-up to the war: Corcyra
and Potidaea - Lead-up to the war: The Megarian Decree - The Spartan Assembly votes and the course of war is set - The start of the war - Thucydides
as revisionist historian
You
Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5NcR-fU3QM&feature=relmfu
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-19
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/170/clcv-205
Hand-out: The Origins of the Peloponnesian War II:
The Final Crisis
http://oyc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/11peloponnesianwarii_1.pdf
Lecture 20.
The Peloponnesian War, Part II (cont.)
Pericles and his strategy - Modern scholars' views on Pericles - Criticism of Pericles as a military leader - Pericles' other obstacles - q uestion and answer (Q & A)
You
Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjunpZz2EhU&feature=relmfu
Yale
U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-20
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/171/clcv-205
Sources
for Thucydides:
The
eight oldest manuscripts are from the 900s to the 1300s A. D.
Papyrus
fragments are from the 200s BC to the 500s A. D.
The
Mytilenaean Debate
Discussion on the BBC
weekly radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
20 June 2019
With guests: Paul Cartledge,
Angela Hobbs and Lisa Irene Hau
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000614s
Thucydides
Lecture 15 by J. Rufus
Fears of the course Famous Greeks
The Great Courses (The Teaching Company)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ird_uEAA9f4
Pericles' Funeral Oration
Alcibiades
Lecture 16.
by J. Rufus Fears from the course Famous Greeks for The Teaching Company/The Great Courses
The Sicilian Expedition
(415 - 413 B. C.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2NHkXyEfEo
The
Sicilian Expedition
Excerpt
from a documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ogvg7PiKw
Nicias
Lecture 17.
by J. Rufus Fears from the course Famous Greeks for The Teaching Company/The Great Courses
The Siege of Syracuse (415 - 413 B. C.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmFbNv0fJCs
Alcibiades
and the Peloponnesian War
Lecture 18.
by J. Rufus Fears from the course Famous Greeks for The Teaching Company/The Great Courses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7iOCt0MZ_8
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Philosophy
Philia (Greek): Love
+
Sophia (Greek): Wisdom
= The Love of Wisdom
Influence
of Babylon on Greece
The Greek and Babylonian T raditions
of Mathematics
Excerpt
from a lecture by Richard Feynman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUlqXRPMmY
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Chart indicating
the main Greek philosophers from 600 BC to AD 450
The
Pre-Socratic Philosophers
The
Pre-Socratics
Ionia,
Thrace and Magna Graecia
Pre-Socratic (before Socrates) Philosophers
Milesian school (Miletus , Ionia, Anatolia )
Thales (624 - 546 BC)
Anaximander (610 - 546 BC)
Anaximenes (585 - 525 BC)
Pythagoreanism
Pythagoras of Samos (582 - 496 BC)
Pythagorean school of Croton,
Magna Graecia (southern Italian peninsula)
Philolaus (470 - 380 BC)
Alcmaeon of Croton
Archytas (428 - 347 BC)
Ephesian school (Ephesis, Anatolia )
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Eleatic school (from Elea, today’s Velia in
southern Italian peninsula)
Xenophanes of Colophon
Parmenides of Elea (510 - 440 BC)
Zeno of Elea (490 - 430 BC)
Melissus of Samos (ca. 470 - BC)
Pluralist school
Empedocles of Akragas (Latin, Agrigentum; today, Agrigento )
in Sicily
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (500 - 428 BC) in Anatolia
Atomist school
Leucippus (5th cent. BC)
Democritus of Abdera in Thrace
Sophists
Protagoras of Abdera (c. 490 - c. 420 BC)
Bertrand Russell
The Rise
of Greek Civilization
A reading of Bertrand Russell's History
of Western Philosophy (1945)
Book 1. Ancient Philosophy
Part I. The Pre-Socratics
Chaprer !. The Rise of
Greek Civilisation
Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz6pLYla8Uo
Text (start at page 21):
https://archive.org/stream/westernphilosoph035502mbp#page/n19/mode/2up
or
Text ( Start at page
20):
https://archive.org/stream/westernphilosoph035502mbp/westernphilosoph035502mbp_djvu.txt
Carl Sagan on the Pre-Socratic Philosophers
The
Backbone of Night
Episode # 7 of 13 from the Cosmos
series with Carl Sagan (1980)
Discusses scientific methods and discoveries
in Ionia, their suppression, and their rediscovery two millenia later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKlcG4l9ba0
Script:
The
Beginning of Greek Philosophy
Lecture
1 of 81 of the course A History of Philosophy by Arthur Holmes
Wheaton
College, Massachusetts
1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4fVRiJtubY
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The
Ionian Rationalists
Ionia
Ionia
--------------
The Influence of Persia on Ionia
Miletus
600 BC -
Miletus
The Milesian School
Book 1. Ancient Philosophy
Part I. The Pre-Socratics
Chaprer 2. The Milesian
School
Reading of chapter 2 of The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell ( 1945)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbGdD8kxmYI
Text (start
at page 42):
https://archive.org/stream/westernphilosoph035502mbp/westernphilosoph035502mbp_djvu.txt
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Thales
of Miletus
c. 624 - c. 546 BC
Thales
What
is the Thales Theorem?
Basic
Proportionality Theorem (BPT) of Triangle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-6yYsuGLoc&feature=related
Thales' Theorem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oev4-mZNUNg&feature=related
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Anaximander
of Miletus
c. 610 – c. 546 BC
Anaximander
-------------
Anaximenes
of Miletus
585
- 528 BC
-------
Xenophanes of Colophon
c.
570 - c. 475/6 BC
Xenophanes
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Pythagoras
of Samos
570 – c. 495 BC
Pythagoras
The Genius of
Pythagoras
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k-fpCAp9mU
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3uICRDPBU
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mHihN_XDD4
Introduction to the Pythagorean
Theorem
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9t7rNhaBp8&feature=relmfu
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA6RfgP-AHU&feature=related
Pythagoras
Book 1. Ancient Philosophy
Part I. The Pre-Socratics
Chaprer III. Pythagoras
Bertrand Russell's
The History of Western Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvRCCDlN1Ok
Text
(start at page 47):
https://archive.org/stream/westernphilosoph035502mbp/westernphilosoph035502mbp_djvu.txt
Pythagoras
Discussion
on weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Serafina
Cuomo, John O'Connor and Ian Stewart
10
December 2009
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p693b
You
Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omv8LbBuR0M
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lvg08ca0dA
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL8GKpSFLPY8O_N_obF_dZSWOWHjDN1v_z&v=Omv8LbBuR0M&index=11
Pythagoras'
Theorem
First lecture (MathHistory 1a and 1b)
A Brief Course on the History of Mathematics by Norman
J. Wildberger, UNSW (MATH3560 and GENS2005)
"Pythagoras' theorem is both the oldest and the most important
non-trivial theorem in mathematics." (Wildberger)
First half:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW8Cy6WrO94
Second half:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqxYLyGLqcs
Contributions
of Pythagoras
Blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9eQpVQk_wQ
-----------------------
The
Ephesian School
Ephesis on the west Anatolian coast (Ionia)
Heraclitus
pic
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Heraclitus
Bertrand Russell's The History of Western Philosophy (1945)
Book 1. Ancient Philosophy
Part I. The Pre-Socratics
Chapter IV. Heraclitus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCfEHav08-4
Text:
Heraclitus
Discussion
on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Angie Hobbs, Peter Adamson and James Warren
8
December 2011
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017x3p4
You
Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOnWGj5NfoY
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Parmenides
of Elea
400s BC
Parmenides
Elea, Greek colony on west coast of southern Italian peninsula (Magna Graecia)
Parmenides
Book 1. Ancient Philosophy
Part I. The Pre-Socratics
Chapter V. Pythagoras
A
reading from Bertrand Russell's The History of Western Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dctL3yMjylA
---------------------
Empedocles
pic
Empedocles of Akragas (Agrigentum/Agrigento ) in Sicily ( 490 - 430 BC)
Empedocles
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Book 1. Ancient Philosophy
Part I. The Pre-Socratics
Chapter VI. Empedocles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9055cYlhhFs
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Zeno of Elea
-----------------------
Anaxagoras
pic
Anaxagoras
of Clazomenae
(500
- 428 BC)
Anaxagoras
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Book 1. Ancient Philosophy
Part I. The Pre-Socratics
Chapter VIII. Anaxagoras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I49ReSuaa0Y
------------------------
Democritus
460
- 370 BC
Democritus
of Abdera in Thrace
Abdera
atom
Pronunciation:
/ˈatəm/
Definition
noun
1 the smallest particle of a chemical element that can exist.
(usually the atom)
atomic particles as a source of nuclear energy: the power of
the atom
[ usually with negative ] an extremely
small amount of something: I shall not have one atom of strength
left
The
Ato mists
Book 1. Ancient Philosophy
Part I. The Pre-Socratics
Chaprer IX. The Atomists
Bertrand Russell's The History
of Western Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eiG-dww5pU
Or
in 3 clips:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDkH9vHgDzA
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgTK2z7DyvY&feature=relmfu
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=gYxpuxSi4qE&feature=relmfu
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The Sophists
The Moral Universe in the Pre-Socractics
Lecture
2 of 81 of the course A History of Philosophy by Arthur Holmes at Wheaton College,
Massachusetts in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfibiuduKnA
The
Greek Sophists
Lecture
3 of the course A History of Philosophy by Arthur Holmes ( 1990)
Ends with Socrates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkf_S6Y-jI
Protagoras
of Abdera
c.
490 – c. 420 BC
Sophists
Prot agoras
From The History of Western Philosophy
by Bertand Russell (1945)
Book One. Ancient Philosophy
Part I. The Pre-Socratics
Chapter X. Protagoras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95poa2z4Z-0
Text
(starts at page 93):
https://archive.org/stream/westernphilosoph035502mbp/westernphilosoph035502mbp_djvu.txt
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The
End of the Peloponnesian War
The Struggle for Hegem ony in Fourth-Century Greece
Lectures # 21 by Donald Kagan from the course, Introduction
to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205), Yale U., Fall 2007
Part 1 (Lecture # 21)
Spartan
power after the war -
Lysander and his tyrannical policies - Resistance to Spartan rule; Critias -
The Thirty Oligarch - Thrasybulus opposes Sparta and democracy Is restored -
Features of restored democracy
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-21
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zckc79jKOfA
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/172/clcv-205
Part 2 (Lecture # 22) see below.
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Western Philosophy
Three-part documentary traces the history of western philosophy from the first Greek philopsophers
to the present day (2002)
Part 1. The Pre-Socratics to Aristotle to Christian Theology (to Thomas Aquinas) (50 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4apY3Lnsxx0
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in_UTzLMLTY
or
http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/social-science/western-philosophy-2002.html
All three parts in one clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmskGiqhLd4
General Philosophy
Excerpts from lectures by Peter Millican in a first-year course at
Oxford in late 2009
1.
An Introduction to General Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdCBGWcd4qw&feature=relmfu
2. The Birth of Modern Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7l2WuwhDGs
3. From Aristotle
to Galileo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryZn6EyNf8s&feature=relmfu
4. The Birth
of the Early Modern Period:
From
Galileo to Descartes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7H8R1PBrQI&feature=relmfu
Recap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFI-frYDuGI&feature=relmfu
Athens in Relation to Culture
The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1945)
Book
1. Ancient Philosophy
Part
I. The Pre-Socratics
Chapter
VII. Athens in Relation to Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzEH-DlDcoI
The Rise of Greek Civilisation
Lecture
# 5 by Eugen Weber from the series The Western Tradition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNSUQiQdEVM
Greek Thought
Lecture
# 6 by Eugen Weber from the series The Western Tradition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXfgaKHy-k8
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The Greek Philosophers
Socrates,
Plato and Aristotle
Keith
Hughes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFlOl_cD2ww
---------------
Socrates
469 - 399 BC
This
rock and marble bust of Socrates is a Roman replica (31 BC - AD 395) of an older Greek bust (from the 300s BC). It was found in Alexandria, Egypt. It is on display in the Antiquities
Museum of Alaxandria.
A
first century A. D. marble Roman replica of a Greek bust of Socrates from t he fourth century BC. It is in the Louvre in Paris.
A Roman
replica of a Hellenistic bust of Socrates.
Socrates
of Athens was an illiterate philosopher about whom stories were recounted later by his students Plato and Xenophon;
and Aristophanes, Polycrates and Libanius.
Socrates
Encyclopedia Channel
(00:06:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2KzymrmNa0&feature=related
Biographie: Socrate
Présenté par Rafaella Biscayn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzcZiQswnVI
Socrates
A reading of a chapter of Bertrand Russell's A
History of Western Philosophy (1945)
Book One. Ancient Philosophy
Part II. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
Chapter XI. Socrates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF93gq1hzPY (29:37)
or in 3 clips:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOegfUl-Urw
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRq5_KoJqVU&feature=relmfu
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSpa7wNCE8&feature=relmfu
Text (start at page 102):
https://archive.org/stream/westernphilosoph035502mbp#page/n19/mode/2up
or
Text (starts at page 101):
https://archive.org/stream/westernphilosoph035502mbp/westernphilosoph035502mbp_djvu.txt
The
Empi re of the Mind
Episode
3 of the t hree-part 2000 documentary
The
Greeks - Crucible
of Civilisation , from the PBS Empires Special series
N arrated by Liam Neeson
399 BC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08UtxuyI9ok
Lysander and Socrates
Lecture # 19 of 24 of the course Famous Greeks by J. Rufus Fears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-XVXwu3cVE
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The
Trial of Socrates
At
age 70, Socrates was tried in Athens on the charges of impiety and corrupting the youth. The jury found him guilty by a close vote. He refused to go into exile. He was sentenced
to death. He refused to escape. He was given poison by his executioner and committed suicide.
--------------
By
Aristophanes
The
Clouds
The
Trial of Socrates
By Plato
Four dialogues on the trial, imprisonment and execution of Socrates
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
By
Xenophon
Apology
of Socrates to the Jury
Memoirs
of Socrates
The
Estate-Manager
The
Dinner-Party
By
Libanius
----------------
Aristophanes
By
Will Durant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UjEFV4576s
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Aristophanes
(446 - 389 BC) presented the play in 423 BC
Summary
and Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOFPnS9RRrg
The Clouds
Excerpt
with Socrates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saTOSR-Utlo
The
Clouds
A Comedy
by Aristophanes (423 BC)
Bergen
C. C., Paramus, New Jersey (1:17:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76lkcYbjdFk
The Clouds
Mississippi
State University (1:10:24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSYs23Q5L0c
The
Clouds
Audio
presentation of the play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cejsh4AaDo
Text of play
https://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/aristophanes/clouds.htm
Comedy in Ancient Greek Theatre
Discussion
on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With
guests Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall and Nick Lowe
13
June 2006
You
Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_u6Ugm_2SI
Aristophanes
Lecture
by Wesley Cecil at Peninsula College in Port Angeles in Washington (state) from the Forgotten Thinkers
series
Uploaded 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q9G95I_WZ0
---------------
The Trial of Socrates
Lecture
# 20 of 24 of the course Famous Greeks by J. Rufus Fears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymhOU9qVlfU
The
Trial of Socrates
Trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC based
on Plato's Apology and Aristophanes' The Clouds
1971
educational film from the Encyclopedia Britannica series Man and the State (29:03)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380KSdkV6zY
Plato
The Apology
Dramatisation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y5-gQ7kUjk
Socrate
1970 Italian
movie by Roberto Rossellini
- Th e Spartan victory over Athens in the
Peloponnesian Wars in 404 B.C.
- The Tyranny of the Thirty
- The Athenian revolt
- T he Trial of Socrates
(01:53:28)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qixfEOavcqE
With
Spanish sub-titles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qixfEOavcqE
In Spanish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOE9BjCHaws
Two excerpts from the film in Italian with English sub-titles:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4pOc-FW-lA
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pB4Ff7ZTtM
Trial
of Socrates
Plato's Apology
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WFG0994QA4
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT3nB0c9ptI
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHsY3DaS4mk
Speech of Socrates during his
trial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5gnwl1-UUE
Apology
by Plato
Libravox
audio recording
Entire
text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6scy_47ohk
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK70IMpjfBg
or, the same:
The
Apology by Plato
Audiobook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEgaurri3ng
The
Death of Socrates by Plato
A "revival" play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6y7_0KuT5E
Xenophon
The Apology of Socrates
(04:22)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaRhFZQv-As
The
Apology of Socrates
By
Xenophen
Audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OocaUvU5Uoo
Entire Text (same)
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1171/1171-h/1171-h.htm
Xénophon
Apologie
de Socrate devant le tribunal
-
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Political
Philosophy
Three of 24 lectures of the course Introduction
to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114) by Steven Smith at Yale U. in Fall 2006
1.
What
is Political Philosophy?
1. What Is political philosophy? 2. What Is a regime? 3. Who Is a statesman? What Is a statesman? 4. What Is the best regime?
Yale
U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114/lecture-1
You
Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhm55mIdSuk&feature=relmfu
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/768/plsc-114
2. Socratic Citizenship:
Plato's Apology
1. Introduction: Plato, Apology
(Defence)Clouds : Debunking
Socrates' new model of citizenship sailing"
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114/lecture-2
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFglU_ED4h0&feature=relmfu
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/770/plsc-114
3. Socratic Citizenship:
Plato's Crito
1. Was Socrates guilty or innocent? 2. The Socratic citizen 3. Principled dIsobedience to the law 4. Crito's Apology : "Companion Dialogue" 5. Applying lessons from fourth-century Athens to our world today
Yale
U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114/lecture-3
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsRexM78_Vk&feature=relmfu
Transcript:
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Death of Socrates , a painting by Jacques-Louis David (1787)
Discussion of David's painting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yqR9LEBf_k&feature=related
The Death of Socrates
How to Read a Painting
Discussion of Jacques-Louis David's
painting Death of Socrates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhfFBbVtFg
Socrates
Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In
Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Angie Hobbs, David Sedley and Paul Millett
27 September 2007
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iotp/all#playepisode22
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DloNGc09j_M
The
Examined Life
Discussion
on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With
guests Anthony Grayling, Janet Radcliffe Richards and Julian Baggini
9 May
2002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7JORRgjzSY
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Plato
427 - 347 BC
Plato,
a student of Socrates
Plato
Encyclopedia Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgPJUTltITk
Plato in 90 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKhhRwnhYI&feature=relmfu
History
of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Book One.
Ancient Philosophy
Part II.
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
Chapter XII. The Influence of Sparta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbOFehrxS6g
Chapter
XIII. The Sources of Plato's Opinions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq1pzrDIWHU
Chapter XIV. Plato's Utopia
On Plato's Republic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRp7Xp0Lr0Y
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8bo3fTH6m8
Chapter XV. The Theory
of Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8InfJHKceW4&feature=relmfu
Chapter XVI. Plato's Theory of Immortality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17F8y67FxTo&feature=relmfu
Chapter XVII. Plato's Cosmogony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdMlgAEsHsc&feature=relmfu
Chapter XVIII. Knowledge and Perception
in Plato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1EiQEwn1lc
Myles
Burnyeat on Plato
Bryan
Magee talks to Myles Burnyeat about Plato (43:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0_N4nX2G5w
(first of 5 clips only)
1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBQRuMfs2E
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Political
Philosophy
Three of
24 lectures of the course Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114)
by Steven Smith at Yale U. in Fall 2006
4. Philosophers and Kings:
Plato's Republic, I - II
1. Introduction 2. What Is Plato's "Republic" about? 3.
'I went down to the Piraeus . . . ' 4. The
Seventh Letter 5. Analyzing the beginning of "Republic"
and the hierarchy of characters 6. Cephalus
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114/lecture 4
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVQKbQVc2_w&feature=relmfu
Transcript :
5. Philosophers and Kings:
Plato's Republic, III - IV
1.
Polemarchus 2. Thrasymachus 3. Glaucon 4.
Adeimantus 5. Spiritedness and the establishment of
the Just City
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114/lecture-5
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oxMP8_pWLw&feature=relmfu
Transcript :
6.
Philosophers and Kings:
Plato's
Republic, V
1. The control of passions 2. A proposal for the construction of KallipolIs 3. Justice 4. The
Philosopher-King 5. What are Plato's views on modern
America?
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114/lecture-6
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXthvnZ8ghw&feature=relmfu
Transcript :
Plato's
Republic
Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC
radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Angie Hobbs, M. M. McCabe and James Warren
29 June 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vwn6h#play
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Plato
By Will Durant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEK4A9hrVjQ
Plato
From the series The Giants
of Philosophy
Narrated
by Charlton Heston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF_nLe0VZds
Virtue
Discussion
on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With
guests Galen Strawson, Miranda Fricker
28
February 2002
You
Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DDRUwxgKyU
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Aristotle
384 - 322 BC
Aristotle, tutor
of Alexander the Great
Aristotle in 90 Minutes
Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aevEeLuhVFc&feature=related
Aristotle
Lecture
(4 clips)
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=175bR_BU0m8&feature=related
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuL3NwhdyEQ&feature=relmfu
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2e5uYtvGG8&feature=relmfu
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zVmZiU0j1k&feature=relmfu
Bertrand Russell
History of Western Philosophy (1945)
Book One. Ancient Philosophy
Part II. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
Chapter
XIX. Aristotle's Metaphysics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR0R-PtbKHU
Chapter
XX. Aristotle's Ethics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1WOCrBb9sY
Chapter XXI. Aristotle's Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtJO6TNfADs
Chapter XXII. Aristotle's Logic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COa-o4RIOjg
Chapter XXIII. Aristotle's Physics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZFA7PnjOUo
Aristotle's
Poetics
&
Aristotle's Politics
Two
discussions on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvin Bragg
Aristotle's
Poetics
With guests Angie Hobbs, Nick
Lowe and Stephen Halliwell
27
January 2011
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xw210
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pMCn4n7t3w
Aristotle's
Politics
With
guests Angie Hobbs, Paul Cartledge and Annabel Brett
6 November 2008
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f8530
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGRjDe3YHu0
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Political
Philosophy
Three of 24 lectures of the course Introduction to Political
Philosophy (PLSC 114) by Steven Smith at Yale U. in Fall 2006
7. The Mixed Regime and the Rule of Law:
Aristotle's Politics, I, III
1.
Aristotle (384 - ): Plato's Adopted Son 2. Man Is,
by Nature, the Political Animal 3. The Naturalness
of Slavery
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114/lecture-7
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy8lwIYCTMA&feature=relmfu
Transcript :
8. The Mixed
Regime and the Rule of Law:
Aristotle's
Politics, IV
1. Introduction: Aristotle's
Comparative Politics and the Idea of the Regime 2.
What Is a Regime? 3. What Are the Structures and Institutions
of the Regime? 4. The Democratic Regime 5. Law, Conflict and the Regime 6.
The Aristotelian Standard of Natural Right or Natural Justice
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114/lecture-8
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=f7qCDVkrbWk&feature=relmfu
Transcript:
9. The Mixed Regime and the
Rule of Law:
Aristotle's Politics, VII
1. Polity: The regime that most successfully controls for faction
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114/lecture-9
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKLkb4LDi5M&feature=relmfu
Transcript :
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Aristotle
and Greek Science
The
Historical Background
by
Will Durant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn89Jdp4mc0
Aristotle
The Giants of Philosophy
Narrated
by Charlton Heston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jhVQo6vgJU
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Raphael's
School of Athens (1510-1511)
Plato,
left; Aristotle, right
1. Zeno of Citium 2. Epicurus
3. ? 4. Boethius or Anaximander or Empedocles? 5. Averroes 6. Pythagoras 7. Alcibiades or Alexander
the Great? 8. Antisthenes or Xenophon or Timon? 9. perhaps Fornarina as a personification of Love or Francesco Maria
della Rovere? 10. Aeschines or Xenophon? 11. Parmenides? 12. Socrates 13. Heraclitus (Michelangelo) 14. Plato
(Leonardo da Vinci) 15. Aristotle 16. Diogenes 17. Plotinus (Donatello?) 18. Euclid or Archimedes (Bramante?)
19. Zoroaster 20. Ptolemy? R. Apelles (Raphael) 21. Protogenes (Il Sodoma, Perugino or Timoteo Viti)
Raphael,
The School of Athens and The Disputa
1508 - 1511
T he Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican
With
Steven Zucker and Beth Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smd-q44ysoM
The
School of Athens
Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
On the fresco by
Raphael in the private library of Pope Julius II in the Vatican
With guests Angie Hobbs, Valery Rees and Jill Kraye
26
March 2009
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j7txt
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxd-1qUCfVY
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The
March of the Ten Thousand
The
March Up-Country
The
Persian Expedition
The
Expedition of Cyrus
The
Anabasis
401
- 399 BC
Map
displaying the route of the 10,000 Greek mercenaries from Sardis in 401 B. C. to Byzantium in 399 B. C.
March
of the Ten Thousand
Lecture
# 14 of 24 by Garrett Fagan from the course Great Battles of the Ancient World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyHkWQcKt8I
March
of the 10,000
Lecture
33 of Ancient Greek History by an anonymus
lecturer
Uploaded
by History Den
Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxFH2DwNFsU
Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIWNP4dh1BI
Text Online
Anabasis by Xenophon
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1170
HTML
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1170/1170-h/1170-h.htm
Anabasis by Xenophon
Audio Book (Complete)
(9 hrs., 3 min., 3 sec.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRBNUl1RNzY
The oldest
known manuscripts of Xenophon's Anabasis
F Vatican
gr. 1335
from the 900s to the 1000s A. D
M Venice,
Marcianus graecus 590
from the 1100s to the 1200s A. D.
C Paris,
BNF gr. 1640
from c. 800s to 900s A. D.
Bust of Xenophon of Athens
(430 - 354 B. C.) from the
Greco-Roman period. Xenophon
was a student of Socrates
and
an historian. Xeneophon
led the
10,000 and wrote an account
of The Persian Expedition .
Xenophon
Discussion on the weekly
BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Paul Cartledge,
Edith Hall and Simon Goldhill
26 May 2011
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011cffd
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6kUnKIRDPM
The Struggle for Hegem ony in Fourth-Century Greece
Lecture # 22 by Donald Kagan from the course, Introduction to
Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205), Yale U., Fall 2007
Part 2 The Greek mercenary army and the March of the 10,000
- Further hostilities - The Corinthian War - Iphicrates's light-armed Troops; Conon's fleet - The war comes to an end
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-22
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgs13OKQNnU
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/173/clcv-205
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Greek
Art
The Legacy of Greece
Episode 1 of the documentary
series Art
of the Western World with Michael
Wood
(25:50)
https://vimeo.com/16965101?lite=1
Use Google Chrome to get it
The Classical Ideal
Episode
1 of the documentary series Art of the Western World with Michael Wood
This is a re-release in 2014 of the 1989 series. This first episode of the 2014
release combines the first two episodes of the 1989 series The Classical Ideal (on Greece) and Imperial
Stone (on Rome).
(56:08)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxIPVg2vVNw
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZKNOZkUx_E
Seven Wonders of
the Ancient World
Episode from the Ancient Mysteries
series with Leonard Nimoy presents seven ancient monuments from the ancient Greco-Roman world - five
from Greece, one from Egypt and one from Persia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I3WRq8mYx4
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Discovery Channel documentary in 3 parts
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-w-JrinFQ
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3YZtVcEPQ4
3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0bRjlxzGLY
Three lectures by Gregory Aldrete from History
of the Ancient World , recorded by The Teaching Company
Removed from You Tube
Lecture
# 16. Greek Art and Architecture
Archaic
male sculpture (c.
600 -
450
BC). This statue is known as
the Kouros. It was found near
Athens.
The statue viewed from the front, side and back.
Egyptians
(left) influenced archaic Greek sculpture (right). A comparison of the Kouros with Egyptian statues. The Kouros was widely
copied.
Archaic
sculpture of the female,
counterpart
of the Kouros, called
the Kore
or Peplos Kore.
The
Kore was painted and polished. The statue, which retains only traces of colour, left, and an attempt to present it as it originally
looked, at right.
Anavysos Kouros Steven Zucker and Beth Harris Contrapposto Steven Zucker and Beth Harris New York Kouros Steven Harris and Beth Harris Peplos Kore from the Acropolis Steven Zucker and Beth Harris
Early Classic
sculpture of the
male figure, the Kritios Boy,
found on
the Acropolis (c. 440 BC).
Kritios
Boy
Steven
Zucker and Beth Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5IWDhXtsmE
Classic sculpture of female figure
Classical marble sculpture of the
head of female
divinity, perhaps
Hera or Demeter, provenance
unknown, c.
425 - 400 BC
The Classical
Orders
Steven Zucker and Beth Harris discuss the three basic
orders - Doric, Inoic and Corinthian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrRJkzXl4a4
Temples
were lavishly painted
Temples
were lavishly ornamented and painted
Doric
temple of Hera in Paestum (Poseidonia) in Italy (ca. 600 to 450 BC)
The
Temple of Poseidon, with Doric columns, south of Athens atop Cape Sounion on the Agean Sea (c. 440 BC)
Temple
of Apollo Epikourios in Bassae
The Temple of Bassai
Discussion with Suzanne O' Neil on Conversing the Classics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2SC5HD9Zdw
pic
History
of Theatre
1. From Ritual to Theatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQOPFxuiaWQ
2. Development of Classical Greek Tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmBDfl9YJY4
3.
From Satyr Play to Comedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxqqHr0-6Lo
4.
From Greek to Roman Theater Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRy6KmOvZfU
Ancient
Greece
The
Greatest Show on Earth
3-part 2013 BBC documentary series with Michael Scott
Episode 1.
Democrats (59 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAkLTWQUbG8
Episode
2. Kings (59 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1nqlhgtzUo
Episode
3. Romans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnqz1zxGDTA
Lecture # 17. Greek Tragedy and the Sophists
(Removed
from You Tube)
Greek
Theatre
Aeschylus
525 - ca. 456 BC
Oresteia
A
trilogy
(of tragedies ):
1.
Agamemnon ,
2. The Libation Bearers and
3. The Eumenides
1. Agamemnon
Part
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7sdZQ1BDs0
Part
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZyQNOkLfNE
2. The Libation
Bearers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5pu_5zy664
also by the University of Newcastle , Australia ,
July 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqfpYVkVVyk
3. The
Eumenides
by the University of Newcastle , Australia , July 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEiAa_13EJk
also: 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMkGymkyTrg
The Persians
Les
Perses
Adaptation
de Jean Prat a Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSRTsfKXBJs
Seven against Thebes
The Suppliants
Prometheus Bound authorship questioned)
Sophocles
497 - 406 BC
Ajax
Antigone
With Irene Papas (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suN2Pq6qoKE
or, the same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTAbx0BW7I
University of Newcastle , Australia , March 1996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=167R-4TUNXE
Italy , 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZAYDhqBtmM
UTPA
11 clips; start here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bSnnufOx80
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_sO75wwZ1g
Jean Anouilh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B40pQWeD2CY
The Women of Trachis
Oedipus
the King
Christopher
Plummer (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ngdl0vcFo4
1984 TV movie with Claire Bloom in a Revival
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS9KJ_bAJLE
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWK663cfyR8
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ynLrKcqKzI
4 .
. . . .
Electra
Philoctetes
Oedipus at Colonus
Euripides
c. 480 - 406 BC
Euripides
Will
Durant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRBSdgh9-TQ
Alcestis
Medea
BBC learning zone documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5-M6OBvAdE
Heracleidae
Hippolytus
Andromache
Hecuba
The
Suppliants
Electra
Ηλέκτρα (Ilektra) (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWLpclJ3xfk&list=PLD0BF6C9E3B2FFFE0
Heracles
The
Trojan Women
1971 movie of Euripides play with Brian Blessed, Irene
Papas, Katherine Hepburn and Vanessa Redgrave
Advertisement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4MRDke5Id4
Film (w ith
Greek subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV_QaHG85KY
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV_QaHG85KY
Euripides
on War and Women
Lecture 18 from the course Greek Tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnT0ZL0EnbU
Iphigenia
in Tauris
Ion
Helen
Phoenician
Women
Orestes
Bacchae
Iphigenia
at Aulis
Rhesus
Cyclops
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Macedonia
Macedonia
in the reign of King Phillip II in 336 BC
Maced onia
Excerpt from a lecture by Jeremy McInerney
The Teaching Company/The Great Couses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2zry-IdxJk
Philip II of Macedon
382 B. C. – 336 B. C.
King Philip II of Macedon, father of
Alexander the Great
Alexander
the Great and the Macedonia Empire
Lectures
# 1 - 5 of 36 by Alexander the Great and
the Macedonian Empire from The Great Courses
1. Conqueror or Tyant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOajt243HgM
2. Greece in the Age of Hegemonies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZF8ti4XZk
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6JwuqsmbU
3. Achaemenid
Persia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9waeh4ACWw
4. The
World of Early Macedon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuEPxoJCd8w
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZdsbF7iqVY
5. Philip II and the Macedonian Way of War
336 B. C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O_tEWoYZQ4
Greek and Persian Wars
Lectures by John R. Hale from the course from The Great Courses
The Rise
of Macedon
Lecture # 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptofSR2Y2ig
Father and Son
Lecture # 21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYF92hFuzw
Liberating the Greeks
of Asia
Lecture # 22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcGqexr74UE
The
Rise of Macedonia
Episode from the Ancient Warriors documentary series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3S84XBa4Mg&feature=relmfu
Macedonian Military Innovations
Lecture by Garrett Fagan from the course Great Battles of the Ancient World from The Great Courses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMNjct7t8sY
Alexander
the Great and the Macedonian Empire
Lectures 5 to 8 (of
36) by Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire from
The Great Courses
5. Philip II and the Macedonian Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-TDdUkFpNU
6. The Third Sacred
War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHREXn8PUec
7.
The Macedonian Conquest of Greece
346 - 338 B. C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJJlHpQDMxo
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWzRaaO2VEE
8. The League of Corninth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IsgZ5QoAs4
Xenophon,
Plato and Philip of Macedon
Lecture # 21 of 24 by J. Rufus Fears from the course Famous Greeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1K9TWHV57A
Twilight of the Polis
Lecture # 23 by Donald Kagan from the course, Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV
205), Yale U., Fall 2007
The Rise of Theban Hegemony
The 375 Peace Proposal
Fighting Resumes; The Sacred Band of Thebes and the Battle of Leuctra
The End of Spartan Supremacy and Thebes's Growth
The Great Invasion
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-23
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsjiBYBj_8I
Transcript:
Twilight of the Polis (cont.) and Conclusion
Philip, Demosthenes and the Fall of the Polis
Lecture # 24 by Donald Kagan from the course, Introduction to
Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205), Yale U., Fall 2007
The Rise of Philip of Macedon (379 B. C.)
Philip, the Military Genius
Philip, the Diplomat
Philip's Expansion
Athens' War Tax and Demosthenes’s Opposition to Philip
Increased Threats from Philip and Athens' Response
Demosthenes's Stand and The Battle of Chaeronea (338 B. C.)
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-24#ch0
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuOxGMoHMMY
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/175/clcv-205
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Alexander the Great
356 B. C. – 323 B. C.
Tiny ivory head believed
to be that of a
young Alexander the
Great, from a tomb
believed to be that of his father, King Phlip
II of Macedonia,
in Vergina, Greece, found
in 1978 (above);
The route of Alexander the Great
The above two maps display the route and empire of Alexander
the Great
Aristotle
tutoring Alexander by J L G Ferris
in
1895
Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire
The
Great Courses
Lectures 9 and
10 by Kenneth W. Harl
9. Alexander, Heir Apparent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvpT45BT0-A
10. Securing the Inheritance 336
- 335 BC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWa_7CG2bGE
Alexander
at the Battle of Issus (333 BC) or Gaugamela (331 BC) in a replica of a floor mosaic discovered in a the House of the Faun in Pompeii, on display in the Naples Archeological M useum.
The mosaic dates from c. 100 BC and was discovered in the House of the Faun in Pompeii
in 1831.
The
mosaic is believed to be a copy pf a Greek wall painting.
The
entire mosaic of the Batrle of Issus or Gaugamela, with Alexander and the Greek
army on the left and KIng Darius III and the Persian army on the right, exhibited in the National
Archaeological Museum in Naples
Comments:
Roman Art
and Archaeology
The
Flavian Emperors (69 - 96 CE)
71. The Alexander
Mosaic I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF5XkxvoBK4
72. The Alexander
Mosaic II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSUp50basFQ
The Alexander
Mosaic
Ancient History
Encyclopedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUEV5Y6jyJE
Khan
Aacademy
Beth
Harris and Steven Zucker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51UA1T89MzU
or
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/greek-art/hellenistic/v/alexander-mosaic-c-100-b-c-e
Blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Srx9RCbz2c
Alexander the Great
Episode 1 of the documentary series Conquerors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj13gCXwtUc
Alexander the Great
Lecture # 22 of 24 of the course on Famous Greeks by J. Rufus Fears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwnKIs6pGVU
Alexander the Great
Brief biography from the Encyclopedia Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQfBinQwPGs&feature=related
Alexander
the Great
Biographical documentary
from the series The Greatest Heroes in History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=473Hc7YWvGA
or in 3 clips:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ykNUugV3vw&feature=related
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6jmffoxdU0&feature=related
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Ezo6iHvg4&feature=related
Alexander the Great
Lecture # 7 by Eugen Weber from the The Western Tradition (1986)
The Ten Thousand
-
Rise of Macedonia - Conquest of Persia -
B attle in India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-xb8 DRGldw
Alexander
the Great
National
Geographic documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhNO-dJNhWQ&feature=related
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=524NsuNR-l0
Return
of the King
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PopC5xNygM&feature=related
Alexander the Great Goes East
Lecture by Gregory Aldrete, # 20 from History
of the Ancient World (Removed from You Tube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3KPCCDffBw&feature=relmfu
In the footsteps
of Alexander
1997 four-part BBC documentary with Michael Wood
1. Son of
God
From Macedonia to Turkey
Introduction -
Vergina - Troy - Gordion
Knot - Issus and Tyre -
Gaza
- Siwa - Alexandria
2. Lord
of Asia
From Zagros to Persepolis
Susa - The
Trap - Persian Gate -
Death of Darius
3. Across
the Hindu Kush
The Golden Road to Samarkand
'No Return' - Country
of the wolves - Kabul
- Hindu Kush
- Samarkand
- Roxanne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNThn34EM
4.
To the Ends of the Earth
From Pakistan to Babylon
India - The Kalash - Pir
Sar - Porus -
Revolt - Navy - Multan - Indus Delta - Camels
- End
Alexander's
Greatest Battle
Michael Wood searches for the site of the Battle of Gaugamela/Arbela
1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eShGFKUCKXk&feature=related
2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdKUrWid6-E
3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Bv7e4Yjxc
4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15tncNX2HY8&feature=relmfu
Battle of Gaugamela (Arbela)
331 B. C.
Greeks defeat Persians
Episode from the documentary series Decisive Battles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hRcxJtUTk
Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire
5 of 36 lectures by Kenneth W. Harl fom Alexander the Great and
the Macedonian Empire (The Great Courses)
11. The Invasion of Asia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kogtHS9Nq5A
12.
The Battle
First of Alexander's four
great battles
334 B. C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ6l694CVXo
13.
The Turning Point - Issus and
Tyre
333 - 332 B. C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC4qEkA8bL8
14 . Pharoah of Egypt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nIMsKH2vIQ
15. Heroes, Oracles and the Gods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY0kDwr3oiY
16. The Campaign of Gaugamela
331 B. C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DYRrAlLQ-M
17. The Conquest of Persia
(Iran and Central Asia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0p_KkHpOAk
18. Governing & Taxing
the Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6s0VtZSVkg
Alexander defeats
the Persians
Alexander
the Great: Alexander vs King Darius
Documentary
(Removed from You Tube)
Alexander's
Conquest of Persia
Lecture
by Garrett W. Fagan from the course Great
Battles of the Ancient World from
The Great Courses
Alexander defeats
the Persians in the battles of Granicus (334), Issis (333) and Guagamela (331)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMM3UbCDi2A
Alexander the Great
Episode from the documentary series Ultimate Battles
Uploaded on You Tube as
THE BATTLE OF GAUGAMELA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUu2rz8WhZg
Alexander
the Great and the Old Testament
Lecture # 24 by Bruce Gore from a course on the Bible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3KjXB-1oA8
King
Darius III of Persia in the Mosaic
of
Alexander found in Pompeii
Storm over Persia
Documentary about King Darius III of Persia, from the series Fall of Great
Empires
(5
clips)
1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r_rZxCUpbE&feature=relmfu
2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRFlVEAOa8s&feature=relmfu
3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLAl7FT1wi8&feature=relmfu
4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHHCMi8iyX4
5.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmOr5CVkOrk
Who
is the Great King?
Lecture by John R. Hale
from the course Greek and Persian Wars from The Great Courses
Currently available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j5ljeEWrAk
The Persian Empire
2 lectures by John Lee (The Great Courses)
23. The End of an Empire, 333 - 323 BC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uitQczbLtM0
24. Legacies of the Persian Empire
h ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZxDvuHt1YY
Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire
Three lectures
by Kenneth W. Harl (The Great Courses)
21. The Invasion of India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3fgiq2nhFs
or
(without maps)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvg6gSVjWXI
22. The Battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkjxuqsB-nk
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekOsvkCVQHk
23.
Mutiny and Withdrawl
Final campaigns in Idia
326 - 325 B. C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Utr2lNFL8
24. The Gedrosian
Desert and Voyage of Nearchus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IfwFQlMEAo
Greek and Persian Wars
A
lecture by John R. Hale from The Great Courses
24.
When East met West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnpBfk7RBk8
Alexander
the Great
1956 Hollywood movie with Richard Burton (2 hrs. 11 min.)
This is not a director's cut, which probably would have been longer; the
battle scenes and the ending are sluffed over. Nonetheless, this movie remains the best about Alexander the Great. (It is also a wholesome movie, appealling to mainstream audiences and suitable for family viewing.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWSURxRlSgs&feature=related
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vAXozg5XTY
Sikandar
Indian film (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr8S5Wb3O-s
The Persian Romance of Alexander the Great
Lecture by Michael Barry at Princeton U. on 9 February 2015 (1:24:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKyF0AwsfZY
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After
Alexander the Great
Wars of the
Diadochi
Alexander's generals - Ptolemy, Seleucus,
Cassander, Lysimachus and Antigonus - divide his empire and fight each other
Alexander
the Great and the Macedonian Empire
Lectures by Kenneth W. Harl on The Great Courses
The Diadochoi 323 - 316
B.C
Lecture 28, c urrently available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUWLewF52lk
The Partition of The Empire 316 - 301 B.C.
Lecture 29, c urrently available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQIYJeTL6I
The Hellenistic Concert of Powers
Lecture 30, c urrently available at:
The
Limits of Hellenization
Lecture 35,
c urrently
available at:
Alexander the Great and the Shadow of Rome
Lecture 36, available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvzQHIkY8M4
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr8DpUhD04Y
Egypt
Lost Tomb of Alexander
Zahi
Hawas discusses the search for Alexander's tomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OboQ5pyWmsk&feature=related
Alexander the Great
National
Geographic documentary about the s earch for Alexander's Tomb from the Mystery Files series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daiiOCi6p9I
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Hellenistic
Age
Hellenistic
Age
Lecture
by Eugen Weber from The Western Tradition series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4rvRPoXdg
The Hellenistic World
Lecture # 24 by Gregory Aldrete from the course History
of the Ancient World
(Removed
from You Tube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInQ9MB7eaA&feature=relmfu
The
Hellenistic Age:
Alexander
[336–323 BC] to Antiochus III [222–187 BC]
Lecture
# 25 by Bruce Gore from a course on the Bible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SUTgXQUGdQ
The Impact of Alexander
on India
Ancient Rulers and Sects:
Unifiers of India - Chandragupta and Asoka
Lecture # 21 by Gregory Aldrete from History of the Ancient World
(Removed from You Tube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwTCTvcmgHc&feature=relmfu
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Alexandria,
Egypt
Alexandria
on a modern map
Trade
routes to and from Alexandria
Lighthouse
of Alexandria
Le phare
d'Alexandrie redécouvert Documentaire
Library
of Alexandria
Library of Alexandria
Episode from the documentary
series In Search of History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XwY6NTbP_0
The
Lost Treasure of the Library of Alexandria
Episode from the documentary series Ancient Mysteries with Leonard
Nimoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPQ4AXM1XXI
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1WjBIyfsw0
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVAAHixDS9U
Alexandria
Excerpt
from an episode of the documentary series Cosmos with Carl Sagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVQs4B2jAW0
Treasures
of the Sunken City
PBS Documentary
(1997)
Divers explore the ruins of ancient Alexandria on the ocean bottom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdCqRtFzLNk
The same in French:
Le Mystère
d'Alexandrie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHt-Vgwf7z0
Alecandria
Discovering a Lost Empire
Vestiges engloutis d'Alexandrie
Documentaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0bRzJwNizs
Déclin et renaissance d'Alexandrie
L'Egypte des Pharaons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAZa8XlQLvw
Les aigles d'Alexandrie CNRS
The
Eagles of Alexandria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT3p9cM4QWQ
Heron of Alexandria, the Machine Man
Documentary
from the Ancient Discoveries series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6hSv9xqEWI
Euclid
of Alexandria
ca. 300 B. C.
Euclid of Alexandria ("Father
of
Geometry"), statue at
Oxford U.
(actual appearance of
Euclid
unknown)
Greek Mathematics
The
Emergence of Greek Mathematics
Discussion of Euclid of Alexandria and his Elements (Euclid's Elements) from
the series Topics in the History of Mathematics
1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlqJaUi5jE
2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Yy1odPLag&feature=relmfu
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Archimedes
of Syracuse (Sicily)
ca. 287 - ca. 212 BC
Archimedes (actually Archidamus,
King of Sparta,
300s BC)
Archimedes
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJI2KjFJ8Ew
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NETmtw2j-14&feature=relmfu
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MHX9kecyv8&feature=relmfu
Secrets of Archimedes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62IH3EAmLiI&feature=related
Revealing the
lost codex of Archimedes
Lecture by William Noel
TED
Doha, Qatar
2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqtEppZmjfw
Archimedes and
the Quest for the Theory of Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR7gpG_plaE&feature=related
Archimedes Discussion on the weekly BBC radio
programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
25 January 2007
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iots/all#playepisode54
The Antikythera Machine
Documentary from the Ancient Discoveries series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KO4-zx9buc&feature=related
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Aristarchus
of Samos
310
BC – ca. 230 BC
Aristarchus of Samos,
Greek
astronomer and mathematician;
proposed the first model
of the solar
system with the Sun at
the center
and the planets
in correct order.
Heliocentric model
Aristarchus
Excerpt from the documentary series Cosmos with Carl Sagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE5WHZW3taM
Eratosthenes
ca. 275/6 BC - ca. 195 BC
Eratosthenes of
Cyrene, "Father of
Geography";
cartographer, third
librarian of Alexandria. He calculated
the earth's circumference. He calculated
the
tilting of the earth's axis in rotation.
He
invented a method for separating
composite numbers from prime numbers
in
a natural series.
H e catalogued 675 stars.
The
Sieve of Eratosthenes can be used to find all the prime numbers that are less than 100
Prime Numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woQc32mWC4M
Sieve of Eratosthenes
From the Basic Math series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1dCDmUgBKk
Prime Numbers - Sieve of
Eratosthenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V08g_lkKj6Q
The Classical
Theory of Prime Numbers
Lecture 7 from a course by Edward B. Burger of Williams
College for The Teaching Company
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Apollonius
of Perga
Apollonius
of Perga, Greek astronomer
and geometer (ca.
262 - ca. 190 BC),
conic sections - named the ellipse, the
parabola and hyperbola
developed hypothesis of eccentric orbits,
or equivalently, deferent and epicycles, explaining the apparent motion of the planets and the varying speed of the Moon (from
Wikip.)
Apollonius' theorem demonstrates that
the two models are equivalent given the right parameters (from Wikip.)
Apollonian
Cone
Circle Ellipse Parabola Hyperbola
Apollonius Cone
Model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcLJJfxQOt0
Introduction to Conic Sections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnWEI5o35G8
Introduction to Review of Appolonius
and Conic Sections
Second
half of second lecture from A Brief Course on the History of Mathematics by Prof. Norman J. Wildberger at UNSW.
MathHistory2b: Greek geometry (cont.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moD_SIIWAGg
Apollonius
and polarity
Lesson # 1 from the series Universal Hyperbolic
Geometry with Norman J. Wildberger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjVM5Q-pvjw
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Hipparchus
Ca. 190 – ca. 120 B. C.
Hipparchus of Nicaea (or
Rhodes), Greek
astronomer, geographer
and mathematician;
discovered precession
of the equinoxes; founded trigonometry. Painting, The School of Athens , by Raphael
A blog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB1nKgN6-Fw
On
Geography and Geometry
Chapter 1
of Dimensions
A
Walk Trough Mathematics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJZP_-40KVw
Precession
of the Equinoxes goes here
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Ancient Greeks measured distances from Earth to the Sun
and Moon and their diameters and circumferences
Distances to the sun and moon
Section 9 of 13 of Famous Math Problems with Norman J. Wildberger
(2013)
How Thales, Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Plato and Eudoxus pictured the Earth, plants and stars.
The first significiant astronomer of
Ancient Greece, Aristarchus,
pic
-
Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference with
98% accuracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AxmZ_mqDPc
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Greco-Buddhist art
The first images of the Buddha
(1st cent. B. C.)
Statue of the Buddha from
Gandhara
(3rd- 4th cent. AD)
Greco-Buddhist Gandhara
art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z4Uhsk4W2U
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