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Continued from previous page, 9. New World (Pre-Columban) The Birth of Europe
Two-part 1991 BBC-TV documentary narrated by Nigel Anthony
Part 1. Out of the Ice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRBsrPGTyus
Part 2. Colliding Continents and the Bronze Age
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_vc7w4066Q
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Reflections on the study of Classics today
Lecture
by Mary Beard
Reflections on the
study of the Classics in the past, today and in the future
British Academy
4 November 2015
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Summary of Ancient Greece
Description over a map (03:22)
The History of the Greeks
Description over a map
From 2540 BC to the present
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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
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
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Introduction
to Ancient Greek History Donald Kagan, Yale U., Autumn 2007 24 lecture-course
Lecture # 1. Introduction - On the study of Ancient Greece
1. Ancient Greece as the foundation of western civilization 2. The Judeo-Christian tradition 3. Problems posed by the western tradition
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FrHGAd_yto&feature=relmfu
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-2
Transcript:
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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 inhabitants 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.
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 created by Cretans after the Minoan period. He was the son of Minos's queen, who fell in love with Minos's bull.
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
Lecture # 1 of 24 by J. Rufus Fears from the course on Famous Greeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QagkBQOwU0Y
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 (1 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 from 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
A Flash player is required to listen to the programme. The programme can be quickly and easily downloaded from its webpage. Try Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.
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
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)
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
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 Cellini 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 MythsDiscussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn BraggWith guests Nick Lowe, Richard Buxton and Mary Beard13 March 2008http://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
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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
Documentary
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
24-lecture course Lecture 2. The Dark Ages
1. The Minoan civilization (Crete)
2. Mycenaean language (Greek) and writing (Linear B script) 3. The citadel, farmland, burials and the oil trade 4. Cultural unity, agriculture, religious authority 5. Society and economy 6. Theories about the fall of the Mycenaean world 7. Results of the fall Transcript: http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/153/clcv-205
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
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
The Trojan War and Homeric Warfare Lecture # 6 of 24 of the course Great Battles of the Ancient World by Garrett Fagan (The Great Courses)
Introduction to Ancient Greek History
Donald Kagan, Yale U., Autumn 2007
Lecture 3. The Dark Ages (continued) 1. The Importance of Homeric poems
2. The society described in Homer's poems 3. Political structures 4. Ethics and values 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
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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKFaoaRBXPg or in many clips:
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlrviJ_lplk
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCyHp_3uufk
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0UhtZz7sDg
Continued . . . . Helen of Troy
2006 BBC documentary with Bettany Hughes
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)
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
Documentary from the Ancient Histories series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vksAumV6Rjg
Was there a Trojan War? Recent Excavations at Troy
Lecture by Brian Rose
University of Pennsylvania Museum
5 December 2012
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
Troy
Entire movie (2004) (3:05:49)
With Brad Pitt as Achilles and Peter O'Toole as Priam, King of Troy
Achilles' Heel
The death of Achilles
Homer's epic of the Trojan War, the Iliad, did not include the death of Achilles. In another 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 . . .
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
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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
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
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
The oldest example of writing is Ancient or Archaic Greek, is displayed above, It has been dated to circa 800 B. C. It was derived from an inscription found on Crete.
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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The Greek City-State
Brief description
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohncOaHfF48
Transcript: http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/155/clcv-205
5. The Rise of the Polis (continued)
- The "polis" (city-state) in Hesiod's work - The citizen - Greek farmers and the function of the "polis" - Property holding and internal colonization - The new farm - politics
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB-i7hZadLc
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-5#transcript
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/156/clcv-205
On Ancient Civilization and War Early Greek hoplites
First Blood
Episode 1 of 8 from a documentary series War and Civilization with Walter Cronkite and John Keegan (1998) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WdLLfkbXJQ
24 lectures from the course, Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205), by Donald Kagan, Yale U., Fall 2007
Lecture 6. The Greek "Renaissance" - Colonization and Tyranny
- An Introduction to the
Hoplite Phalanx - Closing Remarks and Critiques of Orthodox Interpretation
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMs9mema--Q
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-6
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/157/clcv-205
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Sparta
Sketch of Sparta reconstructed
Ruins of Sparta today
Spartan warriors
Rise and Fall of the Spartans
Documentary
Part 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3T_86X_uUo
Part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osEn7RRs_2A&feature=relmfu
Sparta
Documentary with Bettany Hughes
3 episodes
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZKT1R89VDY&feature=relmfu
or
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGHlp8g7I0M
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Zw46G5rsI&feature=relmfu
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU6Qxf4pRAc&feature=relmfu
All 3 episodes on one clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq1T-y0SIno
Sparta
Three lectures (# 8, # 9 and # 10) from the course Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205), by Donald Kagan, Yale U., Fall 2007
# 8. Sparta
- Theorizing why the hoplite phalanx
was not adopted by others
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuJ7lGZVUl4&feature=relmfu
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-8
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/159/clcv-205
9. Sparta (cont.)
- Introduction to Sparta and its roots - Understanding Spartan slavery and
Its implications - Women's roles in Spartan society
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP1POpsqin4&feature=relmfu
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-9
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/160/clcv-205
Lycurgus
Lecture # 5 from the course Famous Greeks by J. Rufus Fears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXvLmbtiZ3I
Sparta Episode 6 of Conversing the Classics Interview with Paul Cartedge (61 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx3JGN58SmM
# 10. The Rise of Athens Third of three lectures on Sparta from the 24-lecture course
Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205) by Donald Kagan, Yale U., Fall 2007
- The Spartan Assembly - The Spartan Alliance - Motivations for Sparta's foreign policy ------------------------ - The rise of Athens - Early Athenian society - Cyclon's failed coup d'état You Tube:
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205/lecture-10
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/161/clcv-205
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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
(by a blogger)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j2DGdAfxjs&feature=related
Ancient
with Brian Blessed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv0OCj9LMLI
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,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Uq5amGfBg&feature=related
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
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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Oracle of Delphi
Circa 800 B. C. - 600s A. D.
Oracle of Delphi
On Ancient Secrets - Mysteries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilz8kYYjKwM
Delphi: Bellybutton of the Ancient World
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En25VkbXE8E&feature=related
The Oracle of Delphi
Documentary
(4 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_US9tSBJFE&feature=relmfu2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6YPTo47i8E&feature=relmfu3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4gGacT7qzA&feature=relmfu4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDhW8hdcf24&feature=relmfu
Secrets at DelphiDocumentary with Leonard Nimoyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EV5eeeGfcc&feature=related
The Delphic OracleDiscussion on the weekly BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall and Nick Lowe
30 September 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth/all#playepisode15
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzZW4xe23Xo
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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
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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PersiaTimeline
8,000 BC - present
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9thMnTy_ik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SqdZ3lHmRI
The Persian Empire
3 lectures by John Lee from The Great Courses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCSrog0zcxM
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
The Persians
Documentary with Peter Weller from the series Engineering an Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQcEmiGCaCo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfqIidSxIMw
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
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
5. Darius I, Creator of the Imperial System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2I9OHWZPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgngEPCyheg
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
Life 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
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
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
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 Documentaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT1gCwl9H74or
|
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.
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
Ancient Greece
The Greatest Show on Earth
3-part 2013 BBC documentary series with Michael Scott
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
July 1983
3. The Eumenides
by the University of Newcastle,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEiAa_13EJk
also: 1983
The Persians
Les Perses
Adaptation
de Jean Prat a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSRTsfKXBJs
Seven against
The Suppliants
Prometheus Bound (authorship questioned)
Sophocles
497 - 406 BC
Ajax
Antigone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suN2Pq6qoKE
or, the same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTAbx0BW7I
University of Newcastle,
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
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
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
Rhesus
Cyclops
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Macedonia
Macedonia in the reign of King Phillip II in 336 BC
Macedonia
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
1. Conqueror or Tyant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOajt243HgM
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
Lecture # 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptofSR2Y2ig
Lecture # 21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYF92hFuzw
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
Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire
Lectures 5 to 8 (of
36) by
5. Philip II and the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-TDdUkFpNU
6. The Third Sacred War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHREXn8PUec
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
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
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 above two maps display the route and empire of Alexander the Great
9. Alexander, Heir Apparent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvpT45BT0-A
10.
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 Museum.
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
Blog
Alexander the Great
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
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
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
2. Lord of Asia
From Zagros to Persepolis
3. Across the Hindu Kush
The Golden Road to Samarkand
'No Return' - Country
of the wolves -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNThn34EM
4. To the Ends of the Earth
From Pakistan to Babylon
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kogtHS9Nq5A
12.
The
First of Alexander's four great battles
334 B. C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ6l694CVXo
13.
The Turning Point - Issus and
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
331 B. C.
17. The Conquest of
Alexander defeats the Persians
Alexander the Great: Alexander vs King Darius
Documentary
(Removed from You Tube)
Lecture
by Garrett W. Fagan from the course Great
Battles of the Ancient World
King Darius III of Persia in the Mosaic
of Alexander found in Pompeii
(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
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
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
Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire
Three lectures by Kenneth W. Harl (The Great Courses)
21. The Invasion of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3fgiq2nhFs
or (without maps)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvg6gSVjWXI
22. The
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
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
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 search 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)
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Alexandria, Egypt
Alexandria on a modern map
Trade routes to and from Alexandria
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Library of Alexandria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XwY6NTbP_0
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
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
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
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.
He 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
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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.)
Circle Ellipse Parabola Hyperbola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcLJJfxQOt0
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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
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)
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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