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Shakespeare-Antony and Cleopatra
Lecture no. 16 from the course: Life Lessons from the Great Books
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Taught by Professor J. Rufus Fears | 30 min | Categories: Literature & Language
Explore yet another side of the power of love in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. In this tragedy, learn how a man of enormous talent and opportunity can throw away world rule for the love of a woman. What makes this lesson all the more effective? Its basis in historical fact....
36 Lectures
1
Seneca- “On Providence”
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of 32 min
2
The Gospel of John
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of 30 min
3
Boethius, Martin Luther King-Conscience
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of 30 min
4
Dostoevsky-The Brothers Karamazov
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of 30 min
5
Elie Wiesel-Night
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of 30 min
6
Schweitzer-Out of My Life and Thought
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of 30 min
7
Goethe-The Sufferings of Young Werther
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of 30 min
8
Shakespeare-Hamlet
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of 30 min
9
Sophocles-Ajax
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of 30 min
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Plato-Epistle VII
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of 30 min
11
Cicero- “On Old Age”
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of 30 min
12
Isaac Bashevis Singer-The Penitent
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of 30 min
13
Euripides-Alcestis
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of 30 min
14
Euripides-Medea
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of 30 min
15
Von Strasburg-Tristan and Isolde
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of 30 min
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Shakespeare-Antony and Cleopatra
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of 30 min
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Shakespeare-Macbeth
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of 30 min
18
Aldous Huxley-Brave New World
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of 30 min
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Homer-Odyssey
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of 30 min
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Sophocles-Philoctetes
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of 29 min
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The Song of Roland-Chivalric Adventure
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of 30 min
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Nibelungenlied-Chivalric Romance
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of 30 min
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Lewis and Clark-Journals
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of 30 min
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T. E. Lawrence-Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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of 31 min
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Aristophanes-Comedies
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of 30 min
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Menander-The Grouch
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of 30 min
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Machiavelli-La Mandragola
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of 30 min
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Erasmus-In Praise of Folly
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of 30 min
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Thomas More-Utopia
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of 30 min
30
George Orwell-Animal Farm
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of 30 min
31
Josephus-History of the Jewish War
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of 30 min
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Joseph Addison-Cato
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of 30 min
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George Washington-Farewell Address
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of 31 min
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Abraham Lincoln, George Patton-War
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of 30 min
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Theodore Roosevelt-An Autobiography
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of 31 min
36
The Wisdom of Great Books
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of 32 min
