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Taught by Professor Jeremy McInerney | 31 min | Categories: History
During the ancient "Dark Ages," the predominant unit of Hellenic society was a tribal or clan-based group known as the oikos (household). Poets such as Homer created an imaginative world that provided society a heroic, aristocratic ethos....
24 Lectures
1
Greece and the Western World
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of 31 min
2
Minoan Crete
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of 30 min
3
Schliemann and Mycenae
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of 29 min
4
The Long Twilight
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of 30 min
5
The Age of Heroes
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of 31 min
6
From Sicily to Syria-The Growth of Trade and Colonization
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of 30 min
7
Delphi and Olympia
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of 29 min
8
The Spartans
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of 30 min
9
Revolution
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of 29 min
10
Tyranny
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of 29 min
11
The Origins of Democracy
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of 31 min
12
Beyond Greece-The Persian Empire
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of 32 min
13
The Persian Wars
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of 31 min
14
The Athenian Empire
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of 31 min
15
The Art of Democracy
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of 30 min
16
Sacrifice and Greek Religion
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of 31 min
17
Theater and the Competition of Art
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of 30 min
18
Sex and Gender
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of 30 min
19
The Peloponnesian War, Part I
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of 30 min
20
The Peloponnesian War, Part II
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of 30 min
21
Socrates on Trial
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of 31 min
22
Slavery and Freedom
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of 30 min
23
Athens in Decline?
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of 31 min
24
Philip, Alexander, and Greece in Transition
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of 31 min
