Famous Greeks

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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Course Description

Overview

Examine a gallery of historical characters who shaped the story of Greece from the Trojan War through the rise of Rome in this course taught by a renowned classicist.

Syllabus

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01: Theseus
02: Achilles and Agamemnon
03: Hector
04: Odysseus
05: Lycurgus
06: Solon
07: Croesus
08: Xerxes
09: Leonidas
10: Themistocles
11: Pausanias
12: Pericles
13: Anaxagoras, Phidias, and Aspasia
14: Sophocles
15: Thucydides
16: Alcibiades
17: Nicias
18: Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War
19: Lysander and Socrates
20: The Trial of Socrates
21: Xenophon, Plato and Philip
22: Alexander the Great
23: Pyrrhus
24: Cleopatra

Taught by

J. Rufus Fears

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