Pompeii: Daily Life in an Ancient Roman City
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Explore a fabled city, frozen in time and buried for centuries, and gain a riveting and unprecedented view of life as it was lived in ancient Roman times.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Reflections on and of Pompeii
- 02: Geology and Geography on the Bay of Naples
- 03: The Rediscovery of Vesuvian Lands
- 04: Etruscan Pompeii—5th Century B.C.
- 05: Samnite Pompeii—2nd Century B.C.
- 06: Building the Roman Colony—80 B.C.
- 07: Villa of the Papyri and Life with Piso
- 08: Marriage and Mysteries—Rites of Dionysus
- 09: Eumachia, Public Priestess
- 10: A Female Slave in Pompeii
- 11: Governing in the 1st Century A.D.
- 12: Games and Competition for Offices
- 13: Riot in the Amphitheater—A.D. 59
- 14: The House of the Tragic Poet
- 15: Pompeii's Wool Industry
- 16: Pompeii's Wine and Vineyards
- 17: Earthquake—A.D. 62
- 18: Rebuilding after the Earthquake
- 19: Wall Paintings in the House of the Vettii
- 20: A Pompeian Country Club
- 21: Worshipping the Emperors at Herculaneum
- 22: Visiting a Villa at Stabiae
- 23: Pliny Narrates the Eruption of Vesuvius
- 24: The Bay of Naples after Vesuvius
Taught by
Steven L. Tuck
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