The Architecture of Power: Great Palaces of the Ancient World

Explore the nature of political power and cultural tradition around the world through history’s most opulent, breathtaking palaces, accompanied by an expert guide.

• By This Professor
• 01: Palaces Past and Present
• 02: Malkata Palace: Pharaoh, Foreigners, and Gods
• 03: Amarna: Palace of the First Sun King
• 04: Phaistos: Palaces between Asia and Europe
• 05: Palace of Nestor at Pylos and Bronze Age Greece
• 06: The Assyrian Palace at Nimrud: Empire in Stone
• 07: Nineveh: The Architecture of Assyrian Power
• 08: Persepolis: Palace of the Persians
• 09: Greek Palaces in Conquered Lands I
• 10: Greek Palaces in Conquered Lands II
• 11: Greek Palaces Come to Roman Italy
• 12: Masada: Herod the Great between East and West
• 13: Herod the Great’s Summer and Winter Palaces
• 14: Caligula’s Floating Palaces
• 15: Nero’s Domus Transitoria at Rome
• 16: Nero’s Golden House: A Roman Palace Theater
• 17: Rome’s Great Imperial Palace of Domitian
• 18: Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli
• 19: Diocletian’s Retirement Palace, Split
• 20: Constantine’s Palace, Constantinople
• 21: China’s Endless Palace: Weiyang Palace
• 22: The Palace of Montezuma II at Tenochtitlán
• 23: Renaissance Palaces and the Classical Revival
• 24: Palaces in a World of Democracies