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Highlights of western civilization a Great courses anthology / [sound recording] : featuring various professors. - Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2003] - 36 sound cassettes : analog, Dolby processed + 6 course guides (22 cm.) - The great courses . - Great courses (Audiocassette) .

Teaching Co.: 8801--8806. In six containers (22 cm.).

Pt. I. The ancient world and the spread of Hellenism. The great pyramid of Giza / Brier ; Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks / Principe ; The Hebrews, small states and big ideas / Noble ; Abraham / Levine ; The greatest hero of all / Vandiver ; The Homeric quest / Vandiver ; The art of democracy / Jeremy McInerney ; Plato, metaphysics / Cary ; Aristotle on the knowable / Robinson ; Alexander the Great and the Diadochoi / Harl ; Alexandria and the library / McInerney ; The beginnings of the republic / Fagan -- Pt. II. The Roman empire and the rise of Christianity. Cloepatra, the last ptolemy / Brier ; Rome, from republic to empire / Noble ; Unhappy Dido / Vandiver ; Good Roman advice, Cicero and Seneca / Johnson ; Public entertainment II, gladitorial games / Fagan ; Nero / Fears ; The Greco-Roman context / Ehrman ; Paul's life and letters / Johnson ; Thoughts on the "fall" of the Roman empire / Fagan ; The city of God / Cary ; The age of Justinian / Harl ; Muhammad, prophet and statesman / Esposito -- Pt. III. The medieval age and the dawn of the Renaissance. The Middle Ages, darkness, change, and diversity / Greenberg ; The chivalrous society / Noble ; The chivalric code / Daileader ; From worldly knight to knight of Christ / Cook, Herzman ; Science in the orders / Principe ; The first universities / Daileader ; "Abandon every hope, all ye who enter" / Cook, Herzman ; Renaissance portraits / Noble ; Machiavelli and the origins of political science / Staloff ; Christopher Columbus, path to conquest / Eakin ; Utopia, between heaven and earth / Sugrue ; The king's great matter, 1527-30 / Bucholz -- Pt. IV. The Reformation and the Enlightenment. Martin Luther's road to Reformation / Gregory ; The Protestant Reformation, John Calvin / Noble ; Hamlet, the Protestant hero / Saccio ; The new physics / Principe ; The civil wars, 1642-49 / Bucholz ; The Puritans / Allitt ; Descartes, Locke, and the crisis of modernity / Cary ; Newton's laws of motion / Hazen ; Introduction / Greenberg ; Voltaire, Candide / Damrosch ; The Philosophes, the triumph of the French Enlightenment / Kors ; Franklin and Adam Smith / Damrosch -- Pt. V. The nineteenth century and revolutionary ideas. Apotheosis / Kors ; Two concerts, 1808 and 1824 / Greenberg ; Napoleonic Europe, an epoch of war / Childers ; "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know" / Spiegelman ; Victoria's early reign, 1837-1861 / Allitt ; Marx, on alienation / Dalton ; Poverty and the "Hungry Forties" / Allitt ; Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection / Hazen ; First Manassas or Bull Run / Gallagher ; Huck Finn, I, defining an American voice / Railton ; Quashing the rumors about Nietzsche / Solomon, Higgins ; Freud's psychodynamic theory / Watson -- Pt. VI. Modern times. Einstein to the rescue / Wolfson ; Robert Frost and the spirit of New England / Weinstein ; The rite of spring / Greenberg ; The war to end all wars, the experience of the trenches / Childers ; Ghandi's use of power / Dalton ; The grapes of wrath, American saga / Weinstein ; Rallying the nation / Fears ; Eisenhower and Operation Overlord / Childers ; John F. Kennedy, his final challenges / Lichtman ; The civil rights movement / Allitt ; The greatest success story in physics / Pollock ; Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika and Glasnost / Steinberg.

Presents an anthology of lectures from courses on western civilization, taught by various noted professors.

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Civilization, Western.

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