Introduction to Ancient Greek History

Academic Earth ^ | December 15, 2008 | Donald Kagan

[SunkenCiv]

:’) In any case, no harm done.

[x]

Thanks for the link.

You can also watch or listen to Teaching Company or Modern Scholar courses, which are available at many public libraries.

I'm all for CD's I can listen to in the car or at the gym that don't scream "Yale!" at the audience, but I may give Academic Earth a try.

[bagman]

Everything I know about ancient Greek and ancient Roman civilization I learned from the Teaching Company.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Worth a bookmark.

[Liberty Valance]

bfl

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[LadyDoc]

Thanks for the link...

I downloaded Kagan’s course from the Yale site awhile back but only listened to a few so far. Kagan is quite good.

Actually, the only “political” hint he dropped was to compare the opposition/jealousy of the Greek states against Athens, which wanted to be the leader of the Greek league (after Athens stopped Persian aggression) to the opposition/jealousy of Europe to Bush.

most of the Berkeley history courses that I’ve listend to so far are also apolitical...

the best lectures are from the Teaching company, but they cost a lot if your library doesn’t have them.

The only bad courses I’ve run into so far is one from Berkeley on rhetoric (the guy didn’t make sense...illogical sentence structure and thoughts) and one Stanford download on the Jesus seminar, where the guy essentially said all ministers and priests who preached anything about Jesus than his theories were frauds. Even from a historical point of view, that is nonsense...a lot of the stuff he was saying was rebutted in Jenkins book on the same subject.