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36 sound cassettes : analog, Dolby processed + 6 course guides (22 cm.) Presents an anthology of lectures from courses on western civilization, taught by various noted professors. 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. featuring various professors. Teaching Co.: 8801--8806. In six containers (22 cm.). Civilization, Western RZA 7751, etc. 2004568139 8801 Teaching Co. 8806 Teaching Co. DLC 040219 20161204133014.0 13495206 BD-DhUL