Herodotus, the father of history [sound recording] /
Elizabeth Vandiver.
- Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2002.
- 12 sound discs (ca. 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
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Compact disc. In 2 containers.
part I: lecture 1. Herodotus and history -- lecture 2. "Inquiry" & the birth of history -- lecture 3. Myth, legend & oral tradition -- lecture 4. Homeric epic & the East-West conflict -- lecture 5. The Ionian enlightenment -- lecture 6. Athens in the Archaic age -- lecture 7. Politics & culture in fifth-century Athens -- lecture 8. Scope, design, & organization of the Histories -- lecture 9. The beginning of conflict -- lecture 10. Croesus, Solon, & human happiness -- lecture 11. Cyrus & the foundation of the Persian Empire -- lecture 12. Herodotus' account of Egypt. part II: lecture 13. The ascension of Darius -- lecture 14. Darius & the Scythians -- lecture 15. Sparta & the Spartan way of life -- lecture 16. The Ionian revolt & the battle of Marathon -- lecture 17. Xerxes & the threat to Greece -- lecture 18. The battles of Thermopylae & Artemisium -- lecture 19. The victory of Greece -- lecture 20. Persons, personalities, & peoples -- lecture 21. The gods, fate & the supernatural -- lecture 22. History or literature-- or both? -- lecture 23. Herodotus, the Peloponnesian War, & Thucydides -- lecture 24. Aftermath & influence.
Lectures presented by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver.
An introduction to the work of Herodotus, the first Greek historian. Considers Herodotus' work in its cultural context, both as history and as literature.