TY  - SOUND
AU  - Vandiver,Elizabeth
ED  - Teaching Company.
TI  - Herodotus, the father of history
T2  - The great courses
SN  - 1565852893
AV  - CD D 56.52 .H45 V36 2002 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chantilly, VA
PB  - Teaching Co.
KW  - Herodotus.
KW  - History, Ancient
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - To 146 B.C
N1  - 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
N2  - An introduction to the work of Herodotus, the first Greek historian. Considers Herodotus' work in its cultural context, both as history and as literature
ER  -