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Great battles of the ancient world / Garrett G. Fagan.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2005.

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 guidebooks (22 cm).

What were ancient battles really like? What weapons, tactics, armor, training, and logistics were used? And what were the crucial factors that could turn the tide of battle, giving one side victory and consigning the other to slaughter, capture, or, at best, escape to fight another day? To answer these questions the course describes and discusses in some of the most notable battles fought in the Mediterranean region from prehistoric times to the 4th century A.D.

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Battles -- History.

Military history, Ancient.

Military art and science -- History.

Documentary films.

Fagan, Garrett G., 1963-2017

Teaching Company.

Contains 24 lectures in two parts on the historic battles of the ancient world.

Course no. 3757.

Includes lecture notes, outlines, timeline, glossary and bibilographical references.

Guidebooks include bibliographical references.

Producer, Tamara Stonebarger ; director, Jon Leven ; editor, Sal Rodriguez ; academic content supervisor, Pamela Greer ; camera operators, Alexis Doty, Jared Bourgeois.

Lectures presented by Garrett G. Fagan, Pennsylvania State University.

DVD.

Why study battles? What is war? ; The problem of warfare's origins ; Sumer, Akkad, and early Mesopotamian warfare ; Egyptian warfare from the old to new kingdoms ; The battles of Megiddo and Kadesh ; The Trojan war and Homeric warfare -- The Assyrian war machine ; The sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem ; A peculiar institution? Hoplite warfare ; The battle of Marathon ; The battle of Thermopylae ; Naval warfare and the battle of Salamis -- The Athenian expedition to Sicily ; The march of the ten thousand ; Macedonian military innovations ; Alexander's conquest of Persia ; The legions of Rome ; The battles of Canae and Zama -- Legion versus Phalanx, six pitched battles ; The sieges of Alesia and Masada ; Caesar's world war ; The battle of the Teutoburg Forest ; Catastrophe at Adrianople ; Reflections on warfare in the ancient world.

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