DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

The history of ancient Rome / Professor Garrett G. Fagan.

[PDF workbook version].

[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company ; Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books, [1999]

©1999

8 videodiscs (1440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 PDF.

Forty-eight lectures on the history of ancient Rome beginning with pre-Roman Italy and ending with the fall of Rome.

Great courses. History

Great courses (DVD). Ancient & medieval history.

Instructional films.

Filmed lectures.

Educational films.

Rome -- History.

Rome -- History -- To 510 B.C.

Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-265 B.C.

Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C.

Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.

Rome -- Politics and government.

Rome -- Civilization.

Fagan, Garrett G., 1963-2017 author, speaker.

Teaching Company.

Recorded Books, LLC.

Ancient Rome

Course No. 340.

Accompanying PDF contains course workbook in CD-ROM format.

The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 48 lectures.

Lecturer: Professor Garrett G. Fagan, Pennsylvania State University.

DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.

Introduction -- The sources -- Pre-Roman Italy and the Etruscans -- The foundation of Rome -- The kings of Rome -- Regal society -- The beginnings of the Republic -- The struggle of the orders -- Roman expansion in Italy -- The Roman Confederation in Italy -- The international scene on the eve of Roman expansion -- Carthage and the First Punic War -- The Second Punic (or Hannibalic) War -- Rome in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Explaining the rise of the Roman empire -- "The Captured Conqueror": Rome and Hellenism -- Governing the Republic, part I -- Governing the Republic, part II -- The pressures of Empire -- The Gracchi brothers -- Marius and Sulla -- "The Royal Rule of Sulla" -- Sulla's reforms undone -- Pompey and Crassus -- The first Triumvirate -- Pompey and Caesar -- "The Domination of Caesar" -- Social and cultural life in the late Republic -- Antony and Octavian -- The second Triumvirate -- Octavian emerges supreme -- The new order of Augustus -- The imperial succession -- The Julio-Claudian dynasty -- The emperor in the Roman world -- The third-century crisis -- The shape of Roman society -- Roman slavery -- The family -- Women in Roman society -- An empire of cities -- Public entertainment I: the Roman baths and chariot racing -- Public entertainment II: gladiatorial games -- Roman paganism -- The rise of Christianity -- The restoration of order -- Constantine and the late Empire -- Thoughts on the "Fall" of the Roman Empire.

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