DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

The architecture of power : great palaces of the ancient world / Professor Steven L. Tuck.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, ©2018.

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Great courses, Ancient history

Great courses (DVD). Ancient history.

Archaeology and history.

Palaces -- History.

Civilization, Ancient.

Educational films.

Filmed lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Tuck, Steven L., lecturer.

Teaching Company.

Twenty-four lectures (30 min. each) on 4 discs.

"Course No. 3332"--Container.

Course guidebook includes bibliography (pages 228-237).

Lecturer: Professor Steven L. Tuck, professor at Miami University.

DVD format.

Palace past and present -- Malkata Palace: pharaoh, foreigners, and gods -- Amarna: palace of first Sun King -- Phaistos: palaces between Asia and Europe -- Palace of Nestor at Pylos and Bronze Age Greece -- The Assyrian Palace at Nimrud: empire in stone -- Nineveh: the architecture of Assyrian power -- Persepolis: palace of the Persians -- Greek palaces in conquered lands I -- Greek palaces in conquered lands II -- Greek palaces come to Roman Italy -- Masada: Herod the Great between East and West -- Herod the Great's Summer and Winter palaces -- Caligula's floating palaces -- Nero's Domus Transitoria at Rome -- Nero's Golden House: a Roman palace theater -- Rome's great imperial palace of Domitian -- Hadrian's villa, Tivoli -- Diocletian's retirement palace, Split -- Constantine's palace, Constantinople -- China's endless palace: Weiyang Palace -- The Palace of Montezuma II at Tenochtitlan -- Renaissance palaces and the classica revival -- Palaces in a world of democracies.

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