Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: The Roman Empire : from Augustus to the fall of Rome. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2019] Description: 4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color, 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) digital optical video video file DVD video Summary: Discover a true story of power as a renowned professor surveys the rise and fall of the Roman Empire from 31 BC to the end of antiquity. Target Audience Note: Not rated. Series: The Great Courses Great courses (DVD). Ancient history. Subjects: Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D. Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Genre: Educational films. Filmed lectures. Instructional films. Nonfiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Other Author: Aldrete, Gregory S., lecturer. Teaching Company. Notes: Title from container. Course No. 3344. 24 lectures (30 min. each). Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 254-263). Lecturer: Professor Gregory S. Aldrete. DVD. In English ; closed-captioned. Contents: Dawn of the Roman Empire -- Augustus, the First Emperor -- Tiberius and Caligula -- Claudius and Nero -- The Flavian Emperors and Roman bath culture -- The five good emperors -- Hazards of life in ancient Rome: the five Fs -- Roman art and architecture -- Roman literature -- The ordinary Roman speaks: graffiti -- Final words: burial and tombstone epitaphs -- From Commodus to Caracalla -- The crisis of the 3rd century -- Diocletian and late 3rd-century reforms -- Early Christianity and the rise of Constantine -- Constantine and his successors -- Gladiators and beast hunts -- Chariot racing, spectacles, and theater -- The Roman army -- Barbarians overwhelm the western empire -- The Byzantine empire -- When and why did the Roman Empire fall? -- Late antiquity: a new historical era -- Echoes of Rome. ISBN: 9781629976235 1629976237 9781629976235 Publisher Number: 3344 ID3344A-01 PD3344A PB3344A Other Number: 1081427985 System Availability: 3 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 3 Control Number: 773105 # Local items in: 3 # System items in: 3 Call Number: GREAT DVD 937.06 Roman Em Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
