Classical archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome/John R. Hale. DVD

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Community of Christ Library

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Description

Part 1. Lecture 1. Archaeology's big bang -- Lecture 2. "Ode on a Grecian Urn" -- Lecture 3. A quest for the Trojan War -- Lecture 4. How to dig -- Lecture 5. First find your site -- Lecture 6. Taking the search underwater -- Lecture 7. Cracking the codes -- Lecture 8. Techniques for successful dating -- Lecture 9. Reconstructing vanished environments -- Lecture 10. "Not artifacts but people" -- Lecture 11. Archaeology by experiment -- Lecture 12. Return to Vesuvius.^^Part 2. Lecture 13. Gournia, Harriet Boyd and the Mother Goddess -- Lecture 14. Thera, a Bronze Age Atlantis? -- Lecture 15. Olympia, games and gods -- Lecture 16. Athens' Agora, where Socrates walked -- Lecture 17. Delphi, questioning the oracle -- Lecture 18. Kyrenia, lost ship of the Hellenistic Age -- Lecture 19. Riace, warriors from the Sea -- Lecture 20. Rome, foundation myths and archaeology -- Lecture 21. Caesarea Maritima, a Roman city in Judea -- Lecture 22. Teutoburg, battlefield archaeology -- Lecture 23. Bath, healing waters at Aquae Sulis -- Lecture 24. Torre de Palma, a farm in the far West.^^Part 3. Lecture 25. Roots of classical culture -- Lecture 26. The texture of everyday life -- Lecture 27. Their daily bread -- Lecture 28. Voyaging on a dark sea of wine -- Lecture 29. Shows and circuses: Rome's "virtual reality" -- Lecture 30. Engineering and technology -- Lecture 31. Slaves: a silent majority? -- Lecture 32. Women of Greece and Rome -- Lecture 33. Hadrian, mark of the individual -- Lecture 34. Crucible of new faiths -- Lecture 35. The end of the world: a coroner's report -- Lecture 36. A bridge across the Torrent. 6 videodiscs (18 hr.) :sound, color ;4 3/4 in. +1 course guidebook (iv, 276 pages ; 19 cm.)

Publication Details

Publication Type

DVD

Place Published

City

Chantilly, VA

Date Published

2006

Publication Subjects

Classical antiquities. Archaeology--Greece. Archaeology--Italy. Speeches, addresses, etc. Antiquities.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00810745 Archaeology.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00812938 Classical antiquities.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00863445 Speeches, addresses, etc.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01129318

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Video Classical

ISBN

1598032135, 9781598032130, 9781490689654, 1490689656

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-276).