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Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans [electronic resource] : the foundations of Western Civilization / Timothy B. Shutt.
Kenyon College professor, Timothy B. Shutt delivers a course that will examine the foundations of Western Civilization. Through literature that has survived the ages, this course will look at the culture of the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, and likewise look at how these cultures interacted with each other.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781449886677
- Physical Description: 1 sound file (ca. 8 hr.) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books ; 2011, p2003.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from title screen (viewed April 27, 2011). "14 lectures." |
Formatted Contents Note: | Overview and backgrounds: ancient cultures -- The Hebrew Bible: overview and Genesis -- The Hebrew Bible: Exodus, David, the Prophets and Job -- Homer and The Illiad -- Homer: The Odyssey and the birth of tragedy -- The birth of tragedy: Aeschylus and the Greek drama -- Herodotus and Thucydides: historians and Hellenism -- Socrates and Plato -- Plato and Aristotle -- Virgil and Rome -- Virgil and Ovid -- The Christian Bible: The Gospels -- The Christian Bible: The Diaspora and St. Paul -- Plotinus, St. Augustine: the end of antiquity and the medieval synthesis. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Lecture given by Timothy B. Shutt. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires OneClick Digital Media Manager. System requirements: 200 MB of free disk space, 512 MB of RAM, Windows Installer 3.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64), Windows Media Player 10 QA. |
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Subject: | Civilization, Western > History. Classical literature > History. Jews > Civilization. Greece > Civilization. Rome > Civilization. |
Genre: | Downloadable audio books. |