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The other side of history : daily life in the ancient world

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: ID3810A-01 | Teaching Co. (set)PD3810A | Teaching Co. (discs)PB3810A | Teaching Co. (course guidebook)3810 | Teaching Co.Series: Great courses (DVD). Ancient history.Publication details: Chantilly, VA : Great Courses, �2012.Description: 8 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)ISBN:
  • 1598038613
  • 9781598038613
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 930 23
LOC classification:
  • CB151 .G35 2012
Contents:
Disc 1. Taking on the other side of history -- Being Paleolithic -- Living in Mesopotamia -- Being Egyptian -- Belonging to an Egyptian family -- Practicing Egyptian religion.
Disc 2. Being a dead Egyptian -- Being an Egyptian worker -- Being Minoan and Mycenaean -- Being Greek -- Growing up Greek -- Being a Greek slave.
Disc 3. Being a Greek soldier or sailor -- Being a Greek woman -- Relaxing Greek style -- Being a Greek refugee -- Being a sick or disabled Greek -- Practicing Greek religion.
Disc 4. Being an old Greek -- Being a dead Greek -- Being Persian -- Living in Hellenistic Egypt -- Being Roman -- Being a Roman slave.
Disc 5. Being a Roman soldier -- Being a Roman woman -- Being a poor Roman -- Being a rich Roman -- Being a Roman celebrity -- Being a Roman criminal.
Disc 6. Relaxing Roman style -- Practicing Roman religion -- Being Jewish under Roman rule -- Being Christian under Roman rule -- Being a Celt in ancient Britain -- Being a Roman Briton.
Disc 7. Being Anglo-Saxon -- Being a Viking raider -- Living under Norman rule -- Being medieval -- Being poor in the Middle Ages -- Being a medieval woman.
Disc 8. Being a medieval Christian or heretic -- Being a medieval knight -- Being a Crusader -- Being a pilgrim -- Relaxing medieval style -- Daily life matters.
Lecturer: Robert Garland, Colgate University.Summary: People who are anonymous and whose lives are usually ignored in traditional historical accounts are no less important than more prominent individuals in influencing the flow of events. These ordinary, but often heroic, people are the focus of this course. Each of the 48 lectures looks at history from a nontraditional perspective, that of the weak and marginalized-- the poor, sick, disabled, and elderly, as well as the refugees, slaves, women, children, and common soldiers.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 930 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000563043
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 930 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000563050

"Course no. 3810."

Accompanying course guidebook includes bibliographical references (p. 352-371).

Disc 1. Taking on the other side of history -- Being Paleolithic -- Living in Mesopotamia -- Being Egyptian -- Belonging to an Egyptian family -- Practicing Egyptian religion.

Disc 2. Being a dead Egyptian -- Being an Egyptian worker -- Being Minoan and Mycenaean -- Being Greek -- Growing up Greek -- Being a Greek slave.

Disc 3. Being a Greek soldier or sailor -- Being a Greek woman -- Relaxing Greek style -- Being a Greek refugee -- Being a sick or disabled Greek -- Practicing Greek religion.

Disc 4. Being an old Greek -- Being a dead Greek -- Being Persian -- Living in Hellenistic Egypt -- Being Roman -- Being a Roman slave.

Disc 5. Being a Roman soldier -- Being a Roman woman -- Being a poor Roman -- Being a rich Roman -- Being a Roman celebrity -- Being a Roman criminal.

Disc 6. Relaxing Roman style -- Practicing Roman religion -- Being Jewish under Roman rule -- Being Christian under Roman rule -- Being a Celt in ancient Britain -- Being a Roman Briton.

Disc 7. Being Anglo-Saxon -- Being a Viking raider -- Living under Norman rule -- Being medieval -- Being poor in the Middle Ages -- Being a medieval woman.

Disc 8. Being a medieval Christian or heretic -- Being a medieval knight -- Being a Crusader -- Being a pilgrim -- Relaxing medieval style -- Daily life matters.

Lecturer: Robert Garland, Colgate University.

People who are anonymous and whose lives are usually ignored in traditional historical accounts are no less important than more prominent individuals in influencing the flow of events. These ordinary, but often heroic, people are the focus of this course. Each of the 48 lectures looks at history from a nontraditional perspective, that of the weak and marginalized-- the poor, sick, disabled, and elderly, as well as the refugees, slaves, women, children, and common soldiers.

DVD; Dolby Digital Plus.

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