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Odyssey of the West : part 2, from Athens to Rome and the Gospels

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  • Contributor: Hartswick, Kim J.; Richeimer, Joel F.; Shutt, Timothy Baker
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2007
    Summary:

    This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. The lectures draw upon the resources of history, philosophy, literary study, art history, religious studies, political science, and the history of science and technology in hopes of engaging discussions that, over the course of forty centuries have made Western culture what it is.

    Contents:
    • Thucydides's The Peloponnesian War
    • The rise and fall of Athens, early Greek philiosophy, Xenophon
    • Plato's Euthyphro - Plato's Theaetetus
    • Plato's theory of forms
    • Aristotle's philosophic system
    • Aristotle's Ethics
    • Alexander of Macedon and the Graeco-Roman world
    • Virgil's Aeneid
    • Ovid's Metamorphoses
    • Roman art and engineering
    • Plotinus and Neoplatonism
    • The Christian Bible: The Gospels
    • The Christian Bible: Acts and Epistles of St. Paul.
    Genre:
    Instructional and educational works, History and geography
    Subject(s): Civilization, Western | Classical influences | Literature, Modern | Philosophy, Ancient
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD, Recorded Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781456103118