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Author:

Fagan, Garrett G., 1963-

Title:

Great battles of the ancient world, Part 1 (CD) [sound recording] / Garrett G. Fagan.

Format:

[sound recording] /

Publisher:

Teaching Company,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

12 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.).

Subject:

Battles.
Military history, Ancient.
Military art and science--History.
Audiobooks.
Compact discs.

Other Authors:

Teaching Company.

Notes:

In two containers with twelve (30 minute) lectures on 6 discs in each. Course guides (inserted in container) includes bibliographies. Teaching Company : 3757-01 --3757-02 (booklets). Lecturer: professor Garrett G. Fagan, The Pennsylvania State University.

Contents:

Lecture 12. Lecture 1. Naval warfare and the battle of Salamis.. Lecture 2. Problem of warfare's origins -- Lecture 3. Sumer, Akkad, and early Mesopotamian warfare -- Lecture 4. Egyptian warfare from the old to new kingdoms -- Lecture 5. Battles of Megiddo and Kadesh -- Lecture 6. Trojan war and Homeric warfare - -- Lecture 7. Assyrian war machine -- Lecture 8. Sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem -- Lecture 9. Peculiar institution? Hoplite warfare -- Lecture 10. Battle of Marathon -- Lecture 11. Battle of Thermopylae -- Lecture 12. Naval warfare and the battle of Salamis..
Lecture 24. Lecture 13. Reflections on warfare in the ancient world... Lecture 14. March of the ten thousand -- Lecture 15. Macedonian military innovations -- Lecture 16. Alexander's conquest of Persia -- Lecture 17. Legions of Rome -- Lecture 18. Battles of Canae and Zama -- Lecture 19. Legion versus Phalanx, six pitched battles -- Lecture 20. Sieges of Alesia and Masada -- Lecture 21. Caesar's world war -- Lecture 22. Battle of the Teutoburg Forest -- Lecture 23. Catastrophe at Adrianople -- Lecture 24. Reflections on warfare in the ancient world...

Summary:

What were ancient battles really like? What weapons, tactics, armor, training, and logistics were used? And what were the crucial factors that could turn the tide of battle, giving one side victory and consigning the other to slaughter, capture, or, at best, escape to fight another day? To answer these questions the course describes and discusses in some of the most notable battles fought in the Mediterranean region from prehistoric times to the 4th century A.D.

Series:

Great courses. Ancient & medieval history

ISBN:

9781598030495
1598030493

Locations:

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

AQPC277 -- Lamoni Public Library (Lamoni)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)