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Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean

By: Robert Garland, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Robert Garland
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Integrated approaches to teaching Greek and Roman history are a rarity in academia. Most scholars are historians of either Greek or Roman history and perform research solely in that specific field, an approach that author and award-winning Professor Robert Garland considers questionable.

In these 36 passionate lectures, he provides an impressive and rare opportunity to understand the two dominant cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world in relation to one another - a relationship that has virtually no parallel in world history. He shows you how these two very different cultures intersected, coincided, and at times, collided.

You'll discover the extraordinary culture that we call Greco-Roman: a unique fusion of civilizations that encompasses statecraft, mythology, language, philosophy, fine arts, architecture, science, and much else. Who were the Greeks and the Romans? How did they organize their societies? How did they interact?

In this unique integrated historical approach, you'll see how Greece and Rome's relationship resembled a marriage: two distinct personalities competing in some areas, sharing in others, and sometimes creating a new synthesis of the two civilizations. And you'll consider their more substantive cultural differences, including religion, their views of foreigners, and their ways of thinking.

You'll delight in the variety of sources - literature, archaeology, the visual arts, coinage, inscriptions - that Professor Garland draws upon to assemble a fascinating and complex picture of these two great civilizations. And you'll appreciate how he keeps Greece and Rome focused on how this material affects us today.

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This is the second great course I have listened to by Professor Robert Garland. Extremely knowledgeable and wonderful delivery. I commute three hours a day, listening to this course makes the commute worth it.

Terrific

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Anything by Robert Garland is a delight to listen to and learn from. This is a beautiful narrative on a complex and intertwined history that has shaped us all.

Utterly delightful!

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a thorough and fascinating review of how Ancient Rome and Greece interacted. I had to stop and read a bit on Ancient Rome before I could fully appreciate the depth of the information in this course.
Robert Garland loves his topic and is both entertaining and informative. I love every course he has presented.

fascinating

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