San Antonio College Library

Dramatizations and narrated sequences. First in a series on the shaping of the western world. In this segment, the magnificent age of Greece is recreated through the words and deeds of its citizens. Portrays the philosophical and moral debates of Greece's Golden Age which relate to the concerns of contemporary civilization through excerpts from theatrical masterpieces, Antigone by Sophocles and Lysistrata by Aristophenes as well as dramatic portrayals...

Presents an introduction to ancient Greek civilization, discussing its history, politics, art, religion, literature, philosophy, military, gods, and heroes.

"A scholarly, comprehensive work that engages the reader and makes history a pleasure, this book covers the whole of Ancient Greece - 3,000 years of art, culture, literature, politics, war, and empire. Until now, histories of Ancient Greece were either accessible to the general reader but out-of-date or current but too daunting for anyone but the specialist." "Using the full range of resources of art history, linguistics, archaeology, and literature,...

Employs the findings of archaeological research to reconstruct Greek society, politics, religion, art, and architecture from 1100 B.C. to 500 B.C.

"Nearly 70 years ago, Edith Hamilton published The Greek Way, an immediate classic that educated two generations of readers about the debt we owe the handful of Greek city-states that developed the "spirit of the West" some 2500 years ago. Now, in Greek Ways, Bruce Thornton has written a book that is for our time what Hamilton's was for a prior era - a reassertion of the Greeks' crucial role in creating Western civilization and in developing the core...

"Does Greek matter? To whom and why? This interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greekness have erupted in both the modern and the ancient worlds. It looks at the Renaissance, when men were burned at the stake over biblical Greek, at violent Victorian rows over national culture and the schooling of a country, at the shocking performances of modernist opera - and it also examines the ancient world and its...

"More than 4,000 years ago, the ancient Greeks invaded the rugged hills and fertile plains of the Balkan Peninsula, and in the centuries that followed, they built one of the greatest and most influential civilizations in history. Their enduring legacy to modern society includes mythology, poetry, drama, sculpture, architecture, science, and political thought. Spanning more than 2,000 years, from the beginning of Minoan civilization in the third millennium...

"Athens was one of the most important and powerful cities in Greece during the Classical period. It was also the first of the Greek city states fully to develop democracy."--http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/athens/home_set.html.

Beginning with Homer's account of the Trojan War, this program re-creates the Greek world to provide insight into the daily lives of Greek citizens.