Odyssey of the West Part 2, From Athens to Rome and the Gospels

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    Odyssey of the West. 2

    Contributor:

    Hartswick, Kim J.

    ,

    Richeimer, Joel F.

    ,

    Schiffman, Lawrence H.

    ,

    Shutt, Timothy Baker

    Résumé:

    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.
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD , Recorded Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781456103118

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Hartswick, Kim J.

Richeimer, Joel F.

Schiffman, Lawrence H.

Shutt, Timothy Baker

Abstract

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.

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Prince Frederick, MD

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