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The Classical Legacy
Ancient Greece: City and Society - May 26, 2014 02:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsHas Greek history had any impact on the modern world? Are the literature, art and architecture of the ancient Greeks still relevant centuries later? In this lecture Sarah Midford examines the enduring appeal of classical Greece and the ways in which its culture has both moulded Western society a...
The Classical Legacy (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - May 26, 2014 02:29 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsHas Greek history had any impact on the modern world? Are the literature, art and architecture of the ancient Greeks still relevant centuries later? In this lecture Sarah Midford examines the enduring appeal of classical Greece and the ways in which its culture has both moulded Western society a...
Aristophanes’ Frogs
Ancient Greece: City and Society - May 25, 2014 23:58 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsDr. Heather Sebo begins by discussing the proposal in the parabasis of Aristophanes Frogs that clemency be extended to citizens exiled for their involvement in the oligarchic coup of 411 BCE. An instance of Aristophanes’ immersion in the issues and debates of his times is the way he alludes to t...
Aristophanes’ Frogs (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - May 25, 2014 23:57 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsDr. Heather Sebo begins by discussing the proposal in the parabasis of Aristophanes Frogs that clemency be extended to citizens exiled for their involvement in the oligarchic coup of 411 BCE. An instance of Aristophanes’ immersion in the issues and debates of his times is the way he alludes to t...
Slaves and Captives in Greek Drama
Ancient Greece: City and Society - May 20, 2014 01:45 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsFor the ancients, the consequences of defeat in war were that every man, women and child became the property of the victors, to be disposed of in whatever way they saw fit. In this lecture Dr Heather Sebo shows that the anxieties and implications of this terrible possibility were expressed on th...
Slaves and Captives in Greek Drama (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - May 20, 2014 01:44 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsFor the ancients, the consequences of defeat in war were that every man, women and child became the property of the victors, to be disposed of in whatever way they saw fit. In this lecture Dr Heather Sebo shows that the anxieties and implications of this terrible possibility were expressed on th...
Slavery, Part II
Ancient Greece: City and Society - May 06, 2014 00:50 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsHaving looked at some practical issues regarding ancient Greek slavery, in this second lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd examines some of the attitudes of the ancient Greeks towards their slaves – including terminology, approaches to treating slaves, “rights” of slaves, debates about the justification...
Slavery, Part II (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - May 06, 2014 00:49 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsHaving looked at some practical issues regarding ancient Greek slavery, in this second lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd examines some of the attitudes of the ancient Greeks towards their slaves – including terminology, approaches to treating slaves, “rights” of slaves, debates about the justification...
Slavery, Part I
Ancient Greece: City and Society - April 28, 2014 02:50 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the first of two lectures on Ancient Greek slavery, Dr Gillian Shepherd looks at two important slave systems – chattel slavery in Athens and the helots of Sparta – and how they might have come into being. Concentrating on Athenian slavery, the lecture goes on to examine some essential feature...
Slavery, Part I (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - April 28, 2014 02:43 ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the first of two lectures on Ancient Greek slavery, Dr Gillian Shepherd looks at two important slave systems – chattel slavery in Athens and the helots of Sparta – and how they might have come into being. Concentrating on Athenian slavery, the lecture goes on to examine some essential feature...
Mining, Money and Economy
Ancient Greece: City and Society - April 15, 2014 02:55 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsAthens was a wealthy and prosperous place in the classical period. In this lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd takes a closer look at the Athenian economy by examining the nature of coinage in ancient Greece and one major source of Athenian wealth – the silver mines of Laurion, which provided the famous...
Mining, Money and Economy (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - April 15, 2014 02:54 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsAthens was a wealthy and prosperous place in the classical period. In this lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd takes a closer look at the Athenian economy by examining the nature of coinage in ancient Greece and one major source of Athenian wealth – the silver mines of Laurion, which provided the famous...
Marriage to Death: Sophocles’ Antigone
Ancient Greece: City and Society - March 28, 2014 02:13 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsDr Heather Sebo contrasts the traditions of women’s lament with the public orations associated with the communal burial of the war dead. It contrasts the traditional focus on personal grief and the irreplaceable uniqueness of the deceased individual with the political view of the dead as interch...
Marriage to Death: Sophocles’ Antigone (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - March 28, 2014 02:12 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsDr Heather Sebo contrasts the traditions of women’s lament with the public orations associated with the communal burial of the war dead. It contrasts the traditional focus on personal grief and the irreplaceable uniqueness of the deceased individual with the political view of the dead as interch...
Death in Athens
Ancient Greece: City and Society - December 12, 2013 04:48 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsOne of the best sources of evidence for understanding an ancient society is burials. Ancient cemeteries can provide evidence for population, diet, social divisions, religious beliefs and cultural practices, and changes in funerary method can signal changes in social and cultural attitudes and pr...
Death in Athens (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - December 12, 2013 04:47 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsOne of the best sources of evidence for understanding an ancient society is burials. Ancient cemeteries can provide evidence for population, diet, social divisions, religious beliefs and cultural practices, and changes in funerary method can signal changes in social and cultural attitudes and pr...
Images of Barbarians
Ancient Greece: City and Society - December 12, 2013 02:37 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsGreek art is full of images of “others”, both historical (such as the Persians and Scythians) and mythological (such as centaurs and Amazons). In this lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd examines how non-Greek groups were represented visually, how they appear in relation to Greeks, and the role of such ...
Images of Barbarians (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - December 12, 2013 02:36 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsGreek art is full of images of “others”, both historical (such as the Persians and Scythians) and mythological (such as centaurs and Amazons). In this lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd examines how non-Greek groups were represented visually, how they appear in relation to Greeks, and the role of such ...
The Greeks and the Other
Ancient Greece: City and Society - December 03, 2013 01:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsOne of the preoccupations of the ancient Greeks, especially in the fifth century BC, was the idea of the barbarian “other” – people who were barbaros (ie did not speak Greek) and had customs and cultures which contrasted with the practices of the Greeks. The fifth century BC historian Herodotus ...
The Greeks and the Other (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - December 03, 2013 00:59 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsOne of the preoccupations of the ancient Greeks, especially in the fifth century BC, was the idea of the barbarian “other” – people who were barbaros (ie did not speak Greek) and had customs and cultures which contrasted with the practices of the Greeks. The fifth century BC historian Herodotus ...
Sexuality and the Symposion
Ancient Greece: City and Society - November 19, 2013 02:56 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd takes a closer look at the ancient Greek symposion – the ritualised, male and often elite drinking party which could also be the context for sexual encounters beyond the institution of marriage – such as with hetairai (courtesans) or pederasty, the socially co...
Sexuality and the Symposion (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - November 19, 2013 02:55 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd takes a closer look at the ancient Greek symposion – the ritualised, male and often elite drinking party which could also be the context for sexual encounters beyond the institution of marriage – such as with hetairai (courtesans) or pederasty, the socially co...
Sexuality: Plato’s Symposium
Ancient Greece: City and Society - October 30, 2013 00:48 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsGreek ideas of male sexuality differed from modern Western ones; rather than defining their sexual orientation one way or another, Greek men could indulge in both hetero- and homosexual relationships, although the latter seems to have been socially condoned only in the context of the relationshi...
Sexuality: Plato’s Symposium (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - October 30, 2013 00:47 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsGreek ideas of male sexuality differed from modern Western ones; rather than defining their sexual orientation one way or another, Greek men could indulge in both hetero- and homosexual relationships, although the latter seems to have been socially condoned only in the context of the relationshi...
Lesbian Women: Sappho
Ancient Greece: City and Society - October 02, 2013 06:26 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsNearly all the textual sources for ancient Greece were written by elite men – and very often Athenian men. One important exception to this is the lyric poetry of Sappho, a woman from the island of Lesbos who was born in the later 7th century BC. In this lecture Dr Rhiannon Evans analyses the poe...
Lesbian Women: Sappho (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - October 02, 2013 06:25 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsNearly all the textual sources for ancient Greece were written by elite men – and very often Athenian men. One important exception to this is the lyric poetry of Sappho, a woman from the island of Lesbos who was born in the later 7th century BC. In this lecture Dr Rhiannon Evans analyses the poe...
Women in Athenian Drama
Ancient Greece: City and Society - September 24, 2013 05:09 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsAthenian tragedies of the 5th century BC provide an extra dimension to our impressions of women and attitudes to women in ancient Greece. Here, women can be strong, powerful and commit (under provocation!) heinous crimes; the men, in comparison, often seem vain, weak and too ready to break impor...
Women in Athenian Drama (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - September 24, 2013 05:07 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsAthenian tragedies of the 5th century BC provide an extra dimension to our impressions of women and attitudes to women in ancient Greece. Here, women can be strong, powerful and commit (under provocation!) heinous crimes; the men, in comparison, often seem vain, weak and too ready to break impor...
Images of Women
Ancient Greece: City and Society - September 17, 2013 00:06 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhile texts which deal with the lives of women in ancient Greece are relatively few and limited, images of women abound, especially on Athenian red-figured pottery of the 5th century BC. Like the texts, however, these images need to be considered carefully: do they conform to the impressions gai...
Images of Women (handout)
Ancient Greece: City and Society - September 17, 2013 00:05 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhile texts which deal with the lives of women in ancient Greece are relatively few and limited, images of women abound, especially on Athenian red-figured pottery of the 5th century BC. Like the texts, however, these images need to be considered carefully: do they conform to the impressions gai...
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