Great Battles of the Ancient World
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Taught by Professor Garrett G. Fagan THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
LECTURE TITLES
1. Why Study Battles? What Is War? 2. The Problem of Warfare’s Origins 3. 4. 5.
The Battles of Megiddo and Kadesh
6. The Trojan War and Homeric Warfare 7. The Assyrian War Machine 8. The Sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem 9.
A Peculiar Institution? Hoplite Warfare
10. The Battle of Marathon 11. The Battle of Thermopylae
12. Naval Warfare and the Battle of Salamis
13. The Athenian Expedition to Sicily 14. The March of the Ten Thousand 15. Macedonian Military Innovations 16. Alexander’s Conquest of Persia 17. The Legions of Rome 18. The Battles of Cannae and Zama 19.
Legion versus Phalanx— Six Pitched Battles
Discover the True Force and Fury of Ancient Warfare
Hollywood has gone to elaborate lengths to recreate the violence and mayhem of ancient warfare. But what were ancient battles really like? What were the weapons, tactics, armor, and training involved? And what were the crucial factors that led to the startling victories and defeats that shaped human history?
Explore the answers to these and other pointed questions in Great Battles of the Ancient World. In these 24 lectures, Professor Garrett
G. Fagan—a professor of ancient history at The Pennsylvania State University—takes you into the thick of combat during notable battles in the ancient Mediterranean region, including Meggido, Thermopylae, Marathon, Gaugamela, Masada, and Adrianople. By the end of this fascinating course, you’ll discover that the details of what actually happened in ancient combat truly defy our modern imagination.
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20. The Sieges of Alesia and Masada 21. Caesar’s World War 22. The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest 23. Catastrophe at Adrianople 24. Refl ections on Warfare in the Ancient World
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