TTC Video - The Life and Legacy of The Roman Empire 

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(16 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 697
Taught by Ori Z. Soltes
Houston Baptist University
Ph.D., Union Institute and University
Georgetown University

Note: This an out of print lecture from the Teaching Company. 

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Course Description

These are history lectures the way you always dreamed they would be done, the events of political and military history are are recounted with flair, but alongside them and undiminished in stature are the developments in philosophy, the visual, and literary arts and what they tell us about the interior lives of the Romans and the developments of the mind and sensibility of the west.

The lectures show us the developments of Rome the Republic as it becomes Rome the Empire -- the grand and glorious inheritor of Greek Hellenistic culture and the progenitor of Mediterraneans culture throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. Roman genius in war, politics, law , literature, sculpture, and the range of cultural endeavors is fully is discussed. Roman religious diversity brought paganism to new patterns of spirituality until, immersed in a new faith, the immortal empires became springboard for Christianity's growth and the doorway into the eternal kingdom of medieval conception.

Professor Ori Soltes of Georgetown University, Director of the B'nai B'rith Klutznick Museum in Washington, is a lecturer excelled by none. Professor Soltes, something of a Washington institution, is known for his extraordinary breadth of scholarship and his nearly hypnotic quality as a lecturer.

Course Lecture Titles

Lecture 1. The legacy of Hellenism
lecture 2. The dawn of the Res Romana
lecture 3. The rise of a republic
lecture 4. The conquest of Italy
lecture 5. Overwhelming the west: Rome and Carthage
lecture 6. Swallowing the east: culture, conquest, crisis
lecture 7. History and destiny
lecture 8. From republic to empire. Part 2. lecture 9. Conquest and crisis
lecture 10. Reality and Roman space
lecture 11. Inner spaces of empire and satire
lecture 12. Identity and succession
lecture 13. Gold to silver
lecture 14. Roman women and innovation continued
lecture 15. Spirit and survival
lecture 16. The legacy of Rome

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