Great battles of the ancient world / The Teaching Company.

Hollywood has gone to elaborate lengths to recreate the violence and mayhem of ancient warfare in movies, but what were ancient battles really like? What weapons, tactics, armor, training, and logistics were used? What were the crucial factors that could turn the tide of battle, giving one side vi...

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Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Other Authors: Fagan, Garrett G., 1963-, Stonebarger, Tamara, Leven, Jon
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2005], ©2005.
Series:Great courses (DVD). Ancient & medieval history.
Subjects:
Alexander, > the Great, > 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Caesar, Julius.
History, Ancient.
Battles > History.
Military history, Ancient.
Armies > History > To 1500.
Military art and science > History > To 500.
Military art and science > Rome > History.
Siege warfare > History.
Strategy > History.
Tactics > History.
Cavalry drill and tactics > History.
Naval battles > History.
Greece > History > Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
Rome > History, Military.
Physical Description:4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 169 pages ; 19 cm).
Format: Video DVD
Contents:
  • Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1 Why study battles? What is war? ; Lecture 2 The problem of warfare's origins ; Lecture 3 Sumer, Akkad, and early Mesopotamian warfare ; Lecture 4 Egyptian warfare from the Old to New Kingdoms ; Lecture 5 The battles of Megiddo and Kadesh ; Lecture 6 The Trojan war and Homeric warfare
  • Disc 2. Lecture 7 The Assyrian war machine ; Lecture 8 The sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem ; Lecture 9 A peculiar institution? Hoplite warfare ; Lecture 10 The battle of Marathon ; Lecture 11 The battle of Thermopylae ; Lecture 12 Naval warfare and the battle of Salamis.
  • Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13 The Athenian expedition to Sicily ; Lecture 14 The march of the ten thousand ; Lecture 15 Macedonian military innovations ; Lecture 16 Alexander's conquest of Persia ; Lecture 17 The legions of Rome ; Lecture 18 The battles of Cannae and Zama
  • Disc 4. Lecture 19 Legion versus phalanx: Six pitched battles ; Lecture 20 The sieges of Alesia and Masada ; Lecture 21 Caesar's world war ; Lecture 22 The battle of the Teutoburg Forest ; Lecture 23 Catastrophe at Adrianople ; Lecture 24 Reflections on warfare in the ancient world.