Show Info
- Status: Ended
- First Aired: August 29, 2014
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 24
- Networks: Wonderium, The Great Courses
- Genres: Talk, Documentary
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Cities of the Ancient World(2014)
Overview
People live in a world of cities; reflecting on ancient models of the city as a human phenomenon offers important lessons about today's culture; an opportunity to survey the breadth of the ancient world through the context of its urban development.
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Lectures
24 episodes • 2014
Lectures
24 episodes • 2014
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lure of the City | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Çatalhöyük—First Experiment in Urban Living | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Jericho and Its Walls | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Uruk—City of Gilgamesh | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Mysterious Mohenjo-daro | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Kahun—Company Town in the Desert | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Work and Life at Deir el-Medina | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Amarna—Revolutionary Capital | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Knossos—Palace, City, or Temple? | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Akrotiri—Bronze Age Pompeii | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Mycenae, Tiryns, and the Mask of Agamemnon | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Athens—Civic Buildings and Civic Identity | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Athenian Domestic Architecture | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Hippodamian Planning—Miletus and Ephesus | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Olynthus—A Classical Greek City Preserved | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Wonder and Diversity at Alexandria | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Pergamon—The New Theatricality | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 18 | The Good Life in Rome | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 19 | The Lives of the Poor in Rome | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Ostia—Middle-Class Harbor Town | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Timgad—More Roman Than Rome | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Karanis—On the Fringes of the Empire | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Constantinople—The Last Ancient City | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Lessons and Legacies of Ancient Urban Life | Aug 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
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