Videos

Video lectures for online or hybrid versions of my courses, publicly available online via YouTube.

Note: All of these are 20-30-minute topic videos except where noted.

Studying History

  Eras of History   Evidence   Writing   Writing an Interpretive Essay (1)
Thesis and Structure   Writing an Interpretive Essay (2)
Sources and Citations   Essay Grading

Women in Antiquity

Note: These are older, full lecture videos for the online version of the course. Mouseover for lengths.

  Playlist–Women in Antiquity   Quick Welcome and Orientation Video   1) Introduction and Evidence   2) Women in the Epic of Gilgamesh   3) Queen in a Land of Kings   4) Ancient Goddesses and Gods   5) The Bronze Age and its Homeric Echo   6) Women and the Kingdom of Israel   7) Greece Emerging from the Dark Age   8) Women and the Athenian Polis   9) Living Unpublicly in Classical Athens   10) Images of Women in Athenian Literature   11) The Roman Aristocratic Matron   12) Beyond the Roman Aristocracy   13) Women and the Roman Religion   14) Women of the Cosmopolis

History of Ancient Religion

Note: These videos consist of plain audio recordings of in-person lectures, with accompanying slides.

  Playlist–History of Ancient Religion   Meeting 3: The images essay; Polytheism. (1:16:46)   Meeting 4: Complexities of ancient religion - integration -Indo-Europeans - Hittites - Divination (1:17:03)   Meeting 5: Ancient Iranian empires - Zarathustra - dualism - magic (1:15:59)   Meeting 6: Syria and Canaan; Pollution and Sacrilege. (1:19:18)   Meeting 7: The Syrian Goddess; Israel and Judah; evolutionary andrevolutionary monotheism. (1:18:14)   Meeting 9: Papyrus of Ani recap; Cosmology; Minoans; shared rituals. (1:18:39)   Meeting 8: Abraham and Isaac recap; Egyptian religion and cosmology. (1:14:49)   Meeting 10: Minoan imagery; Indo-Europeans; Mycenaean Greeks; sharedmythology. (1:16:09)   Meeting 11: The research essay; periods of Greek history; Greekreligion. (1:17:46)   Meeting 12: Greek religion (cont'd); Death of Patroklas; Mystery Cults;Etruria. (1:17:25)   Meeting 13: The Etruscan discipline; writing and religion; the Romans. (1:16:46)   Meeting 14: The Romans (cont'd); law and ethics; early Christianity. (1:12:58)

History of Ancient Greece

  Playlist–Ancient Greece
WEEK 1 - Introduction
  Quick Welcome and Orientation Video   The Aegean World   Eras of History   Evidence   Writing
WEEK 2 - Bronze Age Aegean
  The Minoans   Mycenaeans
WEEK 3 - Dark Age Greece
  The Greek Dark Age (1)   The Greek Dark Age (2)   Homer and the Homeric World
WEEK 4 - Archaic Greece
  The Polis and the Colony   Hoplite Warriors   Lyric Poetry and Philosophy   Hesiod   Writing an Interpretive Essay (1)
Thesis and Structure
WEEK 5 - Sparta
  The Homoioi   Spartan Society   Sparta and Greece   Writing an Interpretive Essay (2)
Sources and Citations
WEEK 6 - Archaic Athens
  Oligarchic Athens   Radical Democracy   Athenian Art
WEEK 7 - The Persian Wars
  The Persian Empire   Persian Invasions   Delian League
WEEKS 8 and 9 - Classical Athens
  Fifth-Century Athens   The City of Athens   History, Tragedy, and Comedy   Education and Sophistry   The Clouds
WEEK 10 - Peloponnesian Wars
  Breakdown of the Peace   The Archidamian War   Alcibiades, Sicily, and the War’s End
WEEK 11 - Fourth Century Crisis
  Consequences of the War   Wars of Hegemony   Law and Government
WEEKS 12 and 13 - Philip and Alexander
  Philip in Greece   The Rise of Macedon   Alexander the Great
WEEK 14 - Hellenistic East
  The Death of Alexander   The Hellenistic East   Hellenistic culture

History of Ancient Rome

  Playlist–History of Ancient Rome
Week 1 - Introduction and Evidence
  Quick Welcome and Orientation Video   Stages of Roman History   Roman Names   Optional Bonus: Sample Inscription
Week 2 - Tribes and Kings
  Italy and its Peoples   The Roman Kings - Part 1   The Roman Kings - Part 2   The End of Monarchy
Week 3 - Patrician and Plebeian
  The Roman Republic   Consuls, Tribunes, and Dictators   Senate and People   The Conflict of the Orders
Week 4 - Conquering the West
  Veii and the Sack   Samnites and Pyrrhus   The First Punic War   The War with Hannibal
Week 5 - Acquisition of Empire
  Rome and the East   Acquisition of Empire
Week 6 - Optimates and Populares
  The Brothers Gracchus   Marius   Sulla
Week 7 - Crossing the Rubicon
  Pompey and Cicero   Caesar
Week 8 - End of the Republic
  Caesar's Assassination   Antony and Octavian
Week 9 - Augustus, Princeps, Imperator
  Octavian Becomes Augustus   The Reign of Augustus
Week 10 - Succession and Empire
   After Augustus (Part 1)   After Augustus (Part 2)   The Flavian Principate
Week 11 - The Roman Peace
  The World of the Principate   The Five Good Emperors
Week 12 - Third Century Crisis
  The Waning of Stability     The Third Century Crisis   Religion in the Roman Empire
Week 13 - The New Empire
  Diocletian and Constantine   Christianization
Week 14 - The End of Antiquity
  14 - The Fall of the West  

Civilizations of the Ancient World

  Playlist–Civilizations of the Ancient World
WEEK 1 - Introduction
  Quick Welcome and Orientation Video   Eras of History   Evidence
WEEK 2 - Origins of Civilization
  The Origins of Sumer   Writing   The Epic of Gilgamesh
WEEK 3 - Sumer
  The City-States of Sumer   Mesopotamia and Empire   Writing an Interpretive Essay (1)
Thesis and Structure
WEEK 4 - Egypt
  Unification of Egypt   Old Kingdom Egypt   New Kingdom Egypt   Writing an Interpretive Essay (2)
Sources and Citations
WEEK 5 - Bronze Age Aegean / Iron Age
  The Minoans   Mycenaeans   Philistines and Phoenicians   The Hebrews
WEEK 6 - Iron Age Mesopotamia / Eurasia
  The Neo-Assyrian Empire   The Persian Empire   Eurasian cultures
WEEK 7 - Dark Age Greece
  The Greek Dark Age (1)   The Greek Dark Age (2)
WEEK 8 - Iron Age Aegean
  Archaic Greece   Sparta   Early Athens   The Clouds
WEEK 9 - Fifth-Century Greece
  Persian Invasions   Fifth-Century Athens (1)   Fifth-Century Athens (2)   The Peloponnesian War
WEEK 10 - Fourth-Century Greece
  The Fourth-Century Crisis   Alexander   The Hellenistic East   Hellenistic culture
WEEK 11 - Early Rome
  Early Italy (Part 1)   Early Italy (Part 2)   Rome under the Kings   The Early Republic (Part 1)   The Early Republic (Part 2)
WEEK 12 - Acquisition of Empire
  Roman Expansionism   The Punic Wars   Roman Wars in the East   The Acquisition of Empire (Part 1)   The Acquisition of Empire (Part 2)
WEEK 13 - Breakdown of the Republic
  Sulla and Pompey (Part 1)   Sulla and Pompey (Part 2)   Julius Caesar   Augustus and the Principate
WEEK 14 - Roman Principate
  The Early Principate (Part 1)   The Early Principate (Part 2)   The Roman World   Christianity and the Romans