Great Battles of The Ancient World

Great Battles of the Ancient World

The Teaching Company 2005 | ISBN: 1598030507 1598030493 | MP3 | 134 MB








4 disc set with course outline in paperback. Course emphasis on battle tactics, eqipment and strategy. Academic in nature. Some illustrations and pictures of ancient artifacts.


Abundant tactical illustrations. Traces the history of open field battles, sieges and naval battles. 24 half hour lectures on 4 discs. Course guidebook is a outline of lectures including bibliography and sources.





Lecture Titles:




1. Why Study Battles? What Is War?
2. The Problem of Warfare's Origins
3. Sumer, Akkad, and Early Mesopotamian Warfare
4. Egyptian Warfare from the Old to New Kingdoms
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
20. The Sieges of Alesia and Masada
21. Caesar's World War
22. The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
23. Catastrophe at Adrianople
24. Reflections on Warfare in the Ancient World