J. Rufus Fears - Famous Greeks_

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Rufus Fears?University of Oklahoma One of the most instructive and intriguing ways to learn history is through biography. By pondering the lives of great individuals?people who leave deep marks on both their own times and distant posterity?you can chart broad currents of events while also studying virtue and vice, folly and wisdom, success and failure as they appear, not in abstract textbooks of ethics or psychology, but in the real circumstances of life. From the heroes of the Trojan War to Alexander the Great and Cleopatra, classics scholar and master storyteller J. Rufus Fear lays open for your consideration the lives, achievements, and influence of the warriors, statesmen, thinkers, and artists who made Greek history. While not slow to draw on the best of recent historical, archaeological, and literary scholarship, he remains close to the spirit of the great classical authors who inspire his work. His eye for human character and his shrewd judgments are informed by both a fine moral awareness and a deep knowledge of the historical context in which these famous lives were lived. By attending to that context, Professor Fears is able to offer new ways of reading familiar classics by Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and Plato. Homage to Plutarch Plutarch, a Greek writing during the heyday of Rome, composed his Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans out of a conviction that the study of such lives can make us better as individuals and as citizens. For 19 centuries, readers have agreed. Plutarch fed the imagination of William Shakespeare, who based Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra on the Lives. The American founders, including both the Harvard graduate John Adams and the self-taught Benjamin Franklin, regarded Plutarch as a treasure-trove of wisdom, and wanted to see a copy of Lives in every schoolhouse. Harry Truman was an avid reader of Plutarch, and spoke of the practical insight he gained from time spent with the Lives. In keeping with that spirit, Professor Fears draws lessons from each life studied in this course. Politics and Creativity: Fifth-Century Athens Our lives will illuminate the intellectual and artistic currents of one of the most creative civilizations in world history. However, for the Greeks, politics was the center of human existence. "Man," Aristotle said, "is a political animal." This truth has determined our selection of lives and the approach we take. The leading thinkers, artists, and writers of classical Greece can be understood only in the context of the political events of their day. The most important single lesson we learn from Greece is that a free nation can survive only if its citizens care, at the deepest level, about politics. We focus on the five major periods of Greek history: the Trojan War; Archaic Greece of the eighth through the sixth centuries B.C.; the Persian Wars; the golden age of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.; and the age of Alexander the Great. To the Walls of Troy: Homer?s Age of Heroes For the ancient Greeks, the Trojan War was as real as yesterday?s headlines are to us. Homer?s Iliad and Odyssey held near-Scriptural status. Alexander the Great slept with his copies. Achilles, Agamemnon, Hector, and Odysseus were role models and cultural heroes, and the influence of Homer resonated throughout Greek history. Your study of famous Greeks begins where Plutarch does, with the Athenian founder Theseus. His story helps to explain how Athens came to be a city that would defy a mighty empire, and offers an opportunity for reflection on the relationship between legend and history in the soul of a people. The next three talks focus on the four central figures of the Homeric epics: Achilles, Agamemnon, Hector, and Odysseus. Professor Fears argues that no modern work on leadership can rival the depth and power of Homer as the great poet dramatically explores what it takes to guide people and nations through the crises and hardships of life. In Lectures 5 and 6, you meet the two premier lawgivers of the two leading Greek cities: Lycurgus of Sparta and Solon of Athens. The mysterious figure of Pythagoras takes on new clarity when considered in the framework of these two very different ordainers of regimes. A Stand for Freedom and Against the Odds: Greeks versus Persians The decade of the Persian Wars (490?479 B.C.) was one of the most decisive in world history. It determined that Greece would remain free and bequeath to later ages the legacy of political liberty. Thus in Lectures 7 through 11 you examine the lives of five of the most important actors in this momentous conflict. Your path to understanding wends through the pages of Herodotus. In the eyes of the "Father of History," King Croesus of Lydia and the Persian emperor Xerxes become exempla of all those who would abuse their power, and whom free peoples must resist. In Lectures 9 through 11, you look at three of the crucial Greek leaders. From the gallant stand of Leonidas and his 300 Spartans at Thermopylae to the courage and tactical skill that enabled Themistocles to defeat the Persian fleet at Salamis and Pausanias to crush a superior Persian army at Plataea, you will follow the stirring events of this epochmaking war for liberty. Glory and Misery: Periclean Athens and the Peloponnesian War The fifth-century golden age of Athenian democracy is the centerpiece of the course, encompassing Lectures 12 through 19. Thinking about the lives of famous Athenians such as Pericles, Sophocles, Phidias (the designer of the Parthenon), Aspasia (Pericles?s mistress and advisor), Thucydides, and Alcibiades illuminates the links that bound together political, cultural, spiritual, and intellectual life during the heyday of the Athenian experiment in self-government. Although remembered as an age of glory, the fifth century was also a time of widespread misery, for it closed with the three-decade long cataclysm of the Peloponnesian War. That war?its causes, its course, and its consequences?forms the prism through which Professor Fears reads the famous lives who make up the subject matter of this section. Why did Pericles lead Athens into war with Sparta and her allies? What lessons about morality, power, and leadership can we draw from Thucydides? great account of it? Can the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides be read as comments on the war and the attitudes that lay behind it? Here Professor Fears introduces you to new ways to read such familiar classics as Euripides? Persian Women and the Oedipus plays of Sophocles. From Socrates to Alexander the Great and Beyond The trial of Socrates was the test case of the ideals of the Athenian democracy. We discuss that trial in the context of the impact of the Peloponnesian War and its aftermath of recrimination among the Athenians. The execution of Socrates?the best and wisest man of his day?would condemn the Athenian democracy in the eyes of posterity, but this greatest of teachers would leave an immortal legacy in the philosophical thought of Plato and Aristotle. The death of Socrates at the hands of the Athenian democracy convinced his influential followers Xenophon and Plato that the best form of government would be the rule of one outstanding individual. Lectures 21 and 22 introduce you to the figures of Philip of Macedonia and his son Alexander the Great, monarchs, conquerors, and statesmen who would expand and transform the Greek world and outline a vision of transnational brotherhood that remains an ideal today. But Alexander died young, and the Romans and their empire would be his true heirs. Thus your study of the lives of famous Greeks concludes with two remarkable figures who challenged Rome for world domination: Pyrrhus, the Greek-speaking king of Epirus, and Cleopatra, the last ruler of Egypt in the line of Alexander?s general, Ptolemy. Both failed, but in instructive ways that make them worthy of inclusion in a course on famous Greeks.

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 matreshka4u (2008-07-12)

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/12 - Pericles.mp3 11 MiB
/13 - Anaxagoras, Phidias & Aspasia.mp3 11 MiB
/14 - Sophocles.mp3 11 MiB
/15 - Thucydides.mp3 11 MiB
/16 - Alcibiades.mp3 11 MiB
/17 - Nicias.mp3 11 MiB
/18 - Alcibiades & the Peloponnesian War.mp3 10 MiB
/19 - Lysander & Socrates.mp3 11 MiB
/20 - The Trial of Socrates.mp3 10 MiB
/21 - Xenophon, Plato & Philip of Macedonia.mp3 11 MiB
/22 - Alexander the Great.mp3 11 MiB
/23 - Pyrrhus.mp3 11 MiB
/24 - Cleopatra.mp3 11 MiB
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