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The Classical Legacy: Ancient Greece and Rome

Get classy perspectives-as in classical Greece and Rome-on very modern fixtures like shopping malls and tailgating parties.
The Classical Legacy: Ancient Greece and Rome is rated 4.9 out of 5 by 8.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great lecture! This is an interesting and eye opening lecture on how Ancient Greece and Roman civilizations still affect modern world, at least in the context of western world. I enjoyed and learned interesting titbits from this special lecture. This professor very articulate and engaging as well. Perhaps time to check his more lenghthy history courses.
Date published: 2023-10-03
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great relevance A great lecture that left me wanting more. Really enjoyed the way the professor set the stage for how each point such as culture, housing, social issues, and government originated in antiquity but was still very relevant in modernity
Date published: 2022-09-28
Rated 4 out of 5 by from Without Greek and Roman history, the modern world would bea completely different place. Because of those civilizations, we have language, writing, laws, behaviours, cities, music and many other things all based on those cultures.
Date published: 2022-04-29
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great introduction I was looking for an introduction to the classical civilisations, and got what I was looking for.
Date published: 2021-06-03
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Concise and to the point. I liked the lecturers clear and concise comparison of some ancient and modern customs. The political campaign description was surprisingly similar to today's practices.
Date published: 2021-05-20
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Interesting facts I happened upon this 1 lecture gem while scanning through the courses. Not only was the instructor knowledgeable, he was personable. I enjoyed the content as I had not know current day connections to times thousands of years ago.
Date published: 2020-09-04
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Overview

Join an award-winning professor to take a new look at the roots of modern fixtures such as the shopping mall and tailgating to uncover their very, very early beginnings.

About

Gregory S. Aldrete

As an ancient historian, my goals are to share the enthusiasm for and fascination with antiquity that I feel, and to show some of the connections between that world and our own.

INSTITUTION

University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Dr. Gregory S. Aldrete is Professor of Humanistic Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, where he has taught since 1995. He earned his B.A. from Princeton University and his master's degree and Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Michigan. Honored many times over for his research and his teaching, Professor Aldrete was named by his university as the winner of its highest awards in each category, receiving both its Founders Association Award for Excellence in Scholarship and its Founders Association Award for Excellence in Teaching. That recognition of his teaching skills was echoed on a national level in 2009, when he received the American Philological Association Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level-the national teaching award given annually by the professional association of classics professors. The recipient of many prestigious research fellowships including five from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Professor Aldrete has published several important books in his field, including Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome; Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome; Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia; The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life I: The Ancient World (as editor); Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery: Reconstructing and Testing Ancient Linen Body Armor (with S. Bartell and A. Aldrete) and The Long Shadow of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us (with A. Aldrete).

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The Classical Legacy:  Ancient Greece and Rome

01: The Classical Legacy: Ancient Greece and Rome

Professor Gregory S. Aldrete from the University of Wisconsin takes you back in time to ancient Greece and Rome in order to reveal the origins of many staples of modern living. Explore the earliest roots of sports and fandom, marriage traditions, cookbooks, and more.

38 min