The long shadow of the ancient Greek world

Pt. 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. Three mainstays of ancient Greece Lecture 2. The 8th-century Renaissance Lecture 3. Politics and tyranny in Greece Lecture 4. The exercise of political power in Athens Lecture 5. Dracon of Athens and the birth of Greek law Lecture 6. Solon of Athens : social and economic reforms Disc 2. Lecture 7. Solon, democracy, and law Lecture 8. From anarchy to tyranny in Athens Lecture 9. Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens Lecture 10. Tyranny overthrown: the sons of Pisistratus Lecture 11. Democracy restored: Cleisthenes of Athens Lecture 12. Cleisthenes, the real father of democracy?

Pt. 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. Sparta, the odd-man-out state in Greece Lecture 14. Death or glory : Spartan military education Lecture 15. "Come back carrying your shield or on it" Lecture 16. From Sparta to Persia Lecture 17. Marathon : end of the first Persian invasion Lecture 18. Thermopylae and the 300 Spartans Disc 4. Lecture 19. Greece triumphs : the end of the Persian Wars Lecture 20. From the archaic to the classical period Lecture 21. The Delian League : origins and first steps Lecture 22. From Delian League to Athenian Empire Lecture 23. Ephialtes, founder of radical democracy Lecture 24. Rhetoric : a new path to political power

Pt. 3. Disc 5. Lecture 25. Democracy and political speech : then and now Lecture 26. The causes of the Peloponnesian War Lecture 27. The war's early years and the great plague Lecture 28. Athenian successes and a temporary peace Lecture 29. War resumes : the Athenian disaster in Sicily Lecture 30. Democracy fails : Oligarchy in Athens Disc 6. Lecture 31. Final battles : Sparta's triumph over Athens Lecture 32. Why Athens lost : the impact on Greece Lecture 33. The household in the polis Lecture 34. Athenian law and society Lecture 35. Historical development of the legal code Lecture 36. The judicial machinery of the legal system

Pt. 4. Disc 7. Lecture 37. Types of cases, sycophants and pretrial

Lecture 38. Going to trial in ancient Athens

Lecture 39. Macedonia, north of Mount Olympus

Lecture 40. Philip II : "Greatest of the kings of Europe"

Lecture 41. Philip II and Macedonian imperialism

Lecture 42. Greece conquered : the end of Greek autonomy

Disc 8. Lecture 43. Philip's assassination and legacy

Lecture 44. Alexander the Great: youth, early kingship

Lecture 45. Alexander as general

Lecture 46. Alexander as king

Lecture 47. Alexander as man : and god?

Lecture 48. Beyond the classical : the Greeks and us.