Hollywood has gone to elaborate lengths to recreate the violence and mayhem of ancient warfare in movies such as Gladiator and Troy. But what were ancient battles really like? What weapons, tactics, armor, training, and logistics were used? And what were the crucial factors that could turn the tide of battle, giving one side victory and consigning the other to slaughter, capture, or, at best, escape to fight another day?
A professor of classics and history at The Pennsylvania State University and the teacher of our immensely popular course, The History of Ancient Rome, Dr. Garrett G. Fagan has devoted extensive study to ancient warfare. In these 24 lectures he takes you into the thick of combat in some of the most notable battles fought in the Mediterranean region from prehistoric times to the 4th century A.D.
"Battles, for all their madness, are worthy of study if for no other reason than that they are the crucibles of history," says Professor Fagan, who notes that a few hours of hard fighting can determine the fates of entire empires. Among the many fateful battles you study are:
Marathon: This clash between Athenians and the invading Persian army in 490 B.C.E. demonstrated the fearsome effectiveness of Greek hoplite phalanxes against Persian arms. Later European history would have looked very different had the Greeks lost at Marathon.
Gaugamela: In 331 B.C.E., Alexander the Great crushed a vastly superior Persian force in a classic hammer-and-anvil battle, in which his cavalry (the hammer) outflanked the enemy to drive it onto the spear-wielding phalanx (the anvil). When the dust had settled, King Darius III was in flight, and Achaemenid Persia, which had dominated Asia for three centuries, was at an end.
Masada: The Romans showed their mastery of the difficult art of siege warfare by breaching the virtually impregnable Jewish fortress of Masada, which fell on April 16, A.D. 73. The defenders took their own lives rather than surrender, ending the last chapter of the Jewish Revolt against Rome.
03 Sumer, Akkad, And Early Mesopotamian Warfare.mp3
21.27 MB
04 Egyptian Warfare From The Old To New Kingdoms.mp3
21.06 MB
05 The Battles Of Megiddo And Kadesh.mp3
20.45 MB
06 The Trojan War And Homeric Warfare.mp3
21.28 MB
07 The Assyrian War Machine.mp3
21.29 MB
08 The Sieges Of Lachish And Jerusalem.mp3
20.94 MB
09 A Peculiar Institution_ Hoplite Warfare.mp3
21.41 MB
10 The Battle Of Marathon.mp3
20.52 MB
11 The Battle Of Thermopylae.mp3
21.00 MB
12 Naval Warfare And The Battle Of Salamis.mp3
20.68 MB
13 The Athenian Expedition To Sicily.mp3
21.02 MB
14 The March Of The Ten Thousand.mp3
21.02 MB
15 Macedonian Military Innovations.mp3
21.05 MB
16 Alexander’s Conquest Of Persia.mp3
20.90 MB
17 The Legions Of Rome.mp3
21.08 MB
18 The Battles Of Cannae And Zama.mp3
21.13 MB
19 Legion Versus Phalanx—Six Pitched Battles.mp3
21.13 MB
20 The Sieges Of Alesia And Masada.mp3
20.54 MB
21 Caesar’s World War.mp3
20.22 MB
22 The Battle Of The Teutoburg Forest.mp3
20.15 MB
23 Catastrophe At Adrianople.mp3
20.70 MB
24 Reflections On Warfare In The Ancient World.mp3
20.81 MB
Great Battles of the Ancient World (Guidebook).pdf
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TTC - Great Battles of the Ancient World Course Info.txt
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01 Why Study Battles_ What Is War_.mp3
02 The Problem Of Warfares Origins.mp3
03 Sumer, Akkad, And Early Mesopotamian Warfare.mp3
04 Egyptian Warfare From The Old To New Kingdoms.mp3
05 The Battles Of Megiddo And Kadesh.mp3
06 The Trojan War And Homeric Warfare.mp3
07 The Assyrian War Machine.mp3
08 The Sieges Of Lachish And Jerusalem.mp3
09 A Peculiar Institution_ Hoplite Warfare.mp3
10 The Battle Of Marathon.mp3
11 The Battle Of Thermopylae.mp3
12 Naval Warfare And The Battle Of Salamis.mp3
13 The Athenian Expedition To Sicily.mp3
14 The March Of The Ten Thousand.mp3
15 Macedonian Military Innovations.mp3
16 Alexanders Conquest Of Persia.mp3
17 The Legions Of Rome.mp3
18 The Battles Of Cannae And Zama.mp3
19 Legion Versus PhalanxSix Pitched Battles.mp3
20 The Sieges Of Alesia And Masada.mp3
21 Caesars World War.mp3
22 The Battle Of The Teutoburg Forest.mp3
23 Catastrophe At Adrianople.mp3
24 Reflections On Warfare In The Ancient World.mp3
Great Battles of the Ancient World (Guidebook).pdf
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