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The Roman Empire : from Augustus to the fall of Rome
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- Summary
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Discover a true story of power as a renowned professor surveys the rise and fall of the Roman Empire from 31 BC to the end of antiquity.
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- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2019]
- Physical Details
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- 4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color, 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- digital optical video
- video file DVD video
- ISBNs
- 9781629976235, 1629976237
- OCLC
- on1081427985
- Credits
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- Lecturer: Professor Gregory S. Aldrete
- Title from container.
- Course No. 3344.
- 24 lectures (30 min. each).
- Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 254-263).
- DVD.
- In English ; closed-captioned.
- Disc 1. Dawn of the Roman Empire -- Augustus, the First Emperor -- Tiberius and Caligula -- Claudius and Nero -- The Flavian Emperors and Roman bath culture -- The five good emperors -- Disc 2. Hazards of life in ancient Rome: the five Fs -- Roman art and architecture -- Roman literature -- The ordinary Roman speaks: graffiti -- Final words: burial and tombstone epitaphs -- From Commodus to Caracalla -- Disc 3. The crisis of the 3rd century -- Diocletian and late 3rd-century reforms -- Early Christianity and the rise of Constantine -- Constantine and his successors -- Gladiators and beast hunts -- Chariot racing, spectacles, and theater -- Disc 4. The Roman army -- Barbarians overwhelm the western empire -- The Byzantine empire -- When and why did the Roman Empire fall? -- Late antiquity: a new historical era -- Echoes of Rome