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Great Battles of the

Ancient World

Taught by Professor Garrett G. Fagan

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

LECTURE TITLES

1. Why Study Battles? What Is War?


2. The Problem of Warfare’s Origins


3. Sumer, Akkad, and Early Mesopotamian Warfare


4. Egyptian Warfare from the Old to New Kingdoms


5. The Battles of Megiddo
   and Kadesh


6. The Trojan War and Homeric Warfare


7. The Assyrian War Machine


8. The Sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem


9. A Peculiar Institution?
   Hoplite Warfare


10. The Battle of Marathon


11. The Battle of Thermopylae


12. Naval Warfare and
    the Battle of Salamis


13. The Athenian Expedition to Sicily


14. The March of the Ten Thousand


15. Macedonian Military Innovations


16. Alexander’s Conquest of Persia


17. The Legions of Rome


18. The Battles of Cannae and Zama


19. Legion versus Phalanx—
    Six Pitched Battles


20. The Sieges of Alesia and Masada


21. Caesar’s World War


22. The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest


23. Catastrophe at Adrianople


24. Refl ections on Warfare in the Ancient World

Great Battles of the Ancient World

Course no. 3757 | 24 lectures (30 minutes/lecture)

Discover the True Force

and Fury of Ancient Warfare

Hollywood has gone to elaborate lengths to recreate the violence and
mayhem of ancient warfare. But what were ancient battles really like? What
were the weapons, tactics, armor, and training involved? And what were
the crucial factors that led to the startling victories and defeats that shaped
human history?

Explore the answers to these and other pointed questions in Great Battles
of the Ancient World. In these 24 lectures, Professor Garrett G. Fagan—a
professor of ancient history at The Pennsylvania State University—
takes you into the thick of combat during notable battles in the ancient
Mediterranean region, including Meggido, Thermopylae, Marathon,
Gaugamela, Masada, and Adrianople. By the end of this fascinating course,
you’ll discover that the details of what actually happened in ancient combat
truly defy our modern imagination.

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