Classics in discussion - Audio
by University of Warwick
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Description
Peter Pormann explores the world of classical Greece, Rome and beyond.
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The Golden Age of Islam - Dr Peter E Pormann | Dr Peter Pormann -Dept of Classics and Professor Ahmed Etman explore the transfer of knowledge between the different shores of the Mediterranean. حركة الترجمة في العصر الذهبي للإسلام أ. د. أحمد عتمان يناقش نقل المعرفة بين ضفتي البحر الأبيض المتوسط | 1/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drinking Parties in Ancient Greece | James Davidson and David Fearn discuss ancient Greek bards and their booze. | 8/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Roman Elegy: Pain is so Close to Pleasure | Ian Fielding discusses elegiac poetry about passion, pain, and pleasure. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Renaissance Thought: the Lost Continent between Logic and the Occult | Peter Mack and Maude Vanhalen discuss one of the most vibrant periods in human history, the European Renaissance. One of those periods in history when everything seemed possible. | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Medicine and Classicism in a Comparative Perspective | David Arnold and Peter E Pormann discuss the idea of the classic in medicine. | 10/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sex in the Ancient World | Sexuality, sex and gender are firmly part of academic discourses in the humanities. Classics has a lot to contribute, as many things sexual originate in Graeco-Roman antiquity. James Davidson and Dan Orrells discusses the nature and impact of Greek love. | 10/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The first emperor and the queen of inscriptions: Augustus in his own words | Alison Cooley, of Warwick's Classics department, discusses Augustus' account of his long reign. | 9/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Graeco-Arabic Studies | Bink Hallum and Uwe Vagelpohl discuss the formation of the Islamic civilisation through translation. Why were nearly all available Greek texts translated into Arabic? How did these lay the foundation for much of Muslim civilisation? Who produced them? | 9/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Epic Poetry: from Homer to Virgil | David Fearn and Andrew Laird of Warwick's Classics department discuss the vagaries of epic poetry. | 5/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Numismatics | Kevin Butcher and Stan Ireland of Warwick's Classics department discuss the fascinating story of money in the classical world. | 3/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
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Golden Age of Islam
This podcast is in Arabic. Is there an English version of this discussion? As such it is not very useful to English speakers in the United Kingdom.
