Videos Archive
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The Silk Road in Late Antiquity: Politics, Trade, and Culture Contact between Rome and China, 300-700 CE
Posted on March 14, 2013 | No CommentsThis is a study of the modes of political and cultural communication which led to a rare level of 'intervisibility' between the various societies and states along the Silk Road in the Late Antique period (roughly 300-700 CE). -
Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel: Insights and Interpretations
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsChristopher Lightfoot, Curator in the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers insights on the Lod Mosaic. -
The Ancient Greek World
Posted on February 1, 2013 | No CommentsIn trying to understand the world, they began a serious study of science, mathematics, astronomy, engineering and philosophy. For these endeavours, ancient Greece came to stand among the great civilizations. -
Why Does The Past Matter? Greco-Roman Antiquity In 21st Century
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsExploring the ways in which we use the classical past and to what extent and why it remains relevant today and important for our future. -
How to have a Roman hairstyle
Posted on January 24, 2013 | No CommentsJanet Stephens, an amateur archaeologist and hairdresser, has been able to recreate one these hairstyles - that of the Roman Vestal Virgins, who were priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the hearth. -
The Greek Language: Origin, Stages, Development
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsLecture by Athanasios Spilias -
A Biblical Perspective of the Ancient Egyptian Religions
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsIn this video, Dr. Andrew Robinson and Instructor Ryan McDaniel take a look at Egyptian religions from a Biblical Perspective. -
The Ancient Chariots of Libya
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsI had long wanted to follow in the tracks of the chariots on a journey to the ends of the ancient Roman world to discover something of modern-day Libya. -
Plotinus: The Ineffable One
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsConsider the following objects: an army, a house, a giraffe, your immortal soul. What makes these things different from each other and might they have in common. Plotinus, the founder of neo-platonism, who lived in the third century, would say that a striking feature of these things is that some of them are more real than others. -
The Essential Value of a Classic Education
Posted on January 4, 2013 | No CommentsJeffrey Brenzel focuses on Plato and Aristotle, as well as other great writers from throughout history.
