Videos Archive
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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. -
Why Teach Thucydides?
Posted on January 3, 2013 | No CommentsWhy Teach Thucydides? Because he's there, because students love him, and because he has so much to say to us today (as he has for 2,400 years now). -
Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt: Literary and Archaeological Sources
Posted on December 27, 2012 | No CommentsCoptic tradition claims that the Holy Family fled to Egypt before the Massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem. The flight into Egypt is based on a short biblical reference in Matthew -
Rome and the USA: Why Ancient History Still Matters
Posted on December 24, 2012 | No CommentsEven in the ancient world Rome was recognized as having a mixed constitution that had a little bit of the best of everything. It kind of had democracy in that males citizens got to vote. It kind of had oligarchy - rule of the few - in that then a smaller group made all the decisions, and it was kind of a monarchy in that you had chief executive officers. -
Mummification: Resurrection of a Lost Art
Posted on November 26, 2012 | No CommentsBrier is the first person in 2,000 years to mummify a human cadaver using the exact techniques of the ancient Egyptians and will share his expertise on mummy preservation gained through experimental study. -
Ancient Greek Technology and Astrology
Posted on September 3, 2012 | No CommentsThe ways that technology, religion, mythology and seafaring overlap one another in antiquity. -
The end of Roman Britain: what ended, when and why?
Posted on August 23, 2012 | No CommentsA crucial event in the formation of the culture and identity of Britain occurred 1600 years ago - or did it? -
From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel and Cartography
Posted on June 29, 2012 | No CommentsA survey of Greek and Latin geographical tradition during Late Antiquity (c. 200-600 CE), when various genres of travel narrative rose to prominence. -
From Uncertainty to Virtual Reality: Knowledge Representation in Rome Reborn
Posted on June 27, 2012 | No CommentsGraphic representations of ancient Rome have become more visually powerful in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries with the innovations afforded by digital technologies, but the use value of these images is under debate today -
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome
Posted on June 27, 2012 | No CommentsArgues that Julius Caesar was assassinated because wealthy and conservative elites wanted to block Caesar's reforms.
