To Rule Mankind and Make the World Obey
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To Rule Mankind and Make the World Obey: A History Of Ancient Rome (Portable Proffessor: World History) by Frances Titchener
PORTABLE PROFESSOR is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today’s most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.
The influence of ancient Roman civilization on Western culture is difficult to overestimate, especially as it affects nearly every aspect of modern life from language to law, and from military conquest to spectator sports. In this sweeping series of lectures, award-winning professor Frances Titchener explores the many accomplishments of ancient Rome and shows how the empire rose and fellas well as how it continues to live on today.
COURSE LECTURES
Introduction to Rome, Italy, and the Romans, 1200-753 BC First There Were Kings, 753-510 BC Internal Conflict: The Patrician and Plebeian Orders, 510-287 BC Roman Expansion in Italy, 510-287 BC The First Punic War and the Emergence of Individuals, 264-241 BC Rome’s Greatest Enemy: The Second and Third Punic Wars Plantations and the Gracchi Brothers The Rise of Marius Through African and Italian Wars, 128-83 BC Strong Men Fight It Out, 123-53 BC And Then There Was One: Julius Caesar, 53-44 BC Augustus, the Father of His Country, 43 BC-AD 14 The Empire’s First Century: Julio-Claudians and Flavians, AD 14-96 Gibbon’s Golden Age and the Beginning of the End, AD 96-303 Constantine, Barbarians, and the Great Transformation, AD 303-476
A winner of numerous national and regional teaching awards, Frances B. Titchener teaches Greek and Latin as well as courses on the history of ancient Greece, Rome, and Celtic Europe at Utah State University. Titchener earned her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin and was the recipient of a Fulbright grant in 2003. A prolific essayist, she is also editor of the scholarly journal Ploutarchos.
