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The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.The Romans "did" more than war and politics. They created a distinctive culture that flowered in magnificent lyric and epic poetry, assimilated profound Greek influences, and gave us Cicero as Rome's greatest booster and toughest critic.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.To understand how culturally creative and important the principate was, you need only reflect that what today strikes the popular imagination as quintessentially "Roman" is a product of this period (republican Rome was a city of wood).Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.The Reformation (if indeed there was only one) is not as obvious a historical phenomenon as you might think. To penetrate its meaning, you will find it helpful to begin with the first of its magisterial figures, Martin Luther.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.The years from 900 onward saw an explosion of vernacular (i.e. non-Latin) writings. Why did people begin creating formal written works in their native tongues? Does knowing this literature bring us closer to the people of medieval Europe?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.What unique circumstance - unknown before or since in human history - made the Greek Dark Ages so "dark"? And how do we "do" the history of a time and place that is so obscured from our view? Surprisingly, we know a good deal.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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How to Use ChatGPT and Generative AI to Help Create Content. by PACKT Publishing (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by PACKT Publishing in 2023.Learn to use cutting-edge language models ChatGPT, Dalle-2, and Midjourney to create high-quality written content and generative art in this course. Discover how to fine-tune these models for specific tasks and explore the ethical implications and future-proofing strategies for using AI in your work.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.When he rebuilt an old Greek town in about 330 and named it after himself, what did the Emperor Constantine think he was doing? (Hint: It wasn't "founding something called 'Byzantium.'") What was the result, over the centuries, of Constantine's vision?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.So, what's the problem? Actually, there are four - or at least one problem with four sides. Here are two clues: How did a movement that began in Italy wind up with a French name? And how can a "re-birth" be something new?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.Israel, built by the descendants of Abraham, was one of the small states that arose after the Egyptian Empire fell (c. 700 B.C.). Unified and independent only from 1200 - 900 B.C., it bequeathed to the West crucial religious ideas.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.What does it mean to say that the Greeks, while certainly not the first people to reflect on the past, nonetheless "invented" history? How did Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, each in his own unforgettable way, contribute to this basic turning of the Western mind?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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