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THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE FIRST CENTURY Panoramic overview of the tumultuous era of the Augustan dynasty, from the founder of empire to less worthy successors like Caligula and Nero. Narrated by Sigourney Weaver.
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ANCIENT ROME History Channel series in which Steven appears (along with historians like UC Berkeley’s Erich Gruen). Visuals are strong, but narrator Joe Mantegna could use a primer on pronouncing Roman names!
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THE GREEKS: CRUCIBLE OF CIVILIZATION Stirring look at the rise and fall of Athens — birthplace of democracy, philosophy and drama — and her epic wars against the Persians and the Spartans. Narrated by Liam Neeson.
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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ALEXANDER THE
GREAT Michael Wood’s brilliant concept — to follow literally in the footsteps of Alexander — brings the travails and triumphs of the conqueror to life as nothing else could. The companion book
is also great.
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GREAT CITIES: ROME & POMPEII Computer animation reconstructs
the ruins of Rome and Pompeii before your eyes to show how people
lived in ancient times, from the splendor of the baths and temples
to the bloody spectacles of the arena.
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GREAT CITIES: ATHENS & ANCIENT
GREECE The glory of Greece is recreated through computer enhancements, showing buildings as they looked in their heyday — testaments to the greatness of the gods and the ingenuity of mankind.
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GREAT CITIES: PYRAMIDS & CITIES
OF THE PHARAOHS Great monuments and everyday buildings are recreated through computer graphics to convey a feeling for the scale and pace of daily life in ancient Egypt.
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BYZANTIUM A good intro to that little-known twilight age when Rome turned Christian and verged into the Dark Ages — the subject of Gibbon’s famous Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD • Volume 1 and Volume 2 • Travel to the sites of the Seven Wonders, from the Colossus of Rhodes, to the Lighthouse at Pharos, to the Mausoleum
at Halicarnassus...can you name all seven?
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IN THE SHADOW OF VESUVIUS Archaeologists at Pompeii and Herculaneum study the largest preserved sites from the ancient world, thanks to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
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CLEOPATRA’S ALEXANDRIA Where Gordianus will head next (after A Mist of Prophecies), to the serpent’s nest of treachery amid faded splendor that was the capital of Egypt in the First Century B.C.
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CLEOPATRA: DESTINY’S QUEEN A comprehensive look at the life and times of the Queen of the Nile — ruler of a nation who loved the most powerful men in the world and challenged the might of Rome.
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LEGIONS OF ROME Four-part series examines the history and organization of the Roman legions from the Republic to the reign of Claudius, including the Punic wars, the Gallic wars, the life of Julius Caesar, and the invasions of Britain.
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ALEXANDER: THE BATTLE OF ISSUS An excellent study of a seminal event in the career of the world conqueror — the Battle of Issus, in which Alexander the Great defeated a Persian force six times larger than his own.
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