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Kenneth W. Harl
This was the first Great Courses I ever listen to and what got me hooked. It has Christmas raids on Paris, The Viking Byzantine links what is not to love!
Kenneth W. Harl
Another wonderful course from Kenneth W. Harl, where you can tell he is having fun with the material. This course is getting dangerously close to his area of expertiese and you can tell :) He sticks pretty close to the Arrian account, which he tells you up front when going over the sources, and continues on after to cover the intial wars of the successors.
Kenneth W. Harl
A absolute wonderful course, probably the best course I have listend to. This was a combination of the content and presentation. It has the space to go deeper than a survey style course so you get a proper dive into classical Greece by way of the Pelloponesian war. Kenneth W. Harl is an enthusiatic lecturer and this comes through clearly in this lecture series - you can hear it in his voice when talking about Alcibiades of the Athenian tragedy on Sicily. I paired this course with reading Thucydides and found this a very enriching combination, the course provides plenty of content you would not get from the text alone.
Patrick N. Allitt
Professor Allitt does an execellent job of presenting the course is a way that you would not be able to tell which way he leans poltically. My frustrations with the course is with the material rather than with the presentation, rather than getting a sense of a single 'Conservative Tradition' this course covers the main strands of seperate traditions united by a common opposition
Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins
A relatively short deep dive into Nietzsche. The second course by Robert C. Solomon who also had an Existentialism course which makes a good companion to this one
Kenneth R. Bartlett
Covers the italian city states from the middle ages through the renaissance, and the conflict between the HRE and Pope for control of Italy. My retention of this course isnt what is should be - I think I needed to create some artefacts to help cemet the details give the breadth of content.
Gregory S. Aldrete
An OK introducty roman history course. I would likely have gotten more out of it, but I listen to this on the back of Mary Beard's SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, which highlighted areas where this was uncritically presenting the standard rote interpretation of the sources that she was poking at.This unfortunately undermined some of the credibility of the content. I dont want to be too harsh as this course as the material presented seems like a pretty standard roman empire 101 style syllabus
Alan Charles Kors, Robert H. Kane, Phillip Cary, Dennis Dalton, Louis Markos, Darren Staloff, Robert C. Solomon, Jeremy Adams, Jeremy Shearmur, Kathleen M. Higgins, Mark Risjord, Douglas Kellner
This was a pretty competent survey course in philosophy starting with the presocratics and ending with ~80's postmodernism. The breadth necessary limits how deep it can can go on any one thinker, but if you want to start at Plato and work forward to get a basic lay of the land this course delivers.
Michael H. Fisher
I listened to this a few years ago - the wide scope of course limits the depth but it was a good survey of Indian history that helped to fill in some gaps