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Roman history

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  • Aeneid by Vergil, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
    • 5/5 Stars

    Vergil's epic classic tells the tale of Aeneas, a Trojan prince,and his flight from his ruined homeland. Buffeted by the fates, Aeneas must remain faithful to the gods and to his people in order to lead them to Italy and…

  • Lectures on Roman History by Henry Paolucci
    • 0/5 Stars

    Lectures on Roman History is a thoughtful and accurate account of the rise and fall of the Romans by a scholar who was also a political thinker and a statesman, and one who understood the forces in history and the…

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  • History Survey: The World to 1500
    by J. Patrick Mullins
    COURSE OVERVIEW: With today’s triumph of “globalization,” people all over the world are coming to embrace—or at least aspire to—many of the institutions that developed gradually over the last three thousands years in the West: a liberal…
  • Survey of Western Civilization I
    by Preston Jones
    What is at stake is far from insignificant: it is how one should live one’s life. --Plato, The Republic All our dignity consists…of thought…. So let us work on thinking well. --Pascal, Pensées   Required Texts: Aristotle, The Nichomachean Ethics…

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