DISQUS

Open Culture: Learning Ancient History for Free

  • Carol A · 11 months ago
    As someone who continues to study Classics at university I have listened to all of these except the new Donald Kagan series. They are all excellent and will give you that in-depth information to really understand the era. Also many thanks to the universities who make this material available.
  • Amazonia · 11 months ago
    Thank-you.

    This is brilliant stuff for the daily commute.:)
  • Mahbub Ullah Khan Masum · 9 months ago
    I'm glad about lecture.Thanks the lecturure.I'm Masum, Dept.of Politic and Public Administration.
    Islamic University
    Kushtia
    Bangladesh
  • Nelson Alexander · 5 months ago
    The university courses are a wonderful public asset, and I hope the collection will grow. However, there is a big difference in quality. The Yale lectures I have found to be quite good, but the Berkeley series less so, which is too bad. Many of the Berkeley professors tend to spend a great deal of time discussing classroom business or the nature of the course itself or reviewing what they said last week and previewing what they will say this time. And the recording quality is not very good. Berkeley should get high praise for the effort, but a little planning and editing would have made these lectures far more valuable to the interested public. I should note that I have only tried four or five.
  • Maria Lumens · 4 months ago
    Donald Kagan is a national treasure! so thrilled we can get to know him!