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- Incredible Monuments of Rome (streaming, Academic Video Online) The Roman empire dominated the Western World for thousands of years. Explore what type of society created imperial monuments, arenas of torture and sexual depravity and places of worship where gods were honored with ritualistic sacrifices.
- In search of history. Roman roads : paths to empire (streaming, Academic Video Online) "In Search of History" journeys 2,000 years from ancient times to the present, taking a closer look at the events, places, and hidden mysteries that have puzzled and inspired historians and experts across the ages. Romans engineered a stone-paved highway system encompassing 50,000 miles and sprawling across three continents. Ironically, their breathtaking feat may have paved the road to their ruin as ancient and newly sprung enemies marched straight.
- Engineering an empire. [Season 1, Episode 1], Rome (streaming, Academic Video Online) This documentary special chronicles the spectacular and sordid history of the Roman Empire from the rise of Julius Caesar in 55 BC to its eventual fall around 537 AD, detailing the remarkable engineering feats that set Rome apart from the rest of the ancient world.
- Treasures of Ancient Greece: The Long Shadow (streaming, Academic Video Online) Is Ancient Greek art just a collection of elegant works of marble, framed by a love of democracy and enlightened reasoning? Far from it. Art critic and journalist Alastair Sooke demonstrates it is in fact far more diverse and surprising -- a multi-cultural mix of styles, techniques and materials that left no subject matter unexplored. Filmed in sumptuous locations around the Mediterranean and across Europe, Alastair shows how a limited view of Ancient Greek art just does not hold up.
- Treasures of Ancient Greece: The Age of Heroes (streaming, Academic Video Online) Is Ancient Greek art just a collection of elegant works of marble, framed by a love of democracy and enlightened reasoning? Far from it. Art critic and journalist Alastair Sooke demonstrates it is in fact far more diverse and surprising -- a multi-cultural mix of styles, techniques and materials that left no subject matter unexplored.
- Treasures of Ancient Greece. The classical revolution (streaming, Academic Video Online) Is Ancient Greek art just a collection of elegant works of marble, framed by a love of democracy and enlightened reasoning? Far from it. Art critic and journalist Alastair Sooke demonstrates it is in fact far more diverse and surprising -- a multi-cultural mix of styles, techniques and materials that left no subject matter unexplored. Filmed in sumptuous locations around the Mediterranean and across Europe, Alastair shows how a limited view of Ancient Greek art just does not hold up.
- Engineering an empire. Episode 4, Greece : age of Alexander (streaming, Academic Video Online) The engineering and/or architectural feats that were characteristic of some of the greatest societies on this planet. After a century of tremendous accomplishment, Greece's territorial ambitions were stymied by constant warfare - until Alexander ventured abroad and initiated the Hellenistic era.
- Etruscan odyssey expanding archaeology (streaming, Academic Video Online) This film documents the work of Dr. P. Gregory Warden and his team as they search the hilltops of Poggio Colia, Italy, for any clues into the mysterious Etruscan civilization. By restoring and cataloguing the cultural artifacts left behind by ancient settlers, modern archaeologists attempt to reconstruct a picture of daily life in Etruria. Among the issues addressed is what was it like to make the great gold jewels for the ruling families? And to build the complex sarcophagi to hold the remains?
- The Lod mosaic from excavation to exhibition (streaming) Jacques Neguer, Director of Art Conservation at Israel Antiquities Authority, delivers a lecture on the history of the Lod mosaic excavation and exhibition. It is delivered in conjunction with the exhibition "The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel."
- The Lod Mosaic Floor and Its Menagerie: Roman Influence on Local Mosaic Art (streaming) Miriam Avissar, Senior Archaeologist at Israel Antiquities Authority, delivers a lecture on the influence of Roman art on mosaic art in Lod, Israel. The lecture is introduced by Shelby White, Chairmain of the Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority. It is being delivered in conjunction with the exhibition "The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel."
