“Book Descriptions: This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures discussed. The lectures address-in chronological sequence-a series of major works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought both in their own right and in cultural dialogue with other traditions. In the process, the course engages many of the most perennial and far-reaching questions that we face in our daily lives.
Lecture 1 From Sumer to Athens Lecture 2 The Epic of Gilgamesh Lecture 3 The Hebrew Bible: Historical Background and Genesis Lecture 4 The Hebrew Bible: Exodus and the Covenant Lecture 5 The Hebrew Bible: Psalms, Prophets, The Song of Songs, and Job Lecture 6 Greece: From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Age Lecture 7 The Iliad Lecture 8 Homer: The Odyssey Lecture 9 Hesiod and Lyric Poetry Lecture 10 Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus Lecture 11 Greek Tragedy: Sophocles Lecture 12 Greek Tragedy: Euripides Lecture 13 Herodotus of Halicarnassus Lecture 14 Greek Art” DRIVE