The Great Courses

These lectures are an invaluable resource and a helpful introduction to the grandest adventure story in Western literature....

Even after deciphering its hieroglyphs, and marveling at its scarabs, mummies, obelisks, and sphinxes, Egyptian civilization remains one of history's most mysterious....

When you join Professor Vandiver for this lecture series on the Iliad, you'll come to understand what has enthralled and gripped so many people....

The past truly comes alive as you take a series of imaginative leaps into the world of history's anonymous citizens....

The early Christian claim that Jesus of Nazareth was God completely changed the course of Western civilization. What exactly happened, such that Jesus came to be considered God? Find out....

These 24 lectures have finally made a beguiling literary masterpiece accessible for anyone willing to give it a chance....

These lectures make classical mythology fresh, absorbing, and often surprising....

Classical physics is about how things move, why they move, and how they work. And if that sounds complicated to you, Professor Pollock hopes you will think again....

This series of 24 vibrant and accessible lectures sheds light on what's going on when we learn and dispels common myths about the subject....

Even if you have listened to many of these illustrative pieces throughout your life you will never hear them the same way again after experiencing these lectures....

These 24 engaging lectures teach you how to reason, how to persuade others that what you think is right, and how to judge and answer the arguments of others.

One of the greatest scientific feats of our era is the astonishing progress made in understanding biology-a progress to which the period we are living in right now has contributed the most....

Few periods of history offer such captivating complexity as Europe in the long 19th century between 1789 and 1914....

Far from being a time of darkness, the Middle Ages was an essential period in the grand narrative of Western history. Discover what it was like to actually live in this extraordinary era....

It offers a rigorous and wide-ranging exploration of what various spiritual, religious, and philosophical traditions from both the East and West have contributed....

Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....

The career of Pericles, the leading Athenian politician and general from c. 450 to 429 B.C., is a prism through which to view the "Golden Age" of Greece....

The Aeneid is the great national epic of ancient Rome, and one of the most important works of literature ever written....

Is reality stable? What is happiness? How shall we best live our lives? In this series of 24 lectures, Professor Roochnik invites you to join this eternal discussion....

You'll come away from this course with new insight that will allow you to take an informed, active interest in political and military debates....