The foundations of Western civilization
(Spoken CD)

pt. 1: lecture 1. "Western," "Civilization," and "Foundations" ; lecture 2. History Begins at Sumer ; lecture 3. Egypt-The Gift of the Nile ; lecture 4. The Hebrews-Small States and Big Ideas ; lecture 5. A Succession of Empires ; lecture 6. Wide-Ruling Agamemnon ; lecture 7. Dark Age and Archaic Greece ; lecture 8. The Greek Polis-Sparta ; lecture 9. The Greek Polis-Athens ; lecture 10. Civic Culture-Architecture and Drama ; lecture 11. The Birth of History ; lecture 12. From Greek Religion to Socratic Philosophy.

pt. 2: lecture 13. Plato and Aristotle ; lecture 14. The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander ; lecture 15. The Hellenistic World ; lecture 16. The Rise of Rome ; lecture 17. The Roman Republic-Government and Politics ; lecture 18. Roman Imperialism ; lecture 19. The Culture of the Roman Republic ; lecture 20. Rome-From Republic to Empire ; lecture 21. The Pax Romana ; lecture 22. Rome's Golden and Silver Ages ; lecture 23. Jesus and the New Testament ; lecture 24. The Emergence of a Christian Church.

pt. 3: lecture 25. Late Antiquity-Crisis and Response ; lecture 26. Barbarians and Emperors ; lecture 27. The Emergence of the Catholic Church ; lecture 28. Christian Culture in Late Antiquity ; lecture 29. Muhammad and Islam ; lecture 30. The Birth of Byzantium ; lecture 31. Barbarian Kingdoms in the West ; lecture 32. The World of Charlemagne ; lecture 33. The Carolingian Renaissance ; lecture 34. The Expansion of Europe ; lecture 35. The Chivalrous Society ; lecture 36. Medieval Political Traditions, I - pt. 4: lecture 37. Medieval Political Traditions, II ; lecture 38. Scholastic Culture ; lecture 39. Vernacular Culture ; lecture 40. The Crisis of Renaissance Europe ; lecture 41. The Renaissance Problem ; lecture 42. Renaissance Portraits ; lecture 43. The Northern Renaissance ; lecture 44. The Protestant Reformation-Martin Luther ; lecture 45. The Protestant Reformation-John Calvin ; lecture 46. Catholic Reforms and "Confessionalization" ; lecture 47. Exploration and Empire ; lecture 48. What Challenges Remain?