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Cities of the Ancient World

★ N/A 2014 1 Seasons

People live in a world of cities; reflecting on ancient models of the city as a human phenomenon offers important lessons about today's culture; an opportunity to survey the breadth of the ancient world through the context of its urban development.

Talk Documentary
Episode 1

Episode 1

The Lure of the City

Episode 2

Episode 2

Çatalhöyük—First Experiment in Urban Living

Episode 3

Episode 3

Jericho and Its Walls

Episode 4

Episode 4

Uruk—City of Gilgamesh

Episode 5

Episode 5

Mysterious Mohenjo-daro

Episode 6

Episode 6

Kahun—Company Town in the Desert

Episode 7

Episode 7

Work and Life at Deir el-Medina

Episode 8

Episode 8

Amarna—Revolutionary Capital

Episode 9

Episode 9

Knossos—Palace, City, or Temple?

Episode 10

Episode 10

Akrotiri—Bronze Age Pompeii

Episode 11

Episode 11

Mycenae, Tiryns, and the Mask of Agamemnon

Episode 12

Episode 12

Athens—Civic Buildings and Civic Identity

Episode 13

Episode 13

Athenian Domestic Architecture

Episode 14

Episode 14

Hippodamian Planning—Miletus and Ephesus

Episode 15

Episode 15

Olynthus—A Classical Greek City Preserved

Episode 16

Episode 16

Wonder and Diversity at Alexandria

Episode 17

Episode 17

Pergamon—The New Theatricality

Episode 18

Episode 18

The Good Life in Rome

Episode 19

Episode 19

The Lives of the Poor in Rome

Episode 20

Episode 20

Ostia—Middle-Class Harbor Town

Episode 21

Episode 21

Timgad—More Roman Than Rome

Episode 22

Episode 22

Karanis—On the Fringes of the Empire

Episode 23

Episode 23

Constantinople—The Last Ancient City

Episode 24

Episode 24

Lessons and Legacies of Ancient Urban Life

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