The Art of Architecture – Ancient to the 16th Century
The Art of Architecture - Ancient to the 16th Century Come and explore the history of architecture from its beginnings in the ancient world to the present time. This three lecture overview with James Willis will take you to ancient Egypt and Rome, the French Cathedrals, English Country gardens, modern New York and so much […]
Persian Empires Since the Achaemenids
The philosopher Georg Hegel trumpeted the Achaemenids as launching the historical process by creating the earliest empire in the modern sense of rule over a number of peoples. Cyrus established this great empire, from the Indus to the Aegean Sea, before the unification of China or the expansion of Rome. The Arabs might have conquered […]
The Roman Empire
The Roman Empire of Augustus and Marcus Aurelius might have collapsed more than fifteen hundred years ago but it has persisted in the imaginations of Europeans around the world as the very archetype of empire. Recently we’re told (who knows on what basis) that the average European or American male thinks about the Roman Empire […]