description: Portable Professor is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.Even at a remove of several millennia, it is impossible to overestimate the considerable influence of three ancient civilizationsthe Hebrew, Greek, and Romanon Westernthought. In his inimitably entertaining and accessible style, Professor Timothy Shutt illustrates how the concepts with which these civilizations wrestled, individually and in concert, continue to shape the cultural life of the West.COURSE LECTURES 
   Overview and Backgrounds 
   The Hebrew Bible: Introduction and Genesis 
   The Hebrew Bible: Exodus, David, the Prophets, and Job 
   Homer and The Iliad 
   Homer: The Odyssey and the Birth of Tragedy 
   Aeschylus and the Greek Drama 
   Herodotus and Thucydides: Historians and Hellenism 
   Socrates and Plato 
   Plato and Aristotle 
   Virgil and Rome 
   Virgil and Ovid 
   The Christian Bible: The Gospels 
   The Christian Bible: The Diaspora and St. Paul 
   Plotinus and St. Augustine: The End of Antiquity and the Medieval Synthesis 
 Timothy B. Shutt is a graduate of Yale, and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, where he specialized in medieval literature and the history of ideas. Shuttwho today lectures on Homer, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible and the Greek historians, Virgil, and Dante to packed housesjoined Kenyon College in 1986, and has since been honored frequently for his teaching skills.
title: Hebrews, Greeks and Romans: Foundations of Western Civilization
titlecomplete: Hebrews, Greeks and Romans: Foundations of Western Civilization
genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Literature, History, Audiobook
ratings_count: 95
publisher: Barnes and Noble