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Classical Mythology
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In the beginning 30 minLesson1.1
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Creation myths 1 questionQuiz1.1
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Before the Olympians 1 questionQuiz1.2
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Family Tree 1 questionQuiz1.3
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Source 1 – The Creation – Hesiod 30 minLesson1.2
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Source 2 – The Creation – Ovid 30 minLesson1.3
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Source 3 – Typhoeus 30 minLesson1.4
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Source analysis – sources 1 to 3 30 minLesson1.5
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Research task 30 minLesson1.6
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Source 4 – Pandora 30 minLesson1.7
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Source 5 – The Punishment of Prometheus 30 minLesson1.8
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Source analysis – sources 4 & 5 30 minLesson1.9
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Research task 30 minLesson1.10
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Source 6 – The Ages of the World 30 minLesson1.11
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Source 7 – After the Flood 30 minLesson1.12
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Source analysis – sources 6 & 7 30 minLesson1.13
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The Underworld 30 minLesson1.14
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Visiting the Underworld 30 minLesson1.15
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Underworld Source 1 – Circe’s Instructions to Odysseus 30 minLesson1.16
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Source Analysis – source 1 30 minLesson1.17
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Underworld Source 2 – Pausanias (ekphrasis) 30 minLesson1.18
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Research 30 minLesson1.19
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Underworld Source 3 – Dionysus visits the Underworld 30 minLesson1.20
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Underworld Source 4 – The punishment of the wicked 30 minLesson1.21
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Source Analysis – source 3 (Aristophanes) 30 minLesson1.22
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Source Analysis – source 4 (Plato) 30 minLesson1.23
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Underworld Source 5 – Lucretius 30 minLesson1.24
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Source Analysis – source 5 30 minLesson1.25
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Underworld Source 6a – The Entrance to Hades 30 minLesson1.26
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Underworld Source 6b – The Ferry across the River Styx 30 minLesson1.27
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Underworld Source 6c – The Sibyl helps Aeneas cross the Styx 30 minLesson1.28
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Underworld Source 6d – Tartarus 30 minLesson1.29
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Underworld Source 7 – Orpheus & Eurydice 30 minLesson1.30
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Source Analysis – sources 6 & 7 30 minLesson1.31
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Names and characters from Classical Mythology 30 minLesson1.32
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Reading 1 – Interpretation and definition of classical mythology 30 minLesson1.33
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Reading 2 – historical background to Greek mythology 30 minLesson1.34
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Reading 3 – myths of creation 30 minLesson1.35
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Reading 4 – Zeus’ rise to power 30 minLesson1.36
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Reading 5 – the twelve Olympians 30 minLesson1.37
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Reading 6 – the nature of the gods 30 minLesson1.38
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AUDIO – classical mythology 1-6 30 minLesson1.39
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AUDIO – classical mythology 7-12 30 minLesson1.40
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VIDEO – Overview of Ancient Greek history, religion and culture 05 hourLesson1.41
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VIDEO – Overview of Greek art – warning – mature content and nudity 30 minLesson1.42
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Classical Literature - Course Guide
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Classical Drama
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The concept of drama 30 minLesson3.1
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Tragedy 30 minLesson3.2
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Comedy 30 minLesson3.3
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Sophocles 30 minLesson3.4
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Euripides 30 minLesson3.5
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Aristophanes 30 minLesson3.6
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VIDEO – tragedy, religion, myth and rituals 30 minLesson3.7
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VIDEO – Greek drama – overview 01 hourLesson3.8
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VIDEO – The chorus in Greek drama 30 minLesson3.9
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Classical Literature - Antigone
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Introduction – Antigone 30 minLesson4.1
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Leadership 30 minLesson4.2
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Conflict 30 minLesson4.3
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Heroism 30 minLesson4.4
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VIDEO – Antigone 03 hour 30 minLesson4.5
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Classical Literature - Medea
A study of Euripides' tragedy, Medea. A play performed in Athens, based upon the myth of Medea, Jason and the Argonauts and the aftermath of the quest for the Golden Fleece.
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Introduction 30 minLesson5.1
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Women in society 30 minLesson5.2
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Conflict 30 minLesson5.3
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VIDEO – Medea 02 hour 30 minLesson5.4
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Classical Literature - Aeneid
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Heroism 30 minLesson6.1
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Leadership 30 minLesson6.2
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Fate versus free will 30 minLesson6.3
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Women in society 30 minLesson6.4
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VIDEO – The Aeneid 01 hourLesson6.5
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VIDEO – Aeneas visits the underworld (book VI) 30 minLesson6.6
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Life in Classical Greece - Power and Freedom
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Athenian DemocracyLesson7.1
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Life in the Roman World - Power and Freedom videos
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VideosLesson8.1
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Life in the Roman World - Religion & Belief - Introduction
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Public and private religion 30 minLesson9.1
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Domestic religion (religion of the household) 30 minLesson9.2
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The household gods 30 minLesson9.3
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Belief in the Lares 30 minLesson9.4
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Janus and the spirits of the door 30 minLesson9.5
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The genius of the paterfamilas 30 minLesson9.6
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Giving birth 30 minLesson9.7
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Infancy 30 minLesson9.8
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Coming of age & marriage 30 minLesson9.9
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Source analysis 30 minLesson9.10
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Archaeological source analysis 30 minLesson9.11
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Life in the Roman World - State Religion
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The nature of religion – contractual, ritualistic 30 minLesson10.1
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The nature of the gods – polytheism, anthropomorphism and no moral code 30 minLesson10.2
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Rituals of worship – prayer, sacrifice, libation and votive offerings 30 minLesson10.3
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Festivals – Lupercalia and the Saturnalia 30 minLesson10.4
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Divination and interpretation – omens, birds, entrails, weather signs, dreams, Sibylline books and associated priesthoods: the augurs, quindecemviri and haruspices 30 minLesson10.5
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Vestal Virgins 30 minLesson10.6
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Imperial Cult 30 minLesson10.7
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Importance of state religion 30 minLesson10.8
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Life in the Roman World - Domestic Religion
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Role and worship of Vesta, the Lares, the Penates, Janus, and genius 30 minLesson11.1
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Religious rituals associated with birth and coming of age 30 minLesson11.2
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Rituals at birth — Juno Lucina, father’s acceptance of child, name giving and the bulla 30 minLesson11.3
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Rituals to mark coming of age — religious rites at lararium for boys and girls, the age at which the ritual took place, dedication of bulla, presentation of adult toga and dedication of toys 30 minLesson11.4
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Importance of domestic religion to Roman life 30 minLesson11.5
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Life in the Roman World - Mystery Religions
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Cult of Bacchus 30 minLesson12.1
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Cult of Mithras 30 minLesson12.2
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Cult of Isis 30 minLesson12.3
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Cult of Cybele Magna Mater 30 minLesson12.4
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Attractions of the cults 30 minLesson12.5
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Attitudes of Romans to the cults 30 minLesson12.6
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Life in the Roman World - Religious tolerance in the Roman world
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Attitudes towards Judaism 30 minLesson13.1
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Attitudes towards Christianity 30 minLesson13.2
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Attitudes towards Druidism 30 minLesson13.3
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Life in the Roman World - Philosophical attitudes to religious beliefs
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Stoicism 30 minLesson14.1
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Epicureanism 30 minLesson14.2
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Impact of philosophical thought on Roman beliefs 30 minLesson14.3
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Life in Classical Greece - Religion & Belief - Introduction
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General introduction 30 minLesson15.1
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VIDEO – Introduction to Greek Religion 03 hour 30 minLesson15.2
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Sources of knowledge for Greek religion 30 minLesson15.3
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What religion meant to the Athenians 30 minLesson15.4
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Recap questions 30 minLesson15.5
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The main principles of Greek religion 30 minLesson15.6
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Athens – the Main Gods 30 minLesson15.7
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Embeddedness 30 minLesson15.8
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Recap questions 30 minLesson15.9
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Polytheism and piety 30 minLesson15.10
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Recap question 30 minLesson15.11
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The limitations of the Olympian gods 30 minLesson15.12
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Divine justice 30 minLesson15.13
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The gods and morality 30 minLesson15.14
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The gods and pity 30 minLesson15.15
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Source analysis – sources 30 minLesson15.16
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Source analysis – questions 30 minLesson15.17
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Source analysis – note on sources 30 minLesson15.18
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Source analysis – making comparisons 30 minLesson15.19
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VIDEO – Anthropomorphism 30 minLesson15.20
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The origins of Greek religion – Homer and Hesiod 30 minLesson15.21
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Life in Classical Greece - State Religion
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Contact with the gods – Introduction 30 minLesson16.1
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RITUALS OF WORSHIP 30 minLesson16.2
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Contact with the gods – Prayer 30 minLesson16.3
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Contact with the gods – Sacrifice 30 minLesson16.4
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Contact with the gods – Libation 30 minLesson16.5
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Contact with the gods – Votive offerings 30 minLesson16.6
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BUILDING OF WORKSHIP – The Parthenon 30 minLesson16.7
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DIVINATION & INTERPRETATION 30 minLesson16.8
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Divination & interpretation – Oracles 30 minLesson16.9
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Divination & interpretation – Omens 30 minLesson16.10
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Divination & interpretation – Entrails 30 minLesson16.11
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Divination & interpretation – Weather signs 30 minLesson16.12
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Divination & interpretation – Dreams 30 minLesson16.13
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Divination & interpretation – Delphi 30 minLesson16.14
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Divination & interpretation – Dodona 30 minLesson16.15
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SELECTION & ROLE OF PRIESTS 30 minLesson16.16
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Contact with the gods – Priests 30 minLesson16.17
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Contact with the gods – Temples 30 minLesson16.18
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Contact with the gods – Essay and extracts 30 minLesson16.19
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FESTIVALS 30 minLesson16.20
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Festivals – Panathenaia 30 minLesson16.21
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Festivals – City Dionysia 30 minLesson16.22
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VIDEO – hero cults 30 minLesson16.23
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Life in Classical Greece - Mystery Religions
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Contact with the gods – Incubation, Asclepius and healing 30 minLesson17.1
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The cult of Dionysus 30 minLesson17.2
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Eleusinian Mysteries 30 minLesson17.3
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The attraction of the mystery cults 30 minLesson17.4
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Attitudes towards cults 30 minLesson17.5
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The Afterlife and Mystery Religions – Essay and extracts 30 minLesson17.6
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VIDEO – mystery cults 30 minLesson17.7
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Life in Classical Greece - Domestic Religion
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Religion in the home – Introduction 30 minLesson18.1
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Religion in the home – Household gods 30 minLesson18.2
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Religion in the home – The Herm 30 minLesson18.3
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Religion in the home – Hekate 30 minLesson18.4
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Religion in the home – Apollo of the Streets 30 minLesson18.5
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Ceremonies connected with the family: 30 minLesson18.6
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Birth 30 minLesson18.7
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Coming of age 30 minLesson18.8
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Marriage 30 minLesson18.9
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Death 30 minLesson18.10
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Domestic Religion – Essay and extracts 30 minLesson18.11
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Religion in the countryside 30 minLesson18.12
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Festivals – Monthly & Agricultural 30 minLesson18.13
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Festivals – In honour of the dead 30 minLesson18.14
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Festivals – Stages in a person’s life celebrated 30 minLesson18.15
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Festivals – Essay and extracts 30 minLesson18.16
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Contact with the gods – Ecstatic cult – Dionysus 30 minLesson18.17
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Life in Classical Greece - Gender Roles within Religious Worship
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Parthenoi – virgins 30 minLesson19.1
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Priestesses 30 minLesson19.2
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Priestesses – Pythia, priestesses of Athena 30 minLesson19.3
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Participation in cults 30 minLesson19.4
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Midwives 30 minLesson19.5
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Tending corpse and grave 30 minLesson19.6
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The role of women in festivals – Skira 30 minLesson19.7
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The role of women in festivals – Thesmophoria 30 minLesson19.8
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The role of women in festivals – Haloa 30 minLesson19.9
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The role of women in festivals – Panathenaia 30 minLesson19.10
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The impact of women on religion 30 minLesson19.11
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Greek and Roman Views on the After-Life section 1
Treatment of the dead
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Evidence from burial practices 30 minLesson20.1
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Cremation and inhumation 30 minLesson20.2
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The trappings of burial 30 minLesson20.3
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Festivals of the dead 30 minLesson20.4
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Death and burial in Athens 30 minLesson20.5
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Death in Rome 30 minLesson20.6
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Provision for the dead 30 minLesson20.7
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Dead men walking 30 minLesson20.8
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Greek and Roman Views on the After-Life section 2
The mythological Underworld and the attitude of philosophers to the Underworld
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The Mythological Underworld 30 minLesson21.1
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The Attitude of Philosophers to the Underworld 30 minLesson21.2
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Alternative Views or Lack of Them 30 minLesson21.3
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The Mystery Religions 30 minLesson21.4
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Eleusinian Mysteries 30 minLesson21.5
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Bacchic Mysteries 30 minLesson21.6
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Orphism 30 minLesson21.7
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Morality and Good Conduct 30 minLesson21.8
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Pythagoreanism 30 minLesson21.9
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Cybele 30 minLesson21.10
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Isis 30 minLesson21.11
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Mithras 30 minLesson21.12
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Christianity 30 minLesson21.13
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Life in Classical Greece - Death and the Afterlife
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The Afterlife 30 minLesson22.1
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Hades – the traditional view 30 minLesson22.2
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Other beliefs – Plato 30 minLesson22.3
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Other beliefs – Conversion of dead into stars 30 minLesson22.4
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Other beliefs – Transmigration of souls 30 minLesson22.5
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Other beliefs – Orphism 30 minLesson22.6
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Burial customs – recap 30 minLesson22.7
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Traditional beliefs about the afterlife including reward and punishment — Elysian fields, Asphodel plains and Tartarus 30 minLesson22.8
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Remembrance of the dead — funeral rites, Genesia and Anthesteria 30 minLesson22.9
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Alternative beliefs — Orphism and Pythagoreanism 30 minLesson22.10
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Attitudes towards the dead 30 minLesson22.11
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Life in Classical Greece - Challengers of traditional beliefs
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philosophical attitudes towards the nature of the gods, for example Plato and Xenophanes 30 minLesson23.1
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philosophical attitudes towards beliefs about the dead and the afterlife, for example Plato and Democritus 30 minLesson23.2
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Impact on belief 30 minLesson23.3
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