TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why is Aristophanes called "The Father of Comedy"? - Mark Robinson
Aristophanes, often referred to as the Father of Comedy, wrote the world's earliest surviving comic dramas. They're stuffed full of parodies, songs, sexual jokes and surreal fantasy -- and they've shaped how comedy's been written and...
TED Talks
Joseph Nye: Global power shifts
Historian and diplomat Joseph Nye gives us the 30,000-foot view of the shifts in power between China and the US, and the global implications as economic, political and "soft" power shifts and moves around the globe.
Curated Video
The Persians & Greeks: Crash Course World History
In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John...
Curated Video
Battle of Delium, 424 BC Athens takes on Sparta Peloponnesian War
Battle of Delium, 424 BC Athens takes on Sparta Peloponnesian War
Curated Video
A Fateful Eclipse
Classicist Richard Janko (Michigan) relates the pivotally impactful religious factors behind the disastrous Athenian invasion of Sicily during the Peloponnesian War.
Curated Video
The Republic with No Borders | The Life & Times of Xenophon
The Republic with No Borders | The Life & Times of Xenophon
Vlogbrothers
On The Melian Dialogue
In which John discusses The Melian Dialogue, a story of Ancient Greece, the Peloponnesian War, the city-state of Athens, the island of Melos, Thucydides, and 21st century human life.
History Hit
A History of Unbelief: Atheism in ancient times, Part 1
How old is Atheism? What does Atheism look like in ancient Greece and Rome? Are there any examples of Greek Atheism? A History of Unbelief, Part 1
Curated OER
Greece - Age of Alexander the Great, Part 1/5
Part one of this five-part series focuses on the rise of Phillip II of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great. Phillip organizes a corps of engineers to design and build new instruments of war, an innovation which changed forever how...
Curated OER
Engineering an Empire - Greece, Part 5/5
"There are no straight lines in the Parthenon." The series concludes with a look at the optical illusions involved in the engineering of the Parthenon. Mixing animated images and current video, the producers bring alive this famous...
History of Our World
Podcast History of Our World: 43 the Peloponnesian War
Podcast Hisotry presents a segment [17:11] on the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece fought between the Athenians and neigboring tribal Spartans beginning around 431 B.C.