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The Ancient Greeks

Name: The Ancient Greeks
Rating: 8.9 (1720 reviews)

This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. Along with studying the most important events and personal...

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(1,720 reviews)

91,608 students

Created by

Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, PhD

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8.9 / 10

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8.9 / 10

Video Score: 9.2 / 10

The course includes 10h 52m video content. Courses with more videos usually have a higher average rating. We have found that the sweet spot is 16 hours of video, which is long enough to teach a topic comprehensively, but not overwhelming. Courses over 16 hours of video gets the maximum score.

The average video length is 3 hours 36 minutes of 242 History courses on Coursera.

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35 articles.

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7 tests or quizzes.

Description

This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. Along with studying the most important events and personalities, we will consider broader issues such as political and cultural values and methods of historical interpretation.

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Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, PhD has created 1 courses that got 243 reviews which are generally positive. Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, PhD has taught 91608 students and received a 4.87 average review out of 243 reviews. Depending on the information available, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, PhD is a TRUSTED instructor.

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Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, PhD

Classical Studies

Wesleyan University

Andrew Szegedy-Maszak (B.A. University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University) is Professor of Classical Studies and Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek. He works on Greek history and historiography, and on the history of photography. He is author of more than 40 articles, and his books include The Nomoi of Theophrastus (New York: Arno Press, 1981) and, with Claire Lyons and John Papadopoulos, Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005). He has won four awards for excellence in teaching.

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