Lectures as part of The Foundations of Western Civilization at The Attic, 36, Regal Building, CP > 6:30pm on 17th September 2012

Time : 6:30 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : The Attic, 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001 Landmark : On Parliament Street close to 'The Shop' showroom & next to the 'Kwality' restaurant
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Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)

Event Details : The Foundations of Western Civilization– an education in 24 evenings. The next two lectures of the series are as follows :
Lecture 15 – “The Hellenistic World”
The world after Alexander was cosmopolitan, prosperous, and dominated by Greeks and Macedonians all over the Mediterranean and far out into the old Persian Empire. Literature, science, and new philosophies flourished.
Lecture 16 – “The Rise of Rome”
This lecture is about the foundations on which Roman history rests, including the geography of Italy and the two centuries or so of monarchical rule—ending tradition in 509 B.C.—that the republic overthrew.

1 "Western", "Civilization" and "Foundations" 2 History Begins at Sumer
3 Egypt-The Gift of the Nile 4 The Hebrews-Small States and Big Ideas
5 A Succession of Empires 6 Wide-Ruling Agamemnon
7 Dark Age and Archaic Greece 8 The Greek Polis-Sparta
9 The Greek Polis-Athens 10 Civic Culture-Architecture and Drama
11 The Birth of History 12 From Greek Religion to Socratic Philosophy
13 Plato and Aristotle 14 The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander
15 The Hellenistic World 16 The Rise of Rome
17 The Roman Republic-Government and Politics 18 Roman Imperialism
19 The Culture of the Roman Republic 20 Rome-From Republic to Empire
21 The Pax Romana 22 Rome's Golden and Silver ages
23 Jesus and the New Testament 24 The Emergence of a Christian Church
25 Late Antiquity-Crisis and Response 26 Barbarians and Emperors
27 The Emergence of the Catholic Church 28 Christian Culture in Late Antiquity
29 Muhammad and Islam 30 The Birth of Byzantium
31 Barbarian Kingdoms in the West 32 The World of Charlemagne
33 The Carolingian Renaissance 34 The Expansion of Europe
35 The Chivalrous Society 36 Medieval Political Traditions I
37 Medieval Political Traditions, II 38 Scholastic Culture
39 Vernacular Culture 40 The Crisis of Renaissance Europe
41 The Renaissance Problem 42 Renaissance Portraits
43 The Northern Renaissance 44 The Protestant Reformation-Martin Luther
45 The Protestant Reformation-John Calvin 46 Catholic Reforms and "Confessionalization"
47 Exploration and Empire 48 What Challenges Remain?

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