Classical archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome

Part 1. Creating a science of the past. Disc 1, lecture 1. Archaeology's big bang ; lecture 2. "Ode on a Grecian Urn" ; lecture 3. A quest for the Trojan War ; lecture 4. How to dig ; lecture 5. First find your site ; lecture 6. Taking the search underwater

Disc 2, lecture 7. Cracking the codes ; lecture 8. Techniques for successful dating ; lecture 9. Reconstructing vanished environments ; Lecture 10. "Not artifacts but people" ; lecture 11. Archaeology by experiment ; lecture 12. Return to Vesuvius.

Part 2. An archaeologist's casebook. Disc 3, lecture 13. Gournia : Harriet Boyd, and the Mother Goddess ; lecture 14. Thera : a Bronze Age Atlantis? ; lecture 15. Olympia : games and gods ; lecture 16. Athens' agora : where Socrates walked ; lecture 17. Delphi : questioning the oracle ; lecture 18. Kyrenia : lost ship of the Hellenistic Age

Disc 4, lecture 19. Riace : warriors from the Sea ; lecture 20. Rome : foundation myths and archaeology ; lecture 21. Caesarea Maritima : a Roman city in Judea ; lecture 22. Teutoburg : battlefield archaeology ; lecture 23. Bath : healing waters at Aquae Sulis ; lecture 24. Torre de Palma : a farm in the far West.

Part 3. A view from the trenches. Disc 5, lecture 25. Roots of classical culture ; lecture 26. The texture of everyday life ; lecture 27. Their daily bread ; lecture 28. Voyaging on a dark sea of wine ; lecture 29. Shows and circuses : Rome's "virtual reality" ; lecture 30. Engineering and technology

Disc 6. lecture 31. Slaves : a silent majority? ; lecture 32. Women of Greece and Rome ; lecture 33. Hadrian : mark of the individual ; lecture 34. Crucible of new faiths ; lecture 35. The end of the world : a coroner's report ; lecture 36. A bridge across the torrent.