Waiting for Godot. The Importance of Being Earnest. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Since Shakespeare's time, no period has produced more brilliant and various theatrical dramas in Great Britain than in the past 100 years. Professor Saccio has selected the major British playwrights of the past century to cover Wilde, Shaw, Coward, Beckett, Osborne, Pinter, Stoppard, Churchill, and Hare. Why this roster of modern British playwrights? As you'll...

Presents twelve lectures tracing the development and evolution of psychology, from ancient times to the twentieth century.

Presents twelve lectures tracing the development and evolution of psychology, from ancient times to the twentieth century.

Lectures on Greek history from the late Bronze Age to the time of Alexander the Great, concentrating on the period from 600 to 400 B.C.

Although Cleopatra is one of the most famous women who ever lived, she remains an enigma--we don't even know her mother's name. History is written by the victors, and Cleopatra lost. Can ancient records help fill out her story?

Egypt's long slide continued as rival dynasties ruled from Thebes and the Delta. Egyptian history had become "a tale of two cities."

Alexander the Great began 300 years of Greek control of Egypt. We will trace his extraordinary career as a young general, as pharaoh, and as legendary conqueror.