Modern Scholar

The Trojan War, captured forever in Homer's epic poem the Iliad, resonates to the present day in the popular imagination, and this magnificent...

We begin with a unifying overview of the Universe that provides a broad context into which we place the objects of our planetary system. The course...

As huge and prominent as it appears to us, our planet and solar system are but small parts of our galaxy, a massive assembly that spatters the sky...

The goal of this audio course is to provide listeners with a literary and historical overview of the Bible, from its opening in Genesis to its ending ...

Everyone has their own inner philosopher - a voice within that asks, oh so insistently, philosophical questions. Everyone wants to know what the...

Esteemed history professor Thomas F Madden explores the reformations that swept across Christendom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The...

These lectures address - in chronological sequence - a series of major works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought both in...

In Classical Mythology: The Greeks, widely published Professor Peter Meineck examines in thrilling detail the far-reaching influence of Greek myths...

Rome grew from a tiny community of small hill villages near the River Tiber in central Italy to one of the most powerful empires the world has seen....

The devastating US atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only brought World War II to an end, but effectively gave...