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The Classical Legacy: Ancient Greece and Rome

Get classy perspectives-as in classical Greece and Rome-on very modern fixtures like shopping malls and tailgating parties.

Overview

Join an award-winning professor to take a new look at the roots of modern fixtures such as the shopping mall and tailgating to uncover their very, very early beginnings.

About

Gregory S. Aldrete

As an ancient historian, my goals are to share the enthusiasm for and fascination with antiquity that I feel, and to show some of the connections between that world and our own.

INSTITUTION

University of Wisconsin–Green Bay

Gregory S. Aldrete is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. He earned his PhD in Ancient History from the University of Michigan. He has been honored with numerous awards for his research and teaching and has received five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is also a prolific scholar whose books include Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome, Daily Life in the Roman City, and The Long Shadow of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us?

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The Classical Legacy:  Ancient Greece and Rome

01: The Classical Legacy: Ancient Greece and Rome

Professor Gregory S. Aldrete from the University of Wisconsin takes you back in time to ancient Greece and Rome in order to reveal the origins of many staples of modern living. Explore the earliest roots of sports and fandom, marriage traditions, cookbooks, and more.

38 min