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Mediterranean Civilizations: Traveling Through World Heritage, Season 2
Around the Blue Coast to the Cradles of Civilization
Completed · 59 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
We Keep Our Own Tastes Yet Still Talk and Care for One Another | Traveling Central Asia with Jiang Song 0. ‘I Have Become Addicted to Ruins’: Let This Season Begin at the Birthplaces of Civilization 1. Rising from Fire and Blood: Hagia Sophia 2. In Five Thousand Years of Civilization, Who Surpassed Rome? Constantinople 3. ‘One Day We Will Take Constantinople’: Did the War of 1453 Redirect History? Bonus | Can Today's Wars and Democratic Problems Be Traced to the Beginnings of Western Civilization? 4. The More It Is Hidden, the More We Wonder: The Temple of Artemis, Destroyed and Rebuilt Three Times 5. Cries from the Hair Salon? Everyday Roman Life in Ephesus 6. Food, Sex, and Troublemakers: Endless Roman Gossip in Seaward-Looking Ephesus 7. Meeting the Celts: Brave, Combative, Wine-Loving ‘Noble Savages’ 8. Can You Tell All the Greek Gods Apart? The Battle of the Gods on the Pergamon Altar 9. ‘You Must See These in Turkey’: A Survey of Sites in Western and Southwestern Turkey What Did Chinese People Look Like a Thousand Years Ago? Murals and Sculpture East and West | Bonus On the Road: Begin Understanding Turkey with Byzantium | Bonus 10. The Source of the Classical and the Beautiful: The Acropolis and Parthenon 11. Are Athens's Secrets Hidden in the Parthenon Frieze? 12. Eternal Perfection: From the Parthenon to the Three Classical Orders Supplement | Can One Mythic Figure Wear a Thousand Faces? The Story of Erechtheus 13. Whose Fate Does the Center of the World Foretell? Delphi's Oracle and Treasuries 14. Know Yourself and Nothing in Excess: What Do the Temple Maxims Teach? Delphi's Offerings Supplement | What Exactly Was an Oracle? Ethylene, Hallucination, and Priestesses 15. The Ancient Greek Art of Taking It Easy? Masterpieces of Architecture and the Tomb of the Diver 16. Ancient Greek Art We Can Still See: Ten Great Temples and Surviving Paintings 17. What Was Truly New About Early Christian Art? Ravenna's Mosaics 18. Why Does Jesus Sometimes Have a Beard and Sometimes Not? Arian Mosaics in Ravenna Happy New Year—May You Find the Place You Most Want to Go 19. Rome's Final Glory? The Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna Why Does Everyone Who Has Visited Italy Want to Kick Themselves? | Bonus 20. Walking Through Two Thousand Years of Rome: World Heritage City Walk I 21. Three Routes, Each a Complete History of Western Art: Rome City Walk II 22. Rome, the City That Laid Art History Across Its Streets: City Walk III 23. The Renaissance's Most Deceptive Room? Mantegna's Optical Illusions in Mantua's Camera degli Sposi 24. A Hostage, a Duke, and the Hall of the Giants: How a Small Renaissance State Survived A First Lesson at the Uffizi: How Ordinary Viewers Can Read Western Masterpieces | Bonus 25. Can Seventy Meters of Embroidery Tell an Entire War? The Bayeux Tapestry and 1066 26. What Did He Actually Promise? The Fatal Oath in the Bayeux Tapestry 27. Did the Arrow in the Eye Really Exist? Hastings in the Bayeux Tapestry Zhu Qipeng × Jiang Song: Witnessing a Northern Wei Cultural Turn at the Yungang Grottoes 28. A Brilliant Sky Written in Ornament: The Alhambra's Magic of Light and Shadow 29. Water-Mirror Reflections in a Garden of Paradise: The Alhambra's Courtyards and Domes Travel Replay | Jiang Song's Energetic Recommendations for a May Day Journey in China Zhang Xingang × Jiang Song: Bathing, Romance, and Wall-Building in Hadrian's Rome 30. Who Wanted Carthage Destroyed? Three Punic Wars and Three Military Geniuses ‘Artifacts Are Not Cold; They Are About People’ | International Museum Day Special In the Best ‘Golden Age,’ People Did Not Need to Work at All | Tribute to the Masters Exhibition Why Is Italy So Many People's First Love in Europe? | Conversation at the Italian Embassy Xinjiang's Cave Art Holds Half a History of Buddhism: Reading Mahayana, Theravada, and Nirvana Images | Bonus 31. Who Really Ended Rome? Genseric and Carthage's Revenge 32. Flamingos on the Dinner Table? Roman Daily Life Spread Across Mosaic Floors 33. Twelve Hours of Fighting Monsters in the Underworld? The Valley of the Kings and Its Sixty-Five Tombs 34. Must the Dead Take Exams? A Pharaoh's Guide Through the Underworld: The Book of Caverns and Tomb Paintings 35. Does the Sun Die Every Day? Death, Resurrection, and Eternity in Ancient Egypt 36. Who Built the First Pyramid? Egypt's Vision of Immortality 4,600 Years Ago 37. What Could Satisfy the Engineering-Mad Pharaoh Sneferu? Building Three Pyramids 38. What Makes a Holy City? Why Jerusalem Became the Center of Three Religions 39. Fighting for Jerusalem: The Ark, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Dome of the Rock Bonus | Did the People of Along the River During the Qingming Festival Reappear in Suzhou Six Centuries Later? Comparing Prosperous Suzhou, Part I Bonus | Painted Scenery, Real Life—or Real Scenery Staged as Drama? Qingming Festival × Prosperous Suzhou, Part II 40. Finale—Jerusalem: A Holy City Recreated Through Art