To Rule Mankind and Make the World Obey

PORTABLE PROFESSOR is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.

The influence of ancient Roman civilization on Western culture is difficult to overestimate, especially as it affects nearly every aspect of modern life from language to law, and from military conquest to spectator sports. In this sweeping series of lectures, award-winning professor Frances Titchener explores the many accomplishments of ancient Rome and shows how the empire rose and fell—as well as how it continues to live on today.

COURSE LECTURES

Introduction to Rome, Italy, and the Romans, 1200-753 BC
First There Were Kings, 753-510 BC
Internal Conflict: The Patrician and Plebeian Orders, 510-287 BC
Roman Expansion in Italy, 510-287 BC
The First Punic War and the Emergence of Individuals, 264-241 BC
Rome's Greatest Enemy: The Second and Third Punic Wars
Plantations and the Gracchi Brothers
The Rise of Marius Through African and Italian Wars, 128-83 BC
Strong Men Fight It Out, 123-53 BC
And Then There Was One: Julius Caesar, 53-44 BC
Augustus, the Father of His Country, 43 BC-AD 14
The Empire's First Century: Julio-Claudians and Flavians, AD 14-96
Gibbon's Golden Age and the Beginning of the End, AD 96-303
Constantine, Barbarians, and the Great Transformation, AD 303-476


A winner of numerous national and regional teaching awards, Frances B. Titchener teaches Greek and Latin as well as courses on the history of ancient Greece, Rome, and Celtic Europe at Utah State University. Titchener earned her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin and was the recipient of a Fulbright grant in 2003. A prolific essayist, she is also editor of the scholarly journal Ploutarchos.