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{"num_reviews":0,"url":"https://tanbooks.com/products/books/the-roots-of-western-civilization-mp3-audio-course-download/","add_this":[{"service":"","annotation":""}],"gtin":null,"id":3557,"can_purchase":true,"meta_description":"","category":["Books","Lifelong Learning/TAN Courses/Literature","Books/General ","Books/General /eBooks & Audiobooks"],"AddThisServiceButtonMeta":"","main_image":{"data":"https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-iuax7bpgx3/images/stencil/{:size}/products/3557/7695/7695__07316.1666799873.png?c=1","alt":"The Roots of Western Civilization The Ancient World: from Gilgamesh to Augustine audio cover"},"add_to_wishlist_url":"/wishlist.php?action=add&product_id=3557","custom_fields":[{"id":"45061","name":"Publication Date","value":"2022"},{"id":"45068","name":"Product Format","value":"MP3 Audio Download"},{"id":"58758","name":"SEARCH_IGNORE","value":"true"}],"sku":"C50706","description":"<p><a id=\"trailer_video\"></a>\n<script src=\"https://fast.wistia.com/embed/medias/ngl4wpnxfw.jsonp\" async=\"\"></script>\n<script src=\"https://fast.wistia.com/assets/external/E-v1.js\" async=\"\"></script>\n</p>\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_ngl4wpnxfw seo=false videoFoam=true\" style=\"height: 100%; position: relative; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_swatch\" style=\"height: 100%; left: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0; transition: opacity 200ms; width: 100%;\"><img style=\"filter: blur(5px); height: 100%; object-fit: contain; width: 100%;\" src=\"https://fast.wistia.com/embed/medias/ngl4wpnxfw/swatch\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" /></div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<center><strong>THE PAGANS' LONG-AWAITED SAVIOR<br /><br /></strong></center>\n<div style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">In this course, Dr. Anthony Esolen will examine ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Israel, seeing the disappointment and Messianic longing in the pagan Roman poet Virgil, and the fulfilled Messianic longing among the prophets and the inspired authors of the Old Testament. You will discover the ways in which the fulfillment of the person of Jesus Christ never ceases to surprise mankind because it never ceases to contradict what fallen man accepts as great.</div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">&nbsp;</div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">As Esolen unfolds: fallen man worships power, and yet Jesus enters Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey. Fallen man listens to sophisticated and sly rhetoric, but Jesus praises God for revealing mysteries to fools and children and concealing them from those who are wise in the world&rsquo;s ways. Fallen man clings to his creature comforts, but Jesus gives his life away. And at that, he gives it away to his enemies &ndash; namely to us. Fallen man wants to rule, but Jesus emptied himself, becoming obedient until death, even death upon a cross.</div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">&nbsp;</div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">Now, this changes the world entirely. We could fill a library with books on this change and still have not plumbed its depths. In this course, we will examine the ways in which even a pagan world anticipates this change, and we will end by considering the life of one man who discovered the radicality of this change upon the movements of his heart. &nbsp;</div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">&nbsp;</div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">In what way does the pagan world cry out for a savior? How do the confessions of one man speak to the universal within all of mankind? To examine the roots of a Civilization is to return to its life source&ndash;its philosophies, myths, laws, and religions&ndash;in short, its culture. Join Dr. Anthony Esolen as he journeys through the great literature of the ancient world discovering not only the timeless wisdom of such texts as the Theogony, the Aeneid, and the Confessions, but also their rich and broad impact on Western Civilization.&nbsp;</div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">&nbsp;</div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"><center><strong>LECTURES</strong></center></div>\n<div style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"><strong>Civilization as Presented in </strong><em><strong>The Epic of Gilgamesh</strong><br /></em>Mesopotamia was centered between the Tigris and the Euphrates and contained both benefits and challenges for the inhabitants.&nbsp; The fruitfulness of the land largely depended on their ability to collaborate with one another for the common good.<br /><br /></li>\n<li style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"><strong>Hesiod&rsquo;s <em>Theogony</em> and the Greek Polis</strong><br />In this second lecture, we discuss Hesiod&rsquo;s <em>Theogony</em> and the Greek culture that gave Western Civilization the phenomenon of a self-governing city-state &ndash; a polis.<br /><br /></li>\n<li style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"><strong>Rome: The Imperial Ruler of the Western World</strong><br />In this third lecture, we turn our attention to a little village on Seven Hills which will come to be the imperial ruler of the western world: Rome.<br /><br /></li>\n<li style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"><strong>Israel and Divine Revelation</strong><br />The Israelites' influence on Western Civilization is not due to their genius, but rather because they were a people chosen by God to receive and proclaim His Divine Revelation.<br /><br /></li>\n<li style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"><strong>Messianic Prophesies and God&rsquo;s Overarching Plan of Salvation</strong><br />As we continue to delve into the heart of Israel, we will take a closer look at some of the Hebrew texts that foretell the coming of the Messiah.<br /><br /></li>\n<li style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"><strong>Virgil&rsquo;s <em>Aeneid</em> and Roman Piety<br /></strong>In this lecture, we return to the Romans, to the insufficiency of their piety, and to their great epic, the <em>Aeneid</em>.<br /><br /></li>\n<li style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"><strong>The Wisdom of Jesus&rsquo; Teaching<br /></strong>After having studied various messianic texts and the Greek and Roman epics, we turn now to what everything thus far has been pointing to: the Messiah Himself, Jesus.<br /><br /></li>\n<li style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"><strong>The <em>Confessions</em> of St. Augustine</strong><br />For this last lecture, we will look at how Jesus changed the life of one man, St. Augustine of Hippo, by examining his <em>Confessions</em>.</li>\n</ol>\n</div>\n<center><strong>LECTURE SAMPLE<br /></strong></center>\n<p><a id=\"sample_video\"></a>\n<script src=\"https://fast.wistia.com/embed/medias/pbdhitey5c.jsonp\" async=\"\"></script>\n<script src=\"https://fast.wistia.com/assets/external/E-v1.js\" async=\"\"></script>\n</p>\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_pbdhitey5c seo=false videoFoam=true\" style=\"height: 100%; position: relative; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_swatch\" style=\"height: 100%; left: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0; transition: opacity 200ms; width: 100%;\"><img style=\"filter: blur(5px); height: 100%; object-fit: contain; width: 100%;\" src=\"https://fast.wistia.com/embed/medias/pbdhitey5c/swatch\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" /></div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<p style=\"color: #808080; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; caret-color: #808080; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><br /><font size=\"4\" face=\"tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">MEET YOUR PROFESSOR</font></strong></span></span></p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; caret-color: #808080; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><img src=\"https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-iuax7bpgx3/product_images/uploaded_images/anthony-esolen.jpg?t=1656039160\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\" /></strong></span></span></p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; caret-color: #808080; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Anthony Esolen is a writer, social commentator, translator of classical poetry, and Writer-in-Residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts. He taught at Furman University and Providence College before transferring to the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in 2017 and Magdalen in 2019.</span><br /><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Esolen has translated into English Dante&rsquo;s <em>Divine Comedy</em>, Lucretius&rsquo; <em>On the Nature of Things</em>, and Torquato Tasso&rsquo;s <em>Jerusalem Delivered</em>. He is the author of numerous books and articles in such publications as <em>The Modern Age, The Catholic World Report, Chronicles, The Claremont Review of Books, The Public Discourse, First Things, Crisis Magazine, The Catholic Thing</em>, and <em>Touchstone</em>, for which he serves as a senior editor. He is a regular contributor to <em>Magnificat</em>, and has written frequently for a host of other online journals.</span></p>","tags":[],"warranty":"","price":{"without_tax":{"formatted":"$19.95","value":19.95,"currency":"USD"},"tax_label":"Tax"},"detail_messages":"","availability":"","page_title":"The Roots of Western Civilization (MP3 Audio Course Download)","cart_url":"https://tanbooks.com/cart.php","max_purchase_quantity":0,"mpn":null,"upc":null,"options":[],"related_products":[{"id":2945,"sku":"C30006","name":"The Christ (MP3 Audio Course Download)","url":"https://tanbooks.com/products/books/the-christ-mp3-audio-course-download/","availability":"","rating":0,"brand":null,"category":["Books","Lifelong Learning/TAN Courses/Scripture","Books/General "],"summary":" ","image":{"data":"https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-iuax7bpgx3/images/stencil/{:size}/products/2945/2914/2914__14644.1666799854.jpg?c=1","alt":"The Christ (MP3 Audio Course 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THE PAGANS' LONG-AWAITED SAVIOR

In this course, Dr. Anthony Esolen will examine ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Israel, seeing the disappointment and Messianic longing in the pagan Roman poet Virgil, and the fulfilled Messianic longing among the prophets and the inspired authors of the Old Testament. You will discover the ways in which the fulfillment of the person of Jesus Christ never ceases to surprise mankind because it never ceases to contradict what fallen man accepts as great.
 
As Esolen unfolds: fallen man worships power, and yet Jesus enters Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey. Fallen man listens to sophisticated and sly rhetoric, but Jesus praises God for revealing mysteries to fools and children and concealing them from those who are wise in the world’s ways. Fallen man clings to his creature comforts, but Jesus gives his life away. And at that, he gives it away to his enemies – namely to us. Fallen man wants to rule, but Jesus emptied himself, becoming obedient until death, even death upon a cross.
 
Now, this changes the world entirely. We could fill a library with books on this change and still have not plumbed its depths. In this course, we will examine the ways in which even a pagan world anticipates this change, and we will end by considering the life of one man who discovered the radicality of this change upon the movements of his heart.  
 
In what way does the pagan world cry out for a savior? How do the confessions of one man speak to the universal within all of mankind? To examine the roots of a Civilization is to return to its life source–its philosophies, myths, laws, and religions–in short, its culture. Join Dr. Anthony Esolen as he journeys through the great literature of the ancient world discovering not only the timeless wisdom of such texts as the Theogony, the Aeneid, and the Confessions, but also their rich and broad impact on Western Civilization. 
 
LECTURES
  1. Civilization as Presented in The Epic of Gilgamesh
    Mesopotamia was centered between the Tigris and the Euphrates and contained both benefits and challenges for the inhabitants.  The fruitfulness of the land largely depended on their ability to collaborate with one another for the common good.

  2. Hesiod’s Theogony and the Greek Polis
    In this second lecture, we discuss Hesiod’s Theogony and the Greek culture that gave Western Civilization the phenomenon of a self-governing city-state – a polis.

  3. Rome: The Imperial Ruler of the Western World
    In this third lecture, we turn our attention to a little village on Seven Hills which will come to be the imperial ruler of the western world: Rome.

  4. Israel and Divine Revelation
    The Israelites' influence on Western Civilization is not due to their genius, but rather because they were a people chosen by God to receive and proclaim His Divine Revelation.

  5. Messianic Prophesies and God’s Overarching Plan of Salvation
    As we continue to delve into the heart of Israel, we will take a closer look at some of the Hebrew texts that foretell the coming of the Messiah.

  6. Virgil’s Aeneid and Roman Piety
    In this lecture, we return to the Romans, to the insufficiency of their piety, and to their great epic, the Aeneid.

  7. The Wisdom of Jesus’ Teaching
    After having studied various messianic texts and the Greek and Roman epics, we turn now to what everything thus far has been pointing to: the Messiah Himself, Jesus.

  8. The Confessions of St. Augustine
    For this last lecture, we will look at how Jesus changed the life of one man, St. Augustine of Hippo, by examining his Confessions.
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MEET YOUR PROFESSOR

Dr. Anthony Esolen is a writer, social commentator, translator of classical poetry, and Writer-in-Residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts. He taught at Furman University and Providence College before transferring to the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in 2017 and Magdalen in 2019.

Dr. Esolen has translated into English Dante’s Divine Comedy, Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, and Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered. He is the author of numerous books and articles in such publications as The Modern Age, The Catholic World Report, Chronicles, The Claremont Review of Books, The Public Discourse, First Things, Crisis Magazine, The Catholic Thing, and Touchstone, for which he serves as a senior editor. He is a regular contributor to Magnificat, and has written frequently for a host of other online journals.

Publication Date:
2022
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