I just completed Robert Garland’s @48 lecture audiobook - The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World (2012). It was terrific. The Great Courses has some very fine lectures, but this one set a new standard. I loved learning about how regular people worked and played - from Neanderthal to Medieval England. That’s where I learned that the pyramids were a Keynesian WPA project.
The one catch is pricing. The Great Courses have whacky prices — they periodically have 80% off sales. This course now lists at $250, but on Amazon it’s $50 to $72 and on iTunes (via Audible) it’s $46.00. For that matter you could sign up for Audible.com, they appear to carry 430 titles from the Great Courses.
Just buy it and enjoy.
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