Classics Videotapes

The Roman World

    Discovering Roman Britain: the Roman countryside. Vol. 1. Discovery and excavation; vol. 2. Questions and answers; vol. 3. The villa estate at work. Written and presented by Keith Branigan. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1996. 3 videocassettes (47 min., color). [Traces the origin and expansion of Roman settlements and villa estates in Great Britain.] DA145 .D57 1996

    The Etruscans. Films for the Humanities. (27 min., color)

    How the town grew. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1996. (13 min., color) [Traces the origins of the Roman town of Verulamium from King Tasciovanus up to the Roman invasion by Claudius in AD 43.] DA145 .D57 v.1

    I, Claudius A BBC Television production in Association with London Film Productions Limited. PBS Home Video; Pacific Arts Video, 1991. 7 videocassettes .(13 hr.) PR6013.R35 I23 1991

    Intimate Details of Roman Life. Films for the Humanities. (26 min., color)

    Living in the Town. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1996. (13 min., color) [Compares life in an old Roman town to life in its 20th-century successor] DA145 .D57 v.2 Pompeii: Daily Life of the Ancient Romans. Films for the Humanities. (45 min., color) CL

    The Roman Arena. Films for the Humanities. (50 min., color)

    Rome. Films for the Humanities. (45 min., color)

    Roman Britain. Films for the Humanities. (26 min., color)

    Slaves in Ancient Rome. Insight Media. (18 min.) HT863 .S63 1989

    The true story of the Roman arena. British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993; Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1994. (50 min., color] [Drawing on first-hand Roman accounts and modern research, this program traces the Roman origins of the use of violence as mass entertainment through the rise of the Roman arena and the Games associated with it.) GV31 .T78 1994

    Wider horizons. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1996. (13 min., color) [Describes the food production and market system on many villa estates in the Roman countryside.] DA145 .D57 v.3

     

Plate from "Le Antichita Romane," by Giambattista Piranesi. Rome, 1784.
Courtesy of the Chapin Library, Williams College.