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The Mysterious Etruscans
The Great Courses
1 recommender · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2020–2021 · score 0.8
A Great Courses (now Wondrium) lecture series covering the Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy, examining what is known about its origins, language, society and decline despite limited written sources.
Commenters describe it as an engaging, academic-but-watchable lecture series they particularly liked, fitting the 'high-quality edutainment' style of The Great Courses.
Humanities & Social Sciencebeginnerpaidvideo lectures#etruscans#ancient italy#ancient history#archaeology#wondrium
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20062026
Wondrium (formerly the Great Courses) has many excellent related series. Academic but very watchable. Like a 20 lecture series on the history of Jerusalem. I particularly liked their series on the Etruscans: https://www.wondrium.com/the-mysterious-etruscans
Agreed that Great Courses has a sweet spot... they bring in great professors who are particularly engaging and good at teaching. So, much more engaging than Coursera on average but still a high level of expertise. For a tough technical subject, the lack of exercises makes GC a poor fit, but for high-quality "edutainment," I think it's a perfect balance. (I particularly liked this class on the Etruscans https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-mysterious-etrus...)
If an author/artist/celebrity you particularly love is on MasterClass, it may still be worthwhile to pay for access to their bit. But you learn much less. I took the Annie Leibovitz photography class and absolutely enjoyed it. I still think about a few things she said. But I don't think it improved my photo portraiture skills at all. If anything, it sort of demoralized me to see the incredible level of input required for portraiture at her level.