Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 The Dawn of History
- Season 1 The Ancient Egyptians
- Season 1 Mesopotamia
- Season 1 From Bronze to Iron
- Season 1 The Rise of Greek Civilization
- Season 1 Greek Thought
- Season 1 Alexander the Great
- Season 1 The Hellenistic Age
- Season 1 The Rise of Rome
- Season 1 The Roman Empire
- Season 1 Early Christianity
- Season 1 The Rise of the Church
- Season 1 The Decline of Rome
- Season 1 The Fall of Rome
- Season 1 The Byzantine Empire
- Season 1 The Fall of Byzantium
- Season 1 The Dark Ages
- Season 1 The Age of Charlemagne
- Season 1 The Middle Ages
- Season 1 The Feudal Order
- Season 1 Common Life in the Middle Ages
- Season 1 Cities and Cathedrals of the Middle Ages
- Season 1 The Late Middle Ages
- Season 1 The National Monarchies
- Season 1 Renaissance & the Age of Discovery
- Season 1 Renaissance & the New World
- Season 1 The Reformation
- Season 1 The Rise of the Middle Class
- Season 1 The Wars of Religion
- Season 1 The Rise of the Trading Cities
- Season 1 The Age of Absolutism
- Season 1 Absolutism and the Social Contract
- Season 1 The Enlightened Despots
- Season 1 The Enlightenment
- Season 1 The Enlightenment and Society
- Season 1 The Modern Philosophers
- Season 1 The American Revolution
- Season 1 The American Republic
- Season 1 The Death of the Old Regime
- Season 1 The French Revolution
- Season 1 The Industrial Revolution
- Season 1 The Industrial World
- Season 1 Revolution and Romantics
- Season 1 The Age of the Nation-States
- Season 1 A New Public
- Season 1 Fin de Siècle
- Season 1 The First World War and the Rise of Fascism
- Season 1 The Second World War
- Season 1 The Cold War
- Season 1 Europe and the Third World
- Season 1 The Technological Revolution
- Season 1 Toward the Future
The Western Tradition
0.00 27 minutes Covering the ancient world through the age of technology, this illustrated lecture by Eugen Weber presents a tapestry of political and social events woven with many strands — religion, industry, agriculture, demography, government, economics, and art. A visual feast of over 2,700 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art portrays key events that shaped the development of Western thought, culture, and tradition.
