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Learner Reviews & Feedback for The Ancient Greeks by Wesleyan University

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About the Course

This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. Along with studying the most important events and personalities, we will consider broader issues such as political and cultural values and methods of historical interpretation....

Top reviews

TK

Jun 26, 2024

Absolutely fantastic course with a wonderfully calm lecturer who delivers complex situations in an understandable way. The course material is superb and opens up avenues to explore. Thank you so much.

AS

Apr 22, 2018

This has been an enthralling course which introduces you to the world of the Ancient Greek. Thank you Prof. Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, and all the course creators and mentors, for this excellent course.

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By John T R

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Aug 20, 2020

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By Wendi S

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Jun 2, 2017

The information was interesting and divided up so that it made a connection between the readings and the lectures. However, the speaker seemed uncomfortable and did not present himself well. More photos and being shown the pictures longer with him speaking behind them would have helped. Looking at little pictures on a computer/TV screen behind the speaker didn't help. Poor presentation although good subject matter.

By Dominick G

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May 4, 2022

Many of the links were broken so I had to outsource a lot of the reading assignments, but overall the video lecture portions of the course were well laid out and informative.

By gerry w

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Jan 15, 2021

Interesting & stimulating introduction to ancient greece. Please note - some of the reading assignment links not working. Would recommend. Regards

By Avigayil B

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Jul 5, 2021

I learned a lot! The readings take a lot of time. Many of the reading links are no longer active.

By Muhammad I

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Feb 14, 2016

Very interesting! I wish there is some animation film to explain the narative.

By Gorret F

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Oct 12, 2015

A lesson with discussion about the question of quizz.

By Jonathan G

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Feb 24, 2018

this course was interesting but biased in a lot of ways. Alexander was Macedonian, but they glorify him like he's some great hero when to his enemies, he was called "Alexander the Destroyer Of Cities". A tyrant should never be glorified.

By d b

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Oct 16, 2024

not great. MANY of the links are old and broken. the lecturer makes nearly no use of resources of computer based teaching and learning...like legible visual examples!

By Dennis A

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Nov 13, 2024

Exams out of order from information in lectures. Very frustrating. Videos following graded quiz had answers and info needed for quiz.

By Abhayo

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Oct 29, 2022

I love my Coursera Plus and Professor Andy seems like a very nice guy and is very knowledgeble. Unfortunately he is also very dry and monotonous. I made it through the first section and exam with a 90% but decided to withdraw from the Coursera offering and watch a similiar course on a different platform with a Professor who is more engaging. Hate to post negative reviews, especially since I failed to complete the entire course, but this one was just too boring to hold my attention any longer.

By Gordon K

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Jan 18, 2023

Horrid course. Questions asked on the quizzes are not emphasized by the instructor. Required Reading assignments continually shown as not available on the web when you click on the links. I am going to try to finish the course as I have paid for it, but am not going to take any further quizzes.

By Deleted A

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Dec 20, 2023

I couldn't read any of the assignments because the links didn't work. I could do everything else, but without the reading assignments, it was difficult to follow the instructor's allusions to the reading.

By alvaro j B

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Jan 12, 2016

Lamentablemente, el audio no permite disfrutar de los vídeos apropiadamente. El material es más bien mediocre, muy descriptivo y extremadamente selectivo.

By Joutishman D

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May 14, 2020

Too technical and filled with more words etc rather then application based questions.

Didnt enjoy the course

By gordon_PK@hotmail.com

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Dec 30, 2015

the tests are difficult.

By Silke S

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Jul 11, 2020

Too complex