Portable Professor™ is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.

Even at a remove of several millennia, it is impossible to overestimate the considerable influence of three ancient civilizations—the Hebrew, Greek, and Roman—on Western thought. In his inimitably entertaining and accessible style, Professor Timothy Shutt illustrates how the concepts with which these civilizations wrestled, individually and in concert, continue to shape the cultural life of the West.

COURSE LECTURES

Overview and BackgroundsThe Hebrew Bible: Introduction and GenesisThe Hebrew Bible: Exodus, David, the Prophets, and JobHomer and The IliadHomer: The Odyssey and the Birth of TragedyAeschylus and the Greek DramaHerodotus and Thucydides: Historians and HellenismSocrates and PlatoPlato and AristotleVirgil and RomeVirgil and OvidThe Christian Bible: The GospelsThe Christian Bible: The Diaspora and St. PaulPlotinus and St. Augustine: The End of Antiquity and the Medieval Synthesis
Timothy B. Shutt is a graduate of Yale, and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, where he specialized in medieval literature and the history of ideas. Shutt—who today lectures on Homer, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible and the Greek historians, Virgil, and Dante to packed houses—joined Kenyon College in 1986, and has since been honored frequently for his teaching skills.