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A review by sjgochenour
Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor by Kenneth W. Harl
3.0
I really wish this lecture series had focused more on what makes Asia Minor unique and not spent so much time on Roman and Greek events happening elsewhere. I was very disappointed that he only spent two lectures discussing the Hittites, which is really what I got the audiobook to learn about.
Major warning for the very ending — I find it extremely weird/disturbing to finish a series like this by talking up Atatürk without discussing the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during World War I. I think it’s historically egregious to gloss over the atrocities of that period, and given that this is supposed to be a series about ancient Asia Minor, it wasn’t really necessary to bring it up if he wasn’t going to handle it well.
Major warning for the very ending — I find it extremely weird/disturbing to finish a series like this by talking up Atatürk without discussing the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during World War I. I think it’s historically egregious to gloss over the atrocities of that period, and given that this is supposed to be a series about ancient Asia Minor, it wasn’t really necessary to bring it up if he wasn’t going to handle it well.