Wow, I’m a bit overwhelmed. Thanks so much for your kind response.
BTW, just by Googling, I’ve found a number - about 20 - colleges and universities offering free courses online. Most of the lecturers are, in my opinion, somewhat undistinguished, but it’s not uncommon to find someone of the quality of Donald Kagan.
I don’t suppose you might have a few of the web sites you found with free courses at hand, do you? If so, could you post a few of the best of them? Would love to know of others. Otherwise, I will Google to see what I find also, but of course it would be easier if someone else has already found out the info, LOL! I’m looking for the easy way out, or should I say in to the web sites.
But you’ve opened up another world for me other than Cable TV talking heads, especially now in the reign of Obama, so I again thank you profusely. I just finished the introduction and lectures 1 and 2 of Kagan’s Greek History course. Fascinating. He is a wonderful speaker, and not a Marxist idealogue like our new Prez. How refreshing. Am loving the course and can hardly wait to get to the next lecture, but unfortunately I’ve got to do a silly thing like go to sleep. I’ve already stayed up till the wee hours of the morning visiting Minoa and Mycenae. Tomorrow it’s on to Homer!
I purchased a while back a series of courses on CD’s through the Great Courses catalogs. You can also get them on tape or on DVD. Their catalog is chock full of different subjects to study on your own, but they are a lot more pricey than free on-line. That’s another reason I’m delighted to find out about this as it’s a lot easier on my piggy bank. I found a website that has lots of books to read on-line (I started re-reading Anna Karenina which I last read many many years ago). So, now I have my winter retreat to the great indoors (I live in the soon to be frozen tundra of Chicagoland, the burbs) with on-line books to read and now course lectures at hand. What more could one ask for, I ask?