In the fourth and fifth centuries, B.C., the Greeks built an empire that stretched across the Mediterranean from Asia to Spain. They laid the foundation of modern science, politics, warfare and philosophy, and produced some of the most breathtaking art and architecture the world has ever seen. It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history.
THE OWL’S LEGACY is an intellectually agile, engaging, and sometimes biting look at ancient Greece, ...
Join Dave Stotts on an adventure through world history as he tells the stories of the people, places...
Georgios Babiniotis, professor of linguistics at the University of Athens, explains and comments on ...
Growing old (dis)gracefully? Facing down 50, Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris are on a quest to cra...
Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles traces the development of Western civilization, from the f...
Asking how you tell what's real and what isn't sounds like an obvious question. But in this series o...
The Greco-Persian War was pivotal in the creation of the modern world - yet all that is generally re...
A series of mini travel documentaries around the region of Aridaia, Greece.
These lectures offer a coherent and beautifully articulated introduction to the great philosophic co...
An epic adventure that aims to unravel the mystery at the heart of our existence: the questions of o...
The British actress goes on a 2,000 mile journey across the four main islands of Japan, travelling f...
Polish-Flemish philosopher Alicja Gescinska interviews national and international personalities with...
At the world-famous Explorers Club, a gathering place for trailblazers, club member Josh Gates recou...
The Greek Revolution of 1821 was an important military, social and political event. At the same time...
Working for their master’s dissertation, two history students investigate life in Ottoman Greece. A ...
In the 400 years of Ottoman rule, Greeks had staged numerous revolutions, but they were all drowned ...
How did Greeks managed to coordinate their liberation struggle? A docudrama series that brings to li...
National Geographic's landmark event series, The Greeks, brings together historians, archaeologists,...