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  • 2007-07-20T23:00:00Z
  • 49m
  • 1h 37m (2 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary, History
Bettany Hughes searches out the real truth about the birth of democracy in ancient Athens 2500 years ago

2 episodes

Series Premiere

2007-07-20T23:00:00Z

1x01 Episode 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Episode 1

  • 2007-07-20T23:00:00Z49m

The epic story of Athens' victory in one of the greatest sea battles of the ancient world, when the Athenian triremes defeat Xerxes' mighty Persian fleet at Salamis, and the real story of the building of the greatest monument of this first democracy - the Parthenon - as a symbol of Athenian power.

2007-07-27T23:00:00Z

1x02 Episode 2

1x02 Episode 2

  • 2007-07-27T23:00:00Z48m

The extraordinary new ideas of the new democracy, and the powerful and dramatic story of Socrates. Celebrated as one of the authors of the new thinking, he ultimately pushed even democracy beyond its limits and was put to death by his own city.

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