The Greeks episode 3 – Chasing Greatness: They were an extraordinary people born of white rock and blue sea. They invented democracy, distilled logic and reason, wrote plays to plumb the deepest recesses of the soul, and captured the perfection of the human form in athletics and art. Quite simply, the Greeks created our world.     Today, of course, Greece conjures very different images: civic unrest, financial meltdowns, long ATM lines. But, as its ancient history attests, strife and discord are often incubators for greatness. Delve into groundbreaking new explorations of the ancient Greeks’ journey across time in this

The Greeks episode 2 – The Good Strife: Delve into groundbreaking new explorations of the ancient Greeks’ journey across time in this three-part series.     Explore history as the ancient Greeks emerge from the first dark ages to compose timeless epics, compete in the original Olympic Games, conjure early theories of nature, and construct the world’s first democracy.   The Greeks episode 2 – The Good Strife   Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (c. AD 600). Immediately

The Greeks episode 1 – Cavemen to Kings: Uncover the origin story of Western civilization, as the early Greeks rise from nothing and change everything – laying the groundwork for a revolution in human thought.     Delve into groundbreaking new explorations of the ancient Greeks’ journey across time in this three-part series.   The Greeks episode 1 – Cavemen to Kings   Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (c. AD 600). Immediately following this period was the beginning