A series of ten programmes about the ancient Greeks, their history, genius and contributions to European civilisation.
3: ATHENS AND SPARTA by A. H. M. Jones
Professor of Ancient History in the University of Cambridge
Athens is remembered today as the world's most brilliant democracy, while Sparta was a conservative military state with no civilisation worth the name; yet during the greater part of the classical period (c. 500-336 B.C.) they were rivals for the leadership of Greece.
Reader. Gary Watson
A Listen and Learn series
A special 52-page booklet containing a new historical study of the Greeks by M. I. Finley , a list of books for further reading, and numerous illustrations in colour and black-and-white can be obtained, price 5s., through newsagents and book-sellers, or direct by sending a crossed postal order for 5s. (not stamps, please) to [address removed]