A Journey in Space and Time The Classical Age
What did the ancient Greeks do that matters still today? In this second film in the four-part series, the distinguished Greek scholar Sir Kenneth Dover , President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the producer of the series, Christopher Burstall , continue their journey in the Greek world of the Mediterranean. In the 5th Century BC the city state of Athens was, for a time, pre-eminent. Her citizens were proud of their democracy, the one-man, one-vote system of government which Athenians invented; her playwrights wrote the first great tragedies and comedies ever to be performed; her philosophers, historians, sculptors and painters opened up new highways of thought and artistic achievement. How? With what results? with in scenes from works by Greek dramatists, historians and thinkers.
Translations by KENNETH DOVER
Associate producer DENIS MORIARTY Film cameramen
HENRY FARRAR , SIDNEY DAVIES Designer DACRE PUNT Film editor DAVE KING
Directed by CHRISTOPHER BURSTALL
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