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Who Were the Greeks?

Michael Scott

Panalotis Laggis

Sherry Fox

Olga Palagia

Paul Millett

Stefanos Geroulanos

Ishbel MacDonald

Harry Bell

Who Were the Greeks?: Episode 1

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Classicist Dr Michael Scott uncovers the strange, alien world of the ancient Greeks.

Travelling across modern day Greece, Dr Michael Scott uncovers the ancient world of gods, democrats and warriors, inhabited by people who could be as brutal as they were brilliant.

Classicist Dr Michael Scott uncovers the strange, alien world of the ancient Greeks, exploring the lives of the people who gave us democracy, architecture, philosophy, language, literature and sport.

Travelling across Greece today, Michael visits ancient cities and battlefields, great ruins and wild countryside, all in his search to uncover how the ancient Greeks thought and lived. What he finds is that ancient Greece was a seething tornado of strange, unsettling and downright outrageous customs and beliefs, inhabited by a people who could be as brutal as they were brilliant.

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Dr Michael Scott uncovers the strange, alien world of the ancient Greeks.

Classicist Dr Michael Scott uncovers the strange, alien world of the ancient Greeks. He asks who were these people who gave us democracy, architecture, philosophy, language, literature and sport.

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