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  1. News in Brief: Ancient Hero Honoured

    Date released
    11 Jul 1955
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1362
    NoS ID
    020190
    Story no
    4 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Knight of Greece. DESCRIPTION: King Paul of Greece, accompanied by his family, unveiled a statue recently to Leonidas, King of Sparta, who died heroically in 480 BC. SHOTLIST: GV of...

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  2. Ancient Civilisations (6 Parts) (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 30 min., 1999 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p) each

    Series looking at how the ancient civilisations in China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and meso-America originated, what sustained them and why they fell.

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  3. The Age of Tyrants: Sappho Via Gounod’s Opera (2017)

    Subject
    Film studies; Literature

    The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of...

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  4. Ancient Worlds (2010)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Archaeology; Classical studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £24.99

    A six-part odyssey tracing the development of Western civilisation - from the first cities of Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire. Academic and archaeologist Richard Miles travels through the Middle...

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  5. Persian Wars, The: The Storm from the East (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £38.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Traces the causes and course of the Persian Wars, from the Ionian revolt against Persian rule in the town of Miletus in 499BC to the Battle of Platea. Filmed on location, shows the major sites of the...

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  6. Homer’s Iliad Via the Movie Troy (2004) (2017)

    Subject
    Film studies; Literature

    Homer’s Iliad, the earliest Greek poem, narrates the archetypal war between ‘Europeans’ and ‘Asiatics’ divided by the Hellespont. Looking at Wolfgang Peterson’s blockbuster Troy (2004), the...

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  7. Engineering an Empire: Collector’s Edition (2010)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 748 minutes), £24.99

    The ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE series takes a closer look at some of the most incredible civilizations the world has known and just how exactly they became so powerful. This collection features: Greece, Greece -...

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  8. Shakespeare’s Fame (2018 Video)

    Series
    Classic Shakespeare

    Video of the sixth and final lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate looks at how Shakespeare immortalised figures from ancient...

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  9. Fall of Athens, The: The Peloponesian War (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 80 min., 1997 sale: £38.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Extracts from the writings of Thucydides are used to look at the causes and effects of the Peloponesian war. By the late 5th century BC Greece had become crowded with prosperous cities all striving for...

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  10. Ancient World with Bettany Hughes, The: Helen of Troy (2010)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Classical studies; History

    Historian Bettany Hughes embarks on an epic journey across the eastern Mediterranean to disentangle myth from reality and find out the truth about Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman on earth. (102 minutes)

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