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  1. Athens: Democracy for the Few (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Jeremy Cooper
    Subject
    Classical studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Explores why Athens is thought of as the birthplace of democracy and the ways in which Athenian democracy differed from what we would recognise as democratic now. Looks at the 19th-century origins of the...

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  2. Silver: A Source of Power for the State: Evidence of Archaeology (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Archaeology; Classical studies
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., Sale as part of A209/VC1 only.

    The initial success of the Athenian empire was founded on the surplus revenue from the silver mines of the Laurion area. Examines how archaeologists go about testing such an idea. Uses excavations at the...

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  3. Inside the National Archaeological Museum, Athens (2012)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    The National Archaeological Museum, Athens displays 11,000 exhibits from 7000 BC to the Roman Conquest. This special episode of Museum Secrets takes a look at some of these objects, including a Greek...

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  4. Theatre and the State, The: Archaeological Reconstruction (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., Sale as part of A209/VC1 only.

    Where and how were the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides performed? What did theatre mean to the Greeks? Chris Emlyn-Jones looks at archaeological evidence in Athens, Epidaurus and Thorikos - and...

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  5. Hoplite Warfare (199 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Reconstructions, maps and graphics, and specialists in the field interpret and explain the struggles between Athens and Sparta.

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  6. Have You Seen the Parthenon? (1972)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.74

    Looks at the Parthenon of Athens and how it symbolises the development of democracy in ancient Greece. Sequences filmed all over the Peloponnese and the Cyclades Islands tell the story of the struggle to...

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  7. Sculpture of the Parthenon, The (1981 Video)

    Subject
    Art; Classical studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min., 1997 sale: £32.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the sculptures of the Parthenon. Shows the ruins in Athens, and uses a full-scale replica of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, the model and exhibits in the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada and...

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  8. Euripides’ Life and Times: ‘The Trojan Women’ (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 38 mins), $199.00

    Uses scenes from ‘The Trojan Women’ to illuminate themes of Euripides tragedies and provide insights into daily life in ancient Athens, the status of women in Greek society, and the effects of war on the...

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  9. Greece of Christian Greeks (1971 Film)

    Director
    Kostas Chronopoulos; Simon Louvish; Jorge Tsougarossa
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A wry look at the Colonels’ Greece five years after the 1967 coup. Attempts to discover what the new order entails for the Greek people. Covers the events which led up to the 1967 coup, from the Civil War...

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  10. Cradles of Civilization: Ancient Greece (2007)

    Subject
    Classical studies; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 48 minutes), £17.99

    Considered by many to be the birthplace of Western thought, ancient Greece was home to many of the world’s great minds. The complex and intriguing philosophies of Aristotle, Socrates, Plato and Pythagoras...

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