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  1. 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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  2. Telling Stories/Framing the Questions (1993 Video)

    Director
    Mags Noble
    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Archaeology; Classical studies; English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 119 min., 1994 sale: £80.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Part 1: ‘Odysseus: the Greatest Hero of them All’ is a sequence designed to compare and contrast with the original, but looks at the art of storytelling as well as at ‘the story’. ‘Storytelling at...

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  3. Framing the Questions / Truth, Imagination and Value (1993 Video)

    Director
    Mags Noble
    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Archaeology; Classical studies; English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 117 min., 1994 sale: £80.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The course takes as its focus the two epic poems of Homer, ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘The Iliad’. Part 1 places the archaeological site of Troy geographically and topographically; interviews Professor...

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  4. In Search of the Trojan War (2004)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Classical studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 330 minutes), £19.99

    Investigates the literature and legends of the Trojan War to determine whether Homer’s tale was fact or myth. Filmed in Greece, Turkey and Berlin. Michael Wood narrates. Originally broadcast in 1985 as 6...

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