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Mary Beard presents a four part investigation into ancient Rome, exploring the myths and origins of the city, the physical world of the Roman Empire, identity and citizenship within the Roman Empire and,...
An adaptation of Euripides’s play by Robinson Jeffers, as performed at The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theatre on March 6th, 1982. Starring Mitchell Ryan and Zoe Caldwell, directed by Robert Whitehead...
A lyrical treatment of Homer’s tale of Penelope, depicting her psychological struggle as she waits twenty years for her husband to return from the Trojan War. It draws on the long-take filmmaking style of...
How do the themes of classical mythology come to be refashioned through the ages? Holkham Hall in Norfolk, England, is the estate of an 18th century gentleman, Thomas Coke - a scholar of epic classical...
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...
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)
Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 uses a blend of live-action and CGI animation to recount the ancient battle of Thermopylae, in which King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fought to the death...
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...
A video essay on the birth of the constitutional state. The modern western parliamentary system was developed according to the Athenian model that was created in Greece 2,500 years ago. The video examines...
Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and computer graphics to tell the story of the rise and fall of ancient Rome, focussing on six key turning points in Roman history. Based on extensive...
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