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  1. Rome: Empire Without Limit (2016)

    aka: Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit

    Subject
    Classical studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 235 minutes), £14.99

    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,...

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  2. Ancient World with Bettany Hughes, The: The Minoans (2010)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History

    Historian Bettany Hughes explores Crete, once home to the mighty Minoan civilisation whose sophisticated society changed the whole of Greece. She examines the theories of Victorian archaeologist Arthur Evans...

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  3. 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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  4. Perished Nations 1/Perished Nations 2 (2006)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £12.99

    Two programmes from the series based on the works of the Turkish author and thinker Harun Yahya, who promotes a creationist view of Islam. Throughout world history, a great many very different civilisations...

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  5. Erasing Memory: The Cultural Destruction of Iraq (2006)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 28 minutes), £19.95

    Part of a 13-part series entitled SHOCKING AND AWFUL, produced by independent video activists and distributed in the US on Free Speech TV and community access channels. The series addresses the implications...

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  6. Spartans, The (2002)

    Subject
    Classical studies; History

    This series chronicles the rise and fall of one of the most extreme civilisations the world has ever seen. Historian Bettany Hughes reveals the secrets and complexities of Spartan life. (141 minutes)

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  7. "An Ancient Tale New Told" (Audio)

    aka: Episode 146

    Producer
    Richard Paul; Garland Scott
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare

    Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev in which she interviews Sir Jonathan Bate about his book, How the Classics Made Shakespeare, which looks at the original Greek and Roman sources that inspired Shakespeare’s...

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