
The rise and fall of one of the most extreme civilisations the world has ever witnessed – one founded on discipline, sacrifice and frugality, centred on the collective, whose goal was to create the perfect state and the perfect warrior.
Air Date: 2002-11-17
Part 1 deals with the arrival of the Dorian settlers into the Eurotas valley, with a discussion of the dark-age cultu...
Air Date: 2002-11-24
Part 2 opens with the retreat of the Persians, after Thermopylae and the battle of Salamis. Athens, which had been al...
Air Date: 2002-12-01
Part 3 introduces Alcibiades, an Athenian statesman who defects to Sparta and becomes an adviser and strategist. In p...