• Director: Cassian Harrison
  • Release Year: 2000
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English

Greeks: The Crucible of Civilization

Description

About 500 BCE, the first democracies were established and later destroyed in Greece, establishing a political legacy that has resonated throughout Western history into the Modern era.

Themes

Ancient Greece, Peloponnesian War (431 – 404 BCE), Pericles (495 – 429 BCE), Thermopylae, Themistocles (524 – 459 BCE), Socrates (c. 469 – 399 BCE), Western Civilization, Oligarchy, Aristocracy, Democracy