The ENTIRE History of Ancient Greece | Documentary Film

Ancient Greece did not begin with marble temples and philosophers. It began on Crete, in palaces whose script no one has ever read, and in fortress citadels whose kings vanished so completely that the Greeks who came after them remembered only heroes. This documentary follows the whole arc: the Minoan palaces and the Mycenaean warlords, four dark centuries that erased writing itself, the invention of the city-state, the two wars against Persia that should have ended Greece and instead made it, the Athens of Pericles and the plague that gutted it, Sparta's victory and its collapse, and a Macedonian king who took an army to the edge of India and died at thirty-two. Then the part that outlived all of it - the gods, the philosophers who asked what a good life is, the sculptors and playwrights and architects whose work Rome copied, Europe rediscovered, and we are still arguing about. Full chapter list below. 00:00 Introduction 00:35 The First Greek Cultures 02:18 The Minoan Age 02:40 Arthur Evans Excavates Knossos 03:12 The Minoan Palaces 04:44 Bull-Leaping Frescoes 05:33 The Snake Goddess 06:18 Linear A 07:10 The Eruption of Thera 07:55 Mycenaeans Take Knossos 08:47 The Minotaur Myth 10:34 The Mycenaean Age 11:04 The Mycenaean Palaces 12:43 The Mask of Agamemnon 13:55 The Trojan War 15:12 The Bronze Age Collapse 17:13 The Lion Gate of Mycenae 18:38 Greek Dark Ages 19:28 Geometric Pottery 20:28 The Bards and Oral Epic 22:02 The Phoenician Alphabet 23:59 The Archaic Age 24:35 The Rise of the Polis 26:14 Colonies in Magna Graecia 27:13 The Age of Tyrants 29:07 Peisistratus of Athens 30:31 Homer, Hesiod and Sappho 32:40 The Hoplite Phalanx 36:12 The Persian Wars 36:35 The Persian Empire 37:30 The Ionian Revolt 38:33 The Battle of Marathon 40:28 Leonidas at Thermopylae 41:27 The Battle of Salamis 42:19 The Battle of Plataea 44:18 The Athenian Empire 45:08 Herodotus and the Histories 47:03 The Golden Age of Athens 49:11 The Assembly and the Boule 50:46 The Parthenon 51:54 The Festival of Dionysia 52:54 Aristophanes and Old Comedy 53:51 Socrates and the Sophists 55:15 Thucydides of Athens 56:17 The Quarrel over Corcyra 58:57 The Peloponnesian War 1:00:09 The Long Walls of Athens 1:01:06 The Plague of Athens 1:02:28 The Sicilian Expedition 1:03:18 The Siege of Syracuse 1:05:12 The Battle of Aegospotami 1:06:18 Thucydides on Fear and Power 1:08:15 The 4th Century BCE 1:09:09 The Thirty Tyrants Overthrown 1:10:44 The Battle of Leuktra 1:11:38 Epaminondas at Mantinea 1:13:13 Philip II and the Sarissa 1:14:41 Demosthenes' Philippics 1:16:19 The Assassination of Philip II 1:18:22 Alexander the Great 1:19:05 The Destruction of Thebes 1:20:31 The Battle of Granicus 1:22:12 The Siege of Tyre 1:23:27 The Founding of Alexandria 1:24:50 The Death of Darius III 1:26:08 The Weddings at Susa 1:27:00 Porus at the Hydaspes 1:27:58 The Death of Alexander 1:31:06 The Hellenistic Age 1:31:41 The Wars of the Diadochi 1:32:53 Pergamon and the Greco-Bactrians 1:35:05 Eratosthenes Measures the Earth 1:36:20 The Winged Victory of Samothrace 1:38:32 Greek and the New Testament 1:40:19 The Roman Conquest 1:41:43 Flamininus at Cynoscephalae 1:43:10 The Sack of Corinth 1:43:59 Sulla Sacks Athens 1:45:25 Greece Conquers Its Conqueror 1:48:15 Greek Mythology 1:48:41 The Olympian Gods 1:50:36 Hesiod and the Greek Heroes 1:51:39 The Eleusinian Mysteries 1:52:38 Xenophanes Criticizes the Gods 1:54:05 Oedipus, Agamemnon and Medea 1:55:11 Zeus Becomes Jupiter 1:56:27 Theodosius Bans Pagan Rites 1:57:53 Greek Philosophy 1:58:30 Thales of Miletus 2:00:07 Socrates on Trial 2:01:02 Aristotle and the Lyceum 2:01:54 The Stoics and Epicureans 2:03:18 Diogenes the Cynic 2:06:13 Greek Art, Architecture and Literature 2:06:50 The Parthenon's Optical Refinements 2:08:23 Myron's Discobolus 2:09:14 Laocoön and the Dying Gaul 2:11:11 Pindar and the Lyric Poets 2:12:05 The Theater of Dionysus 2:13:19 Menander's New Comedy ====================== 📩🤝 2d3d.contact@gmail.com