What Was Life Really Like in Ancient Greece?

Athens around 420 BC, when the Parthenon was twelve years old and a forty-foot Athena of ivory and gold stood inside it. This documentary follows ordinary Athenians through their day and their year: at home behind mud-brick walls, in the Agora, in the Assembly and the jury courts, in the potters' quarter and at the loom, at school, on the farms of Attica and at the harbor of the Piraeus. It tells how a place smaller than Rhode Island, with no king, fed itself on imported grain, governed itself by a show of hands and paid for a ton of gold, and who was left out: women, resident foreigners and the slaves of the silver mines. Clear narration over paintings, painted pottery, museum pieces, ruins and film from open archives. The whole story, told in order from start to finish. Chapters 00:00 A Ton of Gold 01:15 Frogs Around a Pond 02:26 Behind a Plain Wall 03:34 Water and Bread 04:48 The Agora 07:02 The Red Rope 08:18 Jurors and Potsherds 09:58 Who Was Left Out 12:27 The Potters' Quarter 13:36 Wool and the Loom 15:18 School and Gymnasium 17:05 The Farms of Attica 18:54 The Harbor 20:28 The Marble Accounts 23:34 Festival Days 25:39 Olympia and Delphi 27:23 What Survives Pictures from Wikimedia Commons: Nikos Kitsakis (CC BY 4.0, 2 items); Luc.T (CC BY 2.0, 2 items); Zde (CC BY-SA 4.0, 4 items); Hermann Hammer (CC BY-SA 4.0, 1 item); Alexander Mayatsky (CC BY-SA 4.0, 1 item); Mark Landon (CC BY 4.0, 5 items); Jakub Hałun (CC BY 4.0, 2 items); Dorieo (CC BY-SA 4.0, 4 items); ArchaiOptix (CC BY-SA 4.0, 9 items); George E. Koronaios (CC BY-SA 4.0, 5 items); Jorge Láscar (CC BY 2.0, 1 item); philip.mallis (CC BY-SA 2.0, 1 item); C messier (CC BY-SA 4.0, 1 item); Joyofmuseums (CC BY-SA 4.0, 2 items); Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA 2.0, 2 items); Furius (CC BY-SA 4.0, 1 item); Rab Lawrence (CC BY 2.0, 1 item); Dr Peter Tzeferis (CC BY-SA 4.0, 1 item); Johnbod (CC BY-SA 3.0, 1 item); Tomisti (CC BY-SA 4.0, 1 item); Yair Haklai (CC BY-SA 3.0, 1 item); George E. Koronaios (CC BY-SA 2.0, 1 item); Marie-Lan Nguyen (CC BY 2.5, 1 item); Michal Klajban (CC BY-SA 4.0, 1 item); Xenophon (CC BY-SA 3.0, 1 item); Choliamb (CC BY 4.0, 1 item); Yair-haklai (CC BY-SA 4.0, 2 items); APK (CC BY 4.0, 1 item); Marsyas (CC BY 2.5, 2 items); Peter O'Connor aka anemoneprojectors (CC BY-SA 2.0, 1 item); Sharon Mollerus (CC BY 2.0, 1 item); Erik Drost (CC BY 2.0, 1 item); Jamesscottbrown (CC BY 3.0, 1 item); Cédric Boissière (CC BY-SA 3.0, 1 item); Cosal (CC BY-SA 4.0, 1 item). License texts: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0.