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Athens: The Truth About Democracy

Athens: The Truth About Democracy

2007•49m•Documentary
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Bettany Hughes searches out the real truth about the birth of democracy in ancient Athens 2500 years ago

StatusEnded
Runtime49m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJul 21, 2007

Episodes

Episode 1 - Episode 1E149m

Episode 1

The epic story of Athens' victory in one of the greatest sea battles of the ancient world, when the Athenian triremes defeat Xerxes' mighty Persian fleet at Salamis, and the real story of the building of the greatest monument of this first democracy - the Parthenon - as a symbol of Athenian power.

Jul 21, 2007

Episode 2 - Episode 2E248m

Episode 2

The extraordinary new ideas of the new democracy, and the powerful and dramatic story of Socrates. Celebrated as one of the authors of the new thinking, he ultimately pushed even democracy beyond its limits and was put to death by his own city.

Jul 28, 2007

Actors

Bettany Hughes

Bettany Hughes

Self - Presenter

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