Ancient Greece
Browse the Ancient Greece era within the In Our Time archive.
Oedipus Rex
Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written
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Solon the Lawgiver
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the statesman who transformed Athens in the 6th century BC
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Demosthenes' Philippics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.
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Plato's Atlantis
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's story of the great, lost island of Atlantis.
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Antigone
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.
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Plato's Gorgias
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's exploration of the nature of power and freedom.
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Herodotus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of history.
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The Bacchae
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.
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Pericles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.
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The Mytilenaean Debate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.
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Aristotle's Biology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.
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The Iliad
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.
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Thebes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek city of Thebes in myth, drama and history.
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Plato's Republic
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great works of political and ethical theory.
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The Battle of Salamis
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the significance of The Battle of Salamis, 480BC.
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Zeno's Paradoxes
Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno
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The Bronze Age Collapse
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bronze Age collapse.
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Galen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Roman physician and medical theorist Galen.
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Plato's Symposium
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium.
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Strabo's Geographica
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica, an early work of geography.
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Aesop
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aesop, legendary author of the famous collection of fables
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Thucydides
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian Thucydides.
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Sappho
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek poet Sappho.
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Alexander the Great
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and legacy of Alexander the Great.
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