S1E3:The Art of Persuasion
How Art Made the World
23 May 200550 minTV-PG
Contains Violence.
The visual devices used by modern politicians to get themselves elected and maintain power didn’t originate in modern times, but come from a world that is thousands of years old. Classicist Nigel Spivey ventures back into history to the creation of Stonehenge and the reign of Alexander the Great to reveal how art and imagery became an indispensable weapon in every leader's political armory.
