Ancient Worlds - The Greek Thing ep.3
Part 3 : The Greek Thing Richard Miles explores the power and the paradox of the 'Greek Thing' - a blossoming in art, philosophy and science that went hand in hand with political discord, social injustice and endless war. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ancient-Worlds-The-Greek-Thing-ep.3.mp4"][/video] He paints a fascinating picture of the Ancient Greece and the internal and external pressures that fuelled this unique political and social experiment, one that would pioneer many of the political systems that we still live with today, from oligarchy to tyranny, from totalitarianism to democracy. Part 2 : The Age of Iron Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles looks at the winners, losers and survivors of the great Bronze Age collapse, a regional catastrophe that wiped out the hard-won achievements of civilisation in the eastern Mediterranean about 3,000 years ago. In the new age of iron, c