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EPISODE 2: GOLDEN AGE The second part recounts the Greeks' heroic victory against the mighty Persian empire through the life of Themistocles, one of Athens' greatest generals.The episode opens in 490 B.C. when tiny Athens prepares to safeguard...

EPISODE 3: EMPIRE OF THE MIND The final segment describes how Athens, at the height of her glory, engaged in a suicidal conflict with her greatest rival, Sparta. Through the eyes of Socrates, Athens' first philosopher, viewers see the tragic...

EPISODE 1: THE REVOLUTION The first part tells the story of the troubled birth of the world's first democracy, ancient Athens, through the life of an Athenian nobleman, Cleisthenes. In the brutal world of the 5th century BC, the Athenians...

The ancient Greeks left the world such an impressive legacy of ideas that many of them were seen for centuries in the civilizations that followed and, even today, cultures around the world continue to display many of the quintessential features...

Pahari Painting | Lahore Museum | Art History His talk today will be on the Pahari paintings collection in the Lahore Museum and their significance in the art-historical research into the various schools.Before 1947, the Lahore Museum collection...

Red-figure wine jar decorated with a battle between Amazons and Greeks. Attributed to the Amazon Painter, mid-4th century BCE. Attica. 43.2 cm (17 in) in height. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The base is surrounded by a frieze of Greeks and Amazons, yet without fighting action. Possibly, this early Etruscan "Amazonomachy" is a game or a parade within the context of the death cult. The Amazons' clothing corresponds with that on...

Greek soldiers fighting Amazons during the Trojan War. On the far right, Odysseus is shown (with a beard). Relief from the side of a sarcophagus, c. 180 CE, discovered in Thessaloniki, Greece. Louvre Museum, Paris, France (LP 2584, No...

Titus Quinctius Flamininus declares Greece free after the Second Macedonian War and the defeat of Philip V of Macedon at the Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BCE), oil on canvas by Giuseppe Sciuti, c. 1879. Private collection.

The production of steel during the British Industrial Revolution became cheaper and more reliable thanks to the Bessemer converter, a type of blast furnace that removed undesirable impurities from pig iron. The superior strength and durability...