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Jul 2007 - Jul 2007
Bettany Hughes searches out the real truth about the birth of democracy in ancient Athens 2500 years ago
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Athens: The Truth About Democracy Episode Guide
Episode 1
S1 Ep1
21st Jul 2007
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.
Episode 2
S1 Ep2
28th Jul 2007
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.