The Ancient World Greece

This film recreates the ancient Greek world through its extant art and literature The narration is from translations of Greek authors including Hesiod Pindar Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes Herodotus Thucydides Plato and Plutarch and accompanies visual impressions of Greek religious philosophy and history through the golden age The film features spectacular footage of Crete Knossos Mycenae and the sculptures of Athens It discusses the Persians at Marathon then 10 years later Xerxes at Thermopylae