Episodes (8)
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Ep 1
The Beginning
2016-03-25•N/A
A look at Athens and the First Democracy at the start of the Greco-Persian war.
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Ep 2
Treachery
2016-03-25•N/A
Sparta and Greece; the origins of the war; the Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon and the battle
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Ep 3
The Battle of Marathon
2016-03-25•N/A
The famous battle is examined.
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Ep 4
Rise and Fall
2016-03-25•N/A
Myths of the Battle of Marathon are examined.
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Ep 5
The Great Invasion of Xerxes
2016-03-25•N/A
Leonidas and his 300 Spartans vs. Xerxes and his 250,000 Persians- the battle is joined at Thermopylae.
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Ep 6
Leonidas and the 300 Spartans
2016-03-25•N/A
The facts of the famous battle of Thermopylae.
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Ep 7
Decision in Greece
2016-03-25•N/A
The war continues and is concluded in the Peace of Callias, aka the Peace of Kimon.
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Ep 8
Aftermath and Legacy
2016-03-25•N/A
What the Greco-Persian War means for the modern world.