Channel 4 2007 1 season 2 eps Ended

Athens: The Truth About Democracy

Name: Athens: The Truth About Democracy
Genre: Documentary, History
Cast: Bettany Hughes

2007 1 season 2 eps

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49 min

S1 · E1 · Jul 21, 2007

Episode 1 Episode 1

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.

48 min

S1 · E2 · Jul 28, 2007

Episode 2 Episode 2

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.

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Bettany Hughes searches out the real truth about the birth of democracy in ancient Athens 2500 years ago

Documentary History

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Bettany Hughes

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Total runtime 1h 38m · Episode length 49 min · Type Miniseries

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Premiered

July 21, 2007

Final episode

July 28, 2007

Status

Ended

Network

Channel 4

Country

United Kingdom

Type

Miniseries

Episode length

49 min

Total runtime

1h 38m

Original language

English

Production

United Kingdom

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Spoken on screen

English

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