The Greeks

Season 1

They were an extraordinary people born of white rock and blue sea. They invented democracy, distilled logic and reason, wrote plays to plumb the deepest recesses of the soul, and captured the perfection of the human form in athletics and art.

IMDb 7.620163 episodesX-Ray7+

Documentary•Historical

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S1 E1 - Cavemen to Kings
June 20, 2016
54min
TV-PG
Uncover the origin story of Western civilization, as the early Greeks rise from nothing and change everything—laying the groundwork for a revolution in human thought.
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S1 E2 - The Good Strife
June 27, 2016
54min
TV-PG
The ancient Greeks emerge from the first dark ages to compose timeless epics, compete in the original Olympic Games, conjure theories of nature, and construct the world's first democracy.
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S1 E3 - Chasing Greatness
July 4, 2016
54min
TV-PG
Discover how the ancient Greeks reached the peak of civilization—revolutionizing art, architecture, drama, philosophy and government—and left a legacy that still points the way forward.
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