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