Classicist Dr Michael Scott uncovers the strange, alien world of the ancient Greeks. He asks who were these people who gave us democracy, architecture, philosophy, language, literature and sport.

The first scientists were building on the insights already made by Ionian Greeks such as Thales ... his famous 'Histories': our first record of Ancient Greek life. Undoubtedly the young Socrates ...

Around this time he also married, though, as with so much about male-dominated ancient Greece, we don't even know the name of his wife. She bore him two sons. Pericles' first real involvement in ...

Ancient Greece, Macedonia. Carthage, Maya, and Persia, among others. Stories like this are definitely what documentary ...