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1. The 8 Ages of Greece. In a short video of less than an hour, the narrator provides the full story of Greece, starting from prehistory up to the present day. Lots of imagery and great narration, it's a good short starting point.
2.  History of ancient Greece: Yale University Course by Professor Donald Kagan. We find this the very best series of videos about ancient Greece and could not be otherwise since the speaker was one of the most prominent historians!
3. The Rise and Fall of Europe's first civilisation: Island of the Minotaur. Although a bit old fashioned, this TV documentary is one of the most thorough about the fascinating and intriguing Minoan civilisation, considered the first one in Europe.
4. Pavlopetri - City beneath the waves: A fascinating BBC documentary about the most ancient sunken city in the world that provided lots of new evidence about the prehistory of Greece!
   

Military History

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1. Mycenean civilization and the Trojan War. A good video on the second civilization of ancient Greece and the famous Trojan War
2. Greco-Persian Wars - part 1.  Persia, the biggest empire in the ancient world, at that time, seeks to expand to Europe. After a failed rebellion of ancient Greek cities in the coast of Ionia, the Persians want to punish Athens and Eretria, who supported the revolt and send a large army against them. The battle of Marathon is the opening act
3. Greco-Persian Wars - part 2. Ten years after Marathon, Persia returns, this time with a huge army and navy, determined to crash Greece and subjugate it. Against all odds, Greeks give three major battles, the Thermopylae, the Salamis naval battle (biggest naval battle of ancient times and Platea and put an end into the Persian's dream of expansion in Europe
4. Peloponnesian War and "Thucidides Trap".  After the Persian wars, Athens gains ground, in the Greek world and threatens the position of Sparta as the dominant power. Thus, war between them becomes inevitable, as Thucidides put it.
5. Xenofon's Anabasis. An amazing episode in ancient Greek History, where Xenophon, a student of Socrates, leads some 10.000  Greek mercenaries to return to Greece, after a campaign in the heart of the Persian empire. Trapped in enemy territory, they smash their way out and manage to return. Alexander the Great had this book under his pillow!
6. Fall of Sparta and Rise of Thebes. After the Pelopennesian War, Sparta dominated in Greece for some time but it was not the mighty force that once was. So, inevitably, challengers arise and Thebes, led by Epaminondas, destroys the Spartan army.
7. Rise of Macedonia - Alexander the Great.  After a short period of Thebes domination in Greece, a new force rises, the Macedonians. Philippe, Alexander's father, unites Greece, under his leadership but is assasinated, just before the start of the campaign against Persia. His son Alexander, 20 years old, takes over and starts an amazing campaign that creates the biggest empire, stretching from Greece to Indus valley. This vast area flourishes and Greek language becomes the lingua franca.
8. Rome conquers Greece. After Alexander's death the empire is split in 4 regions but his successors fight constantly untill the Romans come. Egypt, under the Ptolemy's dynasty was the last region to be conquered and Cleopatra the last of the Greek governors.
   

Democracy

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1. From Solon to Pericles: The Evolution of Athenian Democracy. A timeline, with short explanations, of the most important moments  in the development of the Athenian Democracy.
2. The Constitution of Athens. Although the title is not quite right (there was not a Constitution, as we know it today,  in ancient Athens) this is an interesting video that depicts the development of institutions in Athens.
3. A fuller Athenian Democracy. Professor Donald Kagan, a prominent scholar, describes the second phase of the Athenian Democracy. It starts at chapter 5 and continues in the next episode.
4. The rise of Democracy in ancient Athens and questions for modern Democracy. A must watch video that sets many very interesting questions for today's Democracies!
   

Philosophy

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1. Introduction to the Presocratics: An interesting series that covers some of the most influential Presocratic philophers.
2. Teachings of the Sophists: Socrates (and Plato) disliked them for a number of (serious) reasons. However, Protagoras and Gorgias, two of the most sigificant, came up with some interesting ideas.
3. Genius of the ancient world - Socrates: A BBC production on the life and ideas of Socrates.
4. Platonism - Imagination, Arts, Mathematics, and Self-Transformation: An interesting approach on why Plato is considered so important that Alfred North Whitehead wrote  "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato"!!!
5. The life and Philosophy of Aristotle: A great and innovative mind, a scientist and a philosopher, Aristotle's contribution in the shaping of the western world is simply vast. It's unbelievable that one person produced that much in so many different fields!
6. Cynics, Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics: After the three Great, a number of new Philosophical schools of thought appears in Athens creating a diverse intellectual atmosphere in the city and beyond!
7. Neoplatonism: A philosophical school, starting with Plotinus, that revives Platonism in an even more metaphysical perspective and influences Western, Islamic, and Jewish thought.
8. Hypatia and fall of Alexandria: Alexandria rises as a bright cultural center in the ancient world with its great Library. It produces a great line of mathematicians and intellectuals and finally Hypatia. This remarkable woman is considered the last ancient representative of Greek Philosophy (not quite right!) but her tragic death actually marks the decline of the pagan world.

Science

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1. The tunnel of Eypalinos: Considered one of ancient Greek great engineering achivement, this 1 kilometer tunnel was made under a mountain to bring water into the capital of ancient Samos. To reduce construction time, Eypalinos made two tunnels that met near the center! Just with the use of Geometry!

2. Archimedes: The greatest mathematician of antiquity, and possibly the greatest scientist, he left an amazing heritage, however we do not know if he was the inventor of the amazing "Antikythera Mechanism" as many claim.

3.  Heron of Alexandria: An ingenious mathematician and engineer, considered by some as the "Da Vinci" of antiquity, Heron made more than 80 machines of any kind!

4.  Antikythera Mechanism: In 1900, a shipwreck was discovered near Antikythera, a small Greek island and divers got many items, including a bronze, corroded, mechanism none could understand what it was. Today, it's admired as a scientific marvel that has earned the title "World's first computer"