Chapter Thirty Six: The Talker and the Sailor
Two men take centre stage in the battles between Athens and Sparta. And everyone gets weaker. Again!
26 Kesä 201316min
Chapter Thirty Five: The Enemy at Home
Athens and Sparta fight to a standstill. One of them comes out on top but they are both weakened. Neither learns the lesson they so need to learn!
18 Kesä 201318min
Chapter Thirty Four: League Champions
With the Persians defeated it is time for the Greeks to band together to increase their power. Unfortunately they don't. Both Athens and Sparta form alliances with other local cities but exclude each ...
10 Kesä 201318min
Chapter Thirty Three: The Enemy Abroad
At last, the Greeks band together to defeat an external enemy. The Persians are coming!
4 Kesä 201319min
Chapter Thirty Two: Athens
We've done Sparta. Now Athens takes centre stage. The largest and most cultured of the Greek poleis became the centre of the Greek world and, a few detours excepted, remains so today.
28 Touko 201317min
Chapter Thirty One: Sparta
Sparta was a very important city in Archaic Greece. Not only that it was a very strange one. In this chapter we find out why!
21 Touko 201319min
Chapter Thirty: Men of the Polis
As Greece drags itself from the Dark Ages an entirely new kind of society emerges. The city states which would dominate the Greek world for the next few hundred years rise and the citizen populations ...
14 Touko 201318min
Chapter Twenty Nine: Dark Ages
The Mycenaean civilisation fell and nothing much rose to replace it. In this chapter we look at why it fell and why the following few hundred years are known as the Greek Dark Ages.
8 Touko 201317min
