The Spartans

  • : 2002
  • : 3
  • : 0
  • Channel 4
  • Documentary History

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Sparta's Social System
Episode overview
17, 2002
Part 1 deals with the arrival of the Dorian settlers into the Eurotas valley, with a discussion of the dark-age culture that lived there before, that of Menelaus, and his wife Helen .. show full overview
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Sparta's Rivalry
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24, 2002
Part 2 opens with the retreat of the Persians, after Thermopylae and the battle of Salamis. Athens, which had been allied with Sparta against Persia, begins to experience an expanded .. show full overview
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Sparta's Destruction
Episode overview
01, 2002
Part 3 introduces Alcibiades, an Athenian statesman who defects to Sparta and becomes an adviser and strategist. In particular, he suggests that Sparta takes the war to Syracuse, in .. show full overview

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