Browse the Ancient Greece era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Delphic Oracle.
Melvyn Bragg investigates how our preoccupations about how to live have altered over time.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library of Alexandria.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the importance of the oath in the Classical World.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the monster filled epic, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔrβs Odyssey.
Melvyn Bragg examines the βOresteiaβ, the seminal trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Raphael's depiction of Plato and Aristotle.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss classical Greek ideas in the Arabic and the Islamic world.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Trojan War, a central event of Ancient Greek mythology
Melvyn Bragg examines the Battle of Thermopylae, a defining clash between East and West.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether the ancient genre of tragedy has a place in our own time.
Melvyn Bragg explores the meaning and purpose of the philosophical concept of virtue.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian and soldier Xenophon.