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S01E02 - "Part 2"
Aired on Mar 10, 2010, 12:00 PM
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E1
Part 1
Robin Lane Fox begins with the lost empire of Turkey whose myths of creation influenced the Greeks. In Crete, he visits the birthplace of the supreme Greek God, Zeus, and at Delphi he pinpoints the moment when Euboean tales were transformed into the great poetry of Hesiod and Homer.
Mar 7, 2010
50 min
E2
Part 2
Robin Lane Fox concentrates on the titanic battles of the Greek gods against giants and monsters. And he shows how the Greeks' very idea of divinity was shaped by the landscapes of the Mediterranean by revealing the stories, people, journeys and topography that provided the source material.
Mar 10, 2010
50 min
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