Category: World Civ-Ancient Greece

BBC 4 In Our Time: On Ancient Greece

In Our Time is a BBC discussion forum hosted by Melvyn Bragg. The 42 minute dialogues between a panel of 3-4 scholars explore variations on a theme. Often times the listener can enjoy a ringside seat for battles of ideas among seasoned academics.

Here are some of the In Our Time episodes concerning Ancient Greece:

The Minoans

Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus

The Delphic Oracle

Sparta

Socrates

Aristotle’s ‘Politics’

Aristotle’s “Poetics”

Xenophon

The Hippocratic Oath