Ancient Greece: The Dark Chronicles

In the second millennium B.C. / B.C.E., the Minoans and Mycenaeans rose as Europe's first advanced civilisations; researchers show that they had more in common with the later Greeks than…

Greece awakened from the Dark Ages and enters an era of transformation; across the Aegean Sea, a new cultural identity began to form shaped by shared religion, writing and values.

In the sixth century B.C. / B.C.E., Athens transformed through war and violence into a democracy; the Persian Wars cement its rise as a groundbreaking achievement - at the cost…

This episode immerses us in the Peloponnesian War, a decades-long fratricidal conflict between Athens and Sparta that shook democracies and ended Greece's golden age.

The Peloponnesian War left Greece drained and weakened; Macedonia is poised to fill the power vacuum. This episode explores how Philip II turned a backward city-state into a military superpower.