The brutal, brilliant and still influential Ancient Greeks
Ancient Greek history, culture and society still has an enormous influence on the modern world.
Classicist Dr Michael Scott travels across Greece, visiting cities, battlefields, ruins and wild countryside in an attempt to uncover Ancient Greece and see how the ancient Greeks lived.
What he discovers is surprising and at times outrageous: a people as brutal as they were brilliant.
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