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The Good Strife
Watch as ancient Greeks strive for excellence, strife proves to be an inescapable certainty, and it's not long before the rising civilization and all that it promises will face its gravest tests.
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The Greeks
The Greeks
Chasing Greatness
Watch as ancient Greece's legacy is invoked in Athens and at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Greeks
The Greeks
The Good Strife
Watch as ancient Greeks strive for excellence, strife proves to be an inescapable certainty, and it's not long before the rising civilization and all that it promises will face its gravest tests.
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The Greeks
The Greeks
Cavemen to Kings
Uncover the first draft of Western civilization, which, though it met a spectacular end, laid the groundwork for the revolution in human thought that was to come.
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The Greeks
They were an extraordinary people born of white rock and blue sea. They invented democracy, distilled logic and reason, wrote plays to plumb the deepest recesses of the soul, and captured the perfection of the human form in athletics and art.
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