Explore the birthplace of Western civilization and extraordinary legends to discover how the Ancient Greeks used imagination and inventiveness, courage and conviction to lead architecture into the modern world. On-location footage, computer modeling and scholarly commentary illuminate how the Greeks were able to realize so many groundbreaking and unique engineering innovations at the dawn of European history.
Includes:
The Palace of Knossos - did this building house the terrifying Minotaur?
The Theatre of Epidaurus - a front row seat for this dazzling feat of engineering.
The Colossus of Rhodes - a lost triumph that has baffled experts for centuries.
The Lost City of Atlantis - join the search for this legendary lost civilization.
The Parthenon - a scandalous foundation for the greatest wonder of ancient Greece.
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