Michael Scott: Who Were The Greeks?S1 Ep1

Classicist Dr Michael Scott uncovers the strange, alien world of the ancient Greeks, exploring the lives of the people who greatly influenced our modern culture. Travelling across Greece today, Michael visits ancient cities and battlefields, great ruins and wild countryside, all in his search to uncover how the ancient Greeks thought and lived. What he finds is that ancient Greece was a place of strange and downright outrageous customs and beliefs, inhabited by a people who could be as brutal as they were brilliant.

Michael Scott: Who Were The Greeks? was broadcast on SBS ONE at Thursday 8 February 2018, 05:30. This episode was initially placed on Sunday 21 June 2015.