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The Full History of Greece: From Palaces to a Nation

Published Oct 28, 2026 · 36 min

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In 1900, sponge divers off the island of Antikythera found a shipwreck, and in it a corroded lump of bronze that turned out to be a geared machine more than 2,000 years old. This is the full history of Greece: a people who were never one country, and never disappeared.

Narration in this film is a synthetic, cloned voice. Sources and image credits are in the YouTube description.

Chapters

1. 00:00 Channel opening
2. 00:10 The machine in the wreck
3. 01:15 Palaces of clay
4. 04:01 A thousand cities
5. 07:24 Marathon
6. 09:34 The pass and the strait
7. 12:26 Rule by the people
8. 15:02 The school of Hellas
9. 17:54 The gadfly
10. 20:09 Father and son
11. 23:40 The machine from the sea
12. 27:38 Romans who spoke Greek
13. 30:15 Four centuries
14. 32:34 A nation again

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