The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

Drive Thru History: Ancient History

Join Dave Stotts on an adventure through world history as he tells the stories of the people, places, and events that shaped the ancient world, and how those ancient civilizations and the Christian faith shaped Western Civilization and the world we live in today.

The Owl's Legacy

1989

THE OWL’S LEGACY is an intellectually agile, engaging, and sometimes biting look at ancient Greece, its influences on Western culture—and how many eras have reinterpreted the Greek legacy to reflect their own needs. Each of the 13 episodes is centered on a potent Greek word: from “democracy” and “philosophy” to “mythology” and “misogyny.” Marker convenes and films symposia—meals featuring wine and thoughtful conversation—in locales including Paris, Tokyo, Tbilisi, Berkeley, and an olive grove on Athens’ outskirts. Footage from these banquets is interspersed with archival materials and interviews (often featuring a stylized or distorted owl image looming in the background). Marker’s diverse group of informants includes composers, politicians, classicists, historians, scientists, writers, filmmakers, and actors. Together their contributions form a compelling (and sometimes contradictory) cultural and historical exploration for each theme.

Stand Tall, Liberty!

2021

The Greek Revolution of 1821 was an important military, social and political event. At the same time, though, it was a major intellectual event. How was the Greek state born through the havoc of the battles? Production: COSMOTE TV

The Birth of a Nation-State

2020

Working for their master’s dissertation, two history students investigate life in Ottoman Greece. A docudrama series that presents the course of Hellenism over the four centuries of Ottoman rule.

Hail Liberty! Hail!

2021

In the 400 years of Ottoman rule, Greeks had staged numerous revolutions, but they were all drowned in blood. Which factors contributed to the success of the Liberation Struggle of 1821?

The Assemblies & Constitutions of the Struggle

2021

How did Greeks managed to coordinate their liberation struggle? A docudrama series that brings to life the Assemblies and the Constitutions that framed the Greek Revolution of 1821.

Three Minutes for the Greek Language

2018

Georgios Babiniotis, professor of linguistics at the University of Athens, explains and comments on words and common linguistic mistakes, helping us to use the Greek language more correctly.

From Aristotle to Hawking

2007