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Description     In the opening episode of the series, Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill takes us on a journey across stunning locations in Greece and Italy to find out how Athens gave birth to the idea of a city run by free citizens 2,500 years ago. Every aspect of daily life from defence to waste disposal was controlled not by a king, but by the Athenians themselves. Ultimately, this radical new system would define a way of life and the Athenians would give it a name. They called it people power, demo-kratia or democracy. On our journey we meet the people who still see ancient Athens as the model for running the great cities of today, including perhaps the ancient capital’s greatest champion in our modern one – Boris Johnson.We discover how the Greeks created the first system of open government, and wrote the first constitution that laid down the rights of Athenian citizens nearly 2,000 years before our Magna Carta. Its creator was born in the 7th century BC, and even more surprisingly, the only surviving ancient copy is found on a papyrus not in Greece or Rome, but hidden away at the British Library in London, and it has never been filmed before. Andrew explains that it was this citizen-centric approach which created institutions that would build a city which was the envy of its day, with public libraries, public law courts, a public water supply and public space. In so doing, Athens would set a benchmark not just for the cities of the Ancient World, but also for those of the present and the future.   Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : Main@L3 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames Format settings, GOP : M=8, N=96 Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 59mn 4s Bit rate : 807 Kbps Width : 704 pixels Height : 396 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Variable Frame rate : 25.000 fps Minimum frame rate : 12.500 fps Maximum frame rate : 16 000.000 fps Related Torrents
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