The
Greeks, just like the Romans, have given us an awful lot. But so have
television programmes about them and 'Who Were The Greeks?
(BBC2) presented by Dr Michael Scott discoursed on ground so
covered that its threadbare. So how do you make this stuff new?
You can't. But you can
let the material speak for itself and Scott did a great job of re-hashing the facts about Athens, classical architecture, drama and philosophy in only an hour. Surely anyone who watches BBC2 knows about Socrates by now? How, (in a pre-Christian) reality as allegory, he was put to death for standing up for his beliefs? Maybe some don't - so we got another telling of the tale. The film-pieces in Athens were of particular interest to 'thetvreviewguy' having been on the Acropolis less than two years ago and having been suitably impressed. Greece might be going through the wringer now, but the history and literature of Classical Athens is still breath-taking. We even got a re-cap on the original Olympic Games which were anything but 'sporting' as we could understand the concept today. Dr Scott did a more than competent, highlighting, again, how Greek sculptures were not the monochrome marble art works we see then as now but were coloured and this made a huge difference to the aesthetics of the pieces. A good History about Greeks, for all, not just geeks.
let the material speak for itself and Scott did a great job of re-hashing the facts about Athens, classical architecture, drama and philosophy in only an hour. Surely anyone who watches BBC2 knows about Socrates by now? How, (in a pre-Christian) reality as allegory, he was put to death for standing up for his beliefs? Maybe some don't - so we got another telling of the tale. The film-pieces in Athens were of particular interest to 'thetvreviewguy' having been on the Acropolis less than two years ago and having been suitably impressed. Greece might be going through the wringer now, but the history and literature of Classical Athens is still breath-taking. We even got a re-cap on the original Olympic Games which were anything but 'sporting' as we could understand the concept today. Dr Scott did a more than competent, highlighting, again, how Greek sculptures were not the monochrome marble art works we see then as now but were coloured and this made a huge difference to the aesthetics of the pieces. A good History about Greeks, for all, not just geeks.
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