Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Studio: Unapix
• VHS Release Date: November 3, 1998
• ASIN: 6303504019
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #596,531 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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A provocative, visually startling documentary series that explores the pervasive influence of ancient Greece on our lives today. SEX. ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS involve tales of seduction. In ancient Greek pottery, painting and poetry you find exuberant sexuality and uninhibited activity in abundance. Sappho of Lesbos gives her name to lesbianism. Male homosexuals can turn back to Plato to find that their way of life was regarded as noble and praiseworthy. But ancient Greece was not a sexual Utopia. Aristotle's opinion was that women have no souls. They were chattels, mistrusted and even feared by men. In Greek drama, there is a profound male terror in front of the mystery of woman. Men saw in woman something dark, shadowy, and pre-rational. POLITICS. THE WORLD is turning upside down and it's all in the name of an ideal and a word, invented by the Greeks- democracy. In the West we pride ourselves on our democratic systems, but should we? Are our systems democratic, or are we actually politically impotent, divorced from the centers of information and power? A mass democracy never inspired the ancient Greek thinkers with much confidence; they didn't think it could work. The dream of Jefferson and Lincoln that the ideal of ancient Athens could be extended to a continental scale has proved illusory.