Lost Civilizations: The Greeks

Did you know that ancient Greek civilization was spread across the Middle East? Or that there were ancient Greek cities in the foothills of the Himalayas? Expert educator Philip Matyszak presents a remarkable new perspective of ancient Greece through lost stories about the civilization beyond Greece.

In a survey that stretches from the earliest prehistoric Greek colonies around the Black Sea to Greek settlements in Spain and Italy, through the conquests of Alexander and the glories of the Hellenistic era, to the fall of Byzantium, Matyszak illuminates the lives of the Greek soldiers, statesmen, scientists, and philosophers who laid the foundations of civilization today—though they seldom, if ever, actually set foot on the Greek mainland.

Matyszak is the author of The Greeks: Lost Civilizations.

Additional Lost Civilizations Programs

• April 25: The Etruscans
• May 23: The Goths
• June 6: The Phoenicians

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