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Show Name....... A Greek Odyssey with Bettany Hughes
Rating.......... N/A
Premiered....... 2020-06-11
Type............ Documentary
Genre........... Travel | History
Plot............ Historian Bettany Hughes has embarked on an epic, personal journey. Inspired by Homer's The Odyssey, she will sail the unpredictable Mediterranean seas, tracing Odysseus's long journey home. Her mission: to experience what the Greek hero experienced and to uncover truths behind the myths and legends, all while enjoying the delights of ancient Greece today. Follow her 1,700-mile adventure as it takes her to over a dozen islands and 22 historic sites and puts her through two hair-raising storms and even an earthquake
Cast............ Bettany Hughes ... Presenter
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Network......... Channel 5
Country......... United Kingdom
Language........ English
Runtime......... 60 mins
Status.......... Ended
Air Date........ Friday 21:00
URL............. https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/48412/a-greek-odyssey-with-bettany-hughes
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Episode Name.... Epiphany's Festivities
Season.......... 1x04
Plot............ Arriving in Crete just as a storm hits, the historian is lucky to reach `the big island" before the seas become impassable and the annual Christian Epiphany festivities are hampered. She travels to the ruins of the ancient city of Knossos, synonymous with English archaeologist Arthur Evans who unearthed much of its palace over 100 years ago, beneath which the legendary King Minos is said to have kept a crazed half-man, half-bull - the Minotaur. Bettany meets Professor Stampolidis, whose ground-breaking archaeological discoveries prove links between ancient legend and historical reality
Runtime......... 60 mins
Air Date........ 2020-07-03 Friday, 15:00
URL............. https://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/1888346/a-greek-odyssey-with-bettany-hughes-1x04-epiphanys-festivities
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Episode Name.... Warriors of Legend
Season.......... 1x05
Plot............ The historian arrives in the Peloponnese, a peninsula regarded as home to some of ancient Greece's most legendary kings and vicious warriors. To understand the violent world in which the myths and legends are set, Bettany visits the bones of a 19-year-old-warrior who died more than 3,500 years ago. Healed sword marks and a large hole in his skull are a testament to his environment. In Sparta, the home town of Helen of Troy, Bettany discovers what made the region's warriors so feared before heading to Mycenae, likely home to the kings and queens that inspired the story of the Trojan War.Bettany is nearing the end of her odyssey from the battlegrounds of ancient Troy to Odysseus's home in Ithaca. The Peloponnese is home to one of the greatest Bronze Age civilizations--the Mycenaeans--as well as the mythic heroes Helen of Troy, Agamemnon, and Odysseus himself. Bettany explores this peninsula's prosperous and violent past and discovers, through its human remains and golden treasures, just how much the ancient Greek's legendary tales are rooted in fact
Runtime......... 60 mins
Air Date........ 2020-07-10 Friday, 15:00
URL............. https://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/1895921/a-greek-odyssey-with-bettany-hughes-1x05-warriors-of-legend
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