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Giant gold-digging ants,
a furious king who orders the sea to be whipped 300 times,
and a dolphin that saves a famous poet from drowning.
These are just some of the stories from The Histories by Herod
In the year 1066,
7000 Norman infantry and knights sailed in warships across the English Channel.
Their target: England, home to more than a million people.
Theirs was a short voyage with massive co
At the annual Athenian drama festival in 426 BC,
a comic play called The Babylonians,
written by a young poet named Aristophanes,
was awarded first prize.
But the play’s depiction of Athens’ conduc
He was a powerful king whose break with the church of Rome
would forever change the course of English history.
But was he a charismatic reformer or a bullying tyrant?
Find out on History versus Henry
As dawn breaks over Athens, Pheidias is already late for work.
The year is 432 BCE,
and he’s the architekton, or chief builder,
for the Parthenon— Athens’ newest and largest temple.
When completed,
You know, there are very few things that set us apart
from the rest of life on Earth.
At the heart of them, I believe, is our inexhaustible power of imagination.
Imagination is the ability to bring
As the sun rises over Delphi in 500 BCE,
Aristonike hurries to the temple of Apollo.
Like all Greeks, she's known the legend of Delphi since childhood.
Two eagles released by Zeus from opposite ends