The epic documentary "The First War for the West," a time when history became legend.
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The 300 Spartans, The Battles of Marathon, Salamis and Plataea, The Roots of Democracy and the Story of Athenian Generals Miltiades (Father) and Kimon (Son).
The Greek-Persian War has given us some of the most iconic moments in history such as Leonidas and the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, the Marathon Run and a huge legacy today in politics and many other areas. However, other than the 3 days of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, the rest of the 49 year war between Persia and Greece has been almost completely overlooked, and has never appeared in full as a documentary or drama...until now.
Answering all the unanswered questions:
What was the real cause of the war?
How did the Greeks win, was it just legend and propaganda?
What really happened at the Battle of Marathon?
What was the real mission of Leonidas and the 300 Spartans?
Were they always on a suicide mission?
Presented by Dr Michael Scott of Cambridge University, with contributions from nine other experts and four researchers and using the latest research, satellite positioning, and imagery, the series gives complete coverage of the story. Included is a detailed analysis of two of the oldest mysteries in history itself, what really happened at the Battle of Marathon and what really happened to King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. Re-reading the 2500 year old text of Herodotus, the "Father of History", has revealed some missing links.
The story is told through the life of Kimon, a real person whose heroic military life coincided with these world changing events. Kimon was the wealthy son of revered Athenian military leader Miltiades. Miltiades is credited with the victory of the Greeks over the Persians at Marathon, but died in an Athenian prison within a year. Kimon was a drunken womaniser in his early life, and his story includes his incestuous seduction by his sister (frowned on but not illegal at that time) and his love for the woman Isodice. Although his fortune is lost through no fault of his own, it is regained by an action which leaves him feeling guilty through his life, and, most of all, his courage and love for Athens and Greece, for which he sacrifices these other loves. He never sought political power but was the architect of the rise of Greek power to its greatest height.
Structure and Episode Outline
TFWFTW is structured in 6 parts (each averaging 54 uninterupted minutes) or 8 parts with commerical breaks.
Episode 1: The Beginning.
Our modern connection to this period, the importance to us here and now, the three major players, Athens, Sparta and Persia, where they came from and what made them different to each other.
Episode 2. Treachery.
How Greece and Persian came in to conflict. The disloyalty of Histiaeus. The Ionian Revolt, Kimon and Miltiades in Athens, meeting Isodice, Athenian betrayal, the first Persian Invasion.
Events leading up to the Battle of Marathon including the mystery of Marathon.
Episode 3: Marathon.
The Battle of Marathon, the Marathon Run, war heroes, the fall from grace of Kimon's family, prison, bankruptcy, incest, recovery and marriage. Athens builds the fleet.
Episode 4, The Great Invasion.
The Great Persian Invasion of Greece by King Xerxes, the construction of the bridges over the sea at Hellespont, and the canal at Athos, and the lead up to the Battle of Thermopylae. Day 1 and Day 2 at Thermopylae. The betrayal of Leonidas.
Episode 5: Thermopylae and Salamis.
The disaster of Thermopylae and sacrifice of the lives of Leonidas, his 300 Spartans, and many other Greeks, trying to delay the enormous Persian forces of King Xerxes. What really happened there, were the 300 Spartans always on a suicide mission? The evacuation of Athens, Spartan timidity and indecision, Themistocles brings on the naval battle. Victory at the naval battle of Salamis, stabilization and the lead up to the Battle of Plataea.
Episode 6: Plataea and Aftermath.
Battle of Plataea and the pledge made there, the new League of Greek Allies (Delian League), Kimon made commander in chief, Battle of Eurymedon (Kimon, the Conqueror of Persia), death of his wife Isodice, Ostracism (exile) of Kimon, his return to power, the death of Kimon and the Peace of Callias/Kimon.
Final Narrative, was it all worthwhile? Less than 50 years after the death of Kimon, why did the mighty hoplites of Kimon and Leonidas becomes the hirelings of Asia? The legacy of Greece. The legacy of Sparta.
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