Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Ancient Greek science

Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories. Prior to the Roman period, most of these regions were officially unified once under the Kingdom of Macedon from 338 to 323 BC. In Western history, the era of classical antiquity was immediately followed by the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine period.

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  1. Aristotle's biology

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's method of biological investigation and the first systematic and thorough study of animals, which was unequalled for almost 2,000 years.

    7 February 2019

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    Featuring: Armand Leroi, Myrto Hatzimichali, Sophia Connell

     
  2. The Antikythera Mechanism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2,000-year-old Greek astronomical computer, one of the most important discoveries in marine archaeology.

    14 November 2024

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    Featuring: Mike Edmunds, Jo Marchant, Liba Taub