The Rise of Athens: Building the Glory of Ancient Greece | FULL DOCUMENTARY

Megapolis brings back to life the greatest of ancient cities from their founding to their golden age and explores the beauty of their constructions using striking 3D models. In this first episode, the spotlight is on Athens!

The small hamlet, as it was in its early days, was established on abandoned land in 3,000 BC. But in the 5th century BC, led by Pericles, it would be transformed into one of the greatest ancient cities. Athens would be the showcase of ancient Greek civilisation, a brilliant and unique civilisation whose influence would pass down through the ages. Let us discover how its magnificent architectural treasures reveal to us the lives of those who lived at the time, starting with the Parthenon, a monumental temple that was built in barely 15 years, followed by the Propylaea, the monumental gateway to the Acropolis. These buildings and places bear witness to the technical perfection, the beauty, and the modernity of the spirit of the civilisation that invented democracy. Around the agora, a place for debating, laws, and ideas, other magnificent buildings would allow for arts and Athens to flourish, the latter turning itself towards the sea, with the creation of the spectacular port of Piraeus, capable of housing the western world's most fearful sailing fleet.

This vast, extraordinary city, the richest and most powerful in all of ancient Greece, leads us in the footprints of a nation of extraordinary builders, thinkers, and inventors of incredible machines, who were poised to revolutionise architecture through the perfection of their buildings, which were monuments to glory and values of their great city.

Documentary: Megapolis: EP1 Megapolis, the ancient world revealed
Director: Fabrice Hourlier
Production: Indigènes Productions

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