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The Ancient World

Episode 22 – The Fifth Generation

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2013

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

“But when earth had covered this generation also, Zeus the son of Cronos made yet another, the fourth, upon the fruitful earth, which was nobler and more righteous, a god-like race of hero-men who are called demi-gods, the race before our own, throughout the boundless earth.  Grim war and dread battle destroyed a part of them, some in the land of Cadmus at seven- gated Thebe when they fought for the flocks of Oedipus, and some, when it had brought them in ships over the great sea gulf to Troy for rich-haired Helen’s sake: there death’s end enshrouded a part of them.  But to the others father Zeus the son of Cronos gave a living and an abode apart from men, and made them dwell at the ends of earth. And they live untouched by sorrow in the islands of the blessed along the shore of deep swirling Ocean, happy heroes for whom the grain-giving earth bears honey-sweet fruit flourishing thrice a year, far from the deathless gods…” – Hesiod, Works and Days During the eighth and seventh centuries BC, the Archaic Greeks struggled with tyranny, warfare and social division.  But their creativity in matters of art, politics, warfare and religious practice foreshadowed the coming brilliance of the Classical Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Based on the international best-selling book.

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Demigods, welcome.

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The stories I have told you about great gods and monsters, they are real.

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The fate of the world is at stake

0:13.8

as God's monsters and the mortal world collide.

0:16.5

This is crazy.

0:17.7

Unleash the power within.

0:19.1

Maybe I won't even need a sword.

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I want to need a sword.

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians, an original series streaming December 20th exclusively on Disney

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Plus.

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18-plus subscription required, T's and C's apply.

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Stay immersed thanks to active noise cancellation with AI technology that filters out

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unwanted background noise.

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with the new wingtip design and easy touch controls

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that make changing settings a breeze.

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That's a lot to love, just 99 pounds RRP, the new Galaxy Bud Zefee, and welcome to the ancient world.

1:07.0

Episode 22, The Fifth Generation. to the fifth generation. A few episodes back I talked about the three pillars of

1:20.0

archaic Greek resurgence. In short, the Olympics, literacy, and aggressive colonization.

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