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Created and written by brothers Charley and Vlas Parlapanides for Netflix, this American adult animated fantasy action series, formerly known as Gods & Heroes, premiered its first season on October 27, 2020.

This 2003 television miniseries retells the Trojan War from Homer's Iliad and the wider Trojan Cycle, shot entirely on location in Malta a year before the film Troy.

Known as Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series, this show is a prequel to the 1997 film and the Greek myth, following Hercules as a teenager training to be a hero before the events of the film.

Filmed in New Zealand and based on the Greek hero Heracles, this American fantasy series starred Kevin Sorbo as Hercules and Michael Hurst as Iolaus for six seasons, becoming one of the world's highest-rated syndicated shows at that time.

Directed by Nick Willing and produced by Hallmark Entertainment, this 2000 American two-part television miniseries, also known as Jason and the Golden Fleece, is based on the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts.

This 1998-2000 anthology animated series retold popular Greek myths altered to suit younger audiences, co-produced by Nelvana Limited and Marathon Media and based on the book series Myth Men Guardians of the Legend by Laura Geringer.

This American animated series, based loosely on the Greek mythology character Heracles under his Roman name Hercules, debuted in 1963 and ran until 1966, coinciding with the sword-and-sandal film genre popular between 1958 and 1965.

Andrei Konchalovsky directed this 1997 miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey, co-produced by Hallmark Entertainment and American Zoetrope, airing in two parts on NBC from May 18, 1997, starring Armand Assante and Irene Papas.

Directed by Franco Rossi assisted by Piero Schivazappa and Mario Bava, this eight-episode Italian miniseries broadcast on RAI in 1968 is based on Homer's Odyssey, with Bekim Fehmiu as Odysseus and Irene Papas as Penelope.

This miniseries dramatizes the 10-year siege of Troy and the love affair between Paris and Helen, an original take on the Greek myths that first aired on BBC One in February 2018 before Netflix streamed it internationally.

This American sword-and-sorcery series, filmed in New Zealand and created by Robert Tapert, follows Xena, played by Lucy Lawless, an infamous warrior seeking redemption alongside her companion Gabrielle, played by Renee O'Connor, and spun off from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

A prequel series to Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, this show aired on Fox Kids Network and starred Ryan Gosling in the title role across 50 episodes, inspired by the Greek myths of Heracles.

This 2011 BBC docudrama portrays events around the volcanic eruption that destroyed Thera, an incident portrayed as having inspired the parable of Atlantis, narrated by Tom Conti with Stephanie Leonidas and Reece Ritchie as individuals of the Bronze Age.

This 2014 documentary miniseries about Alexander the Great is a co-production of ZDF, Arte and ORF for ZDF's brand Terra X; it premiered on Arte as a 90-minute film before airing on ZDF as a two-part series.

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Continuing the series on the armies and tactics of the Ancient Greeks, this covers the logistics of the Macedonian Armies and how the armies of Alexander the Great and Philip traveled and were supplied.

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Beyond the polis, this covers the Leagues and Federations of the Ancient Greek world and how great states like Athens, Sparta, Macedon and Thebes interacted within them to form hegemonies.

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Alexander the Great's conquests spread Hellenization from Egypt to China, and the easternmost Greek state, Bactria, wins independence from the Seleucid Empire and blends with the Buddhist Mahayana.

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This traces the ancient origins of Macedonia before it became an empire under Philip and Alexander, with a focus on its relationship with the other Hellenic states.

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This edition on the Ancient Greek Navies focuses on Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian Wars, covering which ships were used, the tactics applied, and who financed and manned the fleets.

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This covers the siege technologies the Greeks used before the reforms of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great, from the siege engines themselves to the defenses raised against them.

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During the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, the hoplite remains dominant but lighter versions emerge, and Hellenic city-states begin turning to cavalry and skirmishers to gain the upper hand.

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The Armies and Tactics series makes its debut by covering how the armies, tactics, formations and weaponry of the ancient Greeks changed during the Persian invasions.

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Philip II, learning from Epaminondas, Pelopidas and Iphicrates, reforms his armies into the Macedonian phalanx, and this covers how the pezhetairoi were trained and their panoply and combat role.

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Philip II reforms his Companion Cavalry and light Prodromoi cavalry, and Polyidus, head of his engineers, and his successors create many siege weapons that later help Philip and Alexander in their conquests.

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Kings and Generals' Roman - Macedonian Wars series continues with the Third Macedonian War and the battle of Callinicus, fought in 171 BC.

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Pyrrhus of Epirus, already fighting in the wars of the Diadochi, is invited by the Greek city of Tarentum to defend it against Rome, and the resulting war opens at Heraclea.

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An early documentary on the Roman - Seleucid Syrian War and the battles of Thermopylae and Magnesia, a conflict that reshaped the map of the Eastern Mediterranean in the II century BC.

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The Roman Republic and the Seleucid empire vie for control over Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in the War of Antiochus, fought at Thermopylae and Magnesia with a quarter of a million warriors.

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Kings and Generals' Roman - Macedonian Wars series concludes with the Third Macedonian War and the battle of Pydna, fought in 168 BC.

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Greek and Persian civilizations fight for millennia, and the battle of Salamis in 480 BC stands as the central defence of free Greece against the Persian invasion.

This one-hour weekly mythology series premiered on the History Channel in 2009 and covers ancient Greek and Norse gods, monsters and heroes including Hades, Hercules, Medusa, Minotaur, Odysseus and Zeus.

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Demosthenes, the Athenian politician, leads the resistance against Philip II and Alexander the Great and against Macedonian expansion into the other Greek states.

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Between the fall of Mycenaean Greece and the rise of the poleis lies the Geometric Age, roughly 1100 to 700 BCE, when Greek communities migrated across Asia Minor and Cyprus and had contact with the Phoenicians.

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The historicity of the Trojan War is examined through the Iliad of Homer and the Mycenaean and Hittite civilizations, asking whether Hector, Achilles, Helen and Paris were real at the end of the Bronze Age.

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Philip II, father of Alexander III and one of Macedonia's most important rulers, is examined here for his exceptional diplomatic abilities.

This 2006 short IMAX documentary from MacGillivray Freeman Films is set across the Greek Isles and covers the Minoan eruption, the Parthenon, philosophy, theatre, democracy and the Olympics.

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A guide to the great historians of Ancient Greece: Herodotus, the Father of History, Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch's Parallel Lives and Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander.

Michael Wood writes and presents this six-part BBC documentary series from 1985, examining how far historical and archeological evidence matches Homer's account of the Trojan War in the Iliad.

Michael Wood writes and presents this BBC documentary series from 1998, retracing Alexander the Great's travels from Macedonia to the borders of India and back to Mesopotamia.

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This opens the series on the Macedonian Wars, crucial for the Roman republic and the Hellenic states, leading to the battles of Cynoscephalae and Pydna and the Greco-Roman world that followed.

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After Philip II of Macedon reformed the infantry, cavalry and siege weapons, his son Alexander the Great built on that work, creating an army that conquered the Achaemenid Empire with elite units like the Silver Shields and Royal Agema.

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The Minoans of Crete build palaces at Knossos and Phaistos, dominate Aegean sea trade, inspire the myth of King Minos and the Labyrinth, and leave behind the mysteries of Linear A.

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A full documentary on Pyrrhus, a leading player in the second round of the Diadochi of Alexander the Great, who fought Romans, Carthaginians and Greeks across battles from Heraclea and Asculum to Sparta and Argos.

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After defeating the Roman legions at Heraclea, the Greek king Pyrrhus and his phalanx fight Rome again at Asculum, then attack the Carthaginians on Sicily.

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Pyrrhus of Epirus returns to Greece after Italy proved untenable, defeated by the Romans at Beneventum, and fights final wars against the Macedonians, Spartans and Argives.

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Pyrrhus of Epirus, born soon after the death of his relative Alexander the Great, grows up during the wars of the Diadochi and learns war under Alexander's generals.

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The manipular Roman legion, which fought the Carthaginian army, is matched against the Macedonian phalanx that Philip created, across the battles of Asculum, Heraclea, Cynoscephalae and Pydna.

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Alongside the formidable Companions and the Macedonian phalanx, Alexander the Great fielded many further units drawn from beyond his Macedonians, many of which specialized in roles critical to some of his greatest military triumphs.

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The Greeks of the Dayuan region, discovered by China during Zhang Qian's expedition, fight the Han dynasty in the War of the Heavenly Horses, 104 to 101 BC, which contributed to the creation of the Silk Road.

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Bettany Hughes presents this three-part documentary series on the Spartans, first broadcast on Channel 4 in 2002 before airing on ABC Australia and PBS in the United States.

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The fall of the Ptolemies, how the Roman emperors treated Alexander's tomb, what happened to the tale of his corpse under Christian, Muslim, Ottoman and Napoleonic rule of Alexandria, and the theories that surround both to this day.

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From 214 to 146 BCE the Roman Republic dismantled Greece by exploiting rivalries between Macedon, the Aetolian League, the Achaean League, Pergamon, Rhodes and the Seleucids, and beating the phalanx at Cynoscephalae and Pydna.

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Sparta, a land power with little naval experience, defeats Athens and its Delian League through alliances, economics and Persian gold, after the destruction of Melos and the disastrous Sicilian Expedition drained Athenian resources.

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Alexander the Great died on 11 June 323 BC and his body became a continuing source of war, intrigue and mystery; part one of two on its importance for the Diadochi, the Ptolemies, the Romans and the Christians.

Zack Snyder directed this 2006 film based on Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's 1998 comic, retelling the Battle of Thermopylae as historical fantasy, with King Leonidas leading 300 Spartans against Xerxes and more than 300,000 Persian soldiers.

Noam Murro directed this 2014 sequel to 300, based on Frank Miller's comic Xerxes and a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Artemisium and the Battle of Salamis in the Greco-Persian Wars, starring Eva Green and Lena Headey.

This British television play, based on Terence Rattigan's stage play, tells the story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of Persia; it featured Sean Connery in his first starring role and was praised at the time for its acting.

Oliver Stone directed this 2004 epic on Alexander the Great, starring Colin Farrell; American critics were mixed to negative on the casting and runtime, and its $167.3 million gross against a $155 million budget made it a box-office bomb.

Robert Rossen wrote, produced and directed this 1956 CinemaScope film on Alexander the Great, filmed in Spain and released by United Artists, starring Richard Burton as Alexander with a score by Mario Nascimbene.

Yorgos Javellas directed and adapted this 1961 Greek film version of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, starring Irene Papas in the title role.

Desmond Davis directed this 1981 fantasy adventure film loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus, starring Harry Hamlin and Laurence Olivier, and featuring the final stop-motion effects work of Ray Harryhausen.

Louis Leterrier directed this 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans, very loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus, a co-production between the United States, United Kingdom and Australia starring Sam Worthington, Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson.

Directed by Curtis Bernhardt, this 1962 Italian-American film, titled Il tiranno di Siracusa on its Italian release, is based on the Greek legend of Damon and Pythias and set during the reign of Dionysius I of Syracuse.

Michael Cacoyannis directed this 1962 Greek film based on Euripides' Electra, the first in his Greek tragedy trilogy followed by The Trojan Women and Iphigenia, starring Irene Papas as Elektra and Giannis Fertis as Orestis.

Robert Wise directed this 1956 film based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, shot in CinemaScope by Harry Stradling Sr with a score by Max Steiner, sometimes described as an overlooked Robert Wise epic.

Directed by Manfred Noa, this 1924 German silent drama, based on the Iliad by Homer, was released in two parts, The Rape of Helen and The Fall of Troy, at a cost that seriously damaged the finances of Bavaria Film.

Brett Ratner directed this 2014 film based on the limited series The Thracian Wars from Steve Moore's graphic novel Hercules, starring Dwayne Johnson as Hercules, a self-proclaimed demigod hired to lead the armies of Thrace against a warlord.

Directed by Pietro Francisci and starring Steve Reeves as the titular hero and Sylva Koscina as Princess Iole, this 1958 Italian sword-and-sandal film is based on the Hercules and the Quest for the Golden Fleece myths.

Produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, this 1997 animated musical comedy follows Hercules, a demigod raised among mortals, who must become a true hero while his uncle Hades plots his downfall.

The sequel to Hercules (1958), this 1959 Italian-French film stars Steve Reeves and Sylva Koscina in a story about two warring brothers and Hercules' tribulations in the court of Queen Omphale, loosely based on Greek mythology.

This 1998 animated direct-to-video film reunites the voices of Kevin Sorbo, Lucy Lawless, Michael Hurst and Renee O'Connor, as Hercules and Xena join forces after Hera releases the four Titans in a fit of jealousy.

Directed by Vittorio Cottafavi, this 1961 film stars Reg Park in his film debut as Ercole/Hercules and was originally released in Super Technirama 70; retitled and re-edited, it reached the United States as Hercules and the Captive Women.

Directed by Mario Bava, this 1961 Italian sword-and-sandal film stars Reg Park as Hercules and Christopher Lee as his nemesis Lico, shot at Cinecittà on sets reused from Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis.

Directed by Tarsem Singh and starring Henry Cavill, Stephen Dorff, Luke Evans and Mickey Rourke, this 2011 epic fantasy film is loosely based on the Greek myths of Theseus and the Minotaur, and the Titanomachy.

Michael Cacoyannis directed this 1977 film based on Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, the third in his Greek Tragedy trilogy, starring Tatiana Papamoschou as the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra with a score by Mikis Theodorakis.

Don Chaffey directed this 1963 fantasy adventure film loosely based on Apollonius Rhodius's 3rd century BC epic The Argonautica, produced by Charles H. Schneer and distributed by Columbia Pictures, starring Todd Armstrong and Nancy Kovack.

Made for the 1911 Turin World's Fair, this Italian silent film, the third known adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, was proclaimed by The Moving Picture World a new epoch in the history of the motion picture as a factory of education.

Written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, this 1969 Italian film is based on the myth of Medea and stars Maria Callas in her only film role, largely following the myth of Jason and the Argonauts and Euripides' play Medea.

This 1978 animated anthology film, narrated by Peter Ustinov, retells stories from Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid across five parts, each with a recurring boy and girl as protagonists.

Directed by Jonathan English and starring Tom Hardy, Tony Todd, Ingrid Pitt and Rutger Hauer, this 2006 British horror film, filmed in Luxembourg, is a loose retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

Directed by Silvio Amadio and starring Bob Mathias, this 1960 film is based on the Greek legend of Theseus, the Athenian hero said to have slain a minotaur on Minoan Crete around 1500 or 1450 BC.

Directed by Franco Piavoli, this 1989 Italian adventure drama, based on Homer's Odyssey, follows Odysseus' homeward journey across the Mediterranean Sea following the Trojan War, told with minimal dialogue in an imaginary Mediterranean language.

Directed by Terry Ingram for the Sci Fi Channel, this 2008 film finds King Odysseus, away from Ithaca for twenty years, facing the Goddess of the Underworld in the missing book of the Odyssey, the Isle of the Mists.

Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote and directed this 1967 Italian film based on Sophocles' 428 BC tragedy Oedipus Rex, starring his regular collaborator Franco Citti alongside Alida Valli and Carmelo Bene.

This 1957 tragedy film records the Canadian Stratford Festival production of the William Butler Yeats adaptation of Sophocles' play, with the actors performing in masks designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch, as was the practice in Ancient Greek theatre.

Directed by Philip Saville, this 1968 British film adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy Oedipus Rex stars Christopher Plummer as the title character, Orson Welles as Tiresias, Lilli Palmer as Jocasta and Richard Johnson as Creon.

Directed by Sohrab Modi, this 1941 epic Bollywood film stars Prithviraj Kapoor as Alexander the Great.

Roberto Rossellini directed this 1970 Spanish-Italian-French television film adapting several Plato dialogues, including The Apology, Euthyphro, Crito and Phaedo.

Rudolph Maté directed this 1962 CinemaScope film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae, made with the cooperation of the Greek government and filmed in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese, starring Richard Egan and Ralph Richardson.

Directed by Giorgio Ferroni, this 1961 adventure-fantasy film is loosely based on Euripides' tragedy The Bacchae.

Co-written and directed by Sergio Leone, this 1961 sword and sandal film, starring Rory Calhoun, is a fictional account of Rhodes in the late third century BC, following Alexander the Great's death and before the rise of the Roman Empire.

Directed by Giovanni Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto, this 1911 Italian silent short is the first known cinematographic adaptation of Homer's epic poem, the Iliad.

Directed by Marino Girolami, this 1962 Italian historical drama, released in the UK as Achilles, is set in the ninth year of the Trojan War and is based primarily on Homer's Iliad, starring Gordon Mitchell as Achilles.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur and Mario Bava, this 1959 international co-production sword and sandal film, loosely based on the Battle of Marathon, stars Steve Reeves as Phillipides.

Directed by Riccardo Freda, this 1960 Italian-French adventure-fantasy film, released in the UK as Jason and the Golden Fleece, is loosely based on the epic poem Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius.

Christopher Nolan wrote and directed this 2026 adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, produced with Emma Thomas and starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, who journeys home to Ithaca after the Trojan War to reunite with Penelope.

Directed by Warwick Gilbert and Geoff Collins, this 1987 Australian animated adventure film follows Odysseus as he attempts to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, encountering mythical creatures and divine obstacles.

Directed and co-written by Gianfranco Parolini, this 1962 Italian-French epic film, originally titled Il vecchio testamento and released in Spanish as Los Macabeos, is based on the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire of 167-141 BC.

Directed by Alexander Korda, this 1927 American silent comedy adventure about Helen of Troy, based on the 1925 novel by John Erskine, stars María Corda as Helen, Lewis Stone as Menelaus and Ricardo Cortez as Paris.

Uberto Pasolini directed this 2024 drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, retelling the second half of Homer's Odyssey as Odysseus returns home to Ithaca after his long absence, adapted with Edward Bond and John Collee.

Directed by Giorgio Ferroni, this 1961 Italian peplum film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War focuses primarily on the Trojan hero Aeneas, with Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus.

Michael Cacoyannis directed this 1971 film starring Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave and Irene Papas, staying close to Edith Hamilton's translation of Euripides' play while omitting the deities, which Cacoyannis called hard to film and make realistic.

Directed by Walter Lang, this 1933 pre-Code comedy tells the story of the Amazons, who ruled over men thanks to the sacred girdle of Diana, and Hercules, who came to steal it.

Wolfgang Petersen directed this 2004 film starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom, loosely based on Homer's Iliad and condensing the decade-long Trojan War as Achilles and the Greek army besiege Hector's Troy.

Directed by Mario Camerini, this 1954 fantasy adventure film based on Homer's Odyssey stars Kirk Douglas as Ulysses, Silvana Mangano in a dual role as Penelope and Circe, and Anthony Quinn as Antinous.

Jonathan Liebesman directed this 2012 sequel to Clash of the Titans, starring Sam Worthington as Perseus, who is called on a decade later to rescue his father Zeus and overthrow the imprisoned Titans.