A Greek Odyssey with Bettany Hughes

Explore the mesmerising history of the Greek islands with Bettany Hughes

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Explore the mesmerising history of the Greek islands with Bettany Hughes - from the time of the Ancients right up to the present day.

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Bettany is shown shipwrecks, sunk thousands of years ago.

Bettany sets off on the journey of a lifetime, sailing across spectacular Greece uncovering its history including an ancient underwater shipwreck over two thousand years.

On Ikaria, Bettany gets a lesson in honey history.

Bettany takes a predawn trip to Delos, an island so sacred in ancient times that no one was permitted to live or die there. 

Bettany Hughes visits a Minoan city preserved in time.

Bettany Hughes enters an active volcano and joins a celebration of the god of wine as her Greek island odyssey takes her to Santorini, Naxos, and Siphnos.

Bettany makes it to Crete, just before a storm does.

Bettany Hughes goes Greek island-hopping to explore their history from the time of the Ancients to the present day. Bettany makes it to Crete, just before a storm does.

Bettany arrives in the Peloponnese, a peninsula that's home to some of ancient Greece's most legendary kings and vicious warriors.

Bettany heads to Corfu, where she discovers that the island has a close connection to the UK; her epic journey ends on Odysseus's home island, Ithaca.

A Greek Odyssey with Bettany Hughes

A Greek Odyssey with Bettany Hughes

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