{"id":6726,"date":"2021-11-26T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=193473"},"modified":"2021-11-29T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T15:52:08","slug":"how-the-greeks-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/how-the-greeks-changed-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Greeks changed the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rob Attar\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 26 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Historian Roderick Beaton ranges over 4,000 years of Greek history, from the glories of Mycenae to the life of a modern European nation. In discussion with Rob Attar, he picks out some of the key moments in this journey, including the triumphs of <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/ancient-greece\/ancient-greeks-facts-homer-troy-achilles-aristotle-thucydides\/&quot;\">ancient Greece<\/a>, the conquests of <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/ancient-greece\/facts-alexander-great-life-death\/&quot;\">Alexander the Great<\/a> and the 1820s battle for independence.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-193473-3&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/11\/Greeks_Beaton-8bb64b5.mp3?_=3&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/11\/Greeks_Beaton-8bb64b5.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/11\/Greeks_Beaton-8bb64b5.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Roderick Beaton is the author of <em>The Greeks: A Global History <\/em>(Faber, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/the-greeks-a-global-history\/9780571353569&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Greeks-Professor-Prof-Roderick-Beaton\/dp\/0571353568?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-greeks\/professor-prof-roderick-beaton\/9780571353569&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/&quot;\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/howthegreekschangedtheworld\/media.mp3&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rob Attar Published: Friday, 26 November 2021 at 12:00 am Historian Roderick Beaton ranges over 4,000 years of Greek history, from the glories of Mycenae to the life of a modern European nation. 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