More than 2500 years ago in a city in ancient Greece the
foundations of Western civilization were being laid. The city,
Athens, was taking its first tentative steps towards democracy. In
that enlightened milieu, art and architecture soared to new heights
as did science, philosophy and literature. Drama was born. During
this brief era which endured for only a century and a half
everything the Greeks touched seemed to turn to gold. Indeed, many
of our accomplishments were only possible because we stood on the
shoulders of those Greek pioneers.
More than a millennium earlier a massive volcanic eruption
buried the Bronze Age city of Akrotiri creating a time capsule
which is only now being opened.
The film Greece: Secrets of the Past brings both of
those epochs back to life as the IMAX camera peers back into the
past to explore the rich legacies left to modern society by the
ancient Greeks.
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Photographs: Nicholas Pitt
(Left to right: 1. Sphinx, Corinth, Greece; 2. Ruins of the
Temple of Isis, Delos, Cyclades Islands, Greece; 3. Santorini at
sunset, Cyclades islands, Greece)