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BBC - Guilty Pleasures (2011)
Looks at the items valued or desired by men and women over the centuries, focusing particularly on the Classical and Medieval periods.
Luxury in Ancient Greece
Luxury isn't just a question of expensive and the beautiful objects for the rich and the powerful. It has always been much more, especially in the ancient and medieval worlds. This first episode follows the debate about luxury which convulsed ancient Greece from the beginning of the classical era. In Athens, it explores the role of luxury in the beginnings of democracy - how certain kinds of luxury came to be forbidden and others embraced. A simple luxury like meat could unite the democracy, and yet a taste for fish could divide it. Some luxuries were associated with effeminacy and foreigners, others with the very idea of democracy. Yet in Sparta, there was a determined attempt to deny luxury, and the guilty contradictions of this eventually brought its downfall. When Sparta was replaced by Macedon, Phillip II's court set new standards for luxury as political propaganda.
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I found this on torrent after a request was made (here) for it, but at 1.7GB (plus pars) I
decided that it was too big for just one 1 hour documentary and I decided to downsize it.
Most people would pass it by as a 2GB upload.
This is originally Part 1 of a 2 part set, the other being 'BBC Guilty Pleasures - Luxury in
the Middle Ages'
I have downsized to a 600MB MP4 file, the quality still looks great. (Thanks RIB).
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