http://anglofilmia.com/2010/06/07/what-the-ancients-did-for-us/ Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:02:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://anglofilmia.com/2010/06/07/what-the-ancients-did-for-us/comment-page-1/#comment-343 Sue-Anne Mayne Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:17:28 +0000 http://anglofilmia.com/?p=33#comment-343 The full series of 'What the Ancients Did for Us' is absolutely fantastic - one of the most informative series I've ever watched. Sadly, however, the DVD available from amazon.co.uk only has 3 of the original programmes featuring the Greeks, the Romans and the Egyptians. What a shame. The rest were never released on DVD for general consumption. The full series of ‘What the Ancients Did for Us’ is absolutely fantastic – one of the most informative series I’ve ever watched. Sadly, however, the DVD available from amazon.co.uk only has 3 of the original programmes featuring the Greeks, the Romans and the Egyptians. What a shame. The rest were never released on DVD for general consumption.

]]> http://anglofilmia.com/2010/06/07/what-the-ancients-did-for-us/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Jason and the Argonauts — Anglofilmia Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:57:08 +0000 http://anglofilmia.com/?p=33#comment-12 [...] (A note on the golden fleece: practically, the description of this (fictional) artifact might have emerged from the real-life practice of collecting gold from running water by laying sheepskins in the stream. Just as they demonstrated earlier, in “What The Ancients Did For Us”!) [...] [...] (A note on the golden fleece: practically, the description of this (fictional) artifact might have emerged from the real-life practice of collecting gold from running water by laying sheepskins in the stream. Just as they demonstrated earlier, in “What The Ancients Did For Us”!) [...]

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