00:00Let's go!
00:41Let's go!
01:27The birth of Europe
01:30The cradle of the young civilization long sailed along the tumultuous courses of fertile rivers.
01:35Here he is, having set sail to land on the shores of the Nile, in Crete.
01:39It is already a thriving hive, well ahead of its time.
01:46My latest discovery, Hopscotch.
01:52Look at me, done.
01:55To you, Pierrot!
02:00And there you have it.
02:10Seriously, can't you pay attention, you driver!
02:29You are very beautiful! Truly, what elegance! You are superb!
02:32THANKS !
02:38Oh, look what he's doing!
02:40To think, Mr. Macadam, that it will take you more than 3000 years to invent the same bitumen we use
02:45here.
02:45Hey, watch out!
02:47Listen to what happened to one of my ancestors in Boenjo-Daro, a long time ago, he
02:50That's true!
02:53The moral of the story is, watch where you step!
02:56Shall we play with this?
02:59Let me do it.
03:08It will be nothing.
03:11Well, I hope this will teach him a lesson. Thank you, maestro.
03:14You're welcome, it's normal.
03:16Will you be more careful next time?
03:18Yes.
03:27Can we see these wonders?
03:29Of course, go ahead. Go see.
03:43Shh!
03:48Oh, that one is really very beautiful.
03:58Oh, I've just had an idea.
03:59Oh yes ?
04:02Why don't you work with both hands? It would be more practical.
04:06Ah, but I don't see how I could operate my grinder if both my hands are occupied.
04:10With your foot, like this!
04:14Here, show him, Pierrot!
04:19What is progress?
04:21The days of craftsmanship are over.
04:22The era of industrial production has arrived.
04:44A bathtub, running water, amenities.
04:46In more than 3,000 years at Versailles, Louis XIV will have nothing like it.
04:53No bloodthirsty god? No powerful army? No war?
04:57So, only joy, prosperity, and pleasure would that be possible?
05:15And there you have it, it was too good to last.
05:18The Achaeans of Mycenae have just invaded the ridge.
05:21This crest taught them its way of life, its civilization.
05:30Crete, Greece, Sparta, Mycenae, Athens.
05:40500 years before our era, a young democracy governed Athens.
05:44A democracy.
05:46In the vast Persian empire nearby,
05:48The great king Darius I had sumptuous palaces built at Persepolis.
05:52Somewhere in the East, long live Buddha.
05:56And Confucius.
05:58But let's get back to Greece.
06:00In the year 450, Socrates is 20 years old.
06:03Pericles has 45.
06:06450 years before our era, Pericles said...
06:09The democratic state must strive to serve the greatest number of people.
06:13to ensure equality before the law for all.
06:15He must protect himself against individual selfishness
06:17and to protect the individual against the arbitrary actions of the State.
06:25Alright.
06:33Come closer, come closer, hot sausages!
06:35And you want to listen to my hot sausages in your super fort!
06:39Go! Go! Go !
06:40Go! Go! Go !
06:42Go! Go! Go !
06:45Come on !
06:46And there you go!
06:48Welcome to the theatre, my friends.
06:50Today you will see my latest play, Antigone.
06:52As you can see.
06:54Hey, Franck!
06:57Let's see, it's...
07:04Yes, yes, yes, yes, let's see what the stars say.
07:07What is that "The Big Wagon" by John?
07:10Okay, let's go.
07:11Come on !
07:16No, but what is this?
07:17That's good, good, damn it!
07:18Ah, there it is!
07:21Very good, very good!
07:28Hey, that's not right, is it?
07:30Hey, that's...
07:31Ah, well yes, that's true, well yes, I didn't think of that.
07:33No, no, come on, that's not possible!
07:36Think about it!
07:37Okay, okay, well, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
07:41There you go, well done, that's very good!
07:44Eh ?
07:58I really want us to settle down up there, next to her.
08:03What are you waiting for to sit down?
08:06Oh, what are you taking with you?
08:12Dear Ismene, my sister who wishes to share my fate and the legacy of words that comes to us from Oedipus,
08:17Do you think Zeus will free us from this?
08:19Oh, the most beautiful of suns, that we have seen over the seven gates of the earth!
08:26And the golden ice of the day that are hungry for him above the rissons of Dirce.
08:30And the one who led them to our soil was Polynys the rebel.
08:35A dead enemy is still an enemy!
08:38Yes, always an enemy!
08:40I am made to share love, not hate!
08:43Let us go down, and if you must love at all costs, love the dead!
08:48Less vibrant, it's not a woman who will make the law!
08:59The presumptuous, by great twists of fate, make them pay dearly for their boasting.
09:04And Laurence has a master, in late wisdom!
09:07Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
09:15But she's calling for you!
09:17Bravo! Bravo!
09:21Bravo! Bravo!
09:43I met a young girl.
09:46I would like to know if the gods consent to my taking her as my wife.
09:50Do you want to follow me? We're going to check our appetites.
09:55...
10:07...
10:08...
10:09...
10:09...
10:24Yes, my son, the gods are with you.
10:27Aphrodite, goddess of love
10:28Hera, the wife of Zeus
10:30And also Athena, his daughter
10:36Ah ah ah ah
10:49Ah ah ah ah
10:53Ah ah ah ah ah
10:55Go back to your room, this isn't girl stuff, do you understand?
10:58Visitors are welcome under my roof.
11:02Praise Zeus, I met your daughter one fine day at the theatre and I wish to marry her
11:07Have you consulted the oracle?
11:12This equipment is a bit fragile
11:21So what?
11:22Is the oracle favorable?
11:24Well, it's no, it's okay
11:31Here is my son
11:32Ah
11:42Go tell your master about me, and faster than that, you idiot!
11:48So, I wish to take your daughter as my wife
11:53Sorry
11:55It's too late
12:10And soon, an olive branch will announce a happy event
12:14You will now vote by indicating your choice on your tablets.
12:18Then we will tally the votes
12:27The proposal is adopted
12:29Yes
12:29By the majority
12:33So, who's going to make me an offer for this handsome athlete?
12:37And what if we added this poor orphan girl as a bonus?
12:40Ah, I know, I know, I know, I know
12:45Ah, that's it.
13:15Oh no, that's not true.
13:18Ah, that one's not bad.
13:29In 449 BC, peace was signed between Athens and Persia.
13:32The acropolis is being rebuilt
13:35If you believe me, this temple...
13:37Wait, I see it as very large, like this
13:40Classic
13:42With two tall columns
13:44And a pediment
13:45You see? Kind of like that
13:48Wait, I have a surprise for you
13:50Look at
13:52Don't worry
13:53Trust me
13:57Bring it on, bring it on, bring it on, bring it on
14:00Stop!
14:04Peace was also made with Sparta in the year 446
14:11And life goes on.
14:14With its procession of farces
14:21A joyful farce
14:22And with genuine cheerfulness
14:28Come on, let's drink, let's drink, come on
14:35Calm down
14:41Put that on
14:42Come on
14:46And whatever you do, don't move from there.
14:56I'm coming back from there
14:58I hope he comes back
15:03Bravo, bravo!
15:09So
15:10So much for the Spartan wedding.
15:36Come on, let's take him away
15:37Let's take him away
15:45And later
15:59So much for Spartan education.
16:02Let's go back to Athens
16:06Oh dear, oh what's going on?
16:09Oh, oh, what's going on?
16:20Once again, work has resumed
16:25Ah, there we go!
16:38Here we go.
16:59Oh, what are you wearing, I...
17:04Meanwhile, Aspard...
17:07So, it's coming, we're hungry.
17:09Dining.
17:11Ask, do you believe?
17:34What are these grebasses?
17:38That's Spartan education for you.
17:42At the agropole, the work is almost finished.
17:47The school of music and letters, where the brilliant future citizens of tomorrow are trained.
17:59I have finished my peroration.
18:07Pierrot!
18:11Come with me, we're going up to the agropole.
18:28Ah, my friends, come, I'll show you my work.
18:31The statue of Athena, the Parthenon, I'm not unhappy with it, but still...
18:34Ah, well, look who's here, Socrates.
18:39Hi.
18:41Well, my boy, tell me, what do you know?
18:45Nothing, but you know everything.
18:46If you know that you know nothing, believe me, you hold the basis of all knowledge.
18:51Come on, Socrates, come with me, I have some ideas that I would like to share with you.
18:54So.
18:59Hi.
19:01Are you coming with us?
19:03No, no, this time you'll go train without me, imagine that I have something to do.
19:52Athenian democracy is as large as the Duchy of Luxembourg
19:54and its active citizens number 40,000.
19:57Oh, our Athenian friend isn't perfect.
19:59Far from it.
20:01Aristocrat, expansionist, who considered slavery normal,
20:04But... but Hippocrates, the father of medicine.
20:10Herodotus and Thucydides, the first historians,
20:13so that the actions of men will not be erased by time.
20:16Euripides, Bedeus, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Orestes and so many others.
20:21Sophocles, Antigone, Ajax, Electra, Ediproie and so many others.
20:27Protagoras, man is the measure of all things; it is by him that they are or are not.
20:31Anaxagoras said that intelligence is the guiding principle of the world.
20:34Socrates, know thyself and philosophy descends from heaven to earth.
20:39Phidias, ah, Phidias.
20:54Phidias, the conductor of all his wonders.
20:59Pericles, the conductor of all his men.
21:22How many years, how many centuries will it take before such a constellation appears again?
21:27Will two thousand years be enough?
21:34Honor to Zeus.
21:35As every four years since 776, the Olympic Games are back.
21:39The 87th to be precise.
22:04Go, go, go, go!
22:07But these Games, which allowed the various peoples of Greece to meet, will soon give way to encounters
22:12less peaceful.
22:14431. Athens' expansion exceeded that of other cities.
22:18It's war with Sparta again.
22:32Above all, promise me you'll be careful.
22:36Goodbye, Mom.
22:45Athenian.
22:46Against Spartan.
23:16429.
23:17429.
23:17429.
23:17He too was affected by the war.
23:18The plague, Pericles, is going to die.
23:39And Greece will exhaust itself in a fratricidal, stupid and endless war.
23:44Yet the country has lifeblood.
23:47Democritus will create the atom.
23:49Hippocrates, medicine.
23:52Aristophanes, comedy.
23:54Alcibiades will perfect his double-dealing.
23:56As for Socrates, he is in serious trouble since, recognized as impious and corrupting the youth, he is condemned to
24:01dead.
24:06Those Athenians were quite extravagant.
24:07Socrates, the universal mind condemned to death.
24:09And the others, practically all the prominent men of the century, ostracized, condemned to exile.
24:20Aristides the Just and Miltiades, victor at Marathon.
24:25Temistocles, victor at Salamis.
24:28Simon, admiral of the Delos league.
24:33Alcibiades, the pervert.
24:35Thucydides, historian and general.
24:37Okay, but Anaxagoras, because he said the earth rests on air and that the sun is a
24:42incandescent mass.
24:43But Protagoras, man is the measure of all things, because he is ignorant of the gods.
24:47Euripides, the unparalleled playwright.
24:50And Phidias.
24:53Phidias, who gave life to stone.
24:55And Pericles and Socrates.
24:57Plato will succeed Socrates, and Aristotle will succeed Plato.
24:59And when Philip of Macedon, a distant and impoverished cousin, united Greece under his rule in 338,
25:05It was Aristotle whom he entrusted with the education of his son Alexander.
25:08The most intelligent man of his time will shape the mind of the one who will become the greatest
25:12a conqueror of his time.
25:14A rare conjunction.
25:15But with Alexander the Great, the Greek spirit went astray in his immense empire.
25:19He will never find himself again.
25:20It was made only to human scale.
25:22And philosophical, scientific, and artistic thought will fall asleep for 2000 years.
25:26Only then, like Sleeping Beauty, will she start again from the same point.
25:31Subtitling by Radio-Canada
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