There is, perhaps, no other culture that has enthralled the Western world for the past two millennia more than 
Ancient Greece. Considered the founding culture of Western civilization, Classical Greece is the basis of many movies, moral lessons and even modern governments. Yet Greece, for all its influence, is often over simplified or mis-portrayed. We take a deep dive into the true history of Ancient Greece, from their crawl out of the Dark Ages, their famous unity and struggle against the Persians and, eventually, their infamous collapse to infighting.
- From the Ashes: The Bronze Age Collapse and the creation of Greece
- Sparta and Athens: Origins of the two greatest Greek city-states
- The Persian War: Greece against half the known world
- The Peloponnesian War: The war between Athens and Sparta that tore Greece apart
- Age of Hegemony: The forgotten, violent 70 years after the Greek Golden Age
- The Rise of Macedon: The end of Greek Independence
Facilitator: Joshua Hoffman
Joshua Hoffman earned a BA Magna Cum Laude from Brandeis University in History with minors in Classics and Medieval Renaissance Studies, and an MEd in Education from NYU Steinhardt. For the past five years he has given both in-person and remote presentations. He believes the study of history is too often relegated to lists of names, dates and themes. His goal is the recasting of history as a grand, story-driven narrative, with fascinating plots and lessons from which to learn and improve our every-day lives.