BBC Guilty Pleasures 1of2 HDTV x264 AC3 MVGroup

BBC Guilty Pleasures 1of2 Luxury in Ancient Greece HDTV x264 AC3 MVGroup Two-part documentary which looks at the items valued or desired by men and women over the centuries, focusing particularly on the Classical and Medieval periods. Part 1. 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. Technical Spec Video Codec: x264 CABAC Video Bitrate: 4000 Kbps Video Aspect Ratio: 1.777:1 Video Resolution: 1280x720 Audio Codec: AC3 Audio Bitrate: 192 Kbps CBR 48KHz Audio Channels: 2 Run-Time: 59mins Framerate: 25FPS Number of Parts: 2 Part Size: 1.72 GB Subtitles: merged Source: HDTV SRT available from MVGroup

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 BasilBrush (2011-07-16)

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Ponyoo (2011-09-05)

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