Venice to Mycenae

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0:00:02 > 0:00:06Greek civilisation spans more than 2,000 years,

0:00:06 > 0:00:10longer than separates the Ancient Britons from television.

0:00:10 > 0:00:14It stretches from Mycenae, where Homer's Agamemnon reigned

0:00:14 > 0:00:17and was murdered over 3,000 years ago,

0:00:17 > 0:00:20to the Parthenon of Athens in the 5th century BC,

0:00:20 > 0:00:23the greatest building of its kind in the world.

0:00:23 > 0:00:26In the evening of Greek civilisation it reaches

0:00:26 > 0:00:30to the Santa Sophia of Istanbul the ancient Constantinople.

0:00:30 > 0:00:34These are magnets that draw us to the Greek world again and again.

0:01:01 > 0:01:07Today, you can reach Greece and its people in a few hours by air,

0:01:07 > 0:01:10but Greece was always meant to be approached by the sea.

0:01:10 > 0:01:11And by the sea we all went,

0:01:11 > 0:01:14although that involved the Channel crossing

0:01:14 > 0:01:16and the continuing rigours

0:01:16 > 0:01:19of an overnight journey by train across Europe.

0:01:26 > 0:01:28These are some of the rigours.

0:01:40 > 0:01:44Venice. One's first destination is inevitably Venice.

0:01:44 > 0:01:46After all Venice was, for 1,000 years,

0:01:46 > 0:01:49the commercial capital of the Mediterranean.

0:01:49 > 0:01:52And in more senses than one was an heir to Greece.

0:01:55 > 0:01:59St Mark's, built about the time of our Battle of Hastings,

0:01:59 > 0:02:02is a mature child of the Byzantine world which was, at heart, Greek.

0:02:02 > 0:02:04And here on St Mark's

0:02:04 > 0:02:09are those famous bronze horses of the 4th century BC.

0:02:09 > 0:02:12From Greece they were taken to Rome and on to Constantinople

0:02:12 > 0:02:14by the Emperor Constantine.

0:02:14 > 0:02:20In 1204, they were taken to Venice by those ghastly Venetian crusaders.

0:02:20 > 0:02:23In 1797, Napoleon took them to Paris.

0:02:23 > 0:02:27And, finally, after Waterloo they went back to Venice.

0:02:27 > 0:02:28These much travelled horses

0:02:28 > 0:02:31are not merely superb examples of Greek art,

0:02:31 > 0:02:35their involuntary wanderings reflect the Greek spirit of adventure.

0:02:36 > 0:02:39Everywhere in Venice you find links with Greece,

0:02:39 > 0:02:41not many in the pure Greek tradition

0:02:41 > 0:02:46but links with Constantinople which began life as the Greek Byzantium

0:02:46 > 0:02:50and was the meeting place of Europe and Asia, as indeed it is today.

0:03:10 > 0:03:12Then another strand in our Greek theme.

0:03:12 > 0:03:17Carved on fortress after fortress all over the Mediterranean

0:03:17 > 0:03:19the lion of Saint Mark, proud symbol of Venice.

0:03:19 > 0:03:21Partly Greek, partly Persian,

0:03:21 > 0:03:25carried hither and thither by soldiers and merchant venturers

0:03:25 > 0:03:27and today resting, finally one hopes,

0:03:27 > 0:03:31on the column where it's been, war and peace, since 1250.

0:03:31 > 0:03:37Even today there are more lions in Venice than in many parts of Africa.

0:03:46 > 0:03:51My own memories of Venice go back to the First World War.

0:03:51 > 0:03:54And I can't help marvelling at how much of man's glory

0:03:54 > 0:03:57has so far survived his own destructiveness.

0:03:57 > 0:03:59Venice in 1917,

0:03:59 > 0:04:02the great soldier Colleoni had gone into hiding.

0:04:02 > 0:04:06The most dramatic equestrian statue in the world.

0:04:06 > 0:04:08There's a man for you!

0:04:08 > 0:04:11Just look at the fellow.

0:04:11 > 0:04:15The splendid brutality of the Middle Ages in every line of him.

0:04:15 > 0:04:19In 1917, the Greek horses too were safely put away.

0:04:19 > 0:04:24Only the lion of St Mark defied the bombs unshielded.

0:04:24 > 0:04:26Today, 40 years later,

0:04:26 > 0:04:29you might think that this place was still the centre of the world.

0:05:04 > 0:05:06CHURCH BELL CHIMES

0:05:27 > 0:05:32To us it's still the familiar picture of the painter Canaletto.

0:05:32 > 0:05:34Still the great commercial city,

0:05:34 > 0:05:37cashing in on its magnificent conventions and traditions,

0:05:37 > 0:05:41behaving as if Venice were a most serene republic still.

0:05:43 > 0:05:47The pigeons are an official part of the scene,

0:05:47 > 0:05:50a charge upon the municipal rates, eked out by abundant charity.

0:05:50 > 0:05:55Tourists feeding the pigeons, touts feeding on the tourists,

0:05:55 > 0:05:57and all equally happy.

0:05:57 > 0:06:01CHURCH BELL CHIMES

0:06:21 > 0:06:26Let us not frown too much on this Venice of the tourists,

0:06:26 > 0:06:30true it's wonderful reflections are twisted more often nowadays

0:06:30 > 0:06:35by odourous and noisy launches than by the silent gondola.

0:06:35 > 0:06:39We may agree nostalgically with the poet who observed,

0:06:39 > 0:06:43"Delicious! Ah! What else is like the gondola?"

0:06:43 > 0:06:46Yet, with or without the gondola, Venice still looks her part

0:06:46 > 0:06:48as an agent bride of the Adriatic.

0:06:48 > 0:06:54An illusion, if you like, but an illusion of fairyland.

0:08:33 > 0:08:37And now the cruise was taking us into that Adriatic Sea

0:08:37 > 0:08:39into which, in the days of her greatness,

0:08:39 > 0:08:44Venice was remarried solemnly every year by her Chief Magistrate.

0:08:44 > 0:08:46Our ship followed almost exactly

0:08:46 > 0:08:48in the wake of the old Venetian crusaders.

0:08:54 > 0:08:57There were nearly 300 of us onboard, scholars, students,

0:08:57 > 0:09:00people from all walks of life,

0:09:00 > 0:09:03drawn to Greece for all sorts of reasons.

0:09:03 > 0:09:06I discussed the extraordinary pull that Greece

0:09:06 > 0:09:09still seems to have on us with Sir John Wolfenden.

0:09:09 > 0:09:11I suppose one of the chief attractions,

0:09:11 > 0:09:13the first attraction, is the actual country itself,

0:09:13 > 0:09:16mountains, rivers, streams.

0:09:16 > 0:09:18But besides that, you know,

0:09:18 > 0:09:22there are the things that the Greeks put there as well.

0:09:22 > 0:09:24Your temples and statues and theatres,

0:09:24 > 0:09:27all those things we're going to see in the next few days.

0:09:27 > 0:09:29Well, now, we tourists...

0:09:29 > 0:09:33we're going here I suppose with various purposes,

0:09:33 > 0:09:35some of us are interested in temples

0:09:35 > 0:09:37and some of us are interested in flowers,

0:09:37 > 0:09:39but isn't there some force

0:09:39 > 0:09:42that draws people to Greece beyond all that,

0:09:42 > 0:09:44although they haven't really any Greek or Latin?

0:09:44 > 0:09:47I think there is and I think if you really wanted,

0:09:47 > 0:09:51and I think it's worth trying to say this though it's not easy,

0:09:51 > 0:09:55I think is true to say, don't you, that what the Greeks did

0:09:55 > 0:09:59in the questions they raised in their thinking,

0:09:59 > 0:10:02the books they wrote, the poetry they wrote,

0:10:02 > 0:10:05the experiments in living, political democracy,

0:10:05 > 0:10:09- all those things all start there. - Plato and all that.

0:10:09 > 0:10:13Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, wherever you look

0:10:13 > 0:10:16in the fields of art or history or political living,

0:10:16 > 0:10:18it all starts in Greece.

0:10:18 > 0:10:22You don't think we give the Greeks credit for rather too much?

0:10:22 > 0:10:25Well, I don't know, I'm prepared to give them credit even today.

0:10:25 > 0:10:29It's not very fashionable nowadays to be pro-Greek.

0:10:29 > 0:10:30Even in the pro-Ancient Greek sense.

0:10:30 > 0:10:33People don't think as much as they used to of the philosophy of Plato.

0:10:33 > 0:10:36Wait a minute, you get scientists nowadays

0:10:36 > 0:10:39getting up on their hind legs and saying we read Greek,

0:10:39 > 0:10:42we're all for humanistic studies and so on.

0:10:42 > 0:10:44Is that simply to show their broadmindedness

0:10:44 > 0:10:46or is it really a genuine fact?

0:10:46 > 0:10:49Well, I would've said again that science starts with the Greeks.

0:10:49 > 0:10:51I mean, wherever you look, you start there.

0:10:51 > 0:10:53And I would go so far as to say, myself,

0:10:53 > 0:10:55if I were really pushed,

0:10:55 > 0:10:58that Western civilisation as we talk about it,

0:10:58 > 0:11:00including American civilisation,

0:11:00 > 0:11:03the whole of Western Europe really when you get down to it,

0:11:03 > 0:11:06what it doesn't get from the Bible, it gets from the Ancient Greeks.

0:11:06 > 0:11:09- Well, that I will argue with you after dinner.- All right.

0:12:14 > 0:12:19Within 36 hours the ship reached the west coast of the Peloponnese.

0:12:19 > 0:12:23We were, quite properly, bound for Olympia for it is at Olympia

0:12:23 > 0:12:26that the newcomer most readily finds contact

0:12:26 > 0:12:28with that sense of beauty and humanity

0:12:28 > 0:12:32that are the basic contributions of Greece to the modern world.

0:12:32 > 0:12:36This is what Olympia must have looked like in its heyday.

0:12:36 > 0:12:39Here every fourth year, Greeks laid down their arms

0:12:39 > 0:12:43and renewed the brotherhood of the civilised Greek world.

0:12:43 > 0:12:45Olympia is still being excavated,

0:12:45 > 0:12:49much of it still lies buried beneath the dust of ages.

0:12:51 > 0:12:54Here by the River Alpheus, among the pine trees,

0:12:54 > 0:12:56stood the great Temple of Zeus

0:12:56 > 0:12:59and in the middle of the temple one of the seven wonders of the world,

0:12:59 > 0:13:03the gold and ivory statue by Phidias.

0:13:03 > 0:13:05Alas, it has gone the way of all gold

0:13:05 > 0:13:08and so too has the great temple,

0:13:08 > 0:13:11its columns thrown down by men or earthquakes.

0:13:13 > 0:13:16Before the games, Zeus, father of the gods,

0:13:16 > 0:13:19was honoured for a day and a half.

0:13:19 > 0:13:23The games themselves lasted for another three and a half days.

0:13:23 > 0:13:27The competing athletes were sworn in in front of the temple.

0:13:29 > 0:13:32The artist was no less honoured than the athlete.

0:13:32 > 0:13:36And the sculptor Phidias had his workshop in the midst of the site.

0:13:36 > 0:13:41His work is lost, but we still have the famous Hermes of Praxiteles.

0:13:41 > 0:13:45And the complete embodiment of what the Greeks thought beautiful,

0:13:45 > 0:13:49the Apollo unruffled, cold and certain.

0:13:50 > 0:13:53If any competitor cheated,

0:13:53 > 0:13:56he was made to put up a statue at the entrance to the stadium.

0:13:56 > 0:14:00The bases of some of the sculptured penalties

0:14:00 > 0:14:04remind us that not everything was cricket, even at Olympia.

0:14:04 > 0:14:07Of the stadium itself only the starting line is now visible.

0:14:07 > 0:14:09Given time and a good digging

0:14:09 > 0:14:14the place might soon look much as it was 2,500 years ago.

0:14:21 > 0:14:25Back on the ship now bound for Corinth and its canal,

0:14:25 > 0:14:28I discussed some of the features of the Olympic Games with

0:14:28 > 0:14:30Francis Kinchin Smith of the University of London.

0:14:30 > 0:14:32But during the whole of the games

0:14:32 > 0:14:35peace was enforced upon the whole of the Greek world, wasn't it?

0:14:35 > 0:14:38All war stopped. It was an amazing thing, that.

0:14:38 > 0:14:42Over 1,000 years these games were held every four years

0:14:42 > 0:14:44and war stopped all over the Greek world.

0:14:44 > 0:14:47The games themselves, were they a straight show

0:14:47 > 0:14:49or was there a certain amount of, shall we say, cheating?

0:14:49 > 0:14:53Before they started they had to swear an oath

0:14:53 > 0:14:56that they wouldn't cheat and the judges had to swear an oath

0:14:56 > 0:15:00that they would give their decisions fairly and not give any reasons.

0:15:00 > 0:15:02- A very good idea. - A very good idea indeed.

0:15:02 > 0:15:04There were one or two spectacular

0:15:04 > 0:15:07and, shall I say, rather brutal elements in the games, weren't they?

0:15:07 > 0:15:09There's the pankration for example,

0:15:09 > 0:15:12I suppose one might describe it as all-in wrestling.

0:15:12 > 0:15:14That's a very good modern description.

0:15:14 > 0:15:16Yes. You remember the story

0:15:16 > 0:15:20of the two pankratiasts in one of the old writers,

0:15:20 > 0:15:23they'd fought themselves to a standstill, they lay in heaps

0:15:23 > 0:15:27on the ground about three yards apart and they were level,

0:15:27 > 0:15:30they were equal. Each had done as much harm as the other.

0:15:30 > 0:15:33And finally one of them mustered enough strength to crawl over

0:15:33 > 0:15:38to his opponent, to grasp his little toe and to break it.

0:15:38 > 0:15:43- He won. He won by a short toe. - That's a very good story.

0:15:43 > 0:15:46But there were other stories of pankration

0:15:46 > 0:15:50that were almost...much more brutal than that, you know.

0:15:50 > 0:15:51There was the one...

0:15:51 > 0:15:55They were allowed to do anything they liked - kick, twist -

0:15:55 > 0:15:58except gouge a person's eyes out or bite,

0:15:58 > 0:16:01and if they did the umpire had a long stick

0:16:01 > 0:16:03and gave them a good whack on the back.

0:16:03 > 0:16:06- There was an awful lot of that going on.- Yes.

0:16:23 > 0:16:26It's well to remember that Greece

0:16:26 > 0:16:28means different things to different people,

0:16:28 > 0:16:31to the Christian scholar it's pre-eminently the scene

0:16:31 > 0:16:34of the propagation of the Christian faith.

0:16:34 > 0:16:35It was this aspect of Greece

0:16:35 > 0:16:39that Mr Pentreath, headmaster of Cheltenham, was lecturing about.

0:16:39 > 0:16:41In many cities in Greece

0:16:41 > 0:16:44and in Ionia on the west coast of Asia Minor,

0:16:44 > 0:16:48we shall, in a sense, be in the footsteps of St Paul.

0:16:48 > 0:16:52On this cruise for instance, we shall be where he was at Corinth,

0:16:52 > 0:16:54in Athens and at Miletus,

0:16:54 > 0:16:58because, of course, Greece was the stepping stone

0:16:58 > 0:17:01by which the gospel came to Europe.

0:17:01 > 0:17:05At Corinth we can stand where Paul once stood.

0:17:05 > 0:17:07You remember, he was brought up

0:17:07 > 0:17:10before Gallio the proconsul of the Roman province.

0:17:10 > 0:17:13The opposition were frightened of him

0:17:13 > 0:17:15and hailed him before the judgement seat.

0:17:15 > 0:17:18Well, the archaeologists have given us the judgement seat,

0:17:18 > 0:17:23a platform about eight feet high and 30 feet wide.

0:17:23 > 0:17:26And there the proconsul would appear from time to time,

0:17:26 > 0:17:28in state, sitting more or less on the edge of it

0:17:28 > 0:17:31and anyone who had a grievance to make

0:17:31 > 0:17:33could confront the Roman proconsul.

0:17:33 > 0:17:35So you can imagine Paul

0:17:35 > 0:17:39being brought by the Jews and standing before Gallio.

0:17:40 > 0:17:45St Paul apart, I find little to get excited about at Corinth.

0:17:45 > 0:17:49It's been shaken by earthquakes too often and has rather lost heart.

0:17:49 > 0:17:52There is, however, a bit of a very fine temple,

0:17:52 > 0:17:55one of the oldest in the Greek world, that of Apollo.

0:17:55 > 0:17:57Even in ruin, it gives one a foretaste

0:17:57 > 0:18:01of the extraordinary beauty and repose of Greek architecture.

0:18:04 > 0:18:07We're now going through the Corinth Canal.

0:18:07 > 0:18:10It's impressive to look at and has a curious history.

0:18:10 > 0:18:14Its first sod was dug by that many-sided Roman Emperor Nero,

0:18:14 > 0:18:20who in the year 67, laid down his fiddle and took up a spade,

0:18:20 > 0:18:23a golden one, as befitted the royal occasion.

0:18:23 > 0:18:25But he didn't get very far with it.

0:18:25 > 0:18:28The canal wasn't completed until the 19th century when the French

0:18:28 > 0:18:31and the Greeks finished the job between them.

0:19:11 > 0:19:14The ship was making for the east coast of the Peloponnese

0:19:14 > 0:19:17for sights made famous by the Homeric legends

0:19:17 > 0:19:19long before modern exploration showed

0:19:19 > 0:19:23that they're not merely great poetry but also stupendous fact.

0:19:23 > 0:19:25The most famous sight of all is Mycenae

0:19:25 > 0:19:27and I was talking about Mycenae

0:19:27 > 0:19:30to Lord William Taylor, an archaeologist,

0:19:30 > 0:19:34and Professor Stanford, Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin.

0:19:34 > 0:19:36Now, what about the romance of Mycenae?

0:19:36 > 0:19:39Well, for me, Mycenae, I think,

0:19:39 > 0:19:43is essentially Homer's Mycenae, rich in gold,

0:19:43 > 0:19:47with its great king Agamemnon the Commander-in-Chief

0:19:47 > 0:19:50of the forces against the Trojans.

0:19:50 > 0:19:54He's a tremendous figure, angry, princely and noble,

0:19:54 > 0:19:57the kind of man who's prepared to sacrifice his daughter

0:19:57 > 0:19:59to make sure that the army succeeds.

0:19:59 > 0:20:04You remember Iphegenia at Aulis. And he's a fascinating figure.

0:20:04 > 0:20:08All the more fascinating, I think, because he's so human.

0:20:08 > 0:20:11He fights with Achilles, he fights with his troops,

0:20:11 > 0:20:13he's going to have his way.

0:20:13 > 0:20:16He is the great king of Golden Mycenae.

0:20:16 > 0:20:18That's how I see it.

0:20:18 > 0:20:21And I rather think when they'd won the Trojan War

0:20:21 > 0:20:22after ten dreary years,

0:20:22 > 0:20:25he came back to be murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra.

0:20:25 > 0:20:28- He had a hard deal. - He had a hard deal.- Yes.

0:20:28 > 0:20:30But he was buried nobly, if I'm right.

0:20:30 > 0:20:34I think he was buried in what's called the Treasury of Atreus.

0:20:34 > 0:20:38- Would you agree? - I'm afraid I can't agree with that.

0:20:38 > 0:20:42In the first place, there is the difficulty of a date.

0:20:42 > 0:20:46According to us archaeologists,

0:20:46 > 0:20:51we would place the building of the Treasury of Atreus

0:20:51 > 0:20:56in the end of the 14th century.

0:20:56 > 0:21:00And as the Trojan War

0:21:00 > 0:21:04is generally held to take place at the beginning of the 12th century,

0:21:04 > 0:21:07there is a considerable gap there.

0:21:07 > 0:21:09That's a bit difficult,

0:21:09 > 0:21:12but couldn't they have used the old tomb to put Agamemnon into.

0:21:12 > 0:21:15They used those tombs more than once, didn't they?

0:21:15 > 0:21:21Yes, they were family vaults and were used for two or three generations.

0:21:21 > 0:21:23So Agamemnon was really the key

0:21:23 > 0:21:25to the excavation of Mycenae, wasn't he?

0:21:25 > 0:21:31It was what led the German explorer Schliemann

0:21:31 > 0:21:33to excavate at Mycenae,

0:21:33 > 0:21:38because before that everybody said it was a myth.

0:21:38 > 0:21:40They said the whole Trojan war was a myth.

0:21:40 > 0:21:44And Schliemann was the first man

0:21:44 > 0:21:48to explode that academic theory.

0:21:48 > 0:21:53You remember, he dug those graves near the citadel.

0:21:53 > 0:21:55- Or in the citadel rather.- Yes.

0:21:55 > 0:22:02Well, he started inside the citadel and among these graves

0:22:02 > 0:22:08there were certain corpses who had over their faces

0:22:08 > 0:22:14a gold mask with beautifully modelled features in some cases.

0:22:14 > 0:22:18That was the origin of his wire to the Kaiser, wasn't it?

0:22:18 > 0:22:21Yes, the first one of those that he discovered,

0:22:21 > 0:22:28which is the finest of the masks, led him to send a famous cable

0:22:28 > 0:22:34to the Kaiser saying, "I have gazed on the features of Agamemnon."

0:22:34 > 0:22:37The matter-of-fact archaeologist won't have that, will he?

0:22:37 > 0:22:39Well, that's quite true,

0:22:39 > 0:22:45because in effect the face that he gazed on, on the gold mask,

0:22:45 > 0:22:48was 300 years earlier than Agamemnon.

0:22:48 > 0:22:50Well, there you have it, Stanford.

0:22:50 > 0:22:53You can't have it either way, can you?

0:22:53 > 0:22:55The German archaeologist was wrong

0:22:55 > 0:22:58and Lord William, he's not quite sure that you're right.

0:22:58 > 0:23:01Oh, the archaeologist was wrong as an archaeologist,

0:23:01 > 0:23:06- but he was not wrong as a literary man, as a lover of Homer.- No.

0:23:06 > 0:23:08I think the difference, essentially, is this,

0:23:08 > 0:23:12I see Mycenae in the background of Agamemnon,

0:23:12 > 0:23:16the archaeologist sees Agamemnon in the background of Mycenae.

0:23:19 > 0:23:24So Mycenae still arouses, shall I say, scholarly passions.

0:23:24 > 0:23:26And rightly so, for here we have

0:23:26 > 0:23:29the complex beginnings of the Greek tradition.

0:23:29 > 0:23:34Here lived over 3,000 years ago the great kings of history and romance.

0:23:34 > 0:23:38They traded and raided and brought in treasure and artistry from

0:23:38 > 0:23:43the islands and built unknowingly the foundations of Europe.

0:23:43 > 0:23:45Some of their mighty tombs

0:23:45 > 0:23:49were copied as far away as Ireland and Scotland.

0:23:49 > 0:23:53One of their swords is carved upon Stonehenge.

0:23:53 > 0:23:56On the rocky slopes merchants had their houses

0:23:56 > 0:24:00and peasants tended precarious fields as they do today.

0:24:00 > 0:24:05Up on the hill the royal citadel towers over the landscape.

0:24:05 > 0:24:08The very stones are of heroic dimensions.

0:24:08 > 0:24:13The images carved on them stark and noble.

0:24:14 > 0:24:17It was here that the famous German explorer Schliemann

0:24:17 > 0:24:20made some of his greatest discoveries.

0:24:20 > 0:24:23He'd always believed in the literal truth of the legends

0:24:23 > 0:24:26and here in that great circle of upright stones,

0:24:26 > 0:24:29he uncovered the tombs of the ancient kings.

0:24:33 > 0:24:37Here is one of their tombstones.

0:24:37 > 0:24:41And here in 1876, Schliemann found the bodies of the dead.

0:24:42 > 0:24:46One with the famous gold mask upon it,

0:24:46 > 0:24:48which he thought was Agamemnon's.

0:25:01 > 0:25:04With them lay the armoury of heroes,

0:25:04 > 0:25:08their swords, the jewellery of their women.

0:25:26 > 0:25:31On the highest point of the citadel the persistent climber can still see

0:25:31 > 0:25:36the remains of the royal palace with its stone walls and concrete floors.

0:25:44 > 0:25:48Below is the rock-cut system for water in case of siege

0:25:48 > 0:25:53with its long staircase leading up out of the darkness.

0:25:55 > 0:26:003,000 years ago the countryside must have been much as we see it today.

0:26:00 > 0:26:03Greek voices echoed from these walls

0:26:03 > 0:26:07for we know now that the builders of Mycenae spoke a Greek tongue

0:26:07 > 0:26:10and read a strange kind of Greek script.

0:26:10 > 0:26:12"Golden Mycenae" Homer called it.

0:26:12 > 0:26:16Today it's a site and a scene and a memory on a heroic pattern.

0:26:16 > 0:26:19And as such it dominated our thoughts

0:26:19 > 0:26:22long after we'd sailed away towards the Greek islands.

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