Delphi: Why it Matters?

Delphi was the centre of the ancient world. The site of the famous Oracle, the city spanned two great classical civilisations - the Greeks and the Romans - and attracted travellers from all over the ancient world. As well as visiting to hear the wisdom of the Oracle, citizens from across the Greek world flocked to the sanctuary to show off their riches and to boast about their latest victories in battle. Within Delphi's sanctuary walls can be read the hopes and dreams, victories and failures, confrontations and violence that defined an entire civilisation. In this programme Dr Michael Scott walks through the pathways of Delphi revealing the voices of the ancients that still ring loudly with every footstep. (official distributor synopsis)