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Just got through the first two episode and started smelling a rat. The Professor-Doctors who wrote this thing begin by explaining how uneven Herodotus (a Greek) was in his writings on the Ionian Revolt favoring the Greeks over the Persians. They then acknowledge there was no other real history to go by with Herodotus being the only chronicler of the events, but then oddly seem certain he was unfair. They then go on to laud the actions of the Persian rulers for presiding over the most enlightened government til the advent of 20th century Sweden with the Greeks being nothing other than self-serving, conniving opportunists. You keep expecting some sort of at least partial explanation for the actions of the Greeks for inciting the revolt but this TV show provides nothing other than the Greek Ionians were tricked into betrayed their beloved Persian overlords by yet another sneaky Greek. First, it is never explained by the show's writers that Herodotus was in his day criticized severely by the Greeks themselves for not being pro-Greek enough and that his general reputation today has been widely proven out through matching historical information. That the Persians had installed tyrants to run their newly conquered Greek Ionian cities just at the moment when democracy was taking over in Greek society is never mentioned by the writers of this show. Without this review becoming a dissertation, one should watch the first two episodes and then check them against Wikipedia's account. Totally different stories. Herodotus's account is far from a one-sided glowing recollection of Greek heroism but reveals a complex story of good choices and bad choices by both sides leading up to the revolts. At the end of the second show, the writers choose to flash on the screen, Myth: "the Greeks were the innocent victims of an all-conquoring monster empire." And then follow it up with the even more ham-fisted authoritarian declaration: "Wrong. The Greeks started the war." Full stop. The politically correct of academia on their religious quest to rewrite history--despite all evidence--into something that conforms to their anti western views has produced a television show so whacky it should be presented as lesson number one as to what happens when the human mind succumbs to pathology.