Terry Jones Videos : BBC - Terry Jones' Barbarians: The Brainy Barbarians 1/4

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BBC - Terry Jones' Barbarians: The Brainy Barbarians 1/4

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was written and presented by Terry Jones, and it challenges the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the barbarian. Professor Barry Cunliffe of the University of Oxford acted as consultant for the series. 3. "The Brainy Barbarians" First broadcast 9 June 2006 Jones argues that the ancient Greeks and Persians were in reality far from the Roman view of them as effeminate and addicted to luxury. The Greeks valued science and mathematics, while the Persians had initially allowed multiculturalism among the different ethnic groups of its empire (until years of war with Rome).

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