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Acropolis Now Series 2 Episodes

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  1. Food

    6/6 The Athens restaurant regulars set up a "last supper".

  2. Sauce

    5/6 Heraclitus adds hemlock to the cockroach fritters.

  3. Sons

    4/6 As food runs out at the fish restaurant, relationships are tested.

  4. Plays

    3/6 Heraclitus' chance to escape Athens could expose Xanthippe to scorn and ridicule.

  5. Love

    2/6 Socrates flees his wife Xanthippe - who faints when she feels Plato's legs.

  6. Signs

    1/6 Return of the Ancient Greece sitcom by Lynne Truss. Will Plato quit philosophy?