I am a student of history and watched the full series with interest, only to be appalled at the incorrect history outlined. It depicts Macedonia, Mycea, Persia and others as being part of Greece ! It says Alexander the Great spread 'Greek culture' to the vast regions of his empire. Alexander was NOT Greek. He was Macedonian. Conquerors do not become the nationality of the conquered. It is like saying Germany is Polish. "Greek" and 'Magna Graecia" were names the Romans gave to the foreign settlers on Italian soil from Sparta, Athens and other city states. There was no Greece until the 19th Century, merely 200 years ago. Thus Greece and Magna Graecia in the series were not countries. The 'greeks" on Italian soil were entries in the population census of the Romans; they had settled in coastal Italy to escape their local tyrants, famine and rebellion. The Roman name for these settlers and refugees has stuck to this day.
Review of The Greeks
