Ch.5 - Greek Island Odyssey with Bettany Hughes Series 1 (2020) Part 6

Greek Island Odyssey with Bettany Hughes Series 1

The historian and classicist explore Greece from the time of the Ancients up to the present day.

Part 6

Bettany travels through the Corinth Canal - a feat of engineering that required the removal of 12 million cubic metres of earth - before heading for her penultimate stop of Corfu, where Count Flamburiari reveals the island's close connections to Britain. From there, Bettany sails to Ithaca, Odysseus's home island, finally completing her 1,700-mile voyage across the Greek Islands. However, there's a startling surprise in store when she is awoken in the night by an earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale.

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