Ancient Greece by Train with Alice Roberts

Arriving in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, Alice learns about local legend Alexander the Great and his father Philip II, King of Macedon. She visits a brand new multi-million-pound museum, and then heads to south to Delphi.

Alice is in the Penteli hills in Athens, at a site known as the Sanctuary of Dionysus, the god of wine. Local legend has it that on a night of drink and revelry a man called Thespis created what we now know as theatre.

Alice's train odyssey takes her from Athens and across the Corinth Canal to Corinth. She tracks down the place where St Paul preached Christianity to the masses on his Greek pilgrimage, and learns about sea battles between the Greeks and the Romans.

Alice meets Yannos, an archaeologist, and explores the Greek archaeology of the Cyclades Islands in the Aegean Sea, including Delos, where the Temple of Apollo once stood. Later she takes the boat to Turkey.

Professor Alice Roberts is back on the train and learning more about the Ancient Greek culture that thrived in Türkiye over 2000 years ago. From the Aegean port of Kusadasi, Alice goes to the spectacular and beautifully preserved city of Ephesus.