- Title: Greek Fire: War
- Date: 24th May 1990
- Summary: FOR THE GREEKS, WAR WAS A WAY OF LIFE. THE GREATEST EPIC IN THE WESTERN IMAGINATION, HOMER'S ILEAD, IS THE STORY OF WAR. IT TELLS OF THE GLORY AS WELL AS THE HORROR, OF AN ACTIVITY THAT SEEMS TO BE AS OLD AS CIVILISATION ITSELF. IS IT A REFLECTION OF MEN'S NATURAL AGGRESSION, OR SOMETHING WE HAVE LEARNED. THE GREEKS HAS TROY, WE HAVE HIROSHIMA. TECHNOLOGY HAS TRANSFORMED THE REALITY OF WAR. SINCE HOMER THERE HAS BEEN AN ALMOST UNIMAGINABLE CHANGE OF SCALE. WITH THE POWER TO DESTROY ALL LIFE ON EARTH, WE MAY LEARN TO LIVE WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS (FOR THEY WI LL NOT GO AWAY), BUT CAN WE LEARN TO LIVE WITHOUT WAR? SHOULD WE REJECT THIS PARTICULAR LEGACY OF THE GREEKS, OR IS AN UNDERSTANDING AND A MEMORY OF PAST WARS THE ONLY WAY TO FUTURE PEACE.
- Description:TEN HALF HOUR PROGRAMMES LOOKING AT GREEK CIVILISATION AND HOW IT HAS SHAPED THE WAY WE LIVE NOW.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:TRANSATLANTIC FILMS LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 10
- Transmission Date:24/05/1990
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s