- Title: Greek Fire: Sex
- Date: 12th April 1990
- Summary: DOWN THE AGES THE SEXUAL FRANKNESS OF GREEK MYTH AND LITERATURE HAS BEEN SEIZED ON WITH RELIEF. ARTISTS, FREED TO PAINT GODS AND GODDESSES TAKING OFF THEIR CLOTHES AS WELL AS ADAM AND EVE GUILTILY PUTTING THEM ON, WELCOMED THE POWER OR ANCI ENT GREECE TO LIBERATE THEIR WORK. OTHERS, SUCH AS HOMOSEXUALS, FELT THAT POWER COULD LEGITIMISE THE VERY LIVES THEY WISHED TO LEAD; LIVES WHICH THE CHURCH ABHORRED AND SOMETIMES PERSECUTED. BUT ANCIENT GREECE WAS NOT A SEXUAL UTOPIA. IT KNEW PERSECUTION, AND IT ENTERTAINED ITS OWN PRESCRIPTIVE ATTITUDES TO SEXUAL RIGHT AND WRONG. IN OUR ZEAL TO IMITATE GREECE MANY OF THOSE ATTITUDES HAVE BECOME OUR OWN. DO WE RECOGNISE THEM? OR HAVE WE TAKEN MORE FROM GREECE THAN WE BARGAINED FOR?
- 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 3
- Transmission Date:12/04/1990
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s