Cultural travel series · Selected episode · Olympia · Kefalonia · Cretan cultural history

Curious Traveler — Curious Greece

Released · 2022

Later Reception & Cultural Continuity · Minoan World · Classical Greece

The journey connects Olympia, Kefalonia and Chania through questions about monuments, local legends and cultural history.

Curious Greece episode image showing host Christine van Blokland at ancient Olympia — Curious Traveler — Curious Greece — episode thumbnail. Curious Traveler / PBS · Image source

The production story

The journey connects Olympia, Kefalonia and Chania through questions about monuments, local legends and cultural history. Ancient subjects sit alongside later Venetian and other historical layers. KPBS dates season five’s opening episode to 1 September 2022. It is catalogued as cultural travel with an ancient-world strand.

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Known filming locations

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Developments

1 September 2022
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Related Archaeopolis expertise

Historical material culture and contemporary interpretation relevant to the ancient-world strand of this work.

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