Inspired by Odysseus, Bettany Hughes sets off on her own odyssey through the Greek islands beginning in the eastern...

Bettany takes an early morning trip to Delos, an island held so sacred in ancient times that no one could live or die...

Bettany heads to Santorini, the site of one of the biggest volcanic eruptions in history.

Arriving just as a storm hits, Bettany is lucky to reach "the big island" of Crete before the seas become impassible.

Bettany arrives in the Peloponnese, a peninsula that is home to some of ancient Greece's most legendary kings and...

Bettany sails through the Corinth Canal to understand this strategic location for the ancient Greeks, while telling the...