First broadcast 26 May 2006, this episode challenges the popular view of Celtic society as a primitive culture that was uncivilised.
First broadcast 2 June 2006, it discusses Arminius, Trajan's Dacian Wars and Alaric I's sack of Rome.
First broadcast 9 June 2006, it shows how Ancient Greeks and Persians were far from the Romans' view of them as effeminate and addicted to luxury.
The Greeks valued science and mathematics, and the Persians had initially allowed multiculturalism among the different ethnic groups of its empire (until years of war with Rome).
It is claimed that Roman civilization ended not by the invasion of these tribes but by the loss of the African tax base.