This drives me crazy about video games in general, but particularly Skyrim. Spears are the oldest and most widely used melee weapons on Earth, yet they are nearly absent in video games. Medieval Scandinavia and especially the Vikings used spears far more than any other weapon, yet Skyrim aka the "Medieval Scandinavia emulator", has no spears. Maybe spears aren't seen in video games because they haven't been prestige like swords, or because the physics/mechanics of spears are hard to implement in video games, but recently, Assassin's Creed Odyssey did a great job with spears, and it shows because spears are the best weapon class in that game.
@@averongodoffire7344 Let's just hope Hammerfell decides to take spears seriously: Seriously, how the fuck could you make a game about a fantasy region which emulates the Middle East/Africa, and not feature spears?!
@@Wasserkaktus None of the Elder Scrolls games have ever featured spears! Hell, Oblivion didn't and yet it's based on ROME!!! It's a pure travesty that Bethesda overlooks these amazing weapons.
@@annatarlordofgifts2442 true. But unless you plan to draw one hpl for each of the 900gazillion speartypes,Axe heads, shield- and helmet variants, you will have to chose one set of gear and use that as a standard...
@@szarekhthesilent2047 no you don't have to what you have to do is clearly state that. Not everyone is a history buff and will just buy it. Also his drawings look a bit fantasy-ish with the colors and stuff ( alot of gold i guess they wore gold armour lol)
For Frankie, fellow Hellenophile. The evolution of the Greek heavy trooper from Bronze Age days to Byzantium. By order of appearance: Mycenaean (0:09), Geometric Period (0:47), Archaic Period (1:17), Thespian (1:47), Spartan (2:11), Theban (3:01), Iphikratid (3:24), Hypaspist (3:47), Silver Shield officer (4:11), Thorakites (4:32), Silver Shields 'legionary' (4:51), Pontic (5:08), Indo-Greek (5:32), 'Spartan' legionary (5:56), 'Phalangarius' (6:19), Romano-Byzantine (6:40), Byzantine cataphract (7:07) Check out Xenophon's Hellenica 7.5.20 for the club symbol on the Theban shield, and Cassius Dio 78.7.1-2 for the description of the phalangarius. Check out upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/1837__-Archaeological_Museum%2C_Athens-__Stele_for_Marcus_Aurelius_Alexis_-_Photo_by_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto%2C_N.jpg for the gravestone of Marcus Aurelius Alexys. Support more videos like this www.patreon.com/foojer, or visit us at Redbubble rdbl.co/2kG0iAw for t shirts, phone cases, prints, and more. Audio tracks are the Greek Ancient, Medieval, and Industrial themes from the Civilization 6 soundtrack, I do not own the rights to the track.
TH-cam randomly recommended me this video, and damn, it's one of the best things I have seen in a while. It shows the evolution of greek warfare perfectly and the style of drawing is so aesthetic and awesome. I also opened your channel and seen that there are many more. I wish you could have more subscribers because your work is awesome, keep it going brother
Seeing as all their neighbours were armoured like crabs (or lobsters as we say in greece) I'm inclined to think that these accounts of spartans wearing minimal body armour was probably exaggerations for effect by the contemporary historians of the time; since everybody admired their courage and martial prowess,they might as well have been fighting naked! I doubt that a soldier who was training his entire life, and whose life was too precious as well (Spartan hoplites were also Spartan citizens, which in that particular city-state meant a population of around 10000 in its best of days) would not be outfitted with the best armour offered at the time.
It would need to be reexamined of course. We have to also look at where we get the sources from. Most records of Spartan warriors probably comes from historians of the same timeline and have knowledge of their existence. This can be from other Greek states, whom are not exactly admirers of the Spartans and their way of life. If for example the records/paintings come from Spartan artifacts then there can be some romanticization bias. If it came from Athens, then there can be derogatory bias.
Depends on the scale and the type of warfare, i guess. Their war against Athens wasn't exactly a phalanx vs phalanx thing... They did catch each other off guard quiet a lot, after all.
The fact that they used minimal body armour is because in their style of fitgh, the phalanx, thei make shields walls, that creates a very good protection that decrease the nesecit of a huge body armour.
@@coca_0146 Kinda debatable. Thield is useful for as long as the enemy spear is at a distance. As combat draws closer, Spears will get past the shields thru edges and weakspots and whoever is behind that shield is gonna get jabbed real bad.
I visited Greece some years ago. Stunning, unforgettable tour to the cradle of European civilization! So many things to see and to learn! And, particularly, that Greek soldiers are still called hoplites officially. Visit Greece, you won't regret, ever!
Dendra and the Cataphract were my favourite, I love it when ancient/medieval soldiers have a lot of armor. Great job on drawing these greek soldiers, great vid. I recommend drawing a history of persian, or perhaps egyptian armor.
Thanks mate. I’ve done a video on Achaemenid soldiers and one on Persian cataphracts down the ages, so probably not going to do a Persian panoply video anytime soon. Egyptian... maybe someday:)
I liked the fact that you talked on this video and commented a little in each drawing. I've seen other videos of your channel but they bored me after some time. Now that I discovered your channel once more and seen this video I say it's super entertaining and you should keep narrating the drawings, it makes the difference 😁
Peltasts were known as "gymnites" or "psiloi" in Greek meaning "naked" and "small in numbers" . They were light infantry, armed with slingshots, maybe bows and small javelins.They wore no armor, or linen pads and carried a small crescent shaped shield. They were used to either lure the enemy's cavalary to heavier infantry to be wiped out, for fighting in forested areas where movement of heavier troops was cumbersome, or harassing heavy infantry from afar. A common finding in battlefields were thumb shaped, lead projectiles with greek insults inscribed on them.Before the battle, peltasts would go to the beach, and poke with their thumb, holes in the sand. Then they would pour molten lead in them, and let them cool down. That's how they made ammunition for their slingshots.
That's not how I was taught about it. Peltasts were originally Thracian troops, and named after their shields, the Pelta, which was shaped like a fat crescent moon. This shield was very lightweight and more often than not only had a single center grip, and after a while a great number of other light shields were named Pelta too. Peltasts were also javelin throwers, using a leather string during the throwing of the javelin which gave it greater force, higher speed and a spin, stabilizing it. Depending on where they came from they may have more lighter javelins or fewer but heavier ones, but they also carried a long knife or short sword, although they were not expected to fight up close with the enemy. Other skirmisher types were not referred to as Peltasts. Greek archers were called Toxotai and slingers were called Sphendonetai. The three together were Psiloi, which were essentially a term used for skirmishers, the same way Hoplitai was the term for heavy infantry. The archers of Kreta (Crete) were particularly well known and sought after, although they were not able to outshine other top tier archers of the time. The slingers of Rodos (Rhodes) however were the single best of the time.
Very well done! By the commentary it’s easy to see the research on you put into this video. The artwork is as always amazing, keep up the great videos!
This has too few views. It attends a demand for historical precision while also not abandoning a little well-explained improv here and there. Nice video.
2swag4u ! What did others say about Macedonians? Here there is a relative abundance of information”, writes Borza, “from Arrian, Plutarch (Alexander, Eumenes), Diodorus 17-20, Justin, Curtius Rufus, and Nepos (Eumenes), based upon Greek and Greek-derived Latin sources. It is clear that over a five-century span of writing in two languages representing a variety of historiographical and philosophical positions the ancient writers regarded the Greeks and the Macedonians as two separate and distinct peoples whose relationship was marked by considerable antipathy, if not outright hostility.” Eugine Borza. - [ ] (Green, Badian, Borza). The fact that 50,000 Greeks were fighting Alexander’s Macedonians shows clearly that their loyalty and their numerical superiority lies with Darius and his Persians, not with Alexander and his Macedonians. As Peter Green puts it: “if this was a Greek conquest where were the Greek troops?” Alexander’s conquest can not therefore be at all a Greek conquest, but simply a Macedonian conquest.
2swag4u ! Macedonia and Greece mentioned as 2 separate places, and Macedonians and Greeks mentioned as 2 different ethnicities in the bible in the 1st century Acts chapter 20: Through Macedonia and Greece 20 When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples and, after encouraging them, said goodbye and set out for Macedonia. 2 He traveled through that area, speaking many words of encouragement to the people, and finally arrived in Greece, 3 where he stayed three months. Because some Jews had plotted against him just as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia. Paul Sails for Rome 27 When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment. 2 We boarded a ship from Adramyttium about to sail for ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a MACEDONIAN from Thessalonica, was with us Acts chapter 16: Timothy Joins Paul and Silas 16 Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but his father was GREEK 2 Corinthians chapter 9 vs 2 I know about your willingness to help. I brag about you to the Macedonians, saying, “Greece has been ready since last year,” and your enthusiasm has motivated most of them. Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia 6 Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. 7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to. 8 So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas. 9 During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10 After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
Antonios T before 1990 no Greek ever said or thought “Macedonia is Greek” and you know it 😂😂 People still remember a time when there was no such thing as Macedonia is Greek 😂
@Unusual Stranger If you knew the history of Ancient Greece, you wouldn't be so proud. Those warriors depicted in the video spent their time killing other Greeks. After centuries of civil wars, the Hellenic world was militarily spent and utterly divided. When the Romans came to invade them, they barely put up a fight.. all those centuries of accumulated knowledge, skill and glory counted for very little.
proud to be Greek we used to be everywhere, from southern France (Massalia), to Sicily and southern italy (Syracuse and Epirus), to the middle east (Ptolemaic Kingdom, Seleucid Empire, Bactria)
Great video bud! Only thing I can suggest since you specified the beards of some soldiers: the Spartans wore beards with no mustache and low on the chin, very similar to today's amish beards!
Good work. Nice drawings. Interesting history! Keep it up! If I see more work of quality like this by you I will subscribe. A very impressive first look!
I'm probably going to take a step and say this might be one of your overall best videos yet. Style-wise it is extremely pretty, with several new favourites of mine. The Hypaspist and the two Silver Shields stand out in particular. Regardless of the historicity of painting one's equipment in this era, I certainly think the painted helmets look magnificent. The contrasts of the Pontic archer/spearman are very appealing as well, with the scale against the pteryges and the linen at the shoulders. I'm very pleased to see the Dendra armour as well (surprise). My comment regarding your bronze still stands, but heck, artist's interpretation and all that. I'm a bit curious regarding the Dendra shield often lacking a hand grip: both the specific source for this, and how it was kept in place. Presumable strapped to the arm? Just having it in a sling over the shoulder doesn't seem very secure. In that same vein, I'm a bit curious of historical descriptions of the 'Avar gorget', or if the look you use is more conjectural? As always, the detailwork and the way you do textures for textiles and metallic surfaces are off the charts. Each warrior having his own tunic pattern, giving a sense of diversity of different times and cultures, though ones consistently evolving from one another. A detail that could've easily been skipped with little obvious differance. Devils and details. Now, what really makes this video shine beyond most of your others though, is the narration. You've done a few narrated drawing videos before, but not on this scale, and not quite as informative. More about details in the armour, less about the context and implications of said armour. Now, you've turned that around, which I for one find much more interesting. I knew nothing of Caracallas phalanxes, but I immediately went of to look them up, for their particular name and odd gear. Coupled with your regular sense of humour - 'layered cake of death' taking the price - and it was a joy to watch this. Cheers.
Great video and great work here ! Any chance to have some scientific references about the Pontic guy ? It's the first time I see this and it's absolutely badass.
I could find nothing concrete:/ Here's a website with a whole bunch of primary sources mentioning him www.attalus.org/names/m/mithridates.html (look under the Mithridates VI entry) but i don't think there's much there about Pontic archer-spearmen
North of Greece lies Bulgaria. North of Bulgaria lies my country. We lubed the anus with butter, place the pole next to the hole, and the other against a heavy rock, tied the feet to a horse, and then we mushed the horse. Half way through we erected the pole. Should have seen the face of Sinan Pasa when he saw 10000 muslim warriors up on poles like that. We never ware conquered.
2:40- Actually, I checked out the comic version. All of them are buck-naked. Still no fantastic monsters though, just panels of Spartans Phalanx steamrolling Persian infantry multiple times like a train.
Bruh I thought the Mycanean warlord was naked and that was it bruhhhhh
Minecraft zombie moment
Bruh
Same. Lmao
same
Hey Skyrim you see this they’re called spears they’re kind of a big deal
Averon God of fire lmao yep
This drives me crazy about video games in general, but particularly Skyrim. Spears are the oldest and most widely used melee weapons on Earth, yet they are nearly absent in video games. Medieval Scandinavia and especially the Vikings used spears far more than any other weapon, yet Skyrim aka the "Medieval Scandinavia emulator", has no spears. Maybe spears aren't seen in video games because they haven't been prestige like swords, or because the physics/mechanics of spears are hard to implement in video games, but recently, Assassin's Creed Odyssey did a great job with spears, and it shows because spears are the best weapon class in that game.
Not to mention how cheap they are to make yet how extremely effective they are. They were the bread and butter of every conqueror in history
@@averongodoffire7344 Let's just hope Hammerfell decides to take spears seriously: Seriously, how the fuck could you make a game about a fantasy region which emulates the Middle East/Africa, and not feature spears?!
@@Wasserkaktus None of the Elder Scrolls games have ever featured spears! Hell, Oblivion didn't and yet it's based on ROME!!! It's a pure travesty that Bethesda overlooks these amazing weapons.
Historically accurate description of wargear.
Needs more views.
Maybe the descriptions but the drawings arent too accurate. Also not all greeks were armed the same way. The drawings look pretty movie-fantasy like
@@annatarlordofgifts2442 true. But unless you plan to draw one hpl for each of the 900gazillion speartypes,Axe heads, shield- and helmet variants, you will have to chose one set of gear and use that as a standard...
@@szarekhthesilent2047 no you don't have to what you have to do is clearly state that. Not everyone is a history buff and will just buy it. Also his drawings look a bit fantasy-ish with the colors and stuff ( alot of gold i guess they wore gold armour lol)
@@annatarlordofgifts2442 Clearly ceremonial. Or a status symbol.
I'll see myself out...
In my opinion, this deserves more views
Spread the word:)
For Frankie, fellow Hellenophile.
The evolution of the Greek heavy trooper from Bronze Age days to Byzantium. By order of appearance: Mycenaean (0:09), Geometric Period (0:47), Archaic Period (1:17), Thespian (1:47), Spartan (2:11), Theban (3:01), Iphikratid (3:24), Hypaspist (3:47), Silver Shield officer (4:11), Thorakites (4:32), Silver Shields 'legionary' (4:51), Pontic (5:08), Indo-Greek (5:32), 'Spartan' legionary (5:56), 'Phalangarius' (6:19), Romano-Byzantine (6:40), Byzantine cataphract (7:07)
Check out Xenophon's Hellenica 7.5.20 for the club symbol on the Theban shield, and Cassius Dio 78.7.1-2 for the description of the phalangarius. Check out upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/1837__-Archaeological_Museum%2C_Athens-__Stele_for_Marcus_Aurelius_Alexis_-_Photo_by_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto%2C_N.jpg for the gravestone of Marcus Aurelius Alexys.
Support more videos like this www.patreon.com/foojer, or visit us at Redbubble rdbl.co/2kG0iAw for t shirts, phone cases, prints, and more. Audio tracks are the Greek Ancient, Medieval, and Industrial themes from the Civilization 6 soundtrack, I do not own the rights to the track.
I am Greek and in Greek doru is δόρι aspis is ασπίδα
Please make an video on cuman kipchak warriors please and mughals , tibetan
Romano bysantine? 🤔🤣🤣🤣
Cataphract tells how greeks replaced their military units with those of the Persian (cataphract is parthian in origin)
Aphrodite grave digger: when your stellar looks become deadly
Disappointed by lack of G3 rifle.
They didn't have rifles back then.
Translesbian Helicopter r/woosh
χαχαχαχα lol
@The Unbekannt I think he's being serious mate
That's a bit more contemporary
I believe that important videos and Chanells like you deserve over 100k subs. Love and thanks from 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Proud to have greek heritage. Saluti dall'Italia 🇮🇹✊🏻
Together ROME is immortal
Una fatsa una ratsa my friend!
Long live Greece
Long life Italy
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TH-cam randomly recommended me this video, and damn, it's one of the best things I have seen in a while. It shows the evolution of greek warfare perfectly and the style of drawing is so aesthetic and awesome. I also opened your channel and seen that there are many more. I wish you could have more subscribers because your work is awesome, keep it going brother
Awesome its great that you covered and some of the lesser known units such as the Yavana agema, Phalangarius and ZACK SNYDER HOPLITES. ΔΟΞΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΙΜΗ!
HELLAS!! The Byzantines Were My Favoroties
Oh The Phalangarius Also
And I Apologize The Wrong Spelling Of Favorites. Sorry!
Is it ok if I have hellenophobia and am a persophile but also like the Eastern Romans very strongly?
@Stavros S. Is it ok if I fear/dislike greeks and their culture but like the Byzantines to a fanatical extent
@@curtiswong7280 Sure. But why do you dislike Greeks?
Seeing as all their neighbours were armoured like crabs (or lobsters as we say in greece) I'm inclined to think that these accounts of spartans wearing minimal body armour was probably exaggerations for effect by the contemporary historians of the time; since everybody admired their courage and martial prowess,they might as well have been fighting naked! I doubt that a soldier who was training his entire life, and whose life was too precious as well (Spartan hoplites were also Spartan citizens, which in that particular city-state meant a population of around 10000 in its best of days) would not be outfitted with the best armour offered at the time.
It would need to be reexamined of course. We have to also look at where we get the sources from. Most records of Spartan warriors probably comes from historians of the same timeline and have knowledge of their existence. This can be from other Greek states, whom are not exactly admirers of the Spartans and their way of life. If for example the records/paintings come from Spartan artifacts then there can be some romanticization bias. If it came from Athens, then there can be derogatory bias.
Depends on the scale and the type of warfare, i guess. Their war against Athens wasn't exactly a phalanx vs phalanx thing... They did catch each other off guard quiet a lot, after all.
The fact that they used minimal body armour is because in their style of fitgh, the phalanx, thei make shields walls, that creates a very good protection that decrease the nesecit of a huge body armour.
They probably took some off for raids
@@coca_0146 Kinda debatable. Thield is useful for as long as the enemy spear is at a distance. As combat draws closer, Spears will get past the shields thru edges and weakspots and whoever is behind that shield is gonna get jabbed real bad.
Awesome work. All your illustrations really give life to the armor styles and men of the periods they represented
I visited Greece some years ago. Stunning, unforgettable tour to the cradle of European civilization! So many things to see and to learn! And, particularly, that Greek soldiers are still called hoplites officially. Visit Greece, you won't regret, ever!
Dendra and the Cataphract were my favourite, I love it when ancient/medieval soldiers have a lot of armor. Great job on drawing these greek soldiers, great vid. I recommend drawing a history of persian, or perhaps egyptian armor.
Thanks mate. I’ve done a video on Achaemenid soldiers and one on Persian cataphracts down the ages, so probably not going to do a Persian panoply video anytime soon. Egyptian... maybe someday:)
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I liked the fact that you talked on this video and commented a little in each drawing. I've seen other videos of your channel but they bored me after some time. Now that I discovered your channel once more and seen this video I say it's super entertaining and you should keep narrating the drawings, it makes the difference 😁
Peltasts were known as "gymnites" or "psiloi" in Greek meaning "naked" and "small in numbers" . They were light infantry, armed with slingshots, maybe bows and small javelins.They wore no armor, or linen pads and carried a small crescent shaped shield.
They were used to either lure the enemy's cavalary to heavier infantry to be wiped out, for fighting in forested areas where movement of heavier troops was cumbersome,
or harassing heavy infantry from afar.
A common finding in battlefields were thumb shaped, lead projectiles with greek insults inscribed on them.Before the battle, peltasts would go to the beach, and poke with their thumb, holes in the sand. Then they would pour molten lead in them, and let them cool down. That's how they made ammunition for their slingshots.
Psiloi means light
That's not how I was taught about it. Peltasts were originally Thracian troops, and named after their shields, the Pelta, which was shaped like a fat crescent moon. This shield was very lightweight and more often than not only had a single center grip, and after a while a great number of other light shields were named Pelta too. Peltasts were also javelin throwers, using a leather string during the throwing of the javelin which gave it greater force, higher speed and a spin, stabilizing it. Depending on where they came from they may have more lighter javelins or fewer but heavier ones, but they also carried a long knife or short sword, although they were not expected to fight up close with the enemy.
Other skirmisher types were not referred to as Peltasts. Greek archers were called Toxotai and slingers were called Sphendonetai. The three together were Psiloi, which were essentially a term used for skirmishers, the same way Hoplitai was the term for heavy infantry. The archers of Kreta (Crete) were particularly well known and sought after, although they were not able to outshine other top tier archers of the time. The slingers of Rodos (Rhodes) however were the single best of the time.
Very well done! By the commentary it’s easy to see the research on you put into this video. The artwork is as always amazing, keep up the great videos!
This is an awesome introduction to this channel. Am now happily subscribed
I really like the way you chose to present this video. The simple visuals convey the sense of time and social evolution elegantly.
Nice, always loved their gear and culture
I admire your work!!! Absolutely spectacular video!
This has too few views. It attends a demand for historical precision while also not abandoning a little well-explained improv here and there. Nice video.
Amazing work, and it's historically accurate too.
Hi from Greece, Macedonia
2swag4u !
What did others say about Macedonians? Here there is a relative abundance of information”, writes Borza, “from Arrian, Plutarch (Alexander, Eumenes), Diodorus 17-20, Justin, Curtius Rufus, and Nepos (Eumenes), based upon Greek and Greek-derived Latin sources. It is clear that over a five-century span of writing in two languages representing a variety of historiographical and philosophical positions the ancient writers regarded the Greeks and the Macedonians as two separate and distinct peoples whose relationship was marked by considerable antipathy, if not outright hostility.” Eugine Borza.
- [ ] (Green, Badian, Borza). The fact that 50,000 Greeks were fighting Alexander’s Macedonians shows clearly that their loyalty and their numerical superiority lies with Darius and his Persians, not with Alexander and his Macedonians. As Peter Green puts it: “if this was a Greek conquest where were the Greek troops?” Alexander’s conquest can not therefore be at all a Greek conquest, but simply a Macedonian conquest.
@@WatchmanofMKDN Your History begin in 1990, before 1990 your history is the same as the Serbs.... You can accept it or live in lies....
@@WatchmanofMKDN "εστιν ουν ελλασ και η μακεδονια" = And yes,Macedonia is part of Greece. From estrogen
2swag4u !
Macedonia and Greece mentioned as 2 separate places, and Macedonians and Greeks mentioned as 2 different ethnicities in the bible in the 1st century
Acts chapter 20:
Through Macedonia and Greece
20 When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples and, after encouraging them, said goodbye and set out for Macedonia. 2 He traveled through that area, speaking many words of encouragement to the people, and finally arrived in Greece, 3 where he stayed three months. Because some Jews had plotted against him just as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
Paul Sails for Rome
27 When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment. 2 We boarded a ship from Adramyttium about to sail for ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a MACEDONIAN from Thessalonica, was with us
Acts chapter 16:
Timothy Joins Paul and Silas
16 Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but his father was GREEK
2 Corinthians chapter 9 vs 2
I know about your willingness to help. I brag about you to the Macedonians, saying, “Greece has been ready since last year,” and your enthusiasm has motivated most of them.
Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia
6 Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. 7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to. 8 So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas. 9 During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10 After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
Antonios T before 1990 no Greek ever said or thought “Macedonia is Greek” and you know it 😂😂
People still remember a time when there was no such thing as Macedonia is Greek 😂
Those armor designs are so cool. :D Thanks mate for drawing this and explaining us. +1 and sub! I really like your art style, well done
Man , if I was a Greek , I would be so proud of my Warrior heritage , my milennia old culture and the history of my ethnicity .
Pride and responsibility
@Unusual Stranger
If you knew the history of Ancient Greece, you wouldn't be so proud.
Those warriors depicted in the video spent their time killing other Greeks.
After centuries of civil wars, the Hellenic world was militarily spent and utterly divided.
When the Romans came to invade them, they barely put up a fight.. all those centuries of accumulated knowledge, skill and glory counted for very little.
@@Goreuncle Do you speak English as a native language ? .
proud to be Greek
we used to be everywhere, from southern France (Massalia), to Sicily and southern italy (Syracuse and Epirus), to the middle east (Ptolemaic Kingdom, Seleucid Empire, Bactria)
@@Goreuncle Funny...that's exactly what happenned to the Romans too...
Hello from Greece 🇬🇷
Excellent video
The club of the Spartan cohort was not only symbolic but actually effective against armored enemies and heavy cavalry.
love the narration brings valuable information and context keep it up!
Great video bud! Only thing I can suggest since you specified the beards of some soldiers: the Spartans wore beards with no mustache and low on the chin, very similar to today's amish beards!
Yo this video is highly underrated u brought up some stuff I didn’t know existed man please make more
Amazing job with the drawings and research of the gear !
Bruh you're literally using the Greek Theme from Civ VI
and here I thought my game was playing in the background
the greek theme from civ 4 is the oldest complete composition in the world from 100 bc and is called "epitaph of sekilos".
Who tge fuck even cares weebo
*Video draws base figure for Greek warriors, notices how hairy it is* seems legit
Ι reenact a cataphract. I love your channel
Good work. Nice drawings. Interesting history! Keep it up! If I see more work of quality like this by you I will subscribe. A very impressive first look!
Very cool concept. And nice clear drawings.
THANK YOU
Love your art. Keep up the good work
1:42 Probably my favourite by far. It looks so dope
Hey, great videos man. I appreciated your voice over in this one, it felt more entertaining
I know that I am 3 years late to the party, but just know that I admire your work. + I need to push your vid in the algorithm with a comment.
Me too !
1:38 This hoplite looks like a medieval knight
great video! greetings from greece
Excellent work
Very good and awaited video
Thanks for uploading, awesome video
You deserve more subscribers. By the way, you just gained a sub!
Wow i love your channel
0:42 - the Mycenean armor reminds me of the Scythian Steppe Horse Archer armor or somewhat of the Hunnic or Mongolic Chieftain Guards. . .
noo way would a Scyth ever wear that
Their horses would complain!
love the commentary 👌🍻
Awesome, as always!
I'm probably going to take a step and say this might be one of your overall best videos yet. Style-wise it is extremely pretty, with several new favourites of mine. The Hypaspist and the two Silver Shields stand out in particular. Regardless of the historicity of painting one's equipment in this era, I certainly think the painted helmets look magnificent. The contrasts of the Pontic archer/spearman are very appealing as well, with the scale against the pteryges and the linen at the shoulders.
I'm very pleased to see the Dendra armour as well (surprise). My comment regarding your bronze still stands, but heck, artist's interpretation and all that. I'm a bit curious regarding the Dendra shield often lacking a hand grip: both the specific source for this, and how it was kept in place. Presumable strapped to the arm? Just having it in a sling over the shoulder doesn't seem very secure. In that same vein, I'm a bit curious of historical descriptions of the 'Avar gorget', or if the look you use is more conjectural?
As always, the detailwork and the way you do textures for textiles and metallic surfaces are off the charts. Each warrior having his own tunic pattern, giving a sense of diversity of different times and cultures, though ones consistently evolving from one another. A detail that could've easily been skipped with little obvious differance. Devils and details.
Now, what really makes this video shine beyond most of your others though, is the narration. You've done a few narrated drawing videos before, but not on this scale, and not quite as informative. More about details in the armour, less about the context and implications of said armour. Now, you've turned that around, which I for one find much more interesting. I knew nothing of Caracallas phalanxes, but I immediately went of to look them up, for their particular name and odd gear.
Coupled with your regular sense of humour - 'layered cake of death' taking the price - and it was a joy to watch this.
Cheers.
Thanks mate, your feedback as always is heartening and useful at the same time:)
Oh yeah and about the Avar gorget, I read it in K Dixon’s Romano-Byzantine equipment but admittedly I haven’t found many other sources on it:/
Great video and great work here ! Any chance to have some scientific references about the Pontic guy ? It's the first time I see this and it's absolutely badass.
I could find nothing concrete:/ Here's a website with a whole bunch of primary sources mentioning him www.attalus.org/names/m/mithridates.html (look under the Mithridates VI entry) but i don't think there's much there about Pontic archer-spearmen
Awesome work! :D
Well done. Ancient military history has always been my passion
Wow TH-cam algorithm recommend me your video and I really enjoyed it !
More than 3500 years ago the Mycenaeans were the first to wear (amost full) plate armor in history.
Hans Ybarra Hittites*
@@hassanbassim4007 Yep, but the hittites wore Scale-armor; I was referring to Plate Armor.
@@hassanbassim4007 The Dendra Panoply was exclusive to the Greeks
I loved the video, the archaic hoplite looked super interesting. I was disappointed with the lack of phalangites though
Cool video, earned you a sub.
Lots of Spears 😂 Greeks the impalers.
@Lord Voldemort Most but again most are famous for their deferent kinds of swords but Greeks were for the spear
@Lord Voldemort yeah
@Lord Voldemort although they're famous for their cavalry
because phalanx was OP bruh, pretty much the ancient world tank
North of Greece lies Bulgaria. North of Bulgaria lies my country.
We lubed the anus with butter, place the pole next to the hole, and the other against a heavy rock, tied the feet to a horse, and then we mushed the horse. Half way through we erected the pole. Should have seen the face of Sinan Pasa when he saw 10000 muslim warriors up on poles like that. We never ware conquered.
this is fantastic
Very nicely done, lovely vid on a great subject, hoplites are my favourites...
Did amazing, great video!
Super satisfying and very informal
Great content. Love your drawings.
I loved your channel since your Roman legionary video
You should including the short sword introduction while talking about spear because they also use short sword as secondary weapon
Thank you!
This channel is so underated :(
Subscribed broski, keep 'em comin'
Crude? i really like that Deandra armor it even has Neckguard, something they added again in the middle ages.
great short and informative; thanks
These videos are great reference material.
really wonderful video!
Honestly, I love this video.
i like it my friend so lovely
You earned my subscribe
Damn very cool video :D
The Byzantine cataphract looks badass. Too bad the Byzantine military didn’t live up to its appearance.
Amazing, just amazing
Hey you should do medieval warriors especially german ones.
2:40- Actually, I checked out the comic version.
All of them are buck-naked.
Still no fantastic monsters though, just panels of Spartans Phalanx steamrolling Persian infantry multiple times like a train.
There are the rhinos and the elephants in the comic too though.
Very nice work
Cool video sir!
Great background music. Seikilos' epitaph song. I recommend it to anyone who plays guitar, easy to learn, and a fun tune.
Great Job!
The spartans with corynthian helmet also have crested and cuirass
Very nice video m8
Thx m8
Very nice video.
This video was dope make more
Awesome!
I like this my friend
MAKEDONIA IS ONE AND ONLY! AND IS GREEK!!! #PROUD!!
The geomotric period figure was not very geometric.
Well yeah Nice vid 👌
Fascinating.