Ancient Greek State Politics and Diplomacy

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    Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the ancient civilizations continues with a video on the Ancient Greek state forms. The mainstream idea of the Ancient Greek state is a city-state - a polis, but that was hardly the only form of polity the Greeks lived under. This video will cover the various Leagues and Federations and how they were formed and how the great states like Athens, Sparta, Macedon and Thebes interacted within them forming their hegemonies.
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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

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    • @user-kt1lh5sz1i
      @user-kt1lh5sz1i 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks for doing this K&G. I've been asking for this vid for a while.

    • @dietoxickidthe2nd889
      @dietoxickidthe2nd889 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      love your content bro

    • @Jackal263
      @Jackal263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Lovely work but yet again....
      Dont mislead your viewers.
      Greece mainly colonised Asia Minor.
      And I say this cause lately the Turkish propaganda claim otherwise.

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can't wait to take one of the Warhammer 40k tanks out for a spin.

    • @AhmedIbrahim-by9he
      @AhmedIbrahim-by9he 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Best channel ever love the graphics and everything keep making these videos your the best. Just interested, what type of editors do you guys use.

  • @johanm571
    @johanm571 3 ปีที่แล้ว +950

    Hello, I am the writer and researcher for the video, I hope you enjoy it!
    The sources used for the video are: Greek federal states by J. A. O Larsen and Federalism in Greek Antiquity by Beck and Funke

    • @hexapodc.1973
      @hexapodc.1973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      thank you mate!

    • @thomashartman7649
      @thomashartman7649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you for all that you do!

    • @mitsoulas76
      @mitsoulas76 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Trully amazing work, one notice though, the word "koina" is pronounced as "kiná" and it actually means "commons" in ancient and modern greek.

    • @AhmedIbrahim-by9he
      @AhmedIbrahim-by9he 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow you guys so much work for us thanks for that.

    • @AhmedIbrahim-by9he
      @AhmedIbrahim-by9he 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Johan M What type of editor did you guys use?

  • @Azr4el
    @Azr4el 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    See the title: Ancient Greek Leagues
    See the animated thumbnail: Tanks flying everywhere
    ...OK

  • @xusteve4820
    @xusteve4820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +540

    It seems that one state becoming a dominant power after leading a struggle against another great power is a common scene in history.

    • @dojokonojo
      @dojokonojo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Nature abhors a (power) vacuum

    • @paulmartin591
      @paulmartin591 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      And of course repeating the cycle of self-justified conquest and colonization.

    • @LorolinAstori
      @LorolinAstori 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it

    • @RodolfoGaming
      @RodolfoGaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@dojokonojo second this

    • @RodolfoGaming
      @RodolfoGaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@LorolinAstori yet those who know are doomed not to be able to do anything about it

  • @arandurion
    @arandurion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +295

    Me: Kings and Generals, how many series do you want to start?
    Kings and Generals: Yes

    • @Bonservisjohnny
      @Bonservisjohnny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It’s kinda frustrating tbh they’re good videos no doubt but it’s just too much yknow

    • @weirdofromhalo
      @weirdofromhalo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This isn't a new series.

    • @arandurion
      @arandurion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@weirdofromhalo I suppose not, but my statement still applies.

    • @nomadlong85
      @nomadlong85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah i wish they would smash out a series before starting a new one, but they are clever as they know we will all hang around and keep an eye out for the next 'episode' in whatever part of history were following.

  • @aokiaoki4238
    @aokiaoki4238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +355

    I was expecting a reference to the "Panhellenic idea". Many ancients Greeks write and support the unification of all Greeks. It was supported by Gorgias, Issocrates, Aristotle, Jason of Pherae, Dionysius I of Syracuse and Phillip II. While other were against it, such as Demosthenes

    • @USERCRETE
      @USERCRETE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      correct

    • @Gentleman...Driver
      @Gentleman...Driver 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Demosthenes feared a loss of power. He also wrote some propaganda, calling the Macedons "Barbarians".

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@Gentleman...Driver Demosthenes with 4 speeches managed to convicted Athenians to start war with Macedonia. He fought himself in the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC).

    • @cht4263
      @cht4263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It actually happened with Philip's and Alexander's Hellenic league

    • @christossaroglou7158
      @christossaroglou7158 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @MEDAURIN god of war Romans named the greeks "greeks" you know, and that's why it stayed that way for the rest of the western world, only greeks and 3-4 eastern (east of greece) nations use the name "Hellenes" and "Hellas" each with a linguistic variation ofc to this day. And the funny thing is most of the eastern world calls greeks "Yunan" (or again with variations) which would translate to "Ionians" and tbh it sounds more legit, where as the term "Greece" and "Greeks" is found nowhere in ancient "Greece".
      I say funny thing because the western world is supposed to be built as a continuity to the civilization of ancient Greece.

  • @croesuslydias6488
    @croesuslydias6488 3 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    Polis - singular
    Poleis - plural

    • @keithbrown7685
      @keithbrown7685 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      enough of this pedantry or I'll .... call the police!

    • @panosbravakis860
      @panosbravakis860 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Poli-singular

    • @youreskimofriend2327
      @youreskimofriend2327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@panosbravakis860 nnnnnope. Croesus is right.

    • @3SLBK
      @3SLBK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@panosbravakis860 it's the ancient greek, not modern

    • @AleksandarVelikiMirijevski
      @AleksandarVelikiMirijevski 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@3SLBK And in modern to... because modern and ancient greek are very similar

  • @barbiquearea
    @barbiquearea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    In the ancient Greek world, a polis could be referred to any city, town or village. It included a settlement and the surrounding land it controlled. The city states either remained independent, grouped together into leagues by mutual interests or were forced to join them through coercion or intimidation.
    After the decline of central control and collapse of the Mycenaean Empire in the 12th century BCE, the Greek world entered a chaotic period of nomadic migrations, invasions and fragmentation, as a result the ancient Greeks were very divided and subdivided. But they created for themselves a world like no other, a world where each city state had its own unique (and often fantastic) culture.

    • @adarshmohapatra5058
      @adarshmohapatra5058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Greece has such a diverse, flourishing and ancient history! Respect to Greece from India.

    • @user-oe3il6wi8g
      @user-oe3il6wi8g 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      there's a lot of uncertainty about the period followed the collapse of Mycenaean civilization. Actually we know almost NOTHING. The most amazing mysterio is the fact that after a blank period all of a sudden appeared an new alphabet , an unbelievable perfect language , and so much wisdom.. I believe we miss a tremendous important part of the puzzle .

    • @adarshmohapatra5058
      @adarshmohapatra5058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Chaudhry Vikrant ror ik brother, we were very strong as well. I was just giving credit to Greece as they influenced western civilization and Europe, just like we influenced eastern civilization and South/South-East Asia

    • @MyKillyy
      @MyKillyy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Chaudhry Vikrant ror are there actually clear evidences for Alexander being defeated in India? I have recently read a lot about his conquest and there are only exclusively Indian people one the internet who are claiming that.

  • @narxes
    @narxes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    I'm worldbuilding a low fantasy universe largely inspired by ancient Europe. especially Greece, so this is super useful!

    • @giannisg3387
      @giannisg3387 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Somali Kid Well, people had a thing for knights in shining armor for a very long time, so that's one reason. Only now, in recent years has fantasy started to get more innovative and diverse.

  • @thanoss7441
    @thanoss7441 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Hellene from Thessaly here. Love your videos.

  • @realtangerine4910
    @realtangerine4910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    how can people dislike this? its not even controversial, its just a documentary

    • @Sunrah
      @Sunrah 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      mostly because they don't list their sources so fact checking is quite hard

    • @JCRS2
      @JCRS2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Whilst sources would be good, ancient sources are not 100% anyway. Like the accounts of the battle of Thermopylae state more than 10x the actual number of soldiers I believe. But there’s no other proof than herodotus. Ancient historians just conclude the largest army Xerxes could possibly assemble.

    • @croesuslydias6488
      @croesuslydias6488 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Ares I think we are more interested in the scholarly sources for the video, not the primary or secondary sources. I wouldn’t really trust anything anyone said just by citing ancient sources because people spend years in school learning how to actually interpret and understand sources and those interpretations are generally peer reviewed. Usually the lead researcher will post a comment stating the scholarly sources used for the video.

    • @stehfreejesseah7893
      @stehfreejesseah7893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it was a little boring compared to other videos they have done.

    • @selucusptolemy3149
      @selucusptolemy3149 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Because this video offended me xD

  • @skyfragmented3933
    @skyfragmented3933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    THANK YOU. This is why this channel is great. You know that in order to understand the history you also need to understand the underlying political systems. Kudos to you

  • @augustus8913
    @augustus8913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Interesting fact : In Athens , every adult male citizen had the responsibility to participate in the politics , so that the democratic City-State could take decisions. It was illegal for free men to abstain from the discussions and from the voting. Because some men didn't participate in democracy , Athens hired Macedonians (Macedonian "Μακεδόνας" means long-tall. Macedonians were known for being tall and strong. ) to form some kind of "police". Their job was to seek for abstaining men and lead them to the agora (they could use force if needed). Those that were forced to attend were called "Ιδιώτες" (idiotes) meaning "those who care only for themselves". This "title" was in fact so humiliating , that nowadays "idiot" means stupid. So , in Ancient Athens , Democracy was so important that they literally had "police officers" to force everyone to the agora and anyone who tried to abstain was considered stupid.

  • @babs2800
    @babs2800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Kings and Generals, lately you're spoiling us Greeks. Keep it up!

    • @babs2800
      @babs2800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Gonzalo Araujo By "spoiling us", I mean, the channel excessively gratifies our wish to hear about historic events that happened in our land. And by "us" i mean - of course - the modern Greeks. Are we allowed to like learning about the ancient Greeks' history, your majesty?

    • @keithbrown7685
      @keithbrown7685 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      you Greeks have been spoiled enough. You need to be put in your place. The Consuls are on the way. Tremble, o Athenian!

  • @britisheastindiacompany6031
    @britisheastindiacompany6031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Another wonderful content. Liked it very much. Greeks are so awesome that no matter what you know about the Greeks and Greek culture, you still have a lot to learn.

    • @vesnanuspahic7510
      @vesnanuspahic7510 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      British East India Company Yea but true history ‼️‼️‼️

    • @charadradam9985
      @charadradam9985 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vesnanuspahic7510 this is the pattern of a flag not the history of a people (history, culture, civilization, language etc). they are two different things.
      in your way of thought, france romania and italy are the same because they use the same flag pattern in other colours or russians and hollandese are the same because they use the same pattern in different colours. you must be very stupid not to understand what you told.

  • @Tiberon098
    @Tiberon098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Its cool to hear The Epitaph of Seikilos being played near the end.

    • @Gojoseon
      @Gojoseon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s from the Civilization VI music for Greece (also based on the Epitaph of Seikilos), I think, though their music otherwise seems to be from Epidemic Sound.

  • @adarshmohapatra5058
    @adarshmohapatra5058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Good video! It gives an insight into Greek culture. Love from India!
    Also Greece has such a rich and ancient history. Certainly something to be proud of.

  • @Telenil
    @Telenil 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    If one of these cities is razed by the others, can we say that they defound the polis?

    • @kostas3577
      @kostas3577 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes tse they would

    • @kerzariz8717
      @kerzariz8717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hahaha

    • @Samuelpiang511
      @Samuelpiang511 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm being lazy saying this but whenever I play rome total war 2 I would always occupy than subjugate or raze any cities I just conquered. I dont see much benefit or understanding of razing a city.

    • @Samuelpiang511
      @Samuelpiang511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Vandelberger thank you! that makes sense. I've been playing easy mode because the game takes over 20 hours I swear.

    • @CliveBurr4
      @CliveBurr4 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's a great avatar

  • @22vx
    @22vx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I could spend ages poring over the multitudes of modern derivations of Greek concepts, constructs and institutions. Koinon/Community; Polis/City; Ethnos/Nation - I love how our past illuminates our present.

    • @user-kt1lh5sz1i
      @user-kt1lh5sz1i 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey man. We did it by asking in the comments section.

    • @shikra6668
      @shikra6668 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sir please reply me.
      Who is use battles graphic ??
      Who is software use???

    • @keithbrown7685
      @keithbrown7685 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, but I'm not making any money off it, so why should I care? : )

  • @aokiaoki4238
    @aokiaoki4238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Funny fact, Spartans had huge iron coins so they can't have and carry many of them

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Yeah it was to make hoarding vast amounts of money undesirable as iron would be very heavy to carry around, one cannot flaunt their wealth without also being weighed down by it.

    • @NobleKorhedron
      @NobleKorhedron 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Koinon" refers to the League itself, not a monetary unit....

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@NobleKorhedron Koinon means common. It can be referred to many things

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought they were strips of leather to discourage the use of gold.

  • @JonatasAdoM
    @JonatasAdoM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    So does ethnicity comes from the Greek word Ethnos?

    • @Dourios_96
      @Dourios_96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      Yes that is correct 👍

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Yes and it is connected to the word Ethics also, as people of the same Ethnos have common ethics.

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@spiritusIRATUS We have, we actually have even more concepts than English see εθνικότητα, ιθαγένεια, υπηκοότητα, φυλή, γένος, ημεδαπότητα ...

    • @stratilatis8562
      @stratilatis8562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@aokiaoki4238 I'm not sure about that. Ethos from greek ήθος
      Ethnos from greek έθνος.
      Complitly different words even their routes don't match

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@stratilatis8562 Etymologically are connected. Έθνος is what Nation is in English, Ethnicity in English is meant ιθαγένεια. There is no word or legal concept in Enlgish for ημεδαπότητα for example. In Greek you may have the Εθνικότητα (nationality) and the ημεδαπότητα ( live were you were born) but not the ιθαγένεια(ethnicity). Or you may have Εθνικότητα (nationality) and the ιθαγένεια(ethnicity) but not the ημεδαπότητα ( you were born somewhere else)

  • @USERCRETE
    @USERCRETE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    3:47 Ethnos (Έθνος) = Nation . Greeks gave the first definition of that word

    • @kylewilliams8114
      @kylewilliams8114 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I mean, I don't think the concept was never used before. It's just the word english speakers use to convey the idea.

  • @XxAverageJoexX
    @XxAverageJoexX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the best channels on TH-cam. Thank you.

  • @CommonSense858
    @CommonSense858 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this channel. Always spot on! Look forward to each new video! Thanks Kings and Generals

  • @wingedhussar4219
    @wingedhussar4219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like that you are doing many videos for Greece recently. Nice vid

  • @MrJonLott
    @MrJonLott 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fantastic content. Well done all around. This is why you've got 1.32M subscribers.

  • @michaelmatthews2434
    @michaelmatthews2434 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video guys. Glad to see you guys doing so well.

  • @angelusvastator1297
    @angelusvastator1297 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "God why is everything so political these days?"
    Greeks:

  • @elliott7706
    @elliott7706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I find Mycenaean Greece much more facinating. Bronze age nations were so advanced, its baffling to me to try to understand how many times our civilizations have rised and fallen. Mycenaean had toilets, sewers, hot water etc.

    • @Thessaloz
      @Thessaloz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Minoans propably had that too.
      I found my dna match with some minoan skeletons recently and i start reading some things about them, they even had water treatment devices and water came in their towns with aqueducts.

  • @prometheuskomnenos2116
    @prometheuskomnenos2116 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    As a Greek , I really appreciate when non-Greeks take the time to learn about our history . I would like to congratulate this channel for explaining it so accurately . But I would also like to point out a small but crucial language mistake , there are some letter combinations in Greek which make a different sound from what it looks like. For example ... "Koina" is pronounced Kiná and not as it looks like. The following letters when combined make this sounds : o+i= i , a+i= ae , o+u= ooo (u).
    Respectfully , Greek viewer

    • @queldron
      @queldron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      These only apply to the modern Greek pronunciation. In ancient Greek it was actually as the narrator pronounced.

    • @Skeloperch
      @Skeloperch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      As is the case with English, ancient Greek sounds much different from modern Greek despite being ostensibly the same language.

    • @monkey_ona_donkey6272
      @monkey_ona_donkey6272 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Skeloperch well i think i will have to prove you wrong because when i learn ancient Greek phonetically speacking the pronunciation was the same with the ancient Greek and modern Greek ... is something was pronounced differently it was evident in writing ... and the explanation is simple really

    • @godnkls
      @godnkls 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@monkey_ona_donkey6272 Where did you learn about ancient greek phonetics? I guess you are a Greek having learnt the ancient language as a course in Gymnasium, where they only teach the basics and the rules of declination, nothing about phonetics. The pronunciation was really different 2000 years ago. The best example I can give you is "υ", which was pronounced as "hι", something that got transferred to latin and later to other languages. Words like "hydra","hyper" etc, but originally with "ι" instead of "αϊ" sound

    • @sakdavid
      @sakdavid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@godnkls And where did you learn ancient Greek phonetics? Were you taught by the Euboean colonists in the bay of Naples? The idea that ancient Greek did not have dipthongs and this feature was picked up along the way for whatever reason is absurd.

  • @illerac84
    @illerac84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great work, as always. Looking forward to more Roman economic episodes!

  • @surgicalcrabby8993
    @surgicalcrabby8993 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am an early subscriber and a lover of history. Please continuethe good quality and don’t focus on views. I have been watching since the battle of al qaddisheah. Thanks good job

  • @meepk633
    @meepk633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The art and design in these is so good. Looks fun to do.

  • @konstantinossfoungaris8474
    @konstantinossfoungaris8474 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Please refrain from using spurious omega's and Greek sigma's for 'O' and 'E' characters. It makes the Greek alphabet look like a novelty item, and distances the Latin alphabet user from it by alienating them from the similarities between the two.
    It would be of great help to write Greek and Latin in parallel instead, as it can help people pick up some rudimentary Greek, and promote its-however limited-usage.

  • @theconqueringram5295
    @theconqueringram5295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This documentary explores a subject that is hardly touched in popular history and goes into great detail on the organization and management of the leagues.

  • @Miamcoline
    @Miamcoline 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You guys should do a detailed mini-series of the Peloponnesian War next. It may be overdone but most documentaries and books gloss over it, only focusing on key events and people without too much real context. You guys have done most of the key episodes around it so you might as well.
    You could even team up with HistoriaCivilis, who is the strongest on ancient political/military context but does not seem to have the time or the resources to dedicate to create videos on drawn out episodes in history. You would be a very strong team.

  • @starman1144
    @starman1144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    6:18 in modern Greek Bouli (βουλή) is the parlement

    • @user-nf9xc7ww7m
      @user-nf9xc7ww7m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ancient Greece was different than modern, for sure.
      Despite its unwieldy size, the 500-member Boule was actually the executive. The legislature were all the citizens (ie not women, children, or slaves) in direct democracy. Specific offices were appointed, but they would be more akin to a mix between modern day civil servants (well, spoils-day civil servants at least) and US-style cabinet secretaries.
      Be interesting if modern Greece were to become the Greek League and have all city-states confederate with it, with direct democracy (but with universal suffrage) at the polis level. Everybody copied the british or american system, though others have perfected it (eg sweden, germany, new zealand).

    • @starman1144
      @starman1144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@user-nf9xc7ww7m I meant the word. In modern Greek the word Bouli means parlement. Bro, I'm Greek. Do you really think that I wouldn't know that. It's my country's history.

  • @lukezuzga6460
    @lukezuzga6460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very interesting Fellas, thanks!

  • @johanalitalo8331
    @johanalitalo8331 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice overview of the city states. Hope to see moore videos of them (if possible Athens or Sparta).

  • @georgeabraham5672
    @georgeabraham5672 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome as always

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was a great n informative video. And a nice insight into what Greece was like at this time. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

  • @josephstevens3942
    @josephstevens3942 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Man, mishearing "Phocian League" really made my day!

    • @Bejunckt
      @Bejunckt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah lol made me wanna join xd

    • @CuriousInquiror
      @CuriousInquiror 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They need do a whole video on the history of the Phocian League

  • @thomasrinschler6783
    @thomasrinschler6783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I responded to one post concerning the pronunciation of οι, but I'm seeing so many other posts bringing it up that I'll make a general post. So basically, οι was originally pronounced like the narrator pronounced it, "oi". It eventually began to pronounced the same way as the ancient υ (like the German "ü") with this happening between the third century BC and third century AD. That pronunciation lasted until around AD 1000, when both οι and υ transitioned, along with several Greek vowels like η, ει, and υι (which all originally had their own pronunciations) to the modern pronunciation of "i". So, pronouncing οι as "oi" is correct for the time frame that the narrator is describing, as οι only began to be pronounced as "i" after AD 1000 or so. For more detail on this, have fun in the "Diachronic phonetic description" section of the following article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek_phonology

    • @nopenoperton5448
      @nopenoperton5448 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s like shouting into the wind. I’m not sure why modern Greek speakers are so adamant that the language hasn’t changed in 2000+ years (a linguistic impossibility for a spoken language) and some here even openly denounce the Erasmian model.

  • @henriquecarvalho880
    @henriquecarvalho880 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish the sources were added to the video description, it would make a lot easier to look more into this topic. i'm have no interest in specialize myself in ancient history nor the greek, but I really like the subject and would appreciate if you guys could do that in the future videos

  • @mohammadsaida4603
    @mohammadsaida4603 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice history video talking about policy interfering among several parts of one league's 👍👏🏾👏🏾🌟

  • @kostageorgiou3741
    @kostageorgiou3741 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes thanks for these videos makes me proud of my heritage

  • @Anthony_Matabaro_3D_360
    @Anthony_Matabaro_3D_360 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Kings and Generals, another great video, could guys kindly provided the names or some links to the music you use? Thank you and have a good day.

  • @vladimirbazhaev7851
    @vladimirbazhaev7851 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you make a video about the sacred wars? they are fascinating!

  • @blackbirdgriffin
    @blackbirdgriffin 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well thank you for the vid I will now go back and play some EBII Koinon Hellenon, This is too tempting :)

  • @TheMichaell522
    @TheMichaell522 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please do more of Caesar,I’m so interested.
    Thanks

  • @chrisgotsopoulos7878
    @chrisgotsopoulos7878 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I live in Greece and I believe that we even now have the disadvantage to love our land(city) and press our local interests before the interest of the state,you can found politicians and common people that they only care about developing their local interests inspite of the common good of the state, that's the true problem that keeps Greece behind and corrupted

  • @jordancaleb5790
    @jordancaleb5790 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    cool new map style!

  • @sixshooter500
    @sixshooter500 ปีที่แล้ว

    "When we learn about in school."
    We don't learn 98% of what this channel teaches in school... and I love you for that.

  • @KonekoEalain
    @KonekoEalain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'd love to learn more about what led to the rise in population in the 8th cent. bce, and what caused the decline in the Spartan population that led to the end to their hegemony.

  • @user-wd2du6ze5p
    @user-wd2du6ze5p 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Αt 2:15 we see the ancient symbol for the panhellenic socialist movement aka ΠΑΣΟΚ.

    • @vega5297
      @vega5297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Χχαχαχα

    • @user-nf6rq4jo3e
      @user-nf6rq4jo3e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ο ηλιος ο πρασινος ο ηλιος που ανατελει!

    • @dma3d
      @dma3d 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Το ΠΑΣΟΚ το ορθοδοξο υπαρχει απο την αρχαιοτητα, ξυπνατεεεε XD

  • @GRironman
    @GRironman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    First of all, love your work!! A minor observation, the pronunciation of Koina/ Κοινά in greek is "kenà" with an acoustic "e" in place of the "oi" and the punctuation is on the a. Keep up your incredible work!!!

  • @gardenlizard1586
    @gardenlizard1586 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good video 👍

  • @cembiten911
    @cembiten911 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You guys deserve your own Netflix series..

  • @MrKIMBO345
    @MrKIMBO345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    This is interesting. Some political concepts of the West civilization came from Ancient Greek like federation and alliance.

    • @The-Plaguefellow
      @The-Plaguefellow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, because diplomatic concepts only arose from a singular civilization, and definitely weren't developed independently across the world and at different times...

  • @sirmoglok
    @sirmoglok 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been falling asleep to so many of these that i had a dream last night where i was in a pub with a friend and this guys voice came on and it was on a t.v. in there. and i would enter different parts of town and randomly start hearing him narrating, or a person break out into a narration channeling his voice

  • @JohnyAngelo
    @JohnyAngelo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As a history grad student, this was helpful. :)

  • @giwrgosemdou6545
    @giwrgosemdou6545 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A small correction all the Greeks belong to the same ethnos(έθνος) which means nation but there were smaller groups called fillo(φύλο) which means something like tribe.

    • @nopenoperton5448
      @nopenoperton5448 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s not always the case; ἔθνος has a semantic range. Thucydides, for example, uses it on several occasions to refer to different groups of people from the same geographic area in Greece (e.g. 5.52 Ἡρακλεώταις τοῖς ἐν Τραχῖνι μάχη ἐγένετο πρὸς Αἰνιᾶνας καὶ Δόλοπας καὶ Μηλιᾶς καὶ Θεσσαλῶν τινάς.
      προσοικοῦντα γὰρ τὰ ἔθνη ταῦτα τῇ πόλει πολέμια ἦν: οὐ γὰρ ἐπ’ ἄλλῃ τινὶ γῇ ἢ τῇ τούτων τὸ χωρίον ἐτειχίσθη.)

    • @Thessaloz
      @Thessaloz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They knew that they were all Hellenes, but i am not sure if they called that ethnos.

  • @MaidenWithEyesOfBlue384
    @MaidenWithEyesOfBlue384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1:47 to skip the World of Tanks ad

  • @sturmgewer44
    @sturmgewer44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    K&G , please make a serie about the byzantine macedonian and Komnenian renaissance !!

  • @OmegaTrooper
    @OmegaTrooper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Seeing as how Kings and Generals is sponsored by Imperator: Rome (amongst others) it would be cool to see the various types of Greek leagues represented in that game as well! Its actually quite similar to some of the Stellaris federations.

  • @markusskram4181
    @markusskram4181 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love The vid !

  • @mooneyplovwer4040
    @mooneyplovwer4040 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’m so thankful that i found this channel some time ago it was all I ever wanted exactly the way i wanted it never stop making videos!

  • @VoidLantadd
    @VoidLantadd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great improvement pronunciation-wise! Pronouncing kappa as a k. Much better.

  • @aquaticsplashes
    @aquaticsplashes 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey I have a question at @3:30 it has very small letters I heard italian but it reads something like haetallian not sure if I'm reading that right cuz it's so small on my screen how is that spelled? When I search what I typed it doesn't pull up anything... Are those the same people that founded rome? Are they related to the etruscans? Do they have any relation to the tribe of ramnes?

  • @PranavMV
    @PranavMV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just letting the creator know that the amount of knowledge that I gain from watching his videos is far more than what my history books have taught..
    I have tried reading about this but never understood so, when we talk about ancient greeks before it became a roman state, it's the people, not the empire or kingdom, right? Or were these city-states part of a single federation?
    Like the leagues mentioned were still independent but was there a superstate? Like during the Greco Persian war, it was Greece against Persians.

  • @user-jz7pq7iz8h
    @user-jz7pq7iz8h 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Greetings from athens!You never disappointed us for another video!

  • @xaros738
    @xaros738 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Πολις with "ι" is for one city, Πολεις is plural. Ι think the use in the beginning of the video is for one city if i understand right, so was wrong. Thanks again for your videos. I m not telling this because of the Greek content, i love history in general, but especially military history. And i love to watch things from other countries and periods so i learn something more.

  • @prvt.paulalawrence5782
    @prvt.paulalawrence5782 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello,
    its a nice video, keep up the good work.
    But if you could get me the script so i can read it while i can listen to you. it would be very helpful for me.

  • @menaseven9093
    @menaseven9093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice story of the Ancient Greek Leagues.

  • @LetsBeBlunt
    @LetsBeBlunt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing channel I'm always looking forward to your uploads, keep it up 💯

  • @baileycampbell1710
    @baileycampbell1710 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cant get over that he used the civ 6 sound track as back round music. It works nicely but all i can picture is civ 6

  • @joeshmoe8345
    @joeshmoe8345 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks

  • @loupiscanis9449
    @loupiscanis9449 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @Hugh_Morris
    @Hugh_Morris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Emperor Hadrian, years later, also attempted to unite the Greeks under the Roman banner. I believe that was also in the form of a League.

  • @petermills3814
    @petermills3814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Next up for your videos! = ideas as follow ups.
    Ancient Roman state politics and diplomacy
    Ancient + Medieval Byzantine state politics and diplomacy
    Ancient + Medieval Chinese state politics and diplomacy.

  • @nikos1614
    @nikos1614 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love these kind of videos but I feel the need to point this out. People need to stop (at least when they write something about Greece) using the letter Σ as an E because Σ is the greek letter for S so every time I read texts like these I feel like my eyes are gonna pop out trying to make sense of them.

  • @denniscleary7580
    @denniscleary7580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Absolutely love it when you guys cover Ancient Greece, such a beautiful culture and masters of warfare

  • @AhmedIbrahim-by9he
    @AhmedIbrahim-by9he 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In certain ways Sparta had more rights then Athens. For example women could own property in Sparta while not in Athens.

    • @cjlogic6908
      @cjlogic6908 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ouch...

    • @keithbrown7685
      @keithbrown7685 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kafon6368 hahaha! give her the boot! : )

    • @user-nf9xc7ww7m
      @user-nf9xc7ww7m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I want to know which city-state had pride parades🏳️‍🌈🎉🎊, open transgender & transracial folks🏁, no slavery🏴‍☠️, and universal suffrage🏳.
      🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
      [Citizens vote to exile me]👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👧👨‍👩‍👧‍👧👨‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👩‍👧‍👧👩‍👧👩‍👧‍👧👨‍👧👨‍👩‍👦

    • @keithbrown7685
      @keithbrown7685 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-nf9xc7ww7m Well, the Thebans were ok on things like gay pride. e.g. the so called "sacred band".

    • @the_chosen_one5642
      @the_chosen_one5642 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also had a slave based economy

  • @warreng675
    @warreng675 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Patric Stewart, whens the next stream

  • @PackHunter117
    @PackHunter117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    3:46 That must be where the word ethnicity and ethnic come from.

  • @dion8306
    @dion8306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Hello from Macedonia, Greece🇬🇷❤
    (Alexander is Greek)

    • @christermi
      @christermi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      (That's a given , no point in addressing this fact)

    • @dion8306
      @dion8306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@christermi indeed

    • @shudheshvelusamy7644
      @shudheshvelusamy7644 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Actually, if I look at some completely biased sources, I can eventually find somewhere that Alexander wasn't Greek!

    • @siou3268
      @siou3268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@shudheshvelusamy7644 Really?Then how could they participate Olympic games?Only those who considered Greek could take part.

    • @siou3268
      @siou3268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@shudheshvelusamy7644 I guess Tito's sources correct?

  • @b.m.5068
    @b.m.5068 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Make one on Indus civilization

  • @user-pe4kg5ev8j
    @user-pe4kg5ev8j 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hellen from the ORIGINAL GREEK MACEDONIA here!!!

  • @geraltgrey-mane695
    @geraltgrey-mane695 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    have how the city states declare war been coverd here ? Just a random thought I had hmm I guess I will having a good long read then :D If I cant find any here

  • @Scornbrand
    @Scornbrand 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Will we ever get a Phoenician version of this?
    Or something about the Phoenician world and sphere

  • @tristanverbeek6741
    @tristanverbeek6741 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please make an episode about the pelopenisian war

  • @trueblueclue
    @trueblueclue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hear that Imperator: Rome music in the intro.

    • @Gojoseon
      @Gojoseon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oddly Kings and Generals never credits the video game music they use....

  • @rasulpourjafar2080
    @rasulpourjafar2080 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Finally a favorite content of mine thanks god 🙏🙄

    • @stefanoslyras1187
      @stefanoslyras1187 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was waiting for your comment my dear apprentice. So......Mehmet....in which cave your ancestors were.....when we were building the Parthenon and a couple of Ancient Wonders...?

    • @user-ls3tl2vm7s
      @user-ls3tl2vm7s 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stefanoslyras1187 why being so bad at him he did not said nothing bad to you.

    • @stefanoslyras1187
      @stefanoslyras1187 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-ls3tl2vm7s exactly my Fellow Greek. He was sarcastic with others things to begin with

  • @PackHunter117
    @PackHunter117 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do a video on the view of Rome by the recent conquered Greeks.

  • @TheTheusdeus
    @TheTheusdeus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love your work, however ;
    How come Corinth was destroyed by "the romans", whereas Thebes is still standing it's ground (in the last map You showed) after being tear down by Alexaner the 3rd ?

    • @jhunpalz06
      @jhunpalz06 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cassander one of Alexander's generals ruled Macedonia after Alexander's death and killed his child, wife and mother. He was the only one of the Diodochi to try distance himself from Alexander and rebuilt Thebes to gain favor with greece by appearing generous.

  • @Evilprimarch
    @Evilprimarch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That popping sound made me check if I had Slack still open, despite the fact the business hours for me were over at the time. Real creepy.

  • @giannisgiannis870
    @giannisgiannis870 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am greek and i don't know how much wars my ancestors have make and they have fight each other.

  • @user-kt1lh5sz1i
    @user-kt1lh5sz1i 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for doing this K&G. I've been asking for this vid for a while.

  • @louiscasteran6298
    @louiscasteran6298 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good civilization 5 music 😉

  • @horsingaround5353
    @horsingaround5353 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What word did you use at 7:10? Dinatation? What is this word? Please.

    • @aegis29
      @aegis29 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Denotation

    • @horsingaround5353
      @horsingaround5353 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aegis29 so using the denotation of division or district in this case? Using the natural use of these words in common english. I wonder if the ancient Greek word had more substance than just a divide. More of an unspoken undercurrent.