What Does The Minotaur Legend Tell Us About The Minoans? | Island Of The Minotaur | Odyssey
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- Just over 100 years ago, English archaeologist Arthur Evans went to the 'Minotaur's Island' to explore the roots of this myth and discovered instead a sophisticated Bronze Age civilisation that had been lost to history for thousands of years.
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Bettany Hughes is like a goddess Hera telling us the story of Crete. So much knowledge and wisdom, and an hypnotic voice. Truly wonderful.
Although the documentary spends too much time on her body.
@@elainebenez1995 why hold a smart and beautiful woman back.
@@drjukebox wdym?
@@elainebenez1995 because she makes me a feminist?
@@drjukebox she’s also very sexy.
After more than 43 years on this planet I am finally introduced to the splendor and wonder of Knossos. Cheers. Amazing.
I never grow tired of Bettany's lectures, doesn't matter if 20 y. o. or just made, What she says is always fascinating! Bring them on, bring them on....
I find the sexy outfits distracting and not appropriate.
@@heenanyou She's a sexy woman. Anything she wears is a sexy outfit.
@@daniels1485 not anymore
Agreed. I would love to take part in a lecture of hers. I always loved history and art appreciation in both high school and later college
@@heenanyou She is sexy, yes. I would love to see her dressed as Minoan doing all she does in the vids. Wouldn't that be great? Now she can even speak Linear B.
Excellent. I visited Knossos and Crete over thirty years ago. It was good to revisit it with Bettany. Our tour guide at that time told us that the 'Minoans were very peaceful people' but I didn't believe it. To be as revered as they were in their time, they must have been very, very tough or very, very holy. Bettany's comments about it functioning like a monastery resonates to some degree because I have always seen it as a type of sacred island. I am glad the archaeological knowledge continues to evolve.
Bettany's lectures are so well written , brains and beauty , have always enjoyed her docs
I adore the Minoan art, this little left after the catastrophe... Been on the Crete and still want to get back multiple times...
With out a doubt this one of the best history documentaries
I have a passion for ancient and not so ancient history. I can't get enough of it.
Ever seen "Lorra" or Martin Liedkte ?
@@spiritus-scriba693. No. I've never heard of either one.
@@realjaxon they dig into some interesting old books. Those names are YT Channels. Also "newearth" channel. Want a peek inside Alexander the Great's Tomb ??? 2.5m and 3m solid gold statues, Alexander aparently in pristine condition. Tomb is full of gold and precious stones, an ark, horses, egyptian chariots, deer, eagles, huge gold murals, pretty amazing. Found in 2010 in the Jordanian desert. It will be released to the public soon.
@KKmies Thank you. That is a good read.
me too
Sound sync can be a real challenge sometimes.
Slow media storage issue. The video lags behind the sound as the video is a larger file.
@@StanSwan No excuse however. There are plenty of longer videos without sync issues and there are plenty of methods to adjust synchronization. I find this unwatchable.
@@niknikktm I had no issue with it. The woman is very distracting though, good looking lady.
th-cam.com/video/Rhv0RkNgVW8/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=AbsoluteHistory this one seems to be synced better.
With audio out of sync, it is too distracting to continue watching.
I've always been a huge fan of Bettany and highly admire her and anything she narrates and guides us through ancient history is always first class and she is so easy on the eyes also. Thanks Odyssey for keeping her busy for us~!
I want more (with all due respect) !
@@jazzrossy930 I'm a History Buff and have followed her lessons for many years and she has "The It Factor" and one can't help but be captivated by her accent and Beauty~! Her intelligence is so impressive and Ancient History has never been more fun than when she speaks~!!!
Can you reupload this please? The video is about 5 seconds behind the audio.
It corrects itself later in the video.
The amount of air and light in the palaces in really attractive, and modern.
Yes, without the roof and half the walls fallen down :)))
it's more eastern style than western.
Never tire of this documentary.
Thanks Bethany.
I love how the purple chromatic aberration in the shots correlate with the purple dye what made the minoan culture rich. Quite poetic even if it was unintentional.
Gosh she is absolutely amazing as story teller,, and quite lovely to look at aswell.. and she still is to this day
It is a joy to watch your history. And your voice is so captivating in describing what is being shown. Ancient history and beauty combined. You make it easy to keep ones attention. Thank you.
first saw bettany Hughes on TV about Egyptians she's a great presenter with lots of work regarding islands of the med is a great person to learn from. Great video about the minator fact or fiction.
Please do also make Documentries for Indian Vedic Period.🙏🙏🙏
Wow 🥺 So Much Support ❤️❤️❤️
43:33 look, its the first frowny face emoji
It didn't matter that the sound was out of sync, I couldn't take my eyes off Bettany
Love the way you tell those fascinating stories!!! Very intersting for sure ;)
Wonderful content and great presentation on Old Historical Ages
it’ll be such a game changer when we can finally read their writing
If ever definitively.
They know the alphabet. It's only the hiroglyphs that are unknown
It would definitely be a moment of marvel. There are other european sites as old as these or even older in the region of eastern europe though. In the lands of serbia, hungary, romania, ukraine there are the cucuteni-tripillian and the tordas-vinca civilizations stretching back to the 5th millenea BC. Some of their cities consisted of several thousand buildings, they had sophisticated pottery, bronze tools, irrigation, animal husbandry, agriculture and about 150 pictograms for writing.
we can read it for the most part, it's pretty similar to the deciphered linear B, just we don't really know what any of it means
I wouldn't hold my breath.
It wasn't just the Minoan civilization that disappeared. Didn't almost all of the civilizations disappear during the Bronze Age Collapse. Egypt barely held on and the Assyrians kind of survived, but the Neo-Assyrians had become unusually violent and ruthless even for the ancient near east.
Once again - Bettany and Odyssey - Wonderful.
@38:07 : Listen carefully to the cicadas. We had the same sound in the South of France, 25 years ago. Now there's the SILENCE, even in the forest. Insects are disappearing from our eyes and ears.
Edit: The documentary is from 2003.
@@alizaize As a biochemist, I know that the cicada cycle of life is 17 years as a buried larva. But there's always a roll, that's why we can hear cicadas every year.
Our forests have slowly become silent as well as birds.
*In the South of France the water is highly contaminated with pesticides* -contamination by land-spreading or spraying by helicopter : *Tap water is forbidden for babies, children and the elderly.* People are plagued with neurological, immunological, ophthalmic and bone diseases.
Everywhere in the world, check your car's windshield & front bumper : no more crushed insects…
We recently fought against an open-air industrial waste dump on the plateau of Valensole, place of its infamous lavender crops.
So please, spare me your dark sense of humor.
Wonderful Bettany. Thank you for your work. It's about time I got more interested in ancient man as I am ultra interested in ancient religions.
I am going to Knossos in around 12 hours I cannot wait!
How was it?
How was it?
10:42 To hell with the Minioans !
She is one fine bird !
Dear Bettany & crew well done and thank you.
I must agree. Her voice is soothing to my needs
I could watch Bettany all day.
Me too
Touo o Terr e I’m r w e birthday
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@@whataplonker82 me too 😁
Beautifully done. As I understand it, Minos' prayer to Poseidon was his entry in a praying contest with his 2 brothers, Rhadamanthes and Sarpedon, to decide the succession on the death of thier father, King Altheus.. As to the 'conversation' twixt Pasiphae and the little white bull, Robert Graves puts it thus; "... and Pasiphae had all her desire" 😜.. A very enjoyable and informative film, this. V glad I subscribed to this channel! 🌟👍
Thanks you for this fascinating documentation!
Simply outstanding series.
The Island of the Minotaur is a wonderful adventure into ancient Crete and Society. . .
Hi, could you please re-upload this video?🙏🏻 the audio is out of sync and makes it hard to watch.
I could watch these just to admire Bettany
Love a good ancient history documentary, i had such a crush on Bethany which made it twice the fun
you have a wonderful rich voice and you tell a story with great excitement. i admire you so much.
Bro the audio isn't synced how'd ya'll not catch this
it does synch up eventually.
Perhaps because the video is displayed years ago. And since light travels faster than sound so it takes us more time to see the footage than to hear the voices…🤔
@@philchinamusical That's cleared that up for me (TIL) Hahahahha.
Thank you for this
Excellent video. The presenter speaks clearly and definitely knows what she’s talking about. It doesn’t hurt that she’s easy on the eyes too. Here’s to you Bettany Harris.
Love your work. Thank you.
I was tdy to Crete back in the fifties. I visited the Knosis, it was fascinating.
Very well done. Insightful and full of revealing intelligence.
Bettany Hughes, the goddess who came from over the sea.
I've seen this documentary a few times (but watching it again because it's awesome). Bettany Hughes is amazing! She presents quite a few different documentaries about the Minoans and the Thera cataclysm :D
The photography in this is breathtaking!
I always find it amazing to see amazing buildings still being in such good shape. Amazingly beautiful and everything calculated and built by hand. I definitely know what place I will visit next :)
Don't forget, all the "buildings" are reconstructions, sometimes based the shapes already present but other times based on guesswork. For example, the inverted pillars, narrower at the bottom than the top, were Arthur Evans's idea.
The presentation was great and I look forward to more insight into Crete.
Oh Bethany you were always archeologies top tottie!!!
Interesting love history the stones shall speak and they do so well.
Bettany is like a goddess herself...
Making history interesting...again!
Enjoyed your presentation
🌹Beautifully narrated thank you🌹🌹🌹
"If there's a grain of Truth alongside of this Cock n Bull"
@7:53😳
😅🤣😂🤣
I'm sure she was figuratively speaking
🤣😂🤣
But then, everything changed when the Mycenean Nation attacked.
Attacked who ? The myceneans never attacked the minoans...The latter disappeared most likely as a result of the Thera volcano eruption .
@@Lalakis No, the Minoans were around for (estimated) 150 more years after the Thera eruption.
And after the Myceneans arrived, the Minoan culture still influenced the culture of the newcomers/conquerers.
AhAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I’m crying ahahhahahahahah
No, literally the fire nation attacked
Omg! A JoJo reference!!
Been there, wasn't really old enough to appreciate it.
'Bettany Hughes' is the most recent pseudonym of the Goddess Circe. So she knows well of what she speaks!
Beautiful presentation by a most beautiful presenter, Bettany you are awesome.❤
Excellent Production. 👍👍👍
the historian babe! awsome
Not so much babe anymore thou, this is 15 years old
The whole thing is trash dude. Wrong information constantly, mispronunciation constantly, and the fact that not one bit of the audio and video match is absolutely ridiculous! Trash!
She tells a mean tale
@@sebastianlagstrom2117 This is a bullshit comment.
@@sebastianlagstrom2117 still a banger as we are all 15 years older too
Thank you for sharing darling.
Bettany Hughes: Smart x Beautiful = Oh So Sexy. I never knew how much I needed to learn about Minoans before!
Ahh! The stunningly beautiful Mrs Evans again - and in my favourite historical enigma.
Definitely it was a death defying feat to leap over an enormous bovine with huge horns. It must have been a godly encounter to these ancient people!
bettany hughes makes archeology and ancient history quite ZEXY!!
Nice video...nature of lives is continues struggle among factors which created lives and besides living continues for that old civilisations disclosed struggles in their painting and framing through struggle between human and legend creatures but recently civilisations disclose lives struggle through accounts numbers.......behind most legends there were hiding historical stories..hardly discoverer...thanks for sending it was enjoyable video
If Bettany was my history teacher, I think I would have paid a whole lot more attention!
It tells me everything I need to know about Minotaurs.
I have been following your classes since the COVID lockdown and I began to practice every night Two years later I'm still practicing every night. Your min cue classes are my favourite and I have to be honest I find it difficult to follow classes where they talk now . Please, please can we have some more minimum cues
Great video! The audio sync needs to be fixed, FYI.
I've been waiting for this doc to resurface, it's been gone from youtube for a while.
Really ejoyed this insight 👍😊
The explosion of Santorini seems to have done a number on the Minoans as well, but doesn't seem to be touched upon here except for the mention of the earthquakes that were probably caused by it. It was an economic disaster for the entire Agean.
It was part of a series and it tackled the subject in another episode
Spent 3 weeks on this beautiful island.
"Mais ce sont des parisiennes."
That had me laughing!
He was not wrong.
Bettany Hughes, what a beautiful and clever woman.
46:52
Why tho?
Many great and sophisticated cultures practiced human sacrifice in their religious beliefs.
The Michenean themselves did that too, as well as early post dark age greeks.
The various cultures from the middle east as far as the fertile crescent also practiced these rituals.
The various mesoamerican cultures were highly sophisticated and advanced, but they did that too as we all know.
Thinking that the Minoans would not do It just because of their relatively advanced culture doesn't really mean anything.
They probably also practiced ritual cannibalism of small children, probably to ensure the fertility of their crops or something like that.
The idea of a nice nature goddess Is a very modern invention...
The earth mother was way more chaotic and demanding in the minds of the many religions of the time.
Asking for blood in exchange for the survival of the many seems like a very logical idea for the time if It would satisfy the gods for another year.
The Minoans most likely worshipped a Sun God and a mother goddess as their primary deities.
It's possible, according to some theories, that the minotaur and It's rituals are nothing more than a demonization of the old gods of Creete.
An important creetan figure in greek mithology Is a bronze giant that the Creetans reveared as a sun God, that often appeared as a bronze bull, but Who Is killed by some greek gods or heroes.
Amazing documentary. You guys really need more subs
came to learn about the minotaur.....stayed for the seductive narrator
... I needed to give back the white bull ...! I my goodness ... now Bettany Hughes with her purple dress will be haunting me all my days ...
Fascinating 🤟🏾😲🤯😁🔥🔥🔥🔥❤❤❤❤
To have such a vision fulfilled!!!! Imagine!!!!
bethany welcome back --love your narration -- as well as your beauty
The minotaur is a metaphor of the psyche, the labyrinth of the mind and the animalistic tendencies that torture the human (hue=spirit, manas=mind) soul
He seems closer to the shadow aspect of the psyche, those animalistic tendencies as you mention that we often forget to acknowledge afraid that they may be too revealing, too shocking for us to handle. When Theseus enters the labyrinth he's been aided by Ariadne (also Ariagne, the "purest one"), probably a former goddess that plays the role of his anima. As he confronts the Minotaur (his name was Asterion) Theseus possibly confronts his basic instincts so to become more complete, more human. Karl Kerenyi in one of his great books, sees the labyrinth as some sort of a ritual dance, a labyrinth can be signified in many ways in ancient artifacts, simpler ones, like a spiral or a meander.
It’s a shame that Evans made so many irreversible “interpretations”. He also assemble most of the frescoes incorrectly. Modern archaeologists would never concrete-up an archaeological site.
Kimberly I totally disagree, just like Chariots of the Gods in 1969 (it think it came out). I rea it in the early 1990s (when I discovered I loved ancient history) Even though I disagree with a fair number of what the author said, it would have never sparked, inspired, and created an atmosphere for people like Graham Hancock, whose uttely brilliant book Fingerprint of the Godsm would have never come out. So, even though we later learned the Evan's misinterpretated/misunderstood his findings, he inspired people to want/desire/and need to investigate his findings even more and more throroughly.
Plenty of interpretation in this lecture as well, little to support it.
What do you mean by concrete-up the site? I'm interested.
@@craigslivka1 Graham Hancock is a crank.
@@leenorman853 that is your opinion, and you are entitled to it. I, however, happen to agree with many things that Mr. Hancock has said. Not all of them. Unfortunately, big sweeping generalizations like saying someone is a crank is way too vague and mainstream idealogy to be of much value. Your opinion is noted. I have read several of Mr. Hancock's books and find the ideas, suggestions, and possibilities to be things to be discussed and debated over, and simply swept under the rug, so to speak. I read back (sometime in the early 1990s) the book (I believe) started all the rediscovery in research, "Chariots of the Gods". Even though I disagree with much of the book, the seeds of eye-opening thoughts and possibilities were planted, so that people like Mr. Hancock could write and share his thoughts on expanding them as well. One of the things that I enjoy about Graham's books/docs is that he brings along experts in different scientific fields to either prove or disprove what he is saying. That always leads to interesting discussions as opposed to merely saying somebody is a crank. Again, your statement is your opinion, and you are definitely entitled to it, but I hope at the very least, you might begin the possibility to rethink the statement, and possibly see if you might be somewhat (maybe not entirely) mistaken.
Judging from their art, I just picture Crete as an island full of pretty women. The flower girls are gorgeous
It's not just that it was full of pretty women, but most archaeologists these days conclude women had equal or even higher social standing then men in Minoan society. This is an stark contrast to Mycenaean society which was deeply patriarchal. Just imagine what the Mycenaean must have done when they conquered the island. Not pretty to think about.
@@1idd0kun wow, yeah, you have a point that Ive never even considered. Might've been bloooody.
There were Africans
@@moorishsociety7339 *crap alert*
@@moorishsociety7339 GFY.
She just look like The Mummy actress with Tom cruise such charm and inquisitive with boldness.
Given the lack of Royal statues, I'm thinking maybe Crete was a theocracy?
Great video except for the huge synchronisation issue between video and audio!
Fantastic!
"but; it's actually, . . not--that--megalo"
I happen to be on Crete now. There's no hard evidence that King Minos ruled Crete. Arthur Evans shoehorned the myth to fit the archeology. Whoever they were, they were impressive.
Awesome history. Thanks. But please improve on the audio synching up with the lip movement. I've noticed it on a few Odessy films now. Great content but its really bad synching.
Im fascinated by the palces not only of Cnossos also of phaistos mallia
I see Bethany Hughes on the thumbnail, I click to see the video.
Doesn't even matter that the audio is out of sync 😅
Hideous audio sync problem with this video. Please fix!
Bethany :)