Ancient Athens: The Rise Of The Most Influential Society In History | Metropolis
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- Athens gave the world its modern political system - the birth of “democracy” is a long and complicated yet utterly galvanizing process. Even the Gods have a say in worldly doings. The city beneath the Acropolis becomes the very cradle of western culture.
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As an American I was a guest of Greece for 7 1/2 years. It is the best country I've ever been with all its history and people.
Thanks, mate. We Greeks calling ourselves the most Philoxenia-friendly ( hospitality ) people doesn't count as much as foreigners who experienced it and confirm.
Had a Canadian friend who was a guest there for 3 years, but he didn’t see too much. Bars got in the way. I’d love to see Greece and the islands,but it will never happen for me. Never flown in a commercial plane anywhere. If I can’t drive there, I won’t go.
@@Jack-wi5qr lol jump on a boat then .
Flying isn't that bad , man up .
How are the women out there?? Its the only reason i travel
@@robd1329 Can't answer that on the grounds I might incriminate myself.
The historical significance of this event cannot be overstated. It was a pivotal moment that shaped the course of history.
Important? Have you looked around the democracies around the world lately? They are a joke.
Dagnabbit!!! And I just slept through it.
My brain at 3am "wake up it's time to learn some history"
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Great documentary ! Eternal glory to our formidable ancestors. For preserving and delivering our Ancient Greek heritage of millenniums, throughout the centuries. 🔥🇬🇷
Happy to state that we visited each of the locations mentioned in this video earlier this year on our vacation. We also went to Delphi, amazing history and people in Greece, loved it!
After 476 AD we have the Byzantine Empire, also Greek, named by the Greek colony of Byzantas - Byzantium is the city Constantinople (he was near Megara). Many people didn't know that all Turkey was Greek before 1453. These places were Greek since the colonization of Asia Minor in 1200 BC !
My wish as a Puerto Rican lover of Greek history is for Ephesus, Ionia, Constantinople, Adrianople etc to be returned to Greek sovereignty. Where they rightfully belong. Hey!
One can wish, right?
I think that it Would Be Fantastic to see the Acropolis and Parthenon FULLY RESTORED to it's MAGNIFICANCE of when it was new and in color!!!
.. It is ..
Tell the British museum that!
It would lose its historical Value then...
Many think likewise, but it was a battle even to make Parthenon paraplegic-friendly by placing an elevator on the side of the hill. Many want it untouched, as-is, almost religiously. I'd like it to return on its glory but I'm afraid in case it will become just another building since many Western countries adopted the Doric rhythm.
There is a replica of the Parthenon at Centennial Park, Nashville TN. Constructed of plaster, wood, and brick for the 1897 Centennial Exposition, it was rebuilt in concrete between 1920 and 1931. A full scale sculpture (fiberglass and plaster on a steel and aluminum frame) of Athena Parthenos was completed in 1990.
Goddess Athena wasn't the goddess of victory, she was the goddess of wisdom, olive tree, strategy and war, yet, the Parthenon was made in her honor for the victory of Greece against the Persian empire.
Nike' is goddess of victory and strength, which is the lil statue in athenas hand
Unfortunately that's only one of the many small mistakes in this documentary.
Hello from Athens, Greece 🇬🇷 I'm very happy that finally you have found that Athens has shaped more like anything else the modern society and civilization !!!! I'm glad that you finally found us !!!!! Thank you!!! 🙏🏽🇬🇷
WHERE have you been?! There have been NUMEROUS Books,movies, documentaries, etc. OVER THE CENTURIES!!! WHY do you think that all these various European countries HAVE all those sculptures and other works of art and literature?!
We were taught in school about Athens. As an American, I've long known it the the cradle of our western civilization. I don't know what they teach now.
Been reading a lot about the Greek world.would love to visit it one day
Do it the Greek way
What happened to making documentaries like this these days. I love late 90s to late 00s way they made them. I can't be the only person.
I much appreciated that being searching for this kind of videos. I love ancient Greek culture. I was wondering if you could share about ancient Greek and roman religions?
All the more astonishing that it still stands after 2,500 years, considering how subject Greece is to earthquakes.
And destruction of foreign empires. The Ottomans used the Acropolis as a munition storage space. And one day it blew up. The Greecs never heard sorry for that. What's quite telling about the Ottomans.
@@dirkgonthier101 No way! I never heard that. Wow!
@@seanferguson5460 Well, it happened. That's one of the reason the Greecs really don't like the Turks.
It’s funny how much nothing has changed after more than two-thousand years.
Think about it; the rich and powerful still struggle to outdo each other, while those who do the actual work still struggle, just to get by.
Those who do the work now are better off then any other time
That's logical. Cause humans remain humans. Just the technology advanced. Not the humans.
@Hooligan capitalism? 😂
@@thucydides7849 you ever do drywall? 😂
Working people still have malnutrition. We still live with the threat of war hanging over us. We still put up class barriers and give priviege on skin and hair color, how much money your papa had, and where your ancestors came from. We haven't come very far in 3,000 years, considering all we have been given.
But our music got better.
We have better guitars band pianos.
We did yesterday grade the wheel with the wing.
And my college professors never thoroughly read and understood Socrates or Plato or Aristotle.
Plato, the Republic, Books 2-3, "Cause of Injustice by a state" explains why we have wars, and conversely, the formula for world peace. Its never taught in schools.
Love learning about the ancient world, especially the Greeks
we all do love learning about the Overrated Greeks
@@starcapture3040 Why did you said that Greeks are overrated?? I'm Greek and i live in Athens and I reassur you that we are not overrated,never was and i don't think will ever be...The opposite,We are underrated and everyone knows that...!!!!! 🙏🏽🇬🇷
@@ninak1352 you are overrated in so many things for the simple reason of what 19 century romantic hellenism have given us . GREEKS CREATED EVERYTHING! this myth was created to sponsor the myth of the modern western civilization where it mysteriously it have had a cradle a dot a place in history where it came from but in truth it never was.
@@starcapture3040 They pretty much invented everything
@@kliljkip3184 They pretty much Borrowed everything from the middle east
I see many people bothered about the importance of Greek culture in the whole world.
Greek philosophy was the base of every philosophical movement in Europe ever since.
Influencing not only Romans, and later Renaissance and the West but it was equally important in the eastern Europe though the Byzantine empire transmitted to the Slavic people such as Serbia, Russia (via the Orthodox Byzantine culture)
Greek philosophy and science was equally important for the early Islam which during its golden age made serious observations and discussions on ancient Greek philosophy and scientific breakthroughs which in their turn transmitted it to the whole Muslim world.
Greek philosophy before all that had reached India, influencing the Indian philosophy creating new philosophical movements.
The Greek art produced the first anthropocentric image of Buddha while before Buddha could only be represented by a written form.
Theater - Mathematics - Architecture - The idea that everything should be examined by logic without religion being involved - Democracy and the belief that people could govern their state by their elected leaders and not some king or an aristocracy.
Greeks experimented in order to prove that something is indeed and set a rule that experiment is demanded to test the validity of anything.
Their ways affected not only their known world but through the people they influenced, their ideas reached the whole world...whether in Christian Europe, Islamic World, Indian subcontinent or in the modern period through the USA.
A truly universal culture that almost all people today around the world has more or less a cultural connection to the ideas they came up.
@@eman3815 The early Islamic schools as also the Christian ones were reading Plato, Aristotle, Heron, Socrates, the Cynics etc and they made quite a lot of accounts taking the ancient Greek conversation further for universal subjects in accordance to their new faiths and many Islamic and Christian aspects were created being heavily influenced from the ancient Greek thought, something that common people today can't recognize or see clearly unless they read about it. Isn't secret that the golden age of Islam had some of the best literary schools and libraries of the time...having in their disposal thousand of ancient Greek manuscripts. Isn't also secret that famous Muslim authors produced philosophical works commenting on Aristotle, Socrates, Plato and made syncretism with Islamic teachings, as Christians did.
@@eman3815 Have u made a deep research on the subject or you just think so because in your mind is simply like: ancient Greeks=pagans, Islam=monotheism and you consider by that simplicity that philosophy was too different?
No, it made an impact and that's not my impression, that's a universal truth for the scholars of islam
@@eman3815 Maybe you need to make your own reading about this bro
I can just see those Ancients looking down from Heaven and saying “ damn, will you look at those tools, imagine what we could have built if we’d had those” !!!
The rise of Athens to a leading position was due to democracy. Which led to an unparalleled blossoming of the Arts and Sciences of the 4th and 5th century B.C. They spread their culture across the Mediterranean, influencing such cities as Rome, who of course, would then go on to change the world forever. 🤔
Rome not a democracy though
There was a time when the senators of rome could be chosen by the people but then came the dictatorships of the emperors, if I'm not mistaken.
It was a republic at times yes
After the period of early kings, Rome was a Republic for some 600 years. Their political system was a hybrid of the Athenian and Spartan systems of government. It was not a democracy at any stage.
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Anyone else just found these videos & absolutely addicted to them? I love learning all about ancient society 😊
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Democracy - when a woman beats blasphemy charges by stripping for lawmakers
Sounds about right 😏
Throw the first stone..or go home time. 🫡
After watching at around 33:00, I will be drinking beer from a kylix from now on.
Should probably say in Europe in the title. Even the video points that out. Because Athens didn't change much if anything in say China.
Yeah, if one were to strech it you coukd ssy that Athens wete the spark that started western civilization and via that changed the whole world. Even east Asia even the the flow between Europe and east Asia has been mutual.
Athens gave birth to modern western civilization, which changed the whole world
Lol, you people are always trying to say something extra smart and end up exposing your lack of perspective
Lol, people like Spartan265 are always trying to say something extra smart and end up exposing their lack of perspective
Actually it did
Through the British Greek ( Hellenism ) spread through out the British Empire.
So Hellenism spread east into Asia- northern Europe - the New World( North and South America )
And it continues to spread even today through out the world
great documentary thank you
British as well helped a lot spreading Greek culture, keeping the flame alive. I like their passion about our history. And from there, it later spread to US universities, likewise, and so on. The Greek heritage is a de facto Western heritage and we should all be proud about.
Take back your city Greek. Hagia Sophia calls for her Romans to return.
When will Britain return the “Elgin marbles”?
exactly. many European languages have a significant linguistical foundation in Greek, including my own (Swedish language).
I wouldn't feel pride about the rich gaining more and more wealth, indigents are struggling more than ever, and the middle-class is almost completely wiped out. Democracy is a joke.
@@margyrowlandIt's the Parthenon marbles, Elgin is the guy who stole them and using his name on these marbles is wrong and unethical.
You don't understand the meaning of the phrase 'its hot outside' until you have been in Athens in August...
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You haven't been to Tucson lol
Biloxi in the summer.
Tampa Florida and I beg for November
Baha! I live in Australia. We regularly get 56°c days here over Xmas thru to March
Shout to Curiosity Stream for starting a big thing some years ago, I first saw this feature on their channel. Good stuff. Really got me psyched to keep learning.
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth
Britain remains in disgrace for not returning the “Elgin marbles” to Greece.
The Acrópolis museum was built to receive them when the British Museum claimed that the Marbles could not be accomodated in Greece. Still won't return them!
Spread Sofia Nikolaou all around the globe
Sorry, the Marbles wouldn't have survived if they hadn't been taken to a place of safety, away from the pollution, upheaval and chaos of the last couple of centuries!!!
Nobody cares 😊
@@anngray9171 but the ones they didn't take survived just fine. what are you on about?
I’m still more impressed by a Federal Republic than a Democracy.
So Federal Republics like USA, Canada, Germany, Mexico, India, Argentina, Brazil, Austria (to name a few) are not Democracies??? LMAO
Great Work!
that was made 19yrs ago. how is the reconstruction going of the Acropolis and the Propylaea today?
The restoration work on the Temple of Athena Nike was completed in 2010. Ongoing conservation & restoration efforts continue to be made on other buildings on the site.
Really good camera work. Always moving.
I'm excited to visit Greece this year!
Thank you for these documentaries. I feel ancient Greece and Rome are more respected and remembered in UK than in modern Greece and Italy.
When more linguistics get new as it ages..visitors there are all human by Jove!
It would be nice if the UK respected ancient Greece enough to return the stolen pieces of Greek history that are displayed in English museums back to their home.
@@lancealot1745 You should thank them for taking good care of the sculptures. If it was up to you, you would have sold them off to Germans by now.
@@lancealot1745 they were saved by the UK
@@jellymulderyou can not save yourselfs from the thugs in your streets
Still blown away
I love the computer recreation!
This was a great watch!
Very interesting
Nice documentary but earthen floors are not that bad. They breathe, have good thermal properties and are soft to the touch.
They sweep verry nicely, nothing wrong at all. I agree
@@builtnotboughtmadeinphilip3955 Haha yeah.. and god forbid you spill liquid on them :D
The Tohono O'odham in Arizona know how to keep earthen floors clean.
I went there last year for vacation!
It was not a democracy if only 25% of the people was considered a citizen, it was an aristocracy that knew how to justify itself
2500 yrs before was a Democracy
When rest empires or states using slaves
It’s great to hear from Greek architects and craftsmen, rather than having some British or German. As in the ancient past, there is incredible architectural and engineering talent in Greece, even if they don’t speak English, I’d much rather hear from them, just get a translator. Only a Hellene (Greek) really understands.
Nice production values but content is weak. Video has little to do with the grandiose title.
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 50:02
Yeah, i remember this, good old times
Well done, excellent.
Fascinating.
Just a point you say they only had spacific tools. I think that is wrong since you can never really know what tools you don't know about they had to use.
That dudes eyebrows are…mighty
Mind blown away
Thank you for this ....big smiles from me .
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@@Mossyz. hi there what’s your name and where are you from?
@@schwozraymond7524 Bro first of all that is a literal DOLL in her profile picture, and also you are a very creepy person. Go away
7:07 the Atom huh? I knew it. Atom is Adam from Genesis.
Atom: first particle
Adam: first man
Even the star of David and symbol for the Atom are the same hexagram like design. The Atom symbol is just more curved.
What lame bs are you blabbering about
Thank You
Better is the story that it was Praxiteles, who was charged with impiety, and that it was he who stripped the garment fom Phryne - more dramatic.
Were they speaking Latin in the judicial court, with Freni? Or was it ancient Greek?
Which year?..
What is the name of the Actress who plays Phryne? Was she on a British documentary on sea ships? Just curious. Ty.
Catherine Dajczman
@@bxbengali omg... thats her. Tyvm. I checked she was not on the other documentary.
What a great film(episode?) Such an interesting time
All the Greek philosophers went to Egypt to be inducted into the mysteries. They called Ethiopia the land of the gods.
no they dont
Stop poisoning and intoxicating all cultures and civilizations that flourished around the world only to satisfy your inferiority complex
Plato go to Egypt to study Hermetic studies.
5:48 What a set of brows!! Lool
Of Europe*
Amen
Too loud music
Hi dear, lovely video. Could you please let me know the Aristotle statue location in Athens, I am planning to go in November, found on internet Socrotes and Plato statues location at Academy of Athens. Please help if anyone knows. Regards
I think they should fully repair and restore all important ruins. You'll learn tons doing it.
And if you think about it, at what point is the official 'ruin'. Every year you flash back in time it slowly rebuilds itself if you know what I mean.
The rich STILL have considerably more power in our current democrasies. Why would we expect it to have been different back then? We lowly members of society get to (or have to) vote, but it's the rich that always get the spoils, seemingly no matter who is elected.
Interestingly the birth civilisation and democracy was born in Greece at the time when the Zoroastrian Achaemenid occupied it. A lot of the Greek gods are depictions of the old Sumerian/Hittite gods. From Marduk as Hercules and Zues as Enki.
What western history lacks, is that all modern civilisation actually started in the Mesopotamia. Probably in the city of Mesopotamia and Fertile Crescent Riha/Urfa. With the find of Gire Mirazan.
Yeah and we are all in from Africa and because of that internet and democracy are African inventions lol. Democracy became a thing in Greece.
Show proof of the modern civilization there in the middle east.there isn't.no democracy there.another culture.
Is that the voice of Sir Radzig Kobyla?? iykyk
The well was where Persian emissaries were kicked down into.
That was Sparta not Athens
@@raidang Copy. Thanks. Ever the student, I am. Aloha. 🤙🏽🕉☯️🙏🏽💙🌊⚓️
Was anyone else tripped out by that opening title sequence? Totally out of left field.
I wish I could’ve seen Ancient Athens during its golden age
Golden Point - The flywheel, clutch, gear wheels, gear box, transmission shaft, differential gears and differential are only used to waste as much power as possible and are wholly unnecessary ( El )
Senate house? I think for classical Athens, he must mean the Bouleterion.
Yes, he meant that, but he used it so that people can understand. Earlier in the video he even clarifies the Boule is the Senate of the 500
I'm going to ignore the minor errors and focus on the most annoying and perpetuated misconception of all. We frequently hear about the existence of slaves in ancient Greece, followed by stories about their ability to purchase their own freedom. No one asks the question of where the slaves got the money to buy anything, let alone their freedom. Plato in Laws, 742a, tells us that the ΔΟΥΛΟΙ were getting paid. Even the "expert" at 28.40 asserts that the slaves were getting paid, and some of them held prestigious positions. Are you listening to yourselves? ¾ of the population being salves! Now, swap the word “slave” with the word "laborer,” and it all makes sense. “ΔΟΥΛΟΣ” means laborer, not slave. Also, in the mines worked convicted criminals. They did not get paid.
Thanx for the video.
I think that Athens and the Roman society shaped modern society. I think you can take things from the Romans and the Greeks that contributed to modern society and Democracy. I enjoy learning about the ancient world. One of my favorite things about the Greek culture beyond their temples and their art is the lighthouse at Alexandria. To me the lighthouse and the Port of Alexandria are amazing 🤩.
Yes complete opposite of u guys it's called Opposites attraction
I'll have to download and watch this later, so much I never knew, though I recall that it was fairly intact until the 17th or 18th century when gunpowder and weapons being stored within it exploded causing much of the damage now evident.
It is also known, that Athens relied heavily on mercenary armies and that foreigners also were enlisted in war in exchange of citizenship. Slaves also fought in war, although is debated if they were forced by their masters, or did it voluntarily. I'm not sure why this fact was skipped on this documentary.
Great video!
This is an old historical view. There are other players in setting the historical foundations for the modern world
30:54 anybody else see the optical illusion of the pottery going inwards instead of outwards?😳😏😂👍🏽😎✌🏽
interesting place
Does anyone know how old this documentary is? When was it first released?
It says "2003" at the end of the documentary.
Istanbul was modern later on it could also be one of the world’s first modern cities
Is it a modern city even today?
Konstantinoupol of the Orthodox Roman Empire.
@@konstantinoskyriakidis7510 Konstantin was (East)Rom - and had nothing todo with Greeks or similar ... 😉✌🏻🇪🇺
Istanbul is not modern at all its chaotic city since day one and full of slums
@@DecinergyAt ancient Greece was part of the Roman empire centuries before Constantine became the emperor. So therefore by the time Byzantium came to power the lands that were ancient Greece were Roman for a very long time.
Is this is two programs spliced together??
they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Title : ancient Athens
*shows coliseum and Carthage*
Architecture is not philosophy. Since these buildings in the first 20 minutes of your presentation are not the beginning of modern society, I'm hoping you get around to the philosophy of the Greeks. So far, it seems a huge bait and switch. I clicked to find discussion on the ideas that formed society, and all that is delivered is an archeology study of Greek buildings. Interesting in its own right, but label it accordingly, Timeline.
actually, it was not a cradle. The problem is that the Middle East, especially the north, really, created the knowledge that "Athenians" used and copied. but those parts suffered from immense volcano eruption and then later drought. so society could not recover. they did not forget but there was no reason to use them. on top of everything, they get invaded by periphery tribes. only Egypt is mostly isolated from that. what Athenians did was to copy them
The problem is that the only thing that "Athenians" could not copy from the middle east was Democracy..
@@rolfs4743 what democracy??? where?? in athens there was none
You can always count on a jealous Turk for a few "niceties" about the ancient Greek civilization. Well, in the absence of your own...there is a reason we call it democracy and not kirli-birli-türlülü.
hahahahahahahahaha. to get rich with the trade you need the hinterland. greece does not have and never had. on top of that many so-called philosophers of greece were in fact in exile at the time. only can return to greece at end of their life. for example. trigonometry. it used in middle east and egypty for thousands of years. but mostly for land measuring. not used for any thing else mostly. when this knowledge come to greece since they did not have land they try to use It for every thing. that is all
How come y'all still live in mud huts then?
Title is misnomer.
The beginning of this video sounds like davy jones theme.
I agree let's have it look like it did when it was new? Do we always have to make this stuff look like it was blown up? I think the ancient Greeks would want it that way.
What lead Athens or Greece to become the first democracy, birthplace of philosophy and science and modern society... What were the underlying factors? These questions still need to be answered...
Athenian here. I can answer any question you might pose at an exorbitant fee. Notify me if you are still interested in gaining more precious insight. Thank you for your time.
;Plumbline-bumline ! Those folk made the Antikythera mechanism, and are suspected of possessing the steam engine
Just imagine what they could have achieved if all of Greece was united as one.
"the metal work of the Sarakiniai sword" is what he says and the (not auto-generated) subtitles translate that to "(mumbles)". 🙄🙄
Question Everything
I question democracy. Rule by majority means…. Who do we diminish or kill next?
@@Sierrahtl Does rule by minority mean any different?
@@Sierrahtl, that's the beauty of democracy, question it as you like...but also offer something better.
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Athena is not the Goddess of victory... Nike is !
Ancient Athens shape the world foreve with western ideas r, ATHENS IS BELLYBUTTON OF PLANET EARTH. RESPECT .
What about Egypt?????
How do you spend 3 years studying a well? Who pays this guy anyway?
hey, dig a well in your backyard, found a thriving civilization around it that will shape the development of the Western world and not only for the next 2500 years and your well will also be studied for 3 years in 25 centuries' time. It's that simple.
@@sir_humpy in 25 centuries someone like you will be over paid to guess. It’s really that simple.
Another proof that no great building was ever built without slaves or a cheap labour!😢