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- Hello! I'm an American on a quest to learn more about history, geography and the universe in general. In this video we start our journey into the ancient world, starting off with a little knowledge test of the Greek alphabet, and then doing a quick overview of the ancient Greek civilization. Alexander the Great, the Byzantine, and the Persian Empire are included, along with the great philosophers like Aristotle. We also touch on the rivalry between Sparta and Athens, and learn a bit about the very first democracy in human history. If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe!
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Can you watch the Spanish Civil War by Featured History, please?
George Orwell wrote a riveting account of his time with the International Brigade during the Spanish civil war...E
Speaking of ancient history, I would love to see a reaction to Historia Civilis , the creator has a great sense of humor and his videos on Rome and Caesar (as well as England's King Charles randomly) are very informative and entertaining. He uses primary sources almost exclusively so you get a less filtered version from the historical record.
Also, opposite of ancient history; I remember you mentioned how you were interested in rockets during one of the Napoleon videos, and Epic History has a couple episodes on the making of the Saturn V moon rocket. It would be a awesome to see videos on those too!
Edited for spelling
you should watch a channel called Baz Battles and his alexander the great videos
Also, the Epic History video on Alexander the Great's speech during the Opis Mutiny is about the most epic (see what I did there, no apologies) narration I've ever heard. Whenever I want some motivation it's where I go!
The Macedonians weren’t relatives of the Greeks. They were Greeks. Of the Dorian Tribe. In fact they were very ancient Greeks.
And nobody considered them as “semi barbarians”, except from Demosthenes who also consider the Aetolians and the Spartans to be “semi barbarians”, because all Dorians were not fond of Democracy and also because they use to work by themselves in their own fields, instead of using slaves.
What Demosthenes said about them
Wasn’t an ethnic “view”, but a political one.
His Oligarchic rival, Isocrates, a famous philosopher and Orator, asked king Philip of Macedonia to UNITE all Greeks
Epic History Tv made a series about Alexander the Great and his conquests!
And Russian alpabet is indeed based on Greek:
А Б В Г Д Е Ж З И К Л М Н О П Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Э Ю Я
See any familiarity :)
It's even more than the alphabet. The Eastern Roman empire (the Byzantine empire, culturally mainly Greek) influenced Eastern Europe during the middle ages, the same way the Western Roman empire influenced Western and Central Europe. The Russian empire was supposed to be the successor of the Byzantine empire after it fell, but well, everyone wanted to be the successor of the Roman empire in a way.
Maps from the middle-ages have the Byzantine Empire labeled as "ROMANIA" .. Romania was the contemporary name for Byzantine. .. To the Chinese, the Ottomans were still the Romanians. Because to them the region "Asia Minor and Balkans" was Romania. It didn't matter what "faction" in their eyes happened to be controlling it.
I see pain.
Оld church Slavonic alphabet bares even more similarities with the Greek one! Unfortunately Greek letters like Ι, Ξ, Θ, Ψ, Ω, Y feel out of use!
A thing like "Russian alphabet" doesn't exist. It is called the Bulgarian alphabet created in the 9th century, given to Russia in the 14th century. Don't disrespect it, thanks :)
I studied Latin for 9 years and Ancient Greek for 5 years at English private school, having to translate passages from Homer's Iliad at 'O' level was a nightmare that I still remember very clearly. Love your work!! :)
As a Greek, I would like to extend my sincerest apologies.
As a greek, I cannot translate even 1 full sentence from ancient Greek.
OHHHHH YESSS. ANCIENT HISTORY, I WAS WAITING FOR THIS REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Study enough maths and you will learn the whole Greek alphabet, and may even start on to the Hebrew alphabet as well.
Yes. Thats why the old and new testimonts are written in greek.
Or you simply learn the alphabet. You don't need math for that.
and physics, and even statistics.
So proud of you. An American who is interested in European culture/history and now Ancient history too? Languages are so much fun, and so many resources are available now on the Internet. The TH-cam of the song from Frozen in Latin, and the sung version of the prayer of Achilles (from Homer), the one with an ocean background, are musts for appreciation.
your language is made from all those ancient languages. Espesially from the mother all of them , Homer . We still speak Homers voice in many many words we inherited. I am proud to speak Homers voice.
I am Greek and i currently learning ancient Greek . It's easier if you already speak modern Greek
If you are spanish or italian, greek becomes so easy
The funny thing is that mykenean greek and old high german and old saxon have many nearly similar words. For example ergon in ancient greek, wergon in mykenean greek and werken in old and modern high german and also in lower german. It means working in english. Ergon in modern greek means project I think but I'm not sure in that. I learnd that all a while ago because of my interest of mykeneans. Funny is also that Equetai in mykenean greek means charioteer or royal household guards and in latin equite were noble riders.
@@jarlnils435 and many other words,for sure they relate with some way. It's many things that we don't know about the history before bronze age.
@@mrkanenas and it's sad that we only know a so small part of it.
@@jarlnils435 it has to be something big, otherwise it wouldn't have been so advanced languages. You don't expect from an not advanced civilizations to create languages that there spoken until today
How do you have a naval battle in those days? Your trireme rams the enemy trireme and tries to sink it, whilst the men on deck throw javelins and loose arrows at one another. The Romans invented a bridge that allowed them to board enemy ships and fight hand-to-hand, which was more suited to them. The bridge is raised and when in range of an enemy ship it is dropped on them. A spike affixed to the bottom bores in to their ship to join both ships together, and the Romans stream across and stabby stab stab.
The other factor is that if you cannot hole the enemy ship, just smashing enough of the oars is enough to effectively disable it, and probably kill or injure many of the rowers. Ancient battles were never fought under sail because they had not yet evolved rigging which enabled them to tack against the wind.
@@davidjones332 Please read the Salaminian Ship battle Greeks and Persians. Please read all the battles between greeks and persians in the medetaranian sea and east aegean sea. Romans had to do nothing yet. Romans came 200 BC.
I took Ancient History at A-level, half of which was Greece around the Peloponnesian war. In the library was a book on the Athenian attempts at the time to set up colonies around the Mediterranean. I read it and took some decent notes, even though it wasn’t a set text. Turned over the exam paper and the first question was on precisely this! Got an A.
React to ”Ancient Rome in 20 minutes” by Arzamas
Tjena. :)
"Historia Civilis" is an absolutely fantastic channel covering the Roman civil wars / transition from republic to empire. His series is much like the one on Napoleon in structure, covering the events episodically. Both the "adventures" Cesar and the politics of the Roman senate are covered in detail in a comprehensible way and fun way. Although his art style is simple the guy is a talented storyteller and you just get hooked watching his videos! I can help sort the videos chronologically if you wish :)
By all means...🙂
Yesss
doesnt Historia Civilis already have chronological playlist for all his videos?
@@KachiAT yeah he does but some of the videos are older and redone with better quality
@@SoGal_YT Here you go :) th-cam.com/play/PL5I9l4881BnZrqIL4dcS1sypJ7lvGMInI.html
NOW you're talking, SoGal! You're studying right down my boulevard. Good for you! Now I'll be really hooked on your videos.
If you want a more political look at the ancient greek cities, I recommend the videos on the Spartan and the Athenian constitution by Historia Civilis. He does really good looks at ancient political history. Loved the video and you're right the guy talks really quickly.
Yup, that was a great one! Explains Greek democracy the best I've ever seen it explained. No smoke and mirror stuff.
Thirded!
Just wanted to say, as a former graphic designer, I like the design of your recent thumbnails. I think they look very nice. The content has been very good too. I'm surprised sometimes at the things you don't know, but that's ok. That's the point of this journey after all.
This is a re-post of a comment I made on one of your earlier videos but it seems more appropriate here:
If you're interested in Ancient history then you should definitely check out Historia Civilis and Invicta. Historia Civilis has a really good series on Rome which explains Rome's political system and the events of the late republic (But be warned it's very long and still on going). He also has a couple videos on Ancient Greece (the constitutions of Sparta and Athens and Macedon's rise to power). Invicta's videos are more like snapshots of significant events and what daily life was like for the Romans like the Siege of Jerusalem or what it was like to go the hairdressers in Ancient Rome.
Second this, both of them are great channels and go into details about Roman elections for example.
Hello i am Greek and i remember that the ships used to ram the enemy ships from the side and sink them! 19:32
The story with "russian" alphabet is that two Greek monks, Ciril and Methodius went on a mission to convert Slavs into Christianity and, as they were all illiterate, they created an alphabet loosely based on the Greek one that incorporated Slavic sounds, but the current Ciryllic alphabet was actually created by their disciples and is much more similar to the Greek than the origilnal Glagolytsa alphabet was
two possible situations during a naval battle in the ancient greek world: the naval ram was introduced about 500 BC, either to ram another ship and therfor get the enemies ship to sink, or to drive by and destroy the enemies ships oars. And you could use bow and burning arrows to set the enemies ship to flames.
Or, as the anciet romans did: get close to an enemies ship, throw a corvus (boarding device) and make it a land battle.
Naval battles back then basically are just ships ramming each other until one sinks. They were built for that.
Thank you so much for all your videos. I love all your series. Very fun and educational.
Appreciate you watching :)
Hi SoGal ... Already looking like this will be a fascinating series ... looking forward to the next video
Interesting Stonehenge Briton 3000BC- a metal goblet has been found with similar design of ones found in Troy suggesting trade existed from Ancient Briton to ancient Greece. Not directly though archaeological digs at Cadiz have shown traders from ancient Mediterranean may have traded with peoples form ancient Briton from this time
If you’re interested in Ancient Greek mythology, there’s a trilogy of books called Mythos by the author/presenter Stephen Fry (who was recently awarded the order of the Phoenix (I’m not kidding))
I just remembered watching some videos last year on the ancient dark age and the sea peoples. This often gets missed or passed over like you said, but they filled that gap in the video timeline, which used to bug me. My recently starting to comment brought up a site I watched before called History with Hilbert that covers some of the tribal peoples.
I did Latin in 'High School' (I went to a Grammar School in the UK), I wanted to do German but they ran out of places and asked for volunteers to swap their choices to Latin. The Latin teacher offered his students an after-school course in Ancient Greek, and though a good number signed up, it only lasted a month or so before the numbers dwindled too low to continue. I still remember the alphabet though, just about, so I did pretty well with the alphabet test at the start of the video :-)
I do love your enthusiasm, and you would be a natural for sign language!!
Took you long enough! Waiting anxiously for Ancient Rome and Alexander.
The Bull of Minos by Leonard Cottrell I found in a bookcase when I was 10 years old. It was published in in 1953 telling the story of Heinrich Schliemann and Arthur Evans which I still have & hold dear for introducing me to these ages of a time that had been forgotten and brought back to life
The Greek alphabet evolved into it's final form in 400 BC. Since then this alphabet has remained the same and is used unaltered even today in the Greek language.
Kalispera SoGal and Roger.
2:15 character.
During my degree course I sold all my Napoleonic wargames figures to buy ancients and represent the university team. I learned a lot about ancient Greece though Ladybird children's history books taught me a lot about the things in this.
In my postgraduate year at my hometown university I asked my new Greek friend if she could help with ideas for words and designs for shield motifs. She could not believe how I could read Greek letters until I pointed out we were both science graduates who used them in equations. She also realized I could read Russian from the Greek letters. It helped that my neighbours were Ukrainian so I knew about the Orthodox church.
She also could not believe I knew about triremes from me drawing one, or that my friend played ancient naval wargames.
I have a loft full of hoplites phalanx and legionaries as well as a few of my favorite Russian Napoleonic figures that I bought for old times sake that were made in US.
I better stop before I get into details of why Spartans always have the wrong helmet in films.
Did you never see Ben Hur naval battle scenes?
Naval battles back then meant ramming each other. There would also be archers on the boats. These archers most often would be used after a ramming. Shooting arrows at people in the water, that fell off the other boat. Because these boats didn't carry any cargo, they actually didn't really sink. They just broke apart into wooden floating planks. After Alexander the Great, the vessels started to get much bigger and they started to apply torque-powered artillery to fire rocks. Once the Romans come onto the stage they start to apply boarding techniques to get their legions onto the enemy ship. At the battle of Salamis, the Persians actually had a more powerful fleet than the greeks made out of the famous trees from Lebanon. Phoenician sailors. But the Greeks were guarding a sea-pass From Athens, towards Corinth I believe.
Kings and Generals have some excellent video on ancient battles and military tactics
A very rapid overview! Ancient history is a never ending learning experience. Numerous aspects that require a much closer investigation. Fortunately for me I've had a lifetime of quality BBC documentaries to watch and books to read and there are always new revelation s and discoveries about the past to keep people like me intrigued.
A fact that I learned recently about the famous "Trojan horse" is that it was probably not had the look of a horse but it would have been some kind of boat because in ancient greek, horse would also be the name of a type of boat. For some historian, it's now believed that what really happened in the fall of Troy, is that the Greek lured the Trojan by making them believed they left and gave to Poseidon, god of the seas an offering taking the form of a certain boat ( a horse ). Because it didn't make sense for the Greek to have built an actual horse to offer to the god of the seas.
19:05 ancient naval battle tactics was dominated by 2 things the act of boarding or destroying the ship by ramming it. They would board ship by either through ropes to the enemy ship then pulling it towards their own ship where they would board the enemy ship using their naval infantry and take the boat by force or they would use a ram at the front of their boat to smash into the side of enemy ships which may sink their enemy.
Greetings from Greece ...you may ask me, anything you want to know about the history of Greece....
it is huge..I am 49 I have been studying it since I was 18 ... and I am still discovering new things ... the last one..the mechanism of antikythera...thank you..and nice try!
Hi SoGal, it`s quite sometime since I looked into Ancient Greece, great to see you exploring it. That narrator sounds like the great Scottish Actor, Brian Cox by the way.
Think about the Antikythera - an example of a Greek astronomical clock that was discovered and is believed to be 2000 years old. An early precision analogue computer.
The Greek triremes would ram into the Persian ships, disabling or destroying them! I’m finishing up a series on Ancient Greece there’s an episode on the Persian Wars if you’d like to see some of the tactics used
"Whoever promises the most" that also rings a bell in these modern times.
Nice intro to Greece - concise summary. A deep dive into the Hellenistic kingdoms, particularly Alexandria of Egypt would be great as a next step. Pretty much everything we know today (math, science and later on doctrines in Christianity) as western civilisation would have been impossible without Alexandria.
The Parthenon was destroyed as late as 1687 when it was used for gunpowder storage by the Ottomans and received a direct hit from a Venetian warship.
Reading further to the Greco Persian wars.. Naval battles is actually very complex and many theories was suggested by scholars but, its widely accepted that boarding parties and Ramming Trireme ships were designed to ram ships. And Shearing and usage of Archery and skirmishers were used.. Naval battles of the Ancient world is relatively brutal hand to hand boarding, shearing, Ramming melee combat. And the battle of Salamis actually gave birth to Artemisia I of Caria a ally of Xerxes of Persia and one of the greatest naval Commander at that time.
Btw the Ancient Macedonia has nothing to do with the modern country Macedonia
Naval warfare was primarily ramming and shearing (similar to ramming, but instead of hitting it head on you side-swipe the ship to damage their oars). Secondly after that was using javelins/arrows, and as time went on more often artillery. Melee combat/boarding was pretty uncommon, especially in larger battles because it made you a sitting target for ramming.
Romans changed this up because they weren't so good at it, so they started focusing heavily on melee combat by designing a big boarding plank/bridge and put a much larger amount of soldiers on their ships.
This is what european,and all western history,(including America that is part of the western culture although a newer form,) and culture is basically mostly built upon,so its very interesting for me.
America is a product of the Enlightenment and the revival of Classical culture that's why American government buildings look very Greek in style. The American system takes English Common law itself loosely based on Roman law and combines it with the Greek and Roman traditions of Republicanism and Democracy. (Democracy sort of existed in Britain but voting rights were limited to the gentry).
If you dont mind me saying, the Athenian Democracy was actually a "Democracy" whereas in the US and the rest of the world we have "Republics". A Republic never was and never will be a Democracy. So, my point is, the ancients actually *had* a Democracy, we dont.
*Edit:* the difference between the Greek colonization in antiquity and thousands years later the British one, is that the Greeks created settlements, exploited the land and largely traded with the locals on behalf of the settlement, whereas the British conquered the people and exploited them and their land on behalf of the Empire on the island.
"It's all Greek to me", so the saying goes. I have in-laws who are Greeks. They haven't given me a horse yet, nor parked one outside the house, the basis for the term "Beware Greeks baring gifts!" In London the area to the North West called Queensbury is a very favourite place for Greeks in London to settle. Strangely or maybe not, their closest neighbours are Turks and they seem to have a good relationship - unlike in their homelands. They have restaurants, or dry cleaners - like our in laws the Papadopoulos' - very good at backgammon! (We used to play a lot).
If you've heard them use the term "ramming speed" in shows like Star Trek, ancient naval battles is where it comes from: the rowers would have different rhythms beat on the drum to coordinate the men, and the fastest of all (which tired them out very quickly) was ramming speed, with the triremes and other warships equipped with rams at their bows to attack others. Ramming briefly saw a return in the 19th century when it was used in one naval battle in an era of relative peace, then everyone obsessed about it for years but nothing much came of it.
There a little old but I’d HIGHLY recommend the PBS series oftentimes called ‘Empires.’ The two best ones for you are ‘Ancient Greece,’ narrated by Liam Neeson and ‘The Medicis.’
The last Byzantine/EasternRoman emperor was the duke of Sparta, when the empire was the Constantinopol and just the Spartan region(1453). The modern Spartans, the Maniots, similar to the Scottish highlanders in temperament, are still stubbornly the only pro monarchic territory in the Greek republic.
So much in this from 3000AD Yes very quick overview through with so much more of each period. Starting with The story of Mycenae with Heinrich Schliemann who proved Troy was more than a myth & rediscovered the Mycenae empire, whilst he was laughed at and died alone I think on a station coming home, he has been proved right after his death . Love you new choice of this period with so much more to look at of this 18 mins
Sea battles: they had the ballista which they'd use to launch heavy rocks/boulders (which could sink a ship) or fiery arrows/javelins (which could set a ship on fire).
Naval battles in this age were usualy fought as land battles. Ships charged into the enemy fleet and they were so close and connected to each other that soldiers could literally fight man against man as they were charging enemy ships. Arrows, spears, javelins were present too aswell as some heavy weapons as ballistas (large crossbow like thing) and onagers (catapults practically). These served as an "artillery" of that time.
I once watched 'The Clouds' an Ancient Greek play. Performed by a group of Drama students who didn't speak it. Just remembered their lines!
And yes. There was a lot of genitalia.
I mean, a lot.
Some of which still haunt me to this day!
Been looking forward to ancient history
You should watch anything and everything from Historia Civilis, he covers the Caesarean civil war and the life of Julius Caesar in what can only be described as incredible detail.
Wow. You are way ahead of me on background Greek knowledge. Look forward to catching up!. Did visit Greece in 2001 and saw some of the sites featured here.
Before the coming of the railways in the 19th c. The best way to move goods was by ship. That's why maritime empires were quite common. The name of the sea battle at Athens escapes me at the moment . A favourite tactic at the time was ramming the ships were fitted with a sharp prow to puncture enemy hulls. Soldiers would also try and board to fight. Some ships had catapults mounted on them.
I would only have got 5 or 6 of those letters. Shame.
Don't know if the Greeks wore hats, but Roger could peek out from beneath a Hopalite helmet.
Please react to a video about the Bronze Age collapse
Navel battles back then were more fierce than anything we have today. You rammed each other with bow through starboard and stern. Light fire using all forms and methods with trebuchets and other launchers, sending boiled tar and possibly the chemical blaze known as Greek fire that could not easily be put out with water.
And then there were boarding battles for whoever was left.
The Odessy is basically sailing directions for the Aegean/eastern Mediterranean told as myths . Probably when it was written merchants sailing said seas would have known the local myths and it would have been as good as a chart for them . The Polynesians got around the Pacific using such a system .
Naval battles involved archers as well but most importantly the warships sported a bronze ram bellow sea lvl that could tear a big hole on enemy ships the ship rammed.
This is the era of the pike block for warfare. 18 to 24 foot spears in massed ranks for poking with not throwing.
I suggest checking out the channel Historia Civils. (It's the best channel if you want ancient history.)
Slower pace, less skipping, less bad jokes, more information and so on. I suggest starting with the "His year" videos as an entry point and then moving on to Ceasars wars in Gaul.
I would recommend you see (or react, if you want) a video call "rulers of europe every year". It Will show you how kingdoms of europe changed through the years, and learn some of their rulers. Its a very interesting video imo.
I'm exactly the same all the arts and culture sounds fascinating. I must admit I haven't done nearly enough research on that, myself, as I should have. Most of what I've learned about in the last few years are the later Alexander stuff and the Byzantium empire.
As far as other things around this, the ol' Kings and Generals have quite a number of videos on things surrounding Alexander's time. Here's my suggested order to see them in;
Ancient Macedonia before Alexander & Philip - Kings & Generals
Alexander series - Epic History
What happened to Alexander's tomb? - K&G
The Wars of the Diadochi series - K&G
Pyrrhic wars series - K&G
Ancient Greek state in Afganistan - K&G
Ancient Greek state in India - K&G
Alexander's influence on middle eastern myths - K&G
Also you were surprised about the influence of the Greeks on the Russians. At the end of the 10th century the Russian leader Vladimir the Great wanted to convert the Russians from paganism and so he effectively shopped around for an ideal religion. Islam, Judaism and Catholicism were all tried but the Greek Orthodox Christianity were eventually chosen (which was different from Catholic Christianity but that can wait for another day).
Also Moscow was known as the third Rome (after Rome and Constantinople, presumably) because of this and also that the niece of the last Byzantine emperor married into the Russian royal family.
Actually when America was first founded it shared much more in common with Ancient Greece than the European powers did. Throughout the Middle Ages and even through to the Age of Enlightenment most of Europe was under absolute monarchies. America sort of revived elements of Roman Republicanism and Greek Democracy and melded them. Europe, starting with France and the French Revolution would eventually follow suit but not until after America set the example. That's why many of our capitol buildings are designed using Greek and Roman architecture and much of our national imagery features Roman symbolism like the Fasces for example (the axe with a bundle of rods wrapped around it that you find on much of our coinage and federal seals). The Fasces by the way represents "strength though unity" as a single rod can break easily but not a bundle. Philadelphia was actually once called the "Athens of the New World", you know before it became a sprawling ghetto.
Check out: Incident at Bamber Bridge.
Since Cretan archers fought for just about everyone, he could wear their hat without being partisan.
If he wanted to look imperial he could wear a Macedonian companion cavalry helmet like Alexander.
"Alexander son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Spartans--"
We can very well imagine
that they were utterly indifferent in Sparta
to this inscription. "Except the Spartans",
but naturally. The Spartans were not
to be led and ordered about
as precious servants. Besides
a panhellenic campaign without
a Spartan king as a leader
would not have appeared very important.
O, of course "except the Spartans."
This too is a stand. Understandable.
Thus, except the Spartans at Granicus;
and then at Issus; and in the final
battle, where the formidable army was swept away
that the Persians had massed at Arbela:
which had set out from Arbela for victory, and was swept away.
And out of the remarkable panhellenic campaign,
victorious, brilliant,
celebrated, glorious
as no other had ever been glorified,
the incomparable: we emerged;
a great new Greek world.
We; the Alexandrians, the Antiocheans,
the Seleucians, and the numerous
rest of the Greeks of Egypt and Syria,
and of Media, and Persia, and the many others.
With our extensive territories,
with the varied action of thoughtful adaptations.
And the Common Greek Language
we carried to the heart of Bactria, to the Indians.
As if we were to talk of Spartans now!"
C.Cavafi
"How did you have naval battles back then?"
Back then: RAMMMING SPEEEEED!
Ohh are we going into Ancient Greek soon?
Depending on how much time you have and how deep you want to go, Dan Carlin's podcasts on the Archaemenid Persian Empire is worth a listen. If you're short on time, his single podcast on Alexander's mother Olympias is very worth it as well.
What the 7 notes are to music the greek alpha-omega is to intellect. 7 notes to compose and reveal music (whether detected or not by the ear) 27 symbols-letters (not 24) to compose words and reveal the art of the universal mind (Logos).
The Chinese, Latin and finally cyrillic alphabets are distortions of the original symbols and the energies they hide. It's difficult for non-Greek speakers to recognise that what they are using as a language is actually a dialect.
There have been quite a lot on BBC4 TV about Greek culture. I also saw a comparison of Greek masked drama and its Japanese equivalent. Years ago BBC used to have Open University with Greek dramas.
I have been to Minack Theatre in Cornwall and I asked if they thought of doing something from Greek tragedy. They looked at me funny and said no, we do Shakespeare. If you look it up you might see why I thought it would be the perfect setting.
Sea battles of the time were much more Ram and Board than stand off and shoot at each other. Hence the triremes mounted a large bronze ram at the prow of the ship and they had boarding ramps on the sides so as to cross over the gap and fight hand to hand.
Well done on that alphabet test - I'd have found that so much easier if they'd used the lower case alphabet...
Coming abit late to comment, in the Battle of Salamis, the ancient Greeks would, preferably, slide to the side with the Persian ships, while lifting their own oars, in the attempt to break the Persian oars and render the ship immobile, secondly and much more risky was to impale the other ships and either let it sink or disable it if the damage is enough , or board for a close quarters fight. The reason why they could achieve that, was because the Greek ships were smaller, faster and more agile and could maneuver around the Persian ships with ease. The reason why the Persians fought this battle was because Themistocles tricked Xerxes into attacking, by sending an Athenian spy to tell Xerxes that the Athenians would surrender if attacked at Salamis. This battle was an overwhelming victory at all fronts for the Greeks.
Thanks
Good video. I agree that they rushed through it very fast. I suppose 18 minutes to cover Ancient Greek history was ambitious (to say the least)
Actor Brian Cox (from Dundee, Scotland) is a very good narrator. Amongst many parts he played King Agamemnon in the film 'Troy'.
That colonization was very different from 18/19th centuries british and dutch colonial empires... there are different ways of 'colonization' and consequently different types of empires. Anyway, the greek mediterranean colonization didn't have an empire behind it and that's the main point
You may be interested to know that the currently known Greek alphabet of 24 letters is in use since 405 b.C. , when in ancient Athens there was accepted by the votes of the majority of Athenian citizens , a proposal of the archon Demofantos that 4 letters not in frequent use any more in the Ionian dialect of Greek should be abolished and the really oldest Aeolian Greek alphabet of 28 letters should be simplified and left with only 24 letters. The 4 letters made obsolete were : F ( bi- gamma) , J ( djiathe ) , Q ( qoppa) and "skewed Π" ( sanpi). During the 6th century b.C. and even earlier in the remote past ( Greek tribes were present in the Balcan peninsula since 15.000 b.C. according to recent archeological findings) the prevailing form of Greek alphabet was that older Aeolian alphabet of 28 letters used in the Eolian dialect of Greek language . Since the Greeks always used the letters of their alphabet as numerals as well , the 4 obsolete letters continued to be used as numerals with the same numerical value they had since the days of Pythagoras ( 575 b.C. - 505 b.C. ).
Ah, one of my favourite videos.
Also please check out Historia civilis channel if you want some of the best ancient history videos out there
As a math major, I know the Greek alphabet - I too got 100% but for a different reason. :P
I would LOVE to learn more about the Aksumite Empire, if you find any good videos to react to/recommend about that!
It seems like American schools teach us that Africa had ancient Egypt, then nothing until colonization. The little bit I've read about Aksum was super interesting! A contemporary/trading partner of the Roman empire around modern-day Ethiopia, that lasted until the expansion of the Muslim world cut it off from its Mediterranean/Christian network.
If anyone in the comments has good resources, please respond (and correct me if my summary was wrong- I have only read about it from one source so far)
i you want to learn more about the Ancient greek i would recommend a video about alcibiades called Absolute Mad Lads - Alcibiades
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They could also mention Pyrrhus, King of the Molossians, a greek tribe in the region of Epirus...He was a cousin of Alexander the Great, who ruled about 40 years after his death...He was probably the last great King of ancient Greece...
Epic history made something about alexandre.
It's more about Rome but Invicta is well done.
of course kings and generals.
History march is also out there but i know thi channel so much.
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Naval battles they would ram each other and throw spears and arrows and boarding actions , they were massive naval battles with hundreds of ships on each side
What I have being able to get, when it comes to naval battle back in those times:
The way the ships are formed etc. The idea was, to hit the enemy warship in the side & smash into it & then either board it or simple damage it so much, that it sinks. I don't know if they had balistas back then, though I think Philip the second(Alexanders father) developed something along those lines
( I think), but he first comes around a century after the time of the battle of maraton .
Maybe am wrong, but I think I heard, thats how they fought naval battles back then.
Yes, it came later. The Triremes of ancient Greece and even Alexander were too small. The Naval Artillery pieces back then required a platform to be elevated on. Alexader's successor states are when it takes off. With Ptolemy of Egypt making probably the largest vessels. This technology gets lost during later Roman times. Once Rome pretty much conquers all the nations around the Meditteranean, there is no need to build them anymore. So the Torque powered artillery tech was lost for probably over 1000 years.
1957
I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but realized that it would have been indeed "Greek" to all present in this room. I found out, however, that I could make my address in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I shall do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions, only Greek words.
Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a Panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my euharistia to you, Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of his Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.
1959
Kyrie, it is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonize the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic, but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been anti-economic. In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not hyper-antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymus organizations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these policies. Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism on one or two themes, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my Hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.
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I love Greek and Roman history ... mainly because it goes back way beyond the history of my home City ... which is still fairly modern when you think it was only founded in 71 A.D. .. Plus of course` My Grand Mother was born in Florance .. So I have Italian roots. Roger needs a Sparta Hat ... and a very big sword to defend your honour against the coming Armies of Epaminondas of Thebes .... afore ye war cometh. Yes` we can thank the Greeks and the Romans for the straight roads in our modern Cities and the curse of rush hour traffic that clogs our steets each day, plus of course` following on from your interest in Global sports .. we have the Greeks and Romans to thank for Oval Racing in America and the famous Monza Banking in Italy ... which are both throwbacks to the Colosseum and the oval amphitheatre. It is strange how some things never change.
Is that Brian Cox narrating?.
If so, he played Agamemnon of Mycenae.
How do you have a naval battle back in those days? Simple: RAMMING SPEED ! This is what the rows of oars were for. The tactics are simple, in theory, move in formation and place your ships in the right way, outmaneuver the enemy to ram their flank. Board the ships to dispose of the crews.
Roman naval tactics were pretty much the same even if attempts at what we could call battleships were made with siege weapons on board... But they were quite rare, expansive to build, cumbersome to maneuver and very unpractical to use because of lack of stability, aiming artillery was difficult, a problem that remained on warships until the late 19th Century AD, hence why gunpouder ships use lots of guns to compensate...
I don't know what was up with that Hermes part LOL... The way I know the history is that Athens tried conquering Syracuse in Sicily but failed. The Athenian ships were destroyed by land-based artillery(rocks) fired from around the port when the navies squared up. Causing the Athenian Fleet to get destroyed. So Athens lost the war with Sparta and has its walls taken down. Here they just kind of go on a tangent with Hermes LOL.
IIRC the main differences between Athenian democracy and modern democracy is that the Athenian version had much more restricted suffrage, and was direct, rather than representative. So rather than voting once every few years to send a guy to the parliament, if you wanted your voice heard, you had to head on down to the agora and yell.