Athen’s buildings and places bear witness to the technical perfection, beauty, and modernity of the spirit of the civilization that invented democracy. Around the agora, a place for debating, laws, and ideas, other magnificent buildings would allow for arts and Athens to flourish, the latter turning itself towards the sea, with the creation of the spectacular port of Piraeus, capable of housing the western world's most feared fleet.
Growing up in Greece ,all I can tell anyone is that it is an atmosphere, a feeling, a vibe, a depth of Beauty in itself that penetrates your heart and soul…. a connection to ancient times that you just get used to and become drunk with the culture , people and all things you witness and experience. The very environment imparts something inside you that inspires you as a human being.. as it did to so many great ones whose ideals and learning still guide the world today.
As a person stuck in America I can’t truly relate but I totally understand that feeling and I can’t imagine how much larger it is. Even experiencing relatively modern historical areas (AKA 1700’s AD era) is so moving to me
WOW, I watch a lot of documentaries, especially on the foundation of Western civilization and our Greco-Roman Past, and this is one of the very best documentaries I have ever seen, hands down. Amazing work!
Lucky you! It’s been a while for me. I’m planing on an autumn trip. And thank you so much! We will pass it on to the vfx and other crew. Take care and see you around 😀
I think Greece is so underrated and yet they contributed a lot to the Roman empire. We should learn more about Greek. They were the most intellectual and gifted peoples of their time.
i regret not being able to study Greek antiquity in details back in my college days. What a beautiful ancient city! i get to fall back in love with Athens, once again~ Truly, the Greeks and my Egyptian forefathers, made such beautiful cultures~
@@Hillbilly001 I don't think it's possible but you can definitely visit Socrates' prison - I went there plenty of times when I was vacationing in Athens and it might sound strange, but let me tell you it's almost as if you can still feel Socrates' presence
Went on holiday last year in July and the ruins are amazing and the people are really friendly but …….. I would make sure you take more cash than you usually do on a holiday the place is a tourist trap if you are a foreigner they double the price of everything drinks , food , transportation , accommodation etc I was angry about it at the time but after a couple of month I realise it’s a memory I will always have which is priceless
Excellent documentary, I learned a great deal about the history and the achievements of the people of this great city. The new museum next to the Parthenon is absolutely amazing and a must visit. Hopefully the English will return what they took from Athens so that the Parthenon can be more complete once again.
I love Greece, I love Greek history, I love Greek people. So much in fact, my future wife is Greek. I will never ever forget the first time I seen the Acropolis. Knowing the history of it and how it was built was just amazing. I looked up at it and it took my breath away. I know it sounds strange but I actually wanted to cry I was so emotional. Being British though, I am so embarrassed about the marbles being in a British museum where it DOES NOT BELONG! I refuse to call them the E***n Marbles because they were NEVER his. I hope that they will be sent back to their rightful place soon. I am not English, I am Welsh, but I still feel guilty about it because Wales is part of the UK.
@@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Absolutely not in a million years. They belong in a Greek museum because they are the property of Greece. No one can argue with that. Under UK laws, England should be prosecuted for receiving stolen goods, because that were stolen from the rightful owners.
I studied architecture history wit h the drawings of the ancient sites and went to Athens to see and try to imagine how it looked like back in time. This visual reconstruction is absolutely amazing. Thank you for making this film and Alexandria too.
Great documentary but the narrator claims Knossos was a Mycenaean palace, when in fact it was Minoan (the Mycenaeans potentially burned it down, actually)!
I saw another error as well wasn’t the name of Athens decided after a contest between Poseidon and Athena? Not a vote? Poseidon struck a rock and from it came seawater too salty to drink but Athena offered olive branches and taught the Athenians how to grow olives so they decided that gift was superior and named their city after her? This is why the Erechtheion is a temple to Athena and Poseidon
Mycenaeans never burned Knossos!The palace suffered significant damage in 1799 BC, by an earthquake, was destroyed in 1450 BC by a tsunami created by the eruption of the Santorini volcano, and received its final blow around 1350 BC by a fire.
I started out very excited to watching this. Then, in the first 5 minutes, I heard that the Myceneans were Greece's first civilization, and that Knossos was built by them. And then, I stopped watching.
That was also my initial reaction: there were several mis-steps confusing the Minoans and Mycenaeans in those first few minutes, points that should be corrected, but the rest of the program is truly worth your time. Very well written and with impressive digital reconstructions of the Acropolis.
Did you. Know Megalapolis is a small village about 200 km north of Athens. I lived there for 1yr. Absolutely beautiful and it was my home toy spirit 😢i miss it so much... 19:5719:5920:00
I visited Greece twice when I was in the USN. I loved it. If you could only visit one city in the whole of Europe, make it Athens. And watch this video first.
Yes We've been to Athens during our Mediterranean cruises besides other cities like Rome, Sicily,Malta,Crete,Rhodes,Ephesus,Naples and best of all Sorento!
have you ever moved an engine hoist with a heavy load ? it takes 2 strong people . any slight anomyly on the floor will stop any movement the floor must be perfectly smooth too heavy a load will tip the hoist forward. your concept increased the load weight 10x and the height 6x this dramatically increases those problems to occur.
Interesting and well produced documentary, but please excuse me, I believe the painted wall art at Knossos has been attributed to the Minoan civilization, and contrary to the narration, depicted mostly peaceful scenes of daily life - radically different to the more aggressive Mycenaean culture.
Exactly right -- Knossos and most other Minoan sites were notable for their LACK of defensive walls, which was interpreted as being the result of their naval superiority, though that may have been diminished after the eruption of Thera.
@@SMF314 Thank you, a good and insightful response.Knossos, as I am sure you know, was rebuilt by the Mycenaean`s, but without the heavy ' cyclopean ' walls familiar around their settlements in mainland Greece. I also felt troubled, in this documentary, that the aqueduct, visualized, bringing water to Athens was of Roman design, ie, using rounded arches !!!! The Greeks never understood or created the rounded arch, hence their temples and major buildings all used a combination of pillars, lintels and pediments. It worries me that history is being slightly misrepresented by the misuse of incorrect imagery.
@@MrTorleon Great catch - I completely missed the round arches. In poking around a bit I discovered that both 5th century BC greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides reference the idea that Minos had established naval control of the “Hellenic (Aegean) Sea”. Thucydides refers to Minos as the first colonizer of the Cyclades, and credits him with largely ridding the area of pirates. So if this was more than just legend, Minos might have lived a thousand or more years earlier, as distant from their time as the Vikings are from ours. (And probably earlier, since the palace at Knossos was apparently built ca 2000 BC in the Middle Minoan period). Even so, 5th century BC rumors of prior Minoan naval strength are consistent with the lack of defensive walls at ancient Minoan sites.
@@SMF314 Yes, you are absolutely correct. I am no specialist in this area ( academic - retired medieval historian ) but still take an interest in early Greek history. The Minoans, as you point out, were a known naval presence, as wide ranging traders all about the Mediterranean, but, there are few written records that have yet been deciphered, consequently much of their history has to be inferred. The lack of defensive walls around the Minoan settlements have been easily recognized, especially the fairly recent, and ongoing excavation of Akratiri on Thira, which also revealed some remarkable fresco paintings depicting Minoan life, I believe, together with a possible depiction of the arrival of armoured Mycenaean warriors, although their purpose is open to interpretation - but fascinating nonetheless :)
@@MrTorleon Thanks so much for your thoughts on this. I must confess it’s great to be judged “absolutely correct” on something by an emeritus professor - having been found distinctly otherwise on occasion in class! Like you, I also admire Minoan frescoes: they bear some similarity to Egyptian art, but seem less stylized - more graceful, less static, more at ease, little snapshots from a past age. Here’s hoping more of them turn up in future excavations. I was recently surprised to learn that some progress is being made in deciphering Minoan Linear A by comparing it to the scripts, grammatic structure, and etymologies of known pre-Greek Finno-Ugric European languages. Apparently Linear A shares an unusual feature called “vowel harmony“ with this group, but not with Basque or other Indo-European languages. A TH-cam Video by Prof Peter Revesz: “Breakthrough Decipherment of Minoan Linear A and Cretan Hieroglyphs”, explains how this work is being done, and contains a tentative translation of short inscriptions on two Minoan artifacts. I know nothing about how this work is viewed by others in the field, but the method described by Prof Revesz seems reasonable. Now if someone would only dig up a Minoan library!
Pretty good doc, but mixing up the Minoans with the Mycenaeans is a pretty grave mistake that sadly calls into question the validity of the rest of the information presented
Kind of disappointing that you messed up one of the relatively few things we know about Mycenaean Greece. Poseidon wasn't just the god of the sea. He was the god of land and sea, basically the whole earth. The idea was that the 3 brothers (Hades, Poseidon, Zeus) all drew lots and then chose their kingdoms. Zeus gets the sky or "heaven", Hades gets the underworld (which the Greeks believed was literally underneath us) and Poseidon gets this layer including the land and sea. That's actually true for all Greek mythology but it's especially relevant for Mycenaean Greece. Poseidon was their main God. He was held in even more reverence than Zeus who would go on to be more prominent in later Greek cultures.
How did they know back then that the ground could handle having all that weight piled in one place? Because we know civilizations are built one on top of another. So the hills they build on must be older city ruins, on top of older city ruins !
Democracy actually began east of Greece. Athens was one of only a couple of states in Greece to adopt Democracy. The rest remained dictatorships and absolute monarchies. In fact, the idea of democracy was so unpopular with the rest of the Greeks that the Athenians had to build a massive wall around the entire provenance to protect it.
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Is it not strange to think that this structure was small in its' day compared to the many others that stood back then? All of them are gone. This one remains.
The current restoration project has been in planning for years and they are nowhere near the end. They are attempting to restore it with actual stones from the same location the original is made out of, they are also taking into account how earthquakes could affect it, and also trying to make the building “tourism friendly” bc Athen’s largest income is the tourism industry (also there is damage that cannot be replaced even though we have pieces of the structure) (look up the story of the Elgin Marbles for a really interesting story about some damage done by “modern” (1800’s) people from Britain)
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We've got some pretty detailed blueprints for the cranes themselves. People have built and.confirmed they work. Some of the details about *how* they were used are more guesswork
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The cradle of the law, not democracy. Plato is Republic oriented. Democracy is a derivate of socialism communism. There is nothing democratic in Ancient Athens.
Except the voting for laws? That is what democracy is. Free male citizens voted on things and were elegible to be chosen by lottery for the government offices.
Democracy in ancient Greece served as one of the first forms of self-rule government in the ancient world. The system and ideas employed by the ancient Greeks had profound influences on how democracy developed, and its impact on the formation of the U.S. government.
What did Iraq gave to the world? Who were the Iraqi scholars? If they were the cradle of civilization,why then the Arabic logicians had inherited Greek ideas after they had invaded and conquered Egypt and the Levant,worked their way through the Arab West into Spain and Sicily, which became important centers for this transmission of Greek ideas?The 2nd Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur moved the capital from Damascus to Baghdad. Here he founded a great library, The House of Wisdom, containing Greek Classical texts. Al-Mansur ordered this rich fund of world literature translated into Arabic. Under al-Mansur and by his orders, translations were made from Greek, and the Syriac and Persian books being themselves translations from Greek? Do not falsify history!
So there's a trick using the slider dot get it close to the end. You don't want to go all the way to the end, it's got to roll over naturally but get it close, like within a few seconds then let it play out. Then, once it's done hit the replay button and boom! You can skip around as much as you like and won't get ads. Every once in awhile it won't work but it mostly does.
Ιn Egypt was Greeks and they had the knowledge to. Hermes trismegistus lived there about 9.000 bc. Egyptos is a Greek name and means straight across to Aegean. Suez strait =ZEUS they reed backwards.
Cult is being used here in an neutral way, scholars have been using the term cult for a long time. Just recently the term has dark connotations due to the media’s classification (Jonestown). The definition my professor used in our New Religious Movements class was “a religious system focused on the veneration of a particular figure or object” which is why they describe the ancient Greeks worshiping (insert a god’s name) as a cult. (Of course there are many studies on why even scholars tend to use cult to describe “dead” religions and “alternative” religions. Bc Christianity would be referred to as a cult after separating from Judaism) TLDR: It is not referring to them in a rude way
I lived in Athens for a year and it is amazing but a claim that Athens was a first supercity is so false that i felt like quitting to watch this show as soon as it was made. Perhaps makers of this film never heard of Sumer or Egypt or Assyria or Hittite
Psychologically, Athens is larger, as is Jerusalem. Physically, of course, the cities of Mesopotamia are larger. I'm sure they are larger in a cultural sense, too, but so much has been lost. How long has it been since someone figured out cuneiform writing? Not as long as we've known Greek in the West.
Athen’s buildings and places bear witness to the technical perfection, beauty, and modernity of the spirit of the civilization that invented democracy. Around the agora, a place for debating, laws, and ideas, other magnificent buildings would allow for arts and Athens to flourish, the latter turning itself towards the sea, with the creation of the spectacular port of Piraeus, capable of housing the western world's most feared fleet.
I have been in Athens for two weeks in 1977
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Growing up in Greece ,all I can tell anyone is that it is an atmosphere, a feeling, a vibe, a depth of Beauty in itself that penetrates your heart and soul…. a connection to ancient times that you just get used to and become drunk with the culture , people and all things you witness and experience. The very environment imparts something inside you that inspires you as a human being.. as it did to so many great ones whose ideals and learning still guide the world today.
As a person stuck in America I can’t truly relate but I totally understand that feeling and I can’t imagine how much larger it is. Even experiencing relatively modern historical areas (AKA 1700’s AD era) is so moving to me
Well Said!
I spent three weeks in Greece in 1984 - Easter time. I know a little of what you say. There was a certain vibe
Wish there was no thieving there .
WOW, I watch a lot of documentaries, especially on the foundation of Western civilization and our Greco-Roman Past, and this is one of the very best documentaries I have ever seen, hands down. Amazing work!
Wow the graphics were amazing. A great documentary.
Was just there last week, the graphics here are amazing. Learned so much from this, amazing documentary. Thanks!
Lucky you! It’s been a while for me. I’m planing on an autumn trip. And thank you so much! We will pass it on to the vfx and other crew. Take care and see you around 😀
Lets face it, ancient cities were way more spectacular than our modern cities.
I think Greece is so underrated and yet they contributed a lot to the Roman empire. We should learn more about Greek. They were the most intellectual and gifted peoples of their time.
i regret not being able to study Greek antiquity in details back in my college days. What a beautiful ancient city! i get to fall back in love with Athens, once again~ Truly, the Greeks and my Egyptian forefathers, made such beautiful cultures~
@Ευτοπία Iumaser Wow that is fascinating! Thank you so much for sharing this here!
Jerusalem,Athens and London,the Poet T.H.Elliot
Great cities
Who else would love to visit Athens after seeing this?
Only if I could go when Plato was alive. Cheers from Tennessee
@@Hillbilly001 I don't think it's possible but you can definitely visit Socrates' prison - I went there plenty of times when I was vacationing in Athens and it might sound strange, but let me tell you it's almost as if you can still feel Socrates' presence
I visited several times in the 70s and 80s and even lived there for a year. The ancient sites are a wonder to see.
My wife and I just visited in October as a stop on our med cruise. Really wish we had overnighted there. 👍
Went on holiday last year in July and the ruins are amazing and the people are really friendly but …….. I would make sure you take more cash than you usually do on a holiday the place is a tourist trap if you are a foreigner they double the price of everything drinks , food , transportation , accommodation etc I was angry about it at the time but after a couple of month I realise it’s a memory I will always have which is priceless
I grew up very often going to the Parthenon replica in Nashville, TN. So glad it was made. It was “ the Athens of the South.”
Excellent documentary, I learned a great deal about the history and the achievements of the people of this great city. The new museum next to the Parthenon is absolutely amazing and a must visit. Hopefully the English will return what they took from Athens so that the Parthenon can be more complete once again.
I love Greece, I love Greek history, I love Greek people. So much in fact, my future wife is Greek. I will never ever forget the first time I seen the Acropolis. Knowing the history of it and how it was built was just amazing. I looked up at it and it took my breath away. I know it sounds strange but I actually wanted to cry I was so emotional. Being British though, I am so embarrassed about the marbles being in a British museum where it DOES NOT BELONG! I refuse to call them the E***n Marbles because they were NEVER his. I hope that they will be sent back to their rightful place soon. I am not English, I am Welsh, but I still feel guilty about it because Wales is part of the UK.
love your passion. I totally get it. History generally is just amazing but when you find your era, even more so.
Me too, I was crying when I visited Parthenon.
If they were in a Welsh museum you might feel differently
@@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath Absolutely not in a million years. They belong in a Greek museum because they are the property of Greece. No one can argue with that. Under UK laws, England should be prosecuted for receiving stolen goods, because that were stolen from the rightful owners.
I studied architecture history wit
h the drawings of the ancient sites and went to Athens to see and try to imagine how it looked like back in time. This visual reconstruction is absolutely amazing. Thank you for making this film and Alexandria too.
Go to the reproduction in Nashville. They now have the reproduction of the statue of Athena too
I have a tremendous respect for ancient peoples.
Just got done watching the Rome story. Man I can’t stop watching
Count me in. I’ve been there once but its not enough.
Great documentary but the narrator claims Knossos was a Mycenaean palace, when in fact it was Minoan (the Mycenaeans potentially burned it down, actually)!
I saw another error as well wasn’t the name of Athens decided after a contest between Poseidon and Athena? Not a vote? Poseidon struck a rock and from it came seawater too salty to drink but Athena offered olive branches and taught the Athenians how to grow olives so they decided that gift was superior and named their city after her? This is why the Erechtheion is a temple to Athena and Poseidon
Mycenaeans never burned Knossos!The palace suffered significant damage in 1799 BC, by an earthquake, was destroyed in 1450 BC by a tsunami created by the eruption of the Santorini volcano, and received its final blow around 1350 BC by a fire.
I started out very excited to watching this. Then, in the first 5 minutes, I heard that the Myceneans were Greece's first civilization, and that Knossos was built by them. And then, I stopped watching.
Yes, but not a mega city.
That was also my initial reaction: there were several mis-steps confusing the Minoans and Mycenaeans in those first few minutes, points that should be corrected, but the rest of the program is truly worth your time. Very well written and with impressive digital reconstructions of the Acropolis.
This is an outstanding video. Graphics are stunning. Thank you.
Did you. Know Megalapolis is a small village about 200 km north of Athens. I lived there for 1yr. Absolutely beautiful and it was my home toy spirit 😢i miss it so much... 19:57 19:59 20:00
Some of the best programming ever.
or at least the front half , look so great
Great little venue to stage a sword and shield fight, the echo's would be so epic with the clashing of sword's and the shield's
Beautiful!
I don't know if it's me but I couldn't hear the orator over the music very well.
I believe because it's a translation, the original or part of it is in French. I watched it with subtitles in English to avoid losing information.
Beautiful work!
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I visited Greece twice when I was in the USN. I loved it. If you could only visit one city in the whole of Europe, make it Athens. And watch this video first.
Yes We've been to Athens during our Mediterranean cruises besides other cities like Rome, Sicily,Malta,Crete,Rhodes,Ephesus,Naples and best of all Sorento!
So what did you think of Athens? You really didn’t say, you just stated you had been there.
Beau vidéo documentaire, malheureusement la bande son et la musique ne sont pas à la hauteur.
have you ever moved an engine hoist with a heavy load ? it takes 2 strong people . any slight anomyly on the floor will stop any movement
the floor must be perfectly smooth
too heavy a load will tip the hoist forward. your concept increased the load weight 10x and the height 6x this dramatically increases those problems to occur.
Babylon Documentary Please..
I would not stop repairing it until it was new again.
Interesting and well produced documentary, but please excuse me, I believe the painted wall art at Knossos has been attributed to the Minoan civilization, and contrary to the narration, depicted mostly peaceful scenes of daily life - radically different to the more aggressive Mycenaean culture.
Exactly right -- Knossos and most other Minoan sites were notable for their LACK of defensive walls, which was interpreted as being the result of their naval superiority, though that may have been diminished after the eruption of Thera.
@@SMF314 Thank you, a good and insightful response.Knossos, as I am sure you know, was rebuilt by the Mycenaean`s, but without the heavy ' cyclopean ' walls familiar around their settlements in mainland Greece. I also felt troubled, in this documentary, that the aqueduct, visualized, bringing water to Athens was of Roman design, ie, using rounded arches !!!!
The Greeks never understood or created the rounded arch, hence their temples and major buildings all used a combination of pillars, lintels and pediments. It worries me that history is being slightly misrepresented by the misuse of incorrect imagery.
@@MrTorleon Great catch - I completely missed the round arches. In poking around a bit I discovered that both 5th century BC greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides reference the idea that Minos had established naval control of the “Hellenic (Aegean) Sea”. Thucydides refers to Minos as the first colonizer of the Cyclades, and credits him with largely ridding the area of pirates. So if this was more than just legend, Minos might have lived a thousand or more years earlier, as distant from their time as the Vikings are from ours. (And probably earlier, since the palace at Knossos was apparently built ca 2000 BC in the Middle Minoan period). Even so, 5th century BC rumors of prior Minoan naval strength are consistent with the lack of defensive walls at ancient Minoan sites.
@@SMF314 Yes, you are absolutely correct. I am no specialist in this area ( academic - retired medieval historian ) but still take an interest in early Greek history. The Minoans, as you point out, were a known naval presence, as wide ranging traders all about the Mediterranean, but, there are few written records that have yet been deciphered, consequently much of their history has to be inferred. The lack of defensive walls around the Minoan settlements have been easily recognized, especially the fairly recent, and ongoing excavation of Akratiri on Thira, which also revealed some remarkable fresco paintings depicting Minoan life, I believe, together with a possible depiction of the arrival of armoured
Mycenaean warriors, although their purpose is open to interpretation - but fascinating nonetheless :)
@@MrTorleon Thanks so much for your thoughts on this. I must confess it’s great to be judged “absolutely correct” on something by an emeritus professor - having been found distinctly otherwise on occasion in class! Like you, I also admire Minoan frescoes: they bear some similarity to Egyptian art, but seem less stylized - more graceful, less static, more at ease, little snapshots from a past age. Here’s hoping more of them turn up in future excavations.
I was recently surprised to learn that some progress is being made in deciphering Minoan Linear A by comparing it to the scripts, grammatic structure, and etymologies of known pre-Greek Finno-Ugric European languages. Apparently Linear A shares an unusual feature called “vowel harmony“ with this group, but not with Basque or other Indo-European languages. A TH-cam Video by Prof Peter Revesz: “Breakthrough Decipherment of Minoan Linear A and Cretan Hieroglyphs”, explains how this work is being done, and contains a tentative translation of short inscriptions on two Minoan artifacts. I know nothing about how this work is viewed by others in the field, but the method described by Prof Revesz seems reasonable. Now if someone would only dig up a Minoan library!
In Knosos it’s Minoans not Mycenaeans
@39:00 looks like Athena that is on display at the Parthenon in Nashville, Tenn.
Pretty good doc, but mixing up the Minoans with the Mycenaeans is a pretty grave mistake that sadly calls into question the validity of the rest of the information presented
Assassin's Creed Odyssey remakes ancient Greece with insane accuracy best experience.
Thanks so much, fantastic presentation!
very cool graphics
Wow❤
Today we have engine hoists and jacks that can’t roll over a zip tie. How did they get around this?
Alien technology.
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AMAZING series of documentaries, but the audio tracks are a bit messed up....gets distracting, especially when I'm listening to them all day. 😕
Kind of disappointing that you messed up one of the relatively few things we know about Mycenaean Greece. Poseidon wasn't just the god of the sea. He was the god of land and sea, basically the whole earth. The idea was that the 3 brothers (Hades, Poseidon, Zeus) all drew lots and then chose their kingdoms. Zeus gets the sky or "heaven", Hades gets the underworld (which the Greeks believed was literally underneath us) and Poseidon gets this layer including the land and sea.
That's actually true for all Greek mythology but it's especially relevant for Mycenaean Greece. Poseidon was their main God. He was held in even more reverence than Zeus who would go on to be more prominent in later Greek cultures.
Myceneans were not in Crete nor did they build knossos, it was the minoans,
Surprised show got that wrong
They should rebuild the whole temple of Athena
And we still haven't gotten Democracy right.
Socrates hated democracy.
@@ok-kk3ic So?
No, because it is not a perfect system.
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How did they know back then that the ground could handle having all that weight piled in one place? Because we know civilizations are built one on top of another. So the hills they build on must be older city ruins, on top of older city ruins !
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Democracy actually began east of Greece. Athens was one of only a couple of states in Greece to adopt Democracy. The rest remained dictatorships and absolute monarchies. In fact, the idea of democracy was so unpopular with the rest of the Greeks that the Athenians had to build a massive wall around the entire provenance to protect it.
I don't understand why Notre Dame is rebuilt but Acropolis is not.
Ancient Athens reminds me of modern Madagascar. Houses look just like then and roads are pretty bad apart from a few.
Democracy... I wonder if it's really in practice somewhere... 🤔 I see a lot of Oligarchies, no Democracies though.
Let’s go
The most challenging, rewarding city building game scenario is: "Zeus Master of Olympus" and counterpart "Poeisidon" Atlantis. Sim City 2000 background characters building our future with much less driving our god damn fuckingcars.
Interesting that they chose to compare the Bronze Age palace of Athens with the Minoan palace of Knossos instead of Mycenae
Is it not strange to think that this structure was small in its' day compared to the many others that stood back then?
All of them are gone. This one remains.
Thanks for showcasing the country and city I was born in. Do us a favor and learn to pronounce our city and people names properly.
mai·suh·nee·uhn...
How is taking care of the home and raising children labeled as second hand citizens as described by the narrator
These structures were so majestic, why don’t they restore them?
costs?
They are being restored, very slowly
They are, there's docs on the work...
The current restoration project has been in planning for years and they are nowhere near the end. They are attempting to restore it with actual stones from the same location the original is made out of, they are also taking into account how earthquakes could affect it, and also trying to make the building “tourism friendly” bc Athen’s largest income is the tourism industry (also there is damage that cannot be replaced even though we have pieces of the structure) (look up the story of the Elgin Marbles for a really interesting story about some damage done by “modern” (1800’s) people from Britain)
The name is Minoans in Crete
Democracy is far from perfect. But it's still the most workable political system yet.
Ancient alien technology
Athens. 💘
Knosos is in Minoan civilization , not myceanean...
Palace of Knossos built by the Myceneans???? Are you kidding me?
I will say though, fhat the graphics of fhis video are brilliant.
It seems the greatest societies have been slave based economies. '120,000 slaves in Athens? That's a lot.
The Cradle of Western civilization began here, in Greece.
Uh....the Mycenaeans didn't build the Palace at Knossos. The Minoans did.
Sparta on the other hand, never expanded unlike Athens.
so athina the god died and Yahweh still lives ...amazing
How do you know that your god lives???? Those people at that time, believed in Athena then, just like you believe in your god now
@@zhaw4821 he is a living God ....he is the olny one present in our times ...proof is that i am breathing ...proof exisitence of the bible ,christianity and the israel
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Those pancakes at 45:44 tho
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Mycenean Knossos!? I mean, that's a basic fact that the minoans built Knossos.
Gotta be better than Illinois
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Knossos was not mycenean, but minoan... Mycenean culture was not the first great civilization, Minoans came before them. 😳😳😳😳
Do they actually hve proof of the big moving wooden cranes and scaffolding for building?? or is it guess work? Genuinely would like to know 😊
It’s a bit of both. I’d call it educated guesswork based on finds and existing sites.
We've got some pretty detailed blueprints for the cranes themselves. People have built and.confirmed they work. Some of the details about *how* they were used are more guesswork
I’d visit but I’m thallasaphobic AF. Nothing bigger than a canoe, nothing >\= 1 mi from shore. It’d take Greek, Italian and Turkish CG. 😂
Ancient Greeks vs Turkish Devsirmes 😀😀😀
Where did they hunt at
😂😂 Syeikha palsu dikasih Cikki Ball atau Syikhi benar" mengenang pyramids Syeikha palsu. 😂😂
return the marbles to athens
Muslims will destroy all this when they take over
😂😂 Pyramids Syeikha Meyhra palsu dari pasir Egypt. Punya Saya, Ratu Islam asli berlapis emas. 😂😂
🎉🎉 Judith harus dilemahkan atau dihukum. Karena sudah membuat banyak negara kacau. 🎉🎉
Insanistats for humanity
The cradle of the law, not democracy. Plato is Republic oriented. Democracy is a derivate of socialism communism. There is nothing democratic in Ancient Athens.
Except the voting for laws? That is what democracy is. Free male citizens voted on things and were elegible to be chosen by lottery for the government offices.
Thank you
Democracy in ancient Greece served as one of the first forms of self-rule government in the ancient world. The system and ideas employed by the ancient Greeks had profound influences on how democracy developed, and its impact on the formation of the U.S. government.
Why are organised religion not seen as cults?
Because they're seen as organized religions.
Ummm, Iraq is the cradle of civilization. Athens is the cradle of cultural appropriation.
What did Iraq gave to the world? Who were the Iraqi scholars? If they were the cradle of civilization,why then the Arabic logicians had inherited Greek ideas after they had invaded and conquered Egypt and the Levant,worked their way through the Arab West into Spain and Sicily, which became important centers for this transmission of Greek ideas?The 2nd Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur moved the capital from Damascus to Baghdad. Here he founded a great library, The House of Wisdom, containing Greek Classical texts. Al-Mansur ordered this rich fund of world literature translated into Arabic. Under al-Mansur and by his orders, translations were made from Greek, and the Syriac and Persian books being themselves translations from Greek? Do not falsify history!
Would have been a great doco but its riddled with ads so i gave up cant learn notging on you tube rubbish damn shame
So there's a trick using the slider dot get it close to the end. You don't want to go all the way to the end, it's got to roll over naturally but get it close, like within a few seconds then let it play out. Then, once it's done hit the replay button and boom!
You can skip around as much as you like and won't get ads. Every once in awhile it won't work but it mostly does.
Greeks went to Egypt to educate themselves and Africans had democracy so I'm confused on how Greeks created it
Ιn Egypt was Greeks and they had the knowledge to. Hermes trismegistus lived there about 9.000 bc. Egyptos is a Greek name and means straight across to Aegean. Suez strait =ZEUS they reed backwards.
Where did they educate themselves? What books did they read? Who were the scholars they learned from? Do you have any answers? 23:44
Its amazing, how the list for a cult is the same for organised religions
Christianity vs Islam & Isreal vs Palestine
Cult is being used here in an neutral way, scholars have been using the term cult for a long time. Just recently the term has dark connotations due to the media’s classification (Jonestown). The definition my professor used in our New Religious Movements class was “a religious system focused on the veneration of a particular figure or object” which is why they describe the ancient Greeks worshiping (insert a god’s name) as a cult. (Of course there are many studies on why even scholars tend to use cult to describe “dead” religions and “alternative” religions. Bc Christianity would be referred to as a cult after separating from Judaism)
TLDR: It is not referring to them in a rude way
Non sense
From west Africa
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Male history narrated by males...
I wish they would’ve gave some information about the snake next to Athena hmm anyone?
Megalopolis
I lived in Athens for a year and it is amazing but a claim that Athens was a first supercity is so false that i felt like quitting to watch this show as soon as it was made. Perhaps makers of this film never heard of Sumer or Egypt or Assyria or Hittite
Psychologically, Athens is larger, as is Jerusalem. Physically, of course, the cities of Mesopotamia are larger. I'm sure they are larger in a cultural sense, too, but so much has been lost. How long has it been since someone figured out cuneiform writing? Not as long as we've known Greek in the West.