Weird But True Facts About Sparta
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2024
- Many of us have heard of the unusual practices of Sparta, the war-obsessed, ancient Greek society. Let's be real: many of us learned them from the notorious 2006 film, 300. While the movie, and our history books, highlight some of the more impressive aspects of Spartan society, there are plenty of weird facts about Sparta that seem too extreme to be real.
So get cozy, grab your sword (if you have one), and read on to dive into the wild traditions of Sparta. Make sure to vote up the facts that seem too outrageous to be real.
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Okay but the gym guy voice caught me so off guard 😂😂. Shit killed me 😂. Please don't ever stop narrating my dude. You are a freaking gem lol
I have loved this channel for many years now ,the humor and narrator! Still wonderful and so glad you have so many millions of people who love WH just as much as I do!
I've seen plenty of videos about Sparta. But I watched this one by weird history for the entertaining sarcasm . I needed a picker upper this morning .
3:42 I will have to practice the phrase "Pyrrhic victory," such a great and historically significant phrase!
“The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.” - Plutarch
I just threw a leather bound gilded book of Plutach into the donate pile I might just grab him out of that. His snark is delightful.
@@professorsprout3382yes you should definitely hold onto that!
The dude who narrates these videos is the best part. So enjoyable, I really appreciatethe the effort and style of the narration. Thank you for bringing me happiness ...I would love a video about you.
Hes ai
I keep thinking it's Stephen Colbert.
@@mefninja lol totally NOT ai 😂
Me too if he walked we would have a hard time replacing him.
9:04 Reminds me of the catchphrase "Who Watches The Watchmen?" for the book Watchmen (1987).
Even as a comic book maxiseries, it was listed as one of TIME's 100 Best Novels (between 1923 and 2005).
Another great movie about Sparta and the Battle of Thermopylae is "300 Spartans" with Richard Egan!
It was filmed on location at that battlefield! The movie also shows some of the political intrigue going on at the time the Spartans were being slaughtered by Xerses!
*I took a tour in 1976 which went to the bridge overlooking the battlefield. The tour guide confirmed it WAS filmed there! She also confirmed it was off limits to tourists!*
The original and best version
You're rad! You must be an oldie like me if you went there in 76. I was just telling some kids about how we had a big party in 1976 for the bicentennial and they know nothing of it. Too bad I don't get to see the next one. Really cool you actually went there!
@@professorsprout3382
I was in the Navy then. We were in the Mediterranean during "Operation Fluid Drive" when our ship (USS Raleigh LPD-1) was ordered to "Stand Down". So we went to Greece. The 3 main places I visited were; the Greek Museum in Athens, the Parthenon and of course Thermopylae!!!
I got to have 2 and a half days there!
The kick of meme history
First we’ll take them from the front. Then, reach around and we’ll take them from the rear.
It’s a battle formation
You had me at "reach around". Just kidding I'm a old chick.
That Plutarch quote about the iron rods was the greatest quote I've ever heard I couldn't have said it better myself Truly Marvelous
Can you do one on Celtic society, and innuit traditions, or the weird myths and creatures from these societies
Yeah same 😁👍
Living in ancient times was like living in hell
Living today is literal hell
I have already watched both videos in the thumbnail at the end (and all the Sparta videos), so I am going to watch the videos "What It Was Like To Be A Roman Soldier" and "What It Was Like To Be A Medieval Soldier."
Party on.
This is SPARTA! Epic line 😊
For the interested, the channel History Buffs did a very good historical analysis on "300."
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Weird History!
10:58 I remember when those dollar readers were new and often didn't work at all!
There would be a whole group of people trying to get the machine to eat the dollar, sometimes only to have it become stuck!
Great job on this video.
First of all I’m going to give credit to my Star Teacher, my Latin teacher of 3 years in high school. Thank you Mrs. S.
2:50 That backwards running movement reminds me of the awesome music video "Little Black Book" by Belinda Carlisle.
2:36 Yknow, if that were normalized in today’s society, we’d have much less issues with body image and insecurities. How did we all become so ashamed of ourselves and judgmental of others at the same time?
I myself wonder that, but I'm very good looking so it's not a problem... I'm kidding. People are very intriguing, and easily swayed.
They were shamed too. If they became obese they were exiled
@@sarahburggraf907 Considering the time period, obesity was virtually nonexistent and only really became an issue after the Industrial Revolution. Everyone’s lives got so much easier that they could afford to eat as much as they want and drive everywhere instead of walking. It’s why nearly every person in Japan is so thin because to get almost anywhere, you have to take the train (which requires a lot of walking). Along with their diet helping too.
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
This time eating SPAGHETTIOS (from the Weird History Food video "Fun Facts About Your Favorite 90s Food") with basil and two singles of THREE CHEESE VELVEETA CHEESE melted over the top while drinking cafe con leche...while watching this Weird History video!
I truly love this channel, a huge shout out to the narrator. His delivery is great as is the editing so well done all who's involved. Making history....fun?...I guess lol kind of like drunk history but your own spin. Great job. Getting left on a mountain top to die if youre not a perfect Spartan is a cold piece. :(
Yes ! He’s a treasure!
Thanks for doing a video on my ancestors.
11:14 That reminds me of a scene in the film The Darwin Awards (2006).
A guy tries to "game the system" and reaches underneath the opening of the vending machine to get the merchandise for free.
He gets his arm stuck and ends up dying.
6:56 "And life for them was pretty much helot on earth."
Gotta love it when Weird History throws in a random pun. 🥳🔥👍👏
A+ video!
LOVE IT!
Now that Sparta has been taken apart, how about an episode on Athens?
This is… a nice video!
10:07 Pizza Delivery is such a luxury, like living as a king!
Tell me more about the Sumerian city of Ur.
5:35 Hopefully they add Bachelor Party to Netflix soon, I have watched almost all their Tom Hanks films!
Kids these days think they have it hard. I love your videos, so funny.
2:44
We need a series based on this VO alone
Thanks for this! 🗡 #WeirdHistory #Sparta #Spartans
1:00: 🍷 Spartan infants were bathed in wine as a strength test.
2:32: 🏛 The video discusses the emphasis on female strength in ancient Sparta and how it impacted the city's defense.
7:27: 🗡 Spartan boys were trained from a young age to become warriors, including participating in a yearly event where they hunted and killed slaves to maintain dominance and prevent uprisings.
10:17: 💰 The video discusses the concept of money and the use of iron currency in ancient Sparta.
Recap by Tammy AI
Please make a video about Emma Goldman!
2:37 One of my longtime facebook friends is Becca Swanson AKA Strongest Ever, the world record-breaking powerlifter, weightlifter and professional wrestler.
Holy Baader-Meinhoff Batman, this is like the 4th Spartan video I have seen posted by a channel I am subbed to today... Is it Sparta's birthday or something?
6:39 you made a terrible mistake. Spartans are Laconians.... That's why the Λ (ΛΑΚΩΝΙΑ) on their shields. "Λ" is the English "L" (Laconia).
7:34 "During a new interview with Variety, Lawrence was asked if she would ever star in another Hunger Games film, to which she said, “Oh, my God-totally!" (PureWow)
“Have we devolved?” Yes and no, as the ancient Greeks didn’t understand the formative period of adolescence and their roles in society must be kept up else the ritual of castes would crumble. Many of us struggle with mental health issues and physical impairments today, and not enough of us receive the support we should… Back then, many amazing minds never would have received a chance to even speak, let alone change the world for better or worse. Ah, historical irony
Love Sparta
My favorite narrator ❤ dont care for the voice change imitating ie "if you kids do not knock it off", "yeah you gotta put on your clothes..."
His regular voice is best. If it ain't broke don't try to fix it 😊
Fun fact: in Australia we call toilets a dunny. We also don't say, i need to use the bathroom or restroom we say i need to got to the dunny or toilet. A bathroom to us is actually the room where a shower &/or bath with a vanity. A dunny is mostly in the bathroom but it can also be in it's own room. I remember being at Taronga Zoo on the north side of Sydney Harbour & an American woman approached us & asked if we know where the bathroom is. Our reply was, the dunny? She stared at us, we said are u after the toilets & she blushed & said yes like the word toilet was an embarrassing word. We said down here we don't go to the bathroom, we go to toilet or dunny & you'll find the signs won't say bathrooms that it'll say toilets. I never knew toilet was an embarrassing word.
The Spartans would probably hear about those pacific islanders that used huge stone wheels for money and think that they were onto something, since if you could kill somebody with a huge fuck-off boulder instead of an iron rod then you had some epic loot on your hands.
Thanks!
4:47 I remember in the 80s when those types of mohawks were in a lot of films, especially when the characters were punks or gang members!
Love this narrator😂
How about a video about the ancient Irish warriors?
Your voice reminds me of one of my favorite narrator, Grover Gardner.
10:49 That image reminds me of Pick-Up Sticks.
"...One day back in 1966, pick up sticks..." (The Waterboy, 1998)
How about the Indians of North America, Pre-White man?
I was just thinking that! It has always been a subject dear to me.
Native Americans and First Peoples have a wide variety of tribes and stories❤
Can we talk about how people dealt with hot and cold weather?
As a gigolo I use my iron rod as currency quite often. It works quite well!
Did anyone else just watch PointlessHubs video on the 300 movie, and then this popped up. How strange.
For anyone (very) interested in Hellenic warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series
"On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that someday he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his childhood friend, Oscar Madison. Sometime earlier, Madison's wife had thrown him out, requesting that he never return. Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?" Seeing the Odd Couple in this video put a smile on my face!!
Big metal rods as money. 😮
Spartans were Hardcore AF.
Everything was Extreme for them. 🥴
Pointless Hub uploading a video on "300" same day as Weird History talking about Sparta? Nice.
We watched a 50s movie about the 300 back in highschool.
Best meme
Can you do a video on the sumarians. Also a video on that race from 10,000 years ago that everyone keeps saying built the sphinx before Egypt was a desert, 😂🧌
What's the music used called?
Did you know the Spartans were really fierce, and they'd throw away old weapons?
They thought that if it wasn't sharp, it didn't have a point."
Badadum
Love the plutarch impression sounded like Nicolas Cage 10:33 but yeah it sounds as rough as i thought it be. The married woman tradition is kinda weird though lol.
THIS IS DOUBTFIRE!!!!!!!
Wish they would just use the normal narration voice instead of the weird imitations in recent videos.
I need an adult annimation set in sparta starring a sparta loving hellot who absolutely loves their life and continually annoys the other hellots 😅😂😂
2:40 I remember when the girls had to wrestle with the guys for high school wrestling.
Me exercising nude with the rest. No exercise would be done they all be laughing to hard. 😂
You gotta stab the vending machine with a iron rod, to get that box of twizzlers.
4:15 - WRONG. Each Spartan man was assigned a house and land. They simply couldn't claim it until they were 30 years old... _or_ unless they were married. But the laws of Sparta held strict curfews and fraternization laws for both sexes, sometimes carrying the penalty of death-- and _the laws of Lycurgus could never be changed._ This is why marriage ceremonies were a ritualized abduction. The marriage was only legal, once the couple snuck across town, and settled in their house. But the couple did, in fact, live together, so long as the man showed up at the Agoge for his regular duties. Sparta was the only Greek city-state in which men and women married at roughly the same age.
I will grant you this: At least you didn't use it to assume that all Spartans were somehow gay-- this time.
Yeah, Sparta was one weird city-state!
2:49 sadly Yes, Yes We are.
I need at least 2 other elders to check this kid the green light.
Ten minutes later,
Okay he passes, but we'll call him testicleese. Especially since both are huge compared to the other two.
Is YT really demonetizing for ancient art (with nudity)?😭😭 That's wild... I'm sorry you have to do that. I love this channel so much! 🎉
Don't have too much pity on em, they could've stopped the censorship by collectively showing some backbone but they went with money over principles. They gladly give in to censorship and they'd preach communism if youtube told em so.
is it wild 😭 youtube blocks history and such but I see war footage posted daily
Is this a re-upload?
The women dressed as men and shaved their hair as up to that point, Spartan men had spent all their 'sexy time' with other Spartan men
nope its jus what I expected
Sparta, who lost as many battles as they won, whose battle tactics were terrible (they were good with the phalanx formation, but sucked at logistics), whose greatest victories were with Persian money and support, who only had hegemony for a brief time before failing and losing it, whose free people had no freedoms and whose slaves (60%-80% of the population) were treated worse than any slaves in history, produced no art, philosophy, or monuments. Thucydides even surmised that people would never know they ever lived.
But their propaganda survived. The Power of Propaganda is that we think Sparta was good at what they did.
Staring at a screen for hours on end is weirder than any of that
Yes this is all well and good but when are we getting Timeline 2000s
Now make a video about ancient Athens, those philosophers and boy lovers.
That’s not Yoko Ono in the picture, it’s May Pang,
Those Spartan women would make good money on social media.
I already knew about some of the information told in this video from the British children's TV show Horrible Histories . I guess Spartan women were more KICKA$$ than Miley Cyrus in her Flowers video . As for the Spartan boys , well let's just say I wouldn't survive IF i were born back then ( I was a late bloomer ) . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
11:21 Not at all as I would expected.
So you're telling me, its *nothing* like the Snyder movie?? 🤨
You say Sparta had TWO KINGS and you don't make a Tenacious D reference. Missed opportunity.
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Farming and nursing isn't exactly "unskilled labour" lol
If today it's unthinkable, unacceptable and unbearable for many, MANY men the idea of equal rights for women because they feel threatened by it, imagine they being taught about Spartan society and.... Spartan women!
It's their worst nightmare coming alive😂
There's nothing left of Sparta yet Athens still stands in all its glory proving the pen is mightier than the sword
Yeah, thanks to sparta making sure they survived the Persians. I'm sure Xerxes would've been very afraid of the Athenian pen 😂
@@ipellaers the Spartans didn't defeat xerxes he was defeated at salamis a naval battle
Add subtitles please
Two words: "Coin Money."
Any words after that are either a good or a bad idea.
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Guess you can say we missed out on a lot of cool facts.. Damn school lol
There’s a great video called why the Persians were the good guys that cracked did , on UA-cam. The truth is Persia actually were the good guys they brought civilization to Greece not the other way around. But the portrayal of Persia as barbaric and backwards is and was useful during the release of 300 bc when you kill 2-5 million people in the Middle East you have to dehumanize them so you don’t feel bad about what you’ve done. Same reason literally no middle eastern history is ever taught in school and not very often by white UA-camrs, the obsession is always with Greece and Sparta, which was full of pedos and which was literally run by slave owners unlike Persia - Cyrus the great liberated the Jews from captivity but heaven forbid anyone ever learn about that