The way you pronounced the greek gods was on point. I have never heard someone non greek pronouncing names without messing it at least a tiny bit, i am amazed, i actually rewind it a couple of times to enjoy it.
Somehow this comment might seem completely normal and unprovocative to people who don't know the contemporary political stature of the phrase "Golden dawn" in Greece.
This is going to sound cheesy, but thank you so much for your videos. My sister was diagnosed with a few weeks ago lymphoma, and it has already spread to her liver. I've been down, and your videos always cheer me up, with great pronunciation, and I love your corrections. It's just a nice treat to watch. Thank you Megatron! :)
Roman religion and Greek religion share a common origin, both derived from Indo-European religious concepts, but one isn't based on the other. When the Romans came in contact with the Greeks, they recognized the similarities and figured that they were mostly worshipping the same gods but under different names, and thus absorbed the Greek myths pertaining to those gods. Only a few gods, such as Apollo and Herakles, didn't have a pre-existing Roman equivalent and were adopted directly from the Greeks. The Romans viewed religion in a different way then we are maybe used to with modern monotheist religions. Monotheist religions firmly say "This is the only god that exists", thus rendering the religion incompatible with other religions. The pagan Roman religion had a pantheon of gods but at no point did they claim that there couldn't be other gods that they didn't know of yet, nor anything saying that the names they knew for their gods were the only names possible. It created a sort of compatibility between religions, allowing the Romans to incorporate gods and myths from the religious areas they conquered into their own religion. This extends much further then just the Greek with the Romans, actually. The Greeks for instance identified Egyptian Amun with their own Zeus, in much the same way that the Romans identified Zeus with Jupiter. The Egyptian goddess Isis became one of the most popular gods in the entire Roman world, and became associated with several Greco-Roman godesses at once. The polytheistic religions of this part of the world were simply compatible that way.
When the Romans came into contact with the Greeks? Mate the predecessors to the "Romans" were a tiny village called Latinus which had massive Greek City states to the south ot it. The Latins spoke Latin and Greek and were semi-barbaric to the Greeks because they were a foreign entity but also not. They were a tiny group of Latin speakers fully immersed in the Greek world. Somehow they asked for help from the Greek cities to fend off barbarian tribes in the north and slowly managed to persuade the Greeks to form a new union and slowly kept attacking and absorbing one Greek city after another to form the empire
I basically said the same thing. Jupiter literally means Jove (Zeus) Father in Latin and in my opinion is Jovan from the Bible (Grandson of Noah via Japheth). The Hebrew name for the Greeks was based on Jovan or Yavan as they pronounced it.
@George Raptis It derived from the same Proto-Indo-European religion and developed separately over the course of centuries. They all did, and yet metaphysical commonalities can of course be found, hence why comparative mythology is used with the Vedic, Hellenic and Roman branches to discover lost knowledge on the rest.
I'd like to see a full episodic (maybe weekly) series about the differences in culture, warfare, society and politics of the greeks and romans, how one influenced the other and the eventual clash of both. Thumbs up so he can see it!! Keep the good work :)
I was wondering about this as well. We get to learn about Ancient Greece, about the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire but the transitions aren't all that clear to me. Especially the linguistic situations interest me.
I think you're under-estimating the prehistoric links between the Greeks, Romans, and the other Indo-European religions. Zeus, for example, was originally Zeus Pater, which is cognate to Jupiter. Both apparently descended from ancient "Sky Father" the Indo-Europeans called "Dyḗus Pḥatḗr." To Indian branch of the Indo-European family tree mostly follows a descendent of this religion, and Hinduism includes a minor figure named Dyáus Pitā. I would not be surprised if the Romans retconned their own indigenous Indo-European tradition into something much more Greek-like by the time recorded history started, but given that they were Indo-Europeans from the same branch of the family tree it's likely that was more like Lebanese Maronites declaring themselves Catholic when the Crusaders showed up than those 'interesting' attempts the Ancients made top incorporate the Egyptian pantheon into the Indo-European one.
All the planetary gods were the same with different names. Started with the Sumerians, Zeus/Jupiter was Ellil, later being called Enlil. But also Neptune/Poseidon was Enki, or Saturn/Cronus was called Anu etc, Mercurius/Hermes was called Gizida, later Ningishzida, Thoth in Egypts and of course later called Hermes by the Greek culture. There's even similarities in Gods of the meso-American cultures. And of course the Hindu religion has similarities. All of these must've influenced each other, but I wonder if there was one advanced culture that influenced them all? A culture that was the first to rise to civilazation after the destruction of the previous ice age perhaps.
I suppose the similarities in the religions are due to the issues most humans have (had) to deal with. Nutrition, fertility, space to live, communication, coping with the natural environment... For me religion seems like a place to turn to when you're facing issues you struggle with.
The enigmatic Account Enki aka Ahura Mazda aka Adonai aka Osiris. So if we compare Sumerian with Egyptian: Thoth/Ninghizida is the son of Osiris/Enki and Isis/Ninmah. What's also interesting is that in the Sumerian tablet 'Atrahasis' at some point it is briefly described which Gods got domain over wich area of Earth, Enlil/Jupiter was described as heir to Anu/Saturn and military commander, radical and logical thinker. And Enki/Neptune was the eldest son but not heir and was described as wise and scientist like. Enlil got Mesopatamia, Enki got the Abzu (Africa).Isn't it funny that in the Mesopatamian area there has been near perpetual war for about 5000 years, and Egypt was always the land of Alchemy (Then equivalent of science), well, until the Romans 'accidentally' burned down the library of Alexandria. Also there is no equivalent god fitting the description of Jupiter/Enlil in old Egyptian religion. Fitting because he hates his brother Enki, so it almost seems as if he doesn't show himself in his terrain.
Although this video came out when I was still studying Architecture, it is now that I got to see it and it would have really helped me a lot when they gave me Classical Architecture classes, because you explain the differences very well. What I loved is that as a historian, you give it a more complete approach than an architect, since we only see the structure itself and the classical orders.
@@cxarhomell5867 it's not the same! The ancient greek culture is from 8th century b.C. to 323 b.C. year when Alexander the Great died. The ellenistic age starts from 323 bC because Alexander hellenized the ancient world, also the romans copied from this style, and it finishes with the death of Cleopatra d'Egypt when the romans conquered Egypt and the Imperial age was born
Hi you can find a lot of information about ancient Greek on different websites. I'd say they're reliable sources. It would seem that people are more interested in ancient Greek than in the modern one
Please do more classical history videos❤ you remind me of my classics lecturer, you speak fast, pronounce cleat and correctly, and paint a picture with your descriptions
Thanks HEAPS for this - You have made the History of Architecture WAY MORE INTERESTING than the current reading I have to do in my Module for studying Interior Design. Its also helpful to have you discussing the differences - thank you so much!!!
Just discovered this channel, have probably watched a dozen of your shows. Great content, enjoyable presentation, and you don't talk down. So, highly accessible and informative to the poorly informed such as me.
Hello there, Metatron ! Recently (2-3 weeks ago), i've found your channel and i can say that is one in a million ! Your passion towards history while sharing and explaining the information made me curious and i had to watch more and more of your videos. I am coming with a selfish proposal, to point out more of feudal japan(Clans, Castles, Battles, Traditions and so on). P.S. How is the book going? I'd love to read it. Thanks and keep up the good work !
Now words like Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian are dancing thru my head lol. Ancient memories of a course known as World Culture, taught by the energetic & mesmerizing Professor S. He was one of the best teachers I ever had. Your style reminds me of his actually :)
Great video, however you missed one. Greeks made their columns in drums and stacked them, whilst the romans made monolithic ones. This was a strong identifiable trait. Also the peristyles in greek temples were open, whilst the roman temples were enclosed.
I am new to your channel and I watch your videos every time I am on UA-cam, keep up the great work and keep providing educational as well as entertaining content
while this dose not apply to temples another big difference in the two architectural styles was the use of arches in roman architecture which was taken from the Etruscan. this is different to the Greeks who used a column and lintel system for all architecture.
Actually Roman religion wasn't based on Greek religion but the native gods were reinterpreted and identified with the Greek gods after the contact with Hellenistic culture. It was the great strength of the Romans to adapt foreign gods to their own culture after conquering the peoples who worshipped them, thus creating a strong cultural bond that made it easy for those "new" Romans to feel Roman. This cohesive force was only destroyed when Christianity became the state religion. That being said - it would be great if you could make videos on Roman festivals and on auguries.
My friend these things you write contradict one another.Think about it. How was it not based on Greek Gods even if they changed them? They derived from somewhere right? Not from thin air. So the basis is Greek gods. Simple as that.
I'd argue that the Roman cohesiveness continued even after the Empire became Christian. After all, when you look at many of the Christian holidays and practices many of them came from old pagan practices but were simply rebranded as being Christian. Christmas takes the place of the Winter Solstice celebrations, Easter coincides with the Spring Equinox, and so on.
Tam Astro not the first Base of roman religion, then the romans identified some of their gods in the greeks ones, but also in other religions, and in fact there are different greeks gods that aren't in the roman religion.
@ Tam Astro Roman religion derives from Etruscan and Italic roots, and the Roman gods existed (well, you know what I mean) and were venerated long before there was any Greek influence on Roman culture. Simple as that.
Hi Metratron, perhaps you could do a follow up video describing the interior of the Roman and Greek temples, maybe talk about the naos and its Roman counterpart, the cella.
Nice comparison, you do great work and I also like the cheesy intros. Would you consider doing an episode about the architectural orders used in ancient Greece and Rome?
Just found you today. Loving your knowledge...and hair... Can I ask, why did you name your channel Metatron? I am very connected to the Metatron energy :) 🌞
Thank you for this video. Although I have studied related subjects and visited Ancient sites in Greece and Italy most of what you said was new to me. Perhaps though it would have been worth saying more about the Roman innovations of arches and domes, in which the distribution of weight reduces the need to clutter up space with supporting columns. I believe half columns carved on the outside of walls were also a Roman innovation, to give some of the decoration of columns without having to build a full colonade all the way round the temple. That would make sense in combination with the Roman practice you mention of only making a temple accessible from the front.
Interesting video about the two similar cultures.!..I am greek and have thought a lot of times the defferences between romans and greeks about the same ancient gods.
he Matatron I really like your videos! and especially the ones about the Romans and Greeks (but also Japanese and others) I am personally very interested in Architecture (so I’m really excited about you latest videos on architecture) and so I have a brilliant book for you to read :) (if you havened already) it's the ARCHITECTVRA LIBRI DECEM by MARCVS VITRVVIVS POLLIO (it's written in the late republic early empire) and I highly recommend it!
Metatron, I found your channel thanks to Skall and got really into history. Recently I've been binge watching your videos. So, I have some questions (about languages) I am native brazilian, Portuguese is my native language, and due to constant use I could also consider English my second language. Now, I really want to learn some other languages. The ones I have in mind are German and Japanese. - German because I am currently studying Psychology, and a lot of things are in german. (I also like the language a lot) - Japanese because I like the culture, and would really like to read manga, watch anime, listen to music, play games. First question is: How do I learn them? I don't even remember how it was for me with english. I did some classes, there's a "blank english stage" and then there's me speaking it fluently. Second question is: I am also interested in another languages. I want to move to Canada, so a bit of French would be good. Spanish seem another language that's good to know, and it's close to portuguese, so could be faster to learn. And... Esperanto and Latin. I doubt I would ever use them on a (almost) daily basis like the other four, but both of them really intrigues me. The question is: Am I getting too ahead of myself? Are there more "important" languages to learn first? Should I change the way I am thinking about something related to them? ~~x~~x~~x~~x~~x~~x~~x~~x~~x~~x~~x~~x~~ In short: Should I learn another languages? If yes, in which order and how to practice them?
I know I shouldn't ask you to give me Roman history lessons but you are just too good at teaching. How did Roman religion change from ones like Greek to Christian?
Great video. One proposal: you 've maid videos about ancient times, about western medieval times about medieval japan and china. How about making a video about greek medieval times aka byzantium? Besides byzantium influenced Sicily and southern Italy since they were under byzantine rule for a considerable time. There is also a period in Greece called "francokratia" aka "romance" rule of greek lands.
Hey Metatron great video as usual :) What is your opinion on the BBC/HBO series ROME? Did you think it was a fairly good representation of the late republican period? Obviously they had to gloss over some events and remove some others entirely for production reasons, like Antony's campaign against Parthia, but overall I think they did a pretty good Job.
Great video! You should talk about Roman gods v.s. Greek gods, their similarities and their differences. More specifically as well, Italic religious worship before Greek influence.
Qué increíble que vivas en Sicilia, lugar que fue en la edad antigua la "magna Grecia" ahí seguramente puedes ver tanto los templos hechos por lo griegos como los de los romanos. Saludos desde México.
I'd like to thank you for explaining the idea of how the Romans understood what is sacred. It always puzzled me why the tribute of the plebs were sacrosanct in a way that no other Roman magistrate was, but this understanding of the term "sacred" makes it clear.
great video ... can I make a request ? so do you ever seen the tv series ROME?? can you make a video evaluating that series? I would really like to know what you think of the series
Great video, as always. If I may make a request...I would love a video on Indo-European culture and language; I'm sure you will find this topic fascinating. Regards from Argentina. Ciao!
I love the subtly in the column designs. Typically Hellenic square base and top like at 3:42. Egyptian columns a tapered circular base with a lotus motif at the top. When Rome expanded it's domain you see their temples with a mix. Hellenic square base with lotus motif like at 3:39.
Could you talk about the difference in their conventions around painting their temples? You sure had a lot of pictures showing da TRUTH (that the temples were painted) but you didn't talk about it even once. Great vid anyway, love your content.
I second this request -- most people assume that everything was monochromatic in white marble, like in modern architecture, when back then things were a lot more colorful. I was waiting to hear what would be said about it -- hopefully a part two! ;)
Both Romans and Greeks would've painted their temples and the statues. Statues also had jewels in the eyes instead of a blank cavity, making them look far more realistic. The jewels were ripped off by Germanic vandals long ago, and paint faded away... so the plain white marble is all we see today.
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on your gofundme page I've discovered 2 spelling mistakes: 1 where you type campaign as campain and 1 later on just before your personal feelings sections where you spell would as woudl. I hope this is somewhat helpful!
Maybe random, but did anyone ever live in these temples in ancient times? Did priests or priestesses live in them like monks live in monasteries? Or did they live in a complex nearby?
I'll comment a weird not so well known fact about languages. Since you mentioned it among other things. And don't know how it came to be the way it is. And sorry that i detract from the main topic. But even though modern greeks do understand ancient greek, the pronunciations and most of all, syntax and intonations are very different. And i would love to see a video about this from you, with your always in depth well researched analysis. I'm Greek, but i speak a little Italian German Spanish. And learned ancient Greek in school. So, in terms of syntax/grammar very weirdly enough, ancient Greek and a little bit modern Cypriot greek is similar to German. But modern Greek and medieval/modern pontic Greek is similar to Italian/Spanish. Also, ancient Greek used to talk in a "singing" manner like Italians or Scots do now. And they used a polytonic system like the nordics or modern turkish alphabet do on their letters. Nowadsys you only hear that in the islands in old people. While people in the mountains and rural Thessaly make some "russian" sounds. Also at some point there was an oversimplification of diphthongs and letters during late middle ages. Such as o-micron and o-mega, various types of e's and L's and s's have been simplified down to a very monotone pronunciation. And before that still in ancient times 3 letters were removed from Greek, but kept by Europeans. F J q and one that looks like a smiley face rotated anti clockwise kinda like this =) Maybe do a video on this. I think it would be extremely interesting.
Fantastico! A pelle mi stai antipatico. Però la tua competenza e passione, la cura nelle informazioni e l'attendibilità dei contenuti mi inchiodano sempre davanti ai tuoi video. Nemmeno il tuo modo di confezionare le immagini mi piace molto e sono ogni volta felice di constatare che non me ne frega niente. Perchè gli argomenti e la tua capacità di trasmetterli mi catturano completamente. Sono convinto che essendo la 'sostanza' il tuo punto forte, saresti seguitissimo anche se facessi un programma radiofonico!
The way you pronounced the greek gods was on point. I have never heard someone non greek pronouncing names without messing it at least a tiny bit, i am amazed, i actually rewind it a couple of times to enjoy it.
The sound like that in spanish
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Italian students had the chance of they want to go study ancient Greek in the classical Highschool so I'm not surprised
Great greek pronounciation and no strange accent! Μπράβο Μέτατρον! Greetings from Greece my friend!
Somehow this comment might seem completely normal and unprovocative to people who don't know the contemporary political stature of the phrase "Golden dawn" in Greece.
Zhongda95 but I have no affiliation with these guys, so what's your point?
that's my point.xD
Bad Jim I was ready to comment that
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This is going to sound cheesy, but thank you so much for your videos. My sister was diagnosed with a few weeks ago lymphoma, and it has already spread to her liver. I've been down, and your videos always cheer me up, with great pronunciation, and I love your corrections. It's just a nice treat to watch. Thank you Megatron! :)
It is a pleasure to be of help and I hope your sister gets better soon.
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Roman religion and Greek religion share a common origin, both derived from Indo-European religious concepts, but one isn't based on the other.
When the Romans came in contact with the Greeks, they recognized the similarities and figured that they were mostly worshipping the same gods but under different names, and thus absorbed the Greek myths pertaining to those gods. Only a few gods, such as Apollo and Herakles, didn't have a pre-existing Roman equivalent and were adopted directly from the Greeks.
The Romans viewed religion in a different way then we are maybe used to with modern monotheist religions.
Monotheist religions firmly say "This is the only god that exists", thus rendering the religion incompatible with other religions.
The pagan Roman religion had a pantheon of gods but at no point did they claim that there couldn't be other gods that they didn't know of yet, nor anything saying that the names they knew for their gods were the only names possible.
It created a sort of compatibility between religions, allowing the Romans to incorporate gods and myths from the religious areas they conquered into their own religion.
This extends much further then just the Greek with the Romans, actually.
The Greeks for instance identified Egyptian Amun with their own Zeus, in much the same way that the Romans identified Zeus with Jupiter.
The Egyptian goddess Isis became one of the most popular gods in the entire Roman world, and became associated with several Greco-Roman godesses at once.
The polytheistic religions of this part of the world were simply compatible that way.
There are still polytheistic religions that are very compatible.
When the Romans came into contact with the Greeks? Mate the predecessors to the "Romans" were a tiny village called Latinus which had massive Greek City states to the south ot it. The Latins spoke Latin and Greek and were semi-barbaric to the Greeks because they were a foreign entity but also not. They were a tiny group of Latin speakers fully immersed in the Greek world. Somehow they asked for help from the Greek cities to fend off barbarian tribes in the north and slowly managed to persuade the Greeks to form a new union and slowly kept attacking and absorbing one Greek city after another to form the empire
I basically said the same thing. Jupiter literally means Jove (Zeus) Father in Latin and in my opinion is Jovan from the Bible (Grandson of Noah via Japheth). The Hebrew name for the Greeks was based on Jovan or Yavan as they pronounced it.
@George Raptis It derived from the same Proto-Indo-European religion and developed separately over the course of centuries. They all did, and yet metaphysical commonalities can of course be found, hence why comparative mythology is used with the Vedic, Hellenic and Roman branches to discover lost knowledge on the rest.
Most of Roman mythology comes from Greek mythology 1 of the origin myths of Rome is tht a Trojan Aeneas founded the city
I'd like to see a full episodic (maybe weekly) series about the differences in culture, warfare, society and politics of the greeks and romans, how one influenced the other and the eventual clash of both. Thumbs up so he can see it!!
Keep the good work :)
Jay M I woudnt say it if I didnt think more people would like it....
I was wondering about this as well. We get to learn about Ancient Greece, about the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire but the transitions aren't all that clear to me. Especially the linguistic situations interest me.
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YOu should say 'Latin' instead of Roman, especially comparing with the Greeks who preserved Roman culture for another thousand years.
If I had a teacher like you when I was younger,I'd have a better life now. You are a tremendously talented lecturer and historian.
I think you're under-estimating the prehistoric links between the Greeks, Romans, and the other Indo-European religions. Zeus, for example, was originally Zeus Pater, which is cognate to Jupiter. Both apparently descended from ancient "Sky Father" the Indo-Europeans called "Dyḗus Pḥatḗr." To Indian branch of the Indo-European family tree mostly follows a descendent of this religion, and Hinduism includes a minor figure named Dyáus Pitā.
I would not be surprised if the Romans retconned their own indigenous Indo-European tradition into something much more Greek-like by the time recorded history started, but given that they were Indo-Europeans from the same branch of the family tree it's likely that was more like Lebanese Maronites declaring themselves Catholic when the Crusaders showed up than those 'interesting' attempts the Ancients made top incorporate the Egyptian pantheon into the Indo-European one.
Nicholas Benjamin damn right my friend
All the planetary gods were the same with different names. Started with the Sumerians, Zeus/Jupiter was Ellil, later being called Enlil. But also Neptune/Poseidon was Enki, or Saturn/Cronus was called Anu etc, Mercurius/Hermes was called Gizida, later Ningishzida, Thoth in Egypts and of course later called Hermes by the Greek culture. There's even similarities in Gods of the meso-American cultures. And of course the Hindu religion has similarities. All of these must've influenced each other, but I wonder if there was one advanced culture that influenced them all? A culture that was the first to rise to civilazation after the destruction of the previous ice age perhaps.
I suppose the similarities in the religions are due to the issues most humans have (had) to deal with. Nutrition, fertility, space to live, communication, coping with the natural environment... For me religion seems like a place to turn to when you're facing issues you struggle with.
The enigmatic Account Enki aka Ahura Mazda aka Adonai aka Osiris. So if we compare Sumerian with Egyptian: Thoth/Ninghizida is the son of Osiris/Enki and Isis/Ninmah. What's also interesting is that in the Sumerian tablet 'Atrahasis' at some point it is briefly described which Gods got domain over wich area of Earth, Enlil/Jupiter was described as heir to Anu/Saturn and military commander, radical and logical thinker. And Enki/Neptune was the eldest son but not heir and was described as wise and scientist like. Enlil got Mesopatamia, Enki got the Abzu (Africa).Isn't it funny that in the Mesopatamian area there has been near perpetual war for about 5000 years, and Egypt was always the land of Alchemy (Then equivalent of science), well, until the Romans 'accidentally' burned down the library of Alexandria. Also there is no equivalent god fitting the description of Jupiter/Enlil in old Egyptian religion. Fitting because he hates his brother Enki, so it almost seems as if he doesn't show himself in his terrain.
The enigmatic Account That's personal.
Although this video came out when I was still studying Architecture, it is now that I got to see it and it would have really helped me a lot when they gave me Classical Architecture classes, because you explain the differences very well. What I loved is that as a historian, you give it a more complete approach than an architect, since we only see the structure itself and the classical orders.
I almost started crying when you said Hellenic culture instead of greek!
i mean it's technically the same
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@@cxarhomell5867 it's not the same! The ancient greek culture is from 8th century b.C. to 323 b.C. year when Alexander the Great died. The ellenistic age starts from 323 bC because Alexander hellenized the ancient world, also the romans copied from this style, and it finishes with the death of Cleopatra d'Egypt when the romans conquered Egypt and the Imperial age was born
can you make a video about ancient greek language?
I second the motion.
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NtkStve As a Greek guy I would love that.
Hi you can find a lot of information about ancient Greek on different websites. I'd say they're reliable sources. It would seem that people are more interested in ancient Greek than in the modern one
Oh yeah! I'd love a video about greek language!
I never noticed the differences between them before, thank you!
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Did Bigus Dickus have his own temple in Rome?
While my good friend Bigus Dickus did not own his own temple, he was in charge of maintaining a rather large one at all times!
he had it in greece and the greeks were better :/
It was in Wome
I mean, they DID worship Priapus...
No, but he had a palace, and his real name was Marcus Pisellonius!
Please do more classical history videos❤ you remind me of my classics lecturer, you speak fast, pronounce cleat and correctly, and paint a picture with your descriptions
Maaaaan, the scope of the topics you talk aboit is astonishing!
Hey friend, just wanted to say that your pronunciation of Greek is stellar! Well done!
Thanks HEAPS for this - You have made the History of Architecture WAY MORE INTERESTING than the current reading I have to do in my Module for studying Interior Design. Its also helpful to have you discussing the differences - thank you so much!!!
Thank you. This helped me delve deeper as I study for my Art History exam.
Just discovered this channel, have probably watched a dozen of your shows. Great content, enjoyable presentation, and you don't talk down. So, highly accessible and informative to the poorly informed such as me.
very helpful video, I'm writing an essay on ancient sacral architecture and this video saved me! great pronunciation too!!!
Hello there, Metatron !
Recently (2-3 weeks ago), i've found your channel and i can say that is one in a million ! Your passion towards history while sharing and explaining the information made me curious and i had to watch more and more of your videos. I am coming with a selfish proposal, to point out more of feudal japan(Clans, Castles, Battles, Traditions and so on).
P.S. How is the book going? I'd love to read it.
Thanks and keep up the good work !
I always appreciate your videos! Great stuff and keep up the awesome work.
I feel like a jackass when he said location is a big difference i was thought no shit the Roman ones are in Rome... yeah that was dumb of me
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I absolutely love these videos you make about the architectural buildings
Now words like Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian are dancing thru my head lol. Ancient memories of a course known as World Culture, taught by the energetic & mesmerizing Professor S. He was one of the best teachers I ever had. Your style reminds me of his actually :)
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Great intro bro! Just amazing
You should make a samurai Jack video
Can you make a video about the difference between Roman and Greek cities?
Great video, however you missed one. Greeks made their columns in drums and stacked them, whilst the romans made monolithic ones. This was a strong identifiable trait. Also the peristyles in greek temples were open, whilst the roman temples were enclosed.
I am new to your channel and I watch your videos every time I am on UA-cam, keep up the great work and keep providing educational as well as entertaining content
Thank you for this video - so well done, and very interesting! God bless! Greetings from the U.S.A.
Thank you so much! This helped me for my finals project so much.
Amazing video!!! Could you do a video about Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire?
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while this dose not apply to temples another big difference in the two architectural styles was the use of arches in roman architecture which was taken from the Etruscan. this is different to the Greeks who used a column and lintel system for all architecture.
Roman and Greek architecture is so beautiful
Actually Roman religion wasn't based on Greek religion but the native gods were reinterpreted and identified with the Greek gods after the contact with Hellenistic culture. It was the great strength of the Romans to adapt foreign gods to their own culture after conquering the peoples who worshipped them, thus creating a strong cultural bond that made it easy for those "new" Romans to feel Roman. This cohesive force was only destroyed when Christianity became the state religion.
That being said - it would be great if you could make videos on Roman festivals and on auguries.
My friend these things you write contradict one another.Think about it. How was it not based on Greek Gods even if they changed them? They derived from somewhere right? Not from thin air. So the basis is Greek gods. Simple as that.
I'd argue that the Roman cohesiveness continued even after the Empire became Christian. After all, when you look at many of the Christian holidays and practices many of them came from old pagan practices but were simply rebranded as being Christian. Christmas takes the place of the Winter Solstice celebrations, Easter coincides with the Spring Equinox, and so on.
Tam Astro not the first Base of roman religion, then the romans identified some of their gods in the greeks ones, but also in other religions, and in fact there are different greeks gods that aren't in the roman religion.
"Tam Astro not the first Base of roman religion" What is that my friend , can you enlighten us?
@ Tam Astro Roman religion derives from Etruscan and Italic roots, and the Roman gods existed (well, you know what I mean) and were venerated long before there was any Greek influence on Roman culture. Simple as that.
You should do more videos about the comparisons between roman culture and greek culture, they're so similar yet so diffrent.
being an architect, and studying them during my university years helped me recognize the differences. but otherwise, i wouldn't have known 😅
Hi Metratron, perhaps you could do a follow up video describing the interior of the Roman and Greek temples, maybe talk about the naos and its Roman counterpart, the cella.
Love your videos as I love roman history and Vikings,just subscribed
Keep up the great work
Nice comparison, you do great work and I also like the cheesy intros. Would you consider doing an episode about the architectural orders used in ancient Greece and Rome?
this helped a lot on my essay, thank you
What happens if we forget that the Metatron has spread his wings? It's apparently very important that we remember.
Tobias Hagström He accidentally takes your eye out when you pass each other. They are invisible wings, but very strong with pointy tips.
This guy should make a video on what the Greeks thought about the Romans from
300 BC - 146 BC Pretty much before Rome conquered them.
Talk more about the ancient gods
really Helenic Accent ! Congrats my Friend!
That music score you have at the end of your videos is addictive. I'd love a link to the full track!
I'm glad I found your site. is fun to watch and informative 🐺
Really good job
Oh yes
As always, informative and helpful
Damn Metatron... you always produce such interesting content!
Thanks for the video it was very helpful.
Just found you today. Loving your knowledge...and hair... Can I ask, why did you name your channel Metatron? I am very connected to the Metatron energy :) 🌞
I really wish we would build structures using Roman and Greek architecture more often.
Please tell me you are a teacher! You are a fountain of knowledge and insight!
Yes! A greek video thank you! The more the better
He talked more about rome tho.... It's too bad.
Thank you for this video. Although I have studied related subjects and visited Ancient sites in Greece and Italy most of what you said was new to me.
Perhaps though it would have been worth saying more about the Roman innovations of arches and domes, in which the distribution of weight reduces the need to clutter up space with supporting columns. I believe half columns carved on the outside of walls were also a Roman innovation, to give some of the decoration of columns without having to build a full colonade all the way round the temple. That would make sense in combination with the Roman practice you mention of only making a temple accessible from the front.
Architecture is always interesting. Keep up with it.
Interesting video about the two similar cultures.!..I am greek and have thought a lot of times the defferences between romans and greeks about the same ancient gods.
This is an interesting topic of discussion. Thank you!
Very useful information...
It will be great to add some pictorial or cartoon form to explain structures....
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Great video as always Metatron! Salve from Texas!
he Matatron I really like your videos! and especially the ones about the Romans and Greeks (but also Japanese and others) I am personally very interested in Architecture (so I’m really excited about you latest videos on architecture) and so I have a brilliant book for you to read :) (if you havened already) it's the ARCHITECTVRA LIBRI DECEM by MARCVS VITRVVIVS POLLIO (it's written in the late republic early empire) and I highly recommend it!
Metatron, I found your channel thanks to Skall and got really into history. Recently I've been binge watching your videos.
So, I have some questions (about languages)
I am native brazilian, Portuguese is my native language, and due to constant use I could also consider English my second language.
Now, I really want to learn some other languages. The ones I have in mind are German and Japanese.
- German because I am currently studying Psychology, and a lot of things are in german. (I also like the language a lot)
- Japanese because I like the culture, and would really like to read manga, watch anime, listen to music, play games.
First question is: How do I learn them? I don't even remember how it was for me with english. I did some classes, there's a "blank english stage" and then there's me speaking it fluently.
Second question is: I am also interested in another languages. I want to move to Canada, so a bit of French would be good. Spanish seem another language that's good to know, and it's close to portuguese, so could be faster to learn. And... Esperanto and Latin. I doubt I would ever use them on a (almost) daily basis like the other four, but both of them really intrigues me.
The question is: Am I getting too ahead of myself? Are there more "important" languages to learn first? Should I change the way I am thinking about something related to them?
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In short: Should I learn another languages? If yes, in which order and how to practice them?
I know I shouldn't ask you to give me Roman history lessons but you are just too good at teaching. How did Roman religion change from ones like Greek to Christian?
Excellent - keep up the good work
Great video. One proposal: you 've maid videos about ancient times, about western medieval times about medieval japan and china. How about making a video about greek medieval times aka byzantium? Besides byzantium influenced Sicily and southern Italy since they were under byzantine rule for a considerable time. There is also a period in Greece called "francokratia" aka "romance" rule of greek lands.
You need another video on this, there are lots more differences to cover.
Hey Metatron great video as usual :) What is your opinion on the BBC/HBO series ROME? Did you think it was a fairly good representation of the late republican period? Obviously they had to gloss over some events and remove some others entirely for production reasons, like Antony's campaign against Parthia, but overall I think they did a pretty good Job.
Trajan A bit late but I hear the battle scenes in it are extremely realistic
Great video! You should talk about Roman gods v.s. Greek gods, their similarities and their differences. More specifically as well, Italic religious worship before Greek influence.
Qué increíble que vivas en Sicilia, lugar que fue en la edad antigua la "magna Grecia" ahí seguramente puedes ver tanto los templos hechos por lo griegos como los de los romanos. Saludos desde México.
I'd like to thank you for explaining the idea of how the Romans understood what is sacred. It always puzzled me why the tribute of the plebs were sacrosanct in a way that no other Roman magistrate was, but this understanding of the term "sacred" makes it clear.
acropolis is a city it is the part of the city that every citizen that is not a soldier would go there in case of an enemy attack.
I'm very much enjoying these strolls through ancient Rome and Greece.
wonderful work!
great video ... can I make a request ? so do you ever seen the tv series ROME?? can you make a video evaluating that series? I would really like to know what you think of the series
Great video, as always.
If I may make a request...I would love a video on Indo-European culture and language; I'm sure you will find this topic fascinating.
Regards from Argentina. Ciao!
i have theory and history of architecture exam tomorrow thank you so much for this video!!!
What is that word you said at 8:47 (meaning exchecker). How is it spelled?
hi, new subscriber here! really great content, man :) keep up with the good work
Thank you very much ^^
Well done. Maybe someday you could do a video about a germanic Thing in contrast to the meditarraenean Cultures of Rome and Greece.
Great video 👍
I love the subtly in the column designs. Typically Hellenic square base and top like at 3:42. Egyptian columns a tapered circular base with a lotus motif at the top. When Rome expanded it's domain you see their temples with a mix. Hellenic square base with lotus motif like at 3:39.
Thanx Metatron! Maybe a video on Tartessos would be good ;)
I love your vids!
Could you talk about the difference in their conventions around painting their temples? You sure had a lot of pictures showing da TRUTH (that the temples were painted) but you didn't talk about it even once. Great vid anyway, love your content.
I second this request -- most people assume that everything was monochromatic in white marble, like in modern architecture, when back then things were a lot more colorful. I was waiting to hear what would be said about it -- hopefully a part two! ;)
Both Romans and Greeks would've painted their temples and the statues. Statues also had jewels in the eyes instead of a blank cavity, making them look far more realistic. The jewels were ripped off by Germanic vandals long ago, and paint faded away... so the plain white marble is all we see today.
have you done any videos on the Etruscans, I'm really interested in them.
Exchequer is where they tabulate how much money is supposed to come in and check receipts, and a treasury is where you keep the money (and other valuables) that has come in.
Yeah my Metatron is discussing my first and true love Greek and Roman Mythology.
on your gofundme page I've discovered 2 spelling mistakes: 1 where you type campaign as campain and 1 later on just before your personal feelings sections where you spell would as woudl. I hope this is somewhat helpful!
Maybe random, but did anyone ever live in these temples in ancient times? Did priests or priestesses live in them like monks live in monasteries? Or did they live in a complex nearby?
Nice information
I love Metatron’s jumps, spins, ducks etc every time the camera goes back to him. Lol
Greek temples had either Ionian, Corinthian or Doric order in the collumns. Roman temples used a variation of the Corinthian collumn cap.
hey metatron your greek accent is almost perfect. This comes from a greek ;)
How do you know what Ancient Greek sounded like?
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If one thing stuck with me from my art history classes it was telling a Roman Temple from a Greek Temple. :)
I'll comment a weird not so well known fact about languages. Since you mentioned it among other things.
And don't know how it came to be the way it is.
And sorry that i detract from the main topic.
But even though modern greeks do understand ancient greek, the pronunciations and most of all, syntax and intonations are very different.
And i would love to see a video about this from you, with your always in depth well researched analysis.
I'm Greek, but i speak a little Italian German Spanish. And learned ancient Greek in school.
So, in terms of syntax/grammar very weirdly enough, ancient Greek and a little bit modern Cypriot greek is similar to German.
But modern Greek and medieval/modern pontic Greek is similar to Italian/Spanish.
Also, ancient Greek used to talk in a "singing" manner like Italians or Scots do now.
And they used a polytonic system like the nordics or modern turkish alphabet do on their letters.
Nowadsys you only hear that in the islands in old people.
While people in the mountains and rural Thessaly make some "russian" sounds.
Also at some point there was an oversimplification of diphthongs and letters during late middle ages. Such as o-micron and o-mega, various types of e's and L's and s's have been simplified down to a very monotone pronunciation.
And before that still in ancient times 3 letters were removed from Greek, but kept by Europeans. F J q and one that looks like a smiley face rotated anti clockwise kinda like this =)
Maybe do a video on this. I think it would be extremely interesting.
Fantastico! A pelle mi stai antipatico. Però la tua competenza e passione, la cura nelle informazioni e l'attendibilità dei contenuti mi inchiodano sempre davanti ai tuoi video. Nemmeno il tuo modo di confezionare le immagini mi piace molto e sono ogni volta felice di constatare che non me ne frega niente. Perchè gli argomenti e la tua capacità di trasmetterli mi catturano completamente. Sono convinto che essendo la 'sostanza' il tuo punto forte, saresti seguitissimo anche se facessi un programma radiofonico!
Ur greek pronouncing of words is pretty pretty nice to listen to