The best advice I was ever given, was from a social study teacher in 9th grade. He said to us "every man in the western world should read The Iliad and the Bible"
your instructor sounds like a far-right christian zealot to me. if you could actually read ancient greek you would not agree with him. Moses was a druggie, jesus was a druggie, and the Eucharist and holy ghost are nothing more than descriptions on how to get high.
calling it anatolia is bass ackwards. its literally greek for east its like going back to a time when we looked at all of asian culture as one vague distant occurance and made no sense to us. anatolia is an us vs them headspace lol
This is the first time i hear the Sea People referred to as greek. I do think the common knowledge is that we're not completely sure where they were from. Only theories.
One argument is that the Philistines were the Peleset (one of the sea peoples) who in turn were bronze-age Greeks, on the basis of the hearths found in excavations, Mycenaean pottery and champion-type combat depicted in the Iliad and the David and Goliath story.
@@Dino_Medici Depends on the sub topic, but if you want a general overview you really cannot do better than Life of Greece by Will Durant. The Rise of the Greeks by Michael Grant is good for the Archaic era. Persian Fire by Tom Holland is a great look at the Greco-Persian Wars. A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson looks at the Peloponnesian War. I also like Phillip and Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy for the Macedonians. Those would give you a chronological broad sweep. I’m always open for more recs if anyone else wants to comment or suggest anything better.
@@TheDelayer Thanks bro. Based on my research, Will Durant and Tom Holland seem like peoples favorites. Prob where I will start. I’m specifically interested in aesthetics, especially the high classical period if you have any recs in that field. I haven’t found what I’m looking for yet. Super interested in learning more about the etymology of Greek words that encapsulate their aesthetic world view.
@@Dino_Medici Hmmmm that’s a little niche compared to what I’ve read thus far. However, of everything I mentioned, I would definitely start with Durant as he gives pretty thorough treatment to art and architecture. Tom Holland writes in a more novelistic style that does a really good job of putting you in the subjective perspective of the Greeks at the time. So his work might interest you if that sounds appealing. I’ll look over my bookshelf later and comment again if anything else comes to mind.
Surprised no mention of Spartas popular image being a catoonish caricature born of the Roman era when the city had become a tourist attraction that lasted longer then Sparta's golden age.
Ancient Greeks called your land Anatolia, land of the sun rise, because you are east of Greece, and that's where the sun would rise upon the world as far as they were concerned.
When I was a kid in school, we learned about Aesop's Fables and you do know that Greek is the only ancient language that still exist today only that it was divided into Ancient, Medieval and Modern Greek.
Greek is not the same as ancient Greek, Greek has changed so much it is both Indo-European and Semitic and if you consider it to be the same language it was then there are several other languages to add to that list including ones closer to proto-indo-European such as Gaelic.
Thank you very much for this gem of a video. Unfortunately many people in modern times disregard the achievements and inventions of the Greeks, their gifts to this world, and often think of the Greeks as a "small" country. Yet the Greek civilization is one of the most important in history, bringing Europe out of its dark ages, despite the fact that its small remnants have barely survived today
Greece was the wellspring that gave us the linear progression of humanity. It was the promethean fire of ever emerging complexity, the dichotomy of the dark ages entropy. Take the theatre for example, this allowed perspective to emerge within our cognitive frameworks which can be noticed with the emergence of a kind of photo realism within our art and sculpture. I'm a new sub to the channel friend. Today in fact. It's nice to meet others that don't require armbands for the shallow end of our genepool, a rarity these days. I'm looking forward to consuming more of your content. Have a great day brother
12:35 the small Greek cities and settlements were called oikoi, already from Mycenaean times. The word literally means family, and later home. An oikos was more than just a community, the people were like a family. That's also where you get the word economy from
8:07 actually the ancient Greeks themselves called the previous inhabitants of Greece "Pelasgians", and even Zeus was often referred to as the Pelasgian, or eternal God. Pelasgians were the pre-hellenic speakers of the Greek peninsula and the islands. But the Greeks also believed in autochthonism, that the Greeks actually came from rocks that their progenitor, Hellen, left on the ground
Ancient greek society definitely had a sense of ethics, which is the values one takes up and thus Aristotle wrote an entire book about Ethics (Nicomachean Ethics, Nicomacheus was his son it is a guide book). We can distinguish mores, morality from ethics in that the moral is imposed on us whereas ethics are those values we choose. Kinda surprised RL dropped the ball on ancient Greek ethics.
@@ZMCFERON Aristotle: space alien. How else to explain it? Before Aristotle there was only dialogue, nothing truly systemic, just idle questions with no answers, not philosophy let alone science. And then suddenly: taxonomy botany astronomy climatology rhetoric political science physics literary theory logic and moral theory this is only in the works that survive a lot of his works are lost. Aristotle, the name means excellence, and he is so underplayed in late modernity and that is one of late modernity's illnesses. It's Aristotle's world because he described it most accurately, we're just occupying it. The single best argument that aliens decided to wake up the planet is Aristotle because no one did anything like that before or really since, though Confucius comes close. Aristotle's even bigger than Confucius. Modernity also mistakenly claims Aristotle did not believe in the experimental method, which is obviously wrong if we actually read him and we should because he teaches people not merely how to survive but also how to live well, in other words a theory of the good so yeah, not merely ethical but also moral.
Aristotle Summary: Man is a rational talking social animal with the power of speech inherently curious, the most powerful animal of all and thus capable of the greatest good and greatest evil but because of their in-born social nature and desire for justice they band together in states to achieve the greatest common good. That and all natural sciences is Aristoi, which means "Excellence". His dad had high expectations. idk what became of Nicomacheus. SPAN.
A few things worth mentioning - the name of the pre-greeks in Greece is Pelasgians (genetics is pre Indo-European Anatolian farmers - the South-European look), the Minoans had very large cities and i am pretty sure the first ever toilets (the siphon effect), Goliath's grand-father could not have fought in Troy, troy is -1200, David is -1000 and only a fraction of sea-peoples became the Philistines, most who survived the defeats at Egypt went home to build Nuragi or something - maybe worth adding in text in the video, your call, sir
4:46 not exactly unified, the Mycenaean Civilization wasn't so much a unitary state/kingdom, it was a collection of kingdoms based in cities, and the center was in Myceneae (the king of kings was there)
I'm currently hearing The life of Greece of Durant, in audiobook, i'm around the start of hellenism after Alexander's death. Is very shocking to learn the uncanny similarities betwen them and us.
What was crazy about the Peloponnesian War was that despite massive setbacks Athens and especially its navy kept coming back and Sparta could never defeat them at sea. Sparta only won after catching the Athenian navy on the beach.
The greeks: had "computers" that could tell them where the stars would be hundreds of years into the future Modernity: "THE ECLIPSE PATH PASSING OVER 45 TOWNS BUILT LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO ALL NAMED NINEVA IS PROOF JESUS IS COMING BACK THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION"
I was taught about ancient Greece in school too, but that’s not what he meant.. i think what he meant was that up until the mid 20th century, some schools still taught latin and ancient greek, and went far deeper into the classics like the Illiad and Odyssey.. in my high school in the 00’s, classical antiquity was like a single chapter in one textbook.. completely different levels of depth
@@Guillhez my experience was much more than just the iliad and the Odyssey. in general studies there are so many historical topics to cover. does he suggest we just drop it all to focus on ancient Greece?
I was in high school for 4 years in greece, between 2002 and 2006. alot of what we were taught at the time, looking back on it now, seems like anti turk propaganda. Ive always been fascinated by the ties between our two cultures and the constant disagreements in the modern world about the origins of certain traditions, and foods, having come from both areas at similar times. WHO MADE THE FIRST KEBAB?!?
Would you consider the modern dystopian era in North America and Europe a “dark age”…are we due for a renaissance of some sort, or are we just about to enter our dark age?
I don´t know about North America because it´s a different demographic situation. But I would call 1990-2030s the "Last Party of Europe" as young Europeans enjoy the surplus created by older generations while it lasts as economic collapse and ethnic civil wars are looming in the background as a consequence of mass immigration. Many people live beyond their means, hedonistic and materialistic. Watch Rave World,Love Parade,CSD and all the other festivals where total degeneracy is the norm. At the same time armies(they are armed) of hostile young muslim arab and african men enter the borders. I only see a renaissance happen in countries with low immigration like Eastern Europe and Japan.
Oh wow! Hey thanks. This field is really well worked one person could literally translate all ancient existing Greek texts. Though, it's a useful base for comparing to other less famous civilizations. I think the most useful point to notice is that Hellenic civilization unlike the alluvial civilizations evolved into a series of independent cities (Polises) because greeech is a peninsual of peninsulas and mountainous so all the various polises were really secure by nature and able to evolve domestic governance structures. Sea travel was much easier. This is a preview of all European civilization since in fact Europe is also a peninsual with many peninsulas likewise separted by mountins. This and weather differences are a big reason why Eastern Europe/Western Asia are fairly different from Europe. Fewer natural defense lines (wide norht south rivers, forests, marshes) Russia is plenty defensible btw.
So, the most creative, ingenious, and free market society in Greece was the one were women had 0 involvement in public affairs, that is quite interesting. PS: Spartans, when going into war, had to ask the ones with money to finance the endeavour (in many cases were widows of various spouses with lots if inherited wealth). So things are not as cut and dry as one might think...
25:00 the same process is happening to Western civilization, the Enlightenment was an extension of the scientific rationalism of Medieval clergy who were philosophers and scientists. The Enlightenment overrationalized to the point where it questioned the existence of God, which the clergy thinkers took as a priori. But ironically, the atheistic philosophies that spawned from the Enlightenment have become mystery cults.
I think when evaluating ancient Greece he is too much biased. „It was ‚dirty‘ bc it was ‚based‘ on slavery“!(?) Slavery in the ancient world was a uniquitious, universal institution. Even under Christianity in late antiquity and the early middle ages it was hardly questioned. When the British decided to abolish and fight slavery in the 19th century it was still a well respected institution in most parts of the world. So, to discount the Greek civilisation (same for the Romans) due to slavery is a - as you like it- christian, anglophone and leftist prejudice. Its a completely ahistoric and ignorant stance. To think that slavery is something bad and to celebrate every historical form of abolition is quite another matter. Even Lenin said that it makes no sense to judge the ancients by modern ( western) standards. Why? Bc its „cheap“, intellectually, and leads (among other things) to the current iconoclasm in the US led west the whole world is laughing at.
To add to this by what Lenin mentioned I think in my own opinion slavery was tolerated in the pre-industrial world as a lesser Evil between having a third of the population enslaved or having 90% of the workforce be unskilled peasants like in ancient China for example
I’m curious how the Greeks went from ancestor worship to the hierarchy of gods on Olympus. You mention both of these but don’t say if these were the same thing or if there was some kind of transition.
Greeks had have idea. They were even mocking Critical Feminist and Fat theory 3000 years ago. The battle of good vs evil is always the same; Humans only have a few softwares compatible with our hardware.
I understand that there are probably some accounts that Greeks welcomed Roman conquest but that is definitely not the entire story, it took over 50 years and multiple battles to accomplish even in Greeces decadent state
I agree I learned nothing of ancient Greece or much of the Roman Empire let alone the World Wars which I believe is a mistake of the education system. I believe history and philosophy should be the most important subjects in school kids today don't understand where they came from and will repeat mistakes that could of being avoided by learning from the past
I really like these videos, but it is so hard and trying to discern what rudyard means when he constantly miss speaks or calls one thing by another’s name. I’ll be following along perfectly and then he’ll say Persia instead of Athens, when talking about the Peloponnesian war and all the sudden I’m having to do mental gymnastics to figure out what do he means.
Whats the point of the other guy?, he seems more useless than a 5th wheel, is he your muse or your whip?, he seems to fill no function except earning kudos for your exhaustive work and oration.
Q: If everyone is equal, everything is owned in common, and nobody does anything, then who does the work? A: The slaves of course! Communism hasn't changed in 2500+ years.
"We do not allow a man to rule us, but a rational principle: for a man will rule in his own interest, and thus become a tyrant." Aristotle, Politics. Yes, Athens at least had the rule of law concept. Some of Aristotles constitutional commentaries are extant. Unfortunately we have only a fraction of ancient greek writings Modern leftism is based on Heraclitus, not Pythagoras. For Heraclitus, all is conflict, whereas for Pythagoras all is harmony. Heraclitus=>Hegel=>Marx Heraclitus=>Nietzsche, at least on the point of universality of conflict.
Heraclitus is the OPPOSITE of Leftism Heraclitus sees conflict as good and necessary witch is the opposite of Leftism which makes an appeal to "goodness" or slave morality as Nietzsche would put it Couldn't be more wrong about it
4:28 The Turks meaning Hittite called Greeks Anahawuia ? Hittites have to relation to Turks. Big difference actually as the Turks coming from the Mongol Tribes that we all know of. The relation between those 2 people is irrelevant.
The best advice I was ever given, was from a social study teacher in 9th grade. He said to us "every man in the western world should read The Iliad and the Bible"
If they were literate they probably did
your instructor sounds like a far-right christian zealot to me. if you could actually read ancient greek you would not agree with him. Moses was a druggie, jesus was a druggie, and the Eucharist and holy ghost are nothing more than descriptions on how to get high.
Two videos in two days? This is like a legit nerdgasm. But of the good variety. Also you consistently manage to make an hour go by really quickly.
Nice and its Greece too. Well Ancient Greece but still
We came. Then we came again.
This second video is very welcome.
Rudyard lost weight. Good on you!
Being the example is the best leadership.
his head is still bulbus and clearly holding a lot of fat, why do you think he lost weight?
Calling it "Turkey" is moronic and it is significant. Retake Anatolia.
Not really. Put the salve on your buttocks and keep moving.
@@Chris-es3wf Tell me more about your father.
@S.J.L that didn't even make sense. How many chromosomes do you have, exactly? 🤣
@@Chris-es3wf Hug your father, young Oedipus.
calling it anatolia is bass ackwards. its literally greek for east its like going back to a time when we looked at all of asian culture as one vague distant occurance and made no sense to us. anatolia is an us vs them headspace lol
Please do Persian Civilization!
I second this~
I third this~ Achaemenid/First Persian Empire when.
he can do that after Aryan invasion one as Persians were Aryans
This is the first time i hear the Sea People referred to as greek. I do think the common knowledge is that we're not completely sure where they were from. Only theories.
Yes and He called Them italian as well
One argument is that the Philistines were the Peleset (one of the sea peoples) who in turn were bronze-age Greeks, on the basis of the hearths found in excavations, Mycenaean pottery and champion-type combat depicted in the Iliad and the David and Goliath story.
I’m in the middle of an Ancient Greece deep dive. Truly fortuitous timing.
Book recs?
@@Dino_Medici Depends on the sub topic, but if you want a general overview you really cannot do better than Life of Greece by Will Durant.
The Rise of the Greeks by Michael Grant is good for the Archaic era. Persian Fire by Tom Holland is a great look at the Greco-Persian Wars. A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson looks at the Peloponnesian War. I also like Phillip and Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy for the Macedonians.
Those would give you a chronological broad sweep. I’m always open for more recs if anyone else wants to comment or suggest anything better.
same just finished the odyssey and iliad
@@TheDelayer Thanks bro. Based on my research, Will Durant and Tom Holland seem like peoples favorites. Prob where I will start.
I’m specifically interested in aesthetics, especially the high classical period if you have any recs in that field.
I haven’t found what I’m looking for yet. Super interested in learning more about the etymology of Greek words that encapsulate their aesthetic world view.
@@Dino_Medici Hmmmm that’s a little niche compared to what I’ve read thus far. However, of everything I mentioned, I would definitely start with Durant as he gives pretty thorough treatment to art and architecture. Tom Holland writes in a more novelistic style that does a really good job of putting you in the subjective perspective of the Greeks at the time. So his work might interest you if that sounds appealing.
I’ll look over my bookshelf later and comment again if anything else comes to mind.
Sound quality making huge difference! And this was my favorite video in the series so far
Surprised no mention of Spartas popular image being a catoonish caricature born of the Roman era when the city had become a tourist attraction that lasted longer then Sparta's golden age.
Thanks guys, I've been enjoying this entire channel.
I was born in Turkey but I wish I was born as a Greek in Ancient Greece
who knows, chances are you're part greek if you're from near the western coast
Ancient Greeks called your land Anatolia, land of the sun rise, because you are east of Greece, and that's where the sun would rise upon the world as far as they were concerned.
There are no "real turks" you're probably part greek part mongolian
Shoutout to you for pumping these out. Perfect vid to ride too while I smoke
When I was a kid in school, we learned about Aesop's Fables and you do know that Greek is the only ancient language that still exist today only that it was divided into Ancient, Medieval and Modern Greek.
And we modern Greeks can understand it and speak it as well
Hebrew
Greek is not the same as ancient Greek, Greek has changed so much it is both Indo-European and Semitic and if you consider it to be the same language it was then there are several other languages to add to that list including ones closer to proto-indo-European such as Gaelic.
Very important
@@AdamMaxx Hebrew died out and was only recently revived
Wow, the production has really improved!
54:40 "the left don't think about ancient history anymore"
probably explains why these vids on ancient history have more views
Thank you very much for this gem of a video. Unfortunately many people in modern times disregard the achievements and inventions of the Greeks, their gifts to this world, and often think of the Greeks as a "small" country. Yet the Greek civilization is one of the most important in history, bringing Europe out of its dark ages, despite the fact that its small remnants have barely survived today
Greece was the wellspring that gave us the linear progression of humanity. It was the promethean fire of ever emerging complexity, the dichotomy of the dark ages entropy. Take the theatre for example, this allowed perspective to emerge within our cognitive frameworks which can be noticed with the emergence of a kind of photo realism within our art and sculpture. I'm a new sub to the channel friend. Today in fact. It's nice to meet others that don't require armbands for the shallow end of our genepool, a rarity these days. I'm looking forward to consuming more of your content. Have a great day brother
Already know this one's gonna be a banger
12:35 the small Greek cities and settlements were called oikoi, already from Mycenaean times. The word literally means family, and later home. An oikos was more than just a community, the people were like a family. That's also where you get the word economy from
You remind me of my incredibly enthusiastic middle school teacher that got me ahead of other people in later years. But we're the same age 🫡
8:07 actually the ancient Greeks themselves called the previous inhabitants of Greece "Pelasgians", and even Zeus was often referred to as the Pelasgian, or eternal God. Pelasgians were the pre-hellenic speakers of the Greek peninsula and the islands. But the Greeks also believed in autochthonism, that the Greeks actually came from rocks that their progenitor, Hellen, left on the ground
Please make that next episode about the Indo Europeans!
Ancient greek society definitely had a sense of ethics, which is the values one takes up and thus Aristotle wrote an entire book about Ethics (Nicomachean Ethics, Nicomacheus was his son it is a guide book). We can distinguish mores, morality from ethics in that the moral is imposed on us whereas ethics are those values we choose. Kinda surprised RL dropped the ball on ancient Greek ethics.
Too many people sleep on "The Philosopher", tutor of Alexander, codifier of scientific method, founder of biology, unromantic political theorist
@@ZMCFERON Aristotle: space alien. How else to explain it? Before Aristotle there was only dialogue, nothing truly systemic, just idle questions with no answers, not philosophy let alone science. And then suddenly: taxonomy botany astronomy climatology rhetoric political science physics literary theory logic and moral theory this is only in the works that survive a lot of his works are lost. Aristotle, the name means excellence, and he is so underplayed in late modernity and that is one of late modernity's illnesses. It's Aristotle's world because he described it most accurately, we're just occupying it. The single best argument that aliens decided to wake up the planet is Aristotle because no one did anything like that before or really since, though Confucius comes close. Aristotle's even bigger than Confucius. Modernity also mistakenly claims Aristotle did not believe in the experimental method, which is obviously wrong if we actually read him and we should because he teaches people not merely how to survive but also how to live well, in other words a theory of the good so yeah, not merely ethical but also moral.
just because one guy wrote one book about ethics didn't make them any more ethical than people today,smh.
@@RYOkEkEN You seem to think I said something like "Aristotle was more ethical than people today".
I did not.
The Greeks changed the Phoenician abjad a lot, essentially the Greek alphabet is the first writing system with vowels
As soon as the music comes on, it's go time.
I absolutely love how athenians were just absolute madlads that would start crazy wars just because.
Your podcasts are like chatGPT: the general frame is consistent but there are so many small errors that one has to double check everything.
The Indo-Aryan conquests would be a great video, it has my vote.
Total War music. Classic
Nice! This is very enjoyable to watch, I love how much the quality has improved.
Aristotle Summary: Man is a rational talking social animal with the power of speech inherently curious, the most powerful animal of all and thus capable of the greatest good and greatest evil but because of their in-born social nature and desire for justice they band together in states to achieve the greatest common good. That and all natural sciences is Aristoi, which means "Excellence". His dad had high expectations. idk what became of Nicomacheus. SPAN.
Great video. I like when your podcast is less edited
Love your videos, thanks so much
I wish more dates were given in these to chronologic the time frames.
A few things worth mentioning - the name of the pre-greeks in Greece is Pelasgians (genetics is pre Indo-European Anatolian farmers - the South-European look), the Minoans had very large cities and i am pretty sure the first ever toilets (the siphon effect), Goliath's grand-father could not have fought in Troy, troy is -1200, David is -1000 and only a fraction of sea-peoples became the Philistines, most who survived the defeats at Egypt went home to build Nuragi or something - maybe worth adding in text in the video, your call, sir
4:46 not exactly unified, the Mycenaean Civilization wasn't so much a unitary state/kingdom, it was a collection of kingdoms based in cities, and the center was in Myceneae (the king of kings was there)
Guess I'm learning about Greece tonight.
he's calling hittites turks so idk about that hahah
If the people of Holland wanted I'd refer to all of Northern Europe as Holland, they gave my family refuge when nobody else would.
I'm currently hearing The life of Greece of Durant, in audiobook, i'm around the start of hellenism after Alexander's death. Is very shocking to learn the uncanny similarities betwen them and us.
The Greeks were not called anything by the Turks until a few thousand years later.
Oh heck, yes.Keep em comin y’all!
Challenge: show me one modern societal problem that was not experienced by every previous other society
Phoenitians, Persia, ancient egypt, 7 years war, celts and latín american independence would be great topics for videos
What was crazy about the Peloponnesian War was that despite massive setbacks Athens and especially its navy kept coming back and Sparta could never defeat them at sea. Sparta only won after catching the Athenian navy on the beach.
Oh snap, 2nd video in 2 days, lets goooo!
Rudyard is like the new york times in that so many books he recommends are the best
I get the Feeling These books are Just the ones He happened to read on a certain topic
@@svenmuller5332if you look at his Goodreads account, he does slam the ones he doesn’t like.
Do you think you could make this a podcast? On Spotify perhaps? If it isn’t already. Would like to listen at work but my phone battery is dying haha
The greeks: had "computers" that could tell them where the stars would be hundreds of years into the future
Modernity: "THE ECLIPSE PATH PASSING OVER 45 TOWNS BUILT LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO ALL NAMED NINEVA IS PROOF JESUS IS COMING BACK THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION"
where did you go to school? i was taught about ancient Greece in high school. i graduated in 2015.
I was taught about ancient Greece in school too, but that’s not what he meant.. i think what he meant was that up until the mid 20th century, some schools still taught latin and ancient greek, and went far deeper into the classics like the Illiad and Odyssey.. in my high school in the 00’s, classical antiquity was like a single chapter in one textbook.. completely different levels of depth
@@Guillhez my experience was much more than just the iliad and the Odyssey. in general studies there are so many historical topics to cover. does he suggest we just drop it all to focus on ancient Greece?
I was in high school for 4 years in greece, between 2002 and 2006. alot of what we were taught at the time, looking back on it now, seems like anti turk propaganda. Ive always been fascinated by the ties between our two cultures and the constant disagreements in the modern world about the origins of certain traditions, and foods, having come from both areas at similar times. WHO MADE THE FIRST KEBAB?!?
Explaining Poland when?
39:03 imagine being an important historical figure and everybody just calls you a randome farmer😭
Would you consider the modern dystopian era in North America and Europe a “dark age”…are we due for a renaissance of some sort, or are we just about to enter our dark age?
I don´t know about North America because it´s a different demographic situation. But I would call 1990-2030s the "Last Party of Europe" as young Europeans enjoy the surplus created by older generations while it lasts as economic collapse and ethnic civil wars are looming in the background as a consequence of mass immigration. Many people live beyond their means, hedonistic and materialistic. Watch Rave World,Love Parade,CSD and all the other festivals where total degeneracy is the norm. At the same time armies(they are armed) of hostile young muslim arab and african men enter the borders. I only see a renaissance happen in countries with low immigration like Eastern Europe and Japan.
Fun fact: those get released about one week in advance on Spotify
Oh wow! Hey thanks. This field is really well worked one person could literally translate all ancient existing Greek texts. Though, it's a useful base for comparing to other less famous civilizations. I think the most useful point to notice is that Hellenic civilization unlike the alluvial civilizations evolved into a series of independent cities (Polises) because greeech is a peninsual of peninsulas and mountainous so all the various polises were really secure by nature and able to evolve domestic governance structures. Sea travel was much easier. This is a preview of all European civilization since in fact Europe is also a peninsual with many peninsulas likewise separted by mountins. This and weather differences are a big reason why Eastern Europe/Western Asia are fairly different from Europe. Fewer natural defense lines (wide norht south rivers, forests, marshes) Russia is plenty defensible btw.
WOAH! Another one!! thanks mister History 102
So, the most creative, ingenious, and free market society in Greece was the one were women had 0 involvement in public affairs, that is quite interesting.
PS: Spartans, when going into war, had to ask the ones with money to finance the endeavour (in many cases were widows of various spouses with lots if inherited wealth). So things are not as cut and dry as one might think...
Please do Lusitan Civilization!
29:47
i also liked the part where he mentioned the book about complex societies
French Revolution please
4:30 Hittites have nothing to do with Turks? Turks came to this region thousands of years later from Central Asia and Mongolia
History of the Steppe Peoples next!
25:00 the same process is happening to Western civilization, the Enlightenment was an extension of the scientific rationalism of Medieval clergy who were philosophers and scientists. The Enlightenment overrationalized to the point where it questioned the existence of God, which the clergy thinkers took as a priori. But ironically, the atheistic philosophies that spawned from the Enlightenment have become mystery cults.
I think when evaluating ancient Greece he is too much biased. „It was ‚dirty‘ bc it was ‚based‘ on slavery“!(?)
Slavery in the ancient world was a uniquitious, universal institution. Even under Christianity in late antiquity and the early middle ages it was hardly questioned. When the British decided to abolish and fight slavery in the 19th century it was still a well respected institution in most parts of the world.
So, to discount the Greek civilisation (same for the Romans) due to slavery is a - as you like it- christian, anglophone and leftist prejudice. Its a completely ahistoric and ignorant stance.
To think that slavery is something bad and to celebrate every historical form of abolition is quite another matter. Even Lenin said that it makes no sense to judge the ancients by modern ( western) standards. Why? Bc its „cheap“, intellectually, and leads (among other things) to the current iconoclasm in the US led west the whole world is laughing at.
To add to this by what Lenin mentioned I think in my own opinion slavery was tolerated in the pre-industrial world as a lesser Evil between having a third of the population enslaved or having 90% of the workforce be unskilled peasants like in ancient China for example
"if you vomit on the map, it looks like Greece" 😂😂
That intro song goes hard
I’m curious how the Greeks went from ancestor worship to the hierarchy of gods on Olympus. You mention both of these but don’t say if these were the same thing or if there was some kind of transition.
The thumbnail really looks like an unicorn
The editing is a little weird but at least you're putting in effort
This channel rules, thank you
Greeks had have idea. They were even mocking Critical Feminist and Fat theory 3000 years ago.
The battle of good vs evil is always the same; Humans only have a few softwares compatible with our hardware.
I understand that there are probably some accounts that Greeks welcomed Roman conquest but that is definitely not the entire story, it took over 50 years and multiple battles to accomplish even in Greeces decadent state
They fought mainly the macedons who were hellenized barbarians
I agree I learned nothing of ancient Greece or much of the Roman Empire let alone the World Wars which I believe is a mistake of the education system. I believe history and philosophy should be the most important subjects in school kids today don't understand where they came from and will repeat mistakes that could of being avoided by learning from the past
I really like these videos, but it is so hard and trying to discern what rudyard means when he constantly miss speaks or calls one thing by another’s name. I’ll be following along perfectly and then he’ll say Persia instead of Athens, when talking about the Peloponnesian war and all the sudden I’m having to do mental gymnastics to figure out what do he means.
astrology is pre-scientific psychology and does require exact measurement of star positions.
Whats the point of the other guy?, he seems more useless than a 5th wheel, is he your muse or your whip?, he seems to fill no function except earning kudos for your exhaustive work and oration.
RUDYARD! I NEED SOME AFRICAN HISTORY RUDYARD!
Erik do u enjoy the show too?
What horrendous modern art behind Ruddy’s buddy
I want you to explain Mycenaean Greece.
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TWO VIDEOS?! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
who is here after watching danny jones ?
Q: If everyone is equal, everything is owned in common, and nobody does anything, then who does the work?
A: The slaves of course!
Communism hasn't changed in 2500+ years.
Maybe I've been watching too much of The Sopranos. But I see some parallels with the Greeks and the Mafia 😂
What a treat
Wow, kinda wild that I am on of one 1,700 people to have watched this video. Thats a relatively small group
I came(in greek)
"We do not allow a man to rule us, but a rational principle: for a man will rule in his own interest, and thus become a tyrant." Aristotle, Politics. Yes, Athens at least had the rule of law concept. Some of Aristotles constitutional commentaries are extant. Unfortunately we have only a fraction of ancient greek writings
Modern leftism is based on Heraclitus, not Pythagoras. For Heraclitus, all is conflict, whereas for Pythagoras all is harmony. Heraclitus=>Hegel=>Marx
Heraclitus=>Nietzsche, at least on the point of universality of conflict.
Heraclitus is the OPPOSITE of Leftism
Heraclitus sees conflict as good and necessary witch is the opposite of Leftism which makes an appeal to "goodness" or slave morality as Nietzsche would put it
Couldn't be more wrong about it
knowing the classics is overrated, yes i read them. great to know.
Do settlement of American west please
Two videos in two days holy my guacamole get the popcorn
Content content content gimme more
34:36. Cyrus the Great, the only non-Jew to be dubbed Messiah.
Bro the Macedonians were not barbarians. They were Greeks. Also Aristotle wasn’t Macedonian.
LFG Rudyard
2 in one week?! Thanks guys
What’s the point of the other guy? He barely talks
4:28 The Turks meaning Hittite called Greeks Anahawuia ? Hittites have to relation to Turks. Big difference actually as the Turks coming from the Mongol Tribes that we all know of. The relation between those 2 people is irrelevant.
This guy likes to smell his own flatulence.
lean right much? you are the leaning tower of Piza on its right side.