How much do I like Ancient Greece? … How much time do you have?
SOURCES & Further Reading:
BOOKS:
“The Greeks: A Global History” by Roderick Beaton
“The Greeks: An Illustrated History” by Diane Cline for National Geographic
“Athens: City of Wisdom” by Bruce Clark
“Ancient Greece: The Definitive Visual History” produced by DK & Smithsonian
“Oxford Archaeological Guides: Greece” by Christopher Mee & Antony Spawforth
“History of Greece” by JB Bury
“The Complete Greek Temples” by Tony Spawforth
“Ancient Cities Brought To Life” by Jean-Claude Golvin
“Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History” by John Julius Norwich
“Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece” by Donald Kagan & Gregory F. Viggiano
Herodotus “Histories”
Thucydides “History of the Peloponnesian War”
Plutarch “Life of Aristeides”
Plato “Gorgias” and “Meno”
LECTURES:
“ANCIENT GREEK CIVILIZATION” by Jeremy McInerney – “Minoan Crete”, “Schliemann & Mycenae”, “The Long Twilight”, “The Age of Heroes”, “Delphi and Olympia”, “Revolution”, “Tyranny”, “The Origins of Democracy”, “The Spartans”, “From Sicily to Syria – The Growth of Trade and Colonization”, “Athens in Decline?”
“THE GREEK WORLD: A STUDY OF HISTORY AND CULTURE” by Robert Garland – “Bronze Age Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans”, “Dark Age and Archaic Greece”, “The Greek Way of Waging War”, “Greek Language, Literacy, and Writing”, “The Perfection of Greek Architecture”, “Classical Greece: The Age of Pericles”
“THE OTHER SIDE OF HISTORY: DAILY LIFE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD” by Robert Garland – “Being Minoan and Mycenaean”, “Being a Greek Slave”
“THE FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION” by Thomas F. X. Noble – “Dark Age and Archaic Greece”, “The Greek Polis – Sparta”
“THE ARCHITECTURE OF POWER: GREAT PALACES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD” by Stephen Tuck – “The Palace of Nestor at Pylos and Bronze Age Greece”
“ARCHAEOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST SITES” by Eric Cline – “Discovering Mycenae and Knossos”
“THE BIG HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS” by Craig Benjamin – “Early Mediterranean Civilizations”
“WRITING AND CIVILIZATION: FROM ANCIENT WORLDS TO MODERNITY” by Marc Zender – “Mycenaean Linear B”
“RELIGION IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD” by Glenn Holland – “Early Aegean Civilizations”
“THE PERSIAN EMPIRE” by John W. I. Lee – “Challenges in the West: 513 – 493”
“THE GREAT CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA MINOR” by Kenneth W. Harl – “Emergence of the Polis”, “Ionia and Early Greek Civilization”, “The Persian Conquest”, “Athenian Empire and Spartan Hegemony”, “Alexander the Great and the Diadochi”, and “The Hellenization of Asia Minor”
”ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE” by Kenneth W. Harl – “The Hellenistic Concert of Powers”
“GREAT TOURS: ANCIENT CITIES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN” by Darius Arya – “Magna Graecia: Taras and Syracuse”, “Cyrene, Leptis Magna, and Ancient Libya”
“WORLD HERITAGE SITES” by Justin Jacobs – “The Acropolis of Athens”
“CITIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD” by Steven Tuck – “Athens – Civic Buildings and Civic Identity”
MUSIC:
Tracks predominantly from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey OST by The Flight, Age of Mythology OST by Stephen Rippy and Kevin McMullan, and Age of Mythology Retold OST by Tilman Sillescu
Frequently used tracks are – “The Sacred Land of Artemis”, “The Hills of Attika”, “Phoibe the Orphan”, “Naxos Island”, “Kephallonia Island”, “Chocolate Outline”, “Slaysenflite”, “Adult Swim”, “In A Pile of its Own Good”, “The Ballad of Ace Lebaron”, “Greek To Me”
Chapters:
0:00:00 – Introduction – “Ancient … Greece”
0:01:43 – The Minoans
0:12:11 – The Mycenaeans
0:23:25 – The Ancient Greek Post-Apocalypse
0:31:52 – The Polis Age
0:41:39 – Cyprus
0:49:58 – The Other Side of Greece
0:59:25 – Magna Graecia
1:11:44 – Naxos
1:20:26 – Athenian Democracy
1:31:04 – The Ostracism of Aristeides
1:39:32 – The Athenian Acropolis
1:48:34 – The Cities of Athens
1:55:10 – The Cities of Sparta
2:01:09 – The Tragedy of the Classical Period
2:11:19 – Conclusion – “Marble Dust”
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The existence of a paeninsula implies the existence of a totinsula
This is funny. I was looking up Ancient Greece in a lecture company app. What was funny was that one of the first results to pop up in results was, “Building Love that Lasts.” I knew the love of Ancient Greece could run deep, but I did not expect that!
Rome didn't exactly kick King Pyrrus around. He won all his battles against them at great cost hence the term "pyrrhic victory" and introduced war elephants to the Romans. he actually gave up fighting the Romans and sailed back to Epirus. Supposedly saying "what a battlefield I am leaving for the Romans and Carthaginians," as he sailed away
The only problem (“problem”) I have with these types of videos is that I am Big Stupid and have to pay active attention otherwise I start getting lost, can’t watch them in the background while doing other things lol
Anyone else binge these while playing as that culture in Civ?
I can’t be the only one that dorky.
Wait, the Minotaur myth is just a game of historical telephone where the 'monster' was a bull-obsessed king in a massive palace, and the human tribute/sacrifice was actually real? So Athens' 'heroic' story is just them finally stopping the Cretans from turning their kids into literal human happy meals? That's metal as hell. 🤘
damn, blue dont look half bad
When I was younger I only liked the red videos, but with time I've come to love the blue videos more
Actually the modern greeks have more in common with classical Romans than the ancient Hellenic, as the only things preserved of their original culture are the food and language. Their association with Hellenism is a modern cultural revivalism thing sparked in the 1930s. Before that point they still viewed themselves as Roman, but not the Romans we may be familiar with from history, no, the now lost Medieval Romans who are culturally similar to modern Romanians, so think Romanian with a greek flare, that is pretty much what the Byzantines were.
Just adjust custom playback speed to 0.90x and you'll be able to follow along with your brain on cruise.