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@TheBasicDanTV
July 23, 2024 at 6:20 pm
Next time I have a bad day at the office, I’ll thank Zeus I’m not Alexander.
@sunny_ua
July 23, 2024 at 6:23 pm
Where in “southern russia” did the Greeks live, according to this professor? If he is referring to Khersones, that’s in Crimea, Ukraine.
@davetremaine9688
July 23, 2024 at 6:27 pm
Let’s get back to, as a society, where the answer to the first question is how we see it again.
@Roll587
July 23, 2024 at 6:52 pm
“Which we would consider to be a ~*felony*~” LMAO he’s great
@jaydoggy9043
July 23, 2024 at 6:58 pm
20:17 The page has five pillars but he only points out three. The other two specifically are Roman: The Tuscan is made plainer than the Doric (but incidentally more stable), and the Composite which is a mix of Ionic and Corinthian. But the Greeks should definitely get credit for the main three. Shout out to any fellow travelers who have to learn that to the right of the east.
@tatsumakisenpukyakku5576
July 23, 2024 at 7:01 pm
Man’s said 300 was accurate?? Please stop…
@seermayton-el3488
July 23, 2024 at 7:06 pm
300 accurate? So Persians owned slaves? The Persians had harp playing goat men? Their leader was a god king despite having the first monotheistic religion in the world? The immortals were fanged monster men? The Athenians never made an alliance with the Spartans? Xerxes was just a tyrant conqueror, he wasn’t responding to the Greek city states atognizing colonists in Anatollia? Eat your heart out primary sources
@edwardloomis887
July 23, 2024 at 7:06 pm
Best philosopher of the Greek world (7:32): stoic Epictetus, though technically his time as slave and free person was when Rome was dominant.
@FormulaZR
July 23, 2024 at 7:27 pm
Man these are just never boring!
@rubeegeorgealset6412
July 23, 2024 at 7:28 pm
If u take an alphabet and improve on it , you simply did not invent it, to be frankly accurate
@06alymay
July 23, 2024 at 7:29 pm
I love how the “exact details” are unclear around one of the most important libraries in history. Just blows my mind!
@afk1352008
July 23, 2024 at 7:29 pm
So Greeks took cancel culture to another level with ostracism.
@aliasqar5379
July 23, 2024 at 7:30 pm
0:55 how accurate the movie 300 is ? well they depicted Persians with black skin
@luciaceba4640
July 23, 2024 at 7:35 pm
being of sound character, good morel person, maaan those ancient greeks should see dem gymbros nowadays…
@efraingonzalez23
July 23, 2024 at 7:46 pm
Do one of these things with the aztecs
@nicolehandy8170
July 23, 2024 at 7:57 pm
Please do pirates!!!
@peculiarpig
July 23, 2024 at 7:58 pm
we need more videos on ancient western civilizations!!!
@joh80
July 23, 2024 at 8:03 pm
Thats a lot of misinformantion there. Get better people to answer these.
@Shifty51991
July 23, 2024 at 8:08 pm
uh….Heracles because his father was a god is himself a Demi-God….that’s why he “lived on” not cause he was a “hero” lol…..plenty of Hero’s that were mortals
@brunnomenxa
July 23, 2024 at 8:34 pm
1:45 But the Spartans, according to historians, were good image sellers, so much so that people think the Spartans were very good at war, but in fact they lost fights against Athens.
@ella17734
July 23, 2024 at 8:37 pm
Professor Christesen is an engaging and detailed speaker and educator. I really enjoyed listening~ Greek history is so rich.
@saint-naive
July 23, 2024 at 8:48 pm
as soon as he was asked what event in ancient Greece he’d most like to take part in, I was hoping he’d say theaters. I love Aristophanes and also Euripides especially so to hear Aristophanes name dropped in such an all audiences kind of setting was a real delight. 🙂 brekekekex koax koax 🐸
@hgriff14
July 23, 2024 at 9:06 pm
i agree on diogenes. he proved that all of the other philosophers were doing mental m**********n all day long.
@EduardoRibeiro-w2x
July 23, 2024 at 9:06 pm
Aristotle is the greatest
@HAngeli
July 23, 2024 at 9:21 pm
This is the best one ever. Please donone about Rome.
@haleysneet
July 24, 2024 at 9:52 am
Request for an ancient Japanese/ samurai expert next.
@ErinNaiker-vj7bj
July 24, 2024 at 11:22 am
@WIRED please please please could we have an ancient Japanese/ of samurai expert
@zchesiq
July 24, 2024 at 10:20 am
okay Prof. Paul Christesen is cute, where can i catch ur lectures so i can just look at you nonstop?
@latercube5884
July 24, 2024 at 10:32 am
Gamers that wants part II
@ultwolf
July 24, 2024 at 10:34 am
South Russia? So, Crimea, Odessa, Kherson it`s Russia? Nice chance to unsubscribe, thx
@platypusputin8067
July 24, 2024 at 11:12 am
Prostagma?
@Breakzoras
July 24, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Vulome
Afturgos
Ne
@marama619
July 24, 2024 at 11:56 am
You guys should do ancient China next!
@hulkhatepunybanner
July 24, 2024 at 12:18 pm
*At **12:32**, Priyanka Chopra was hoping he’d say “watching Citadel” on Greek TV.*
@xeno_mania
July 24, 2024 at 12:30 pm
Awesome video! If you’d like to learn more about the Mycenaeans I’m sure my college professor Dr. Michael Lane would love to appear in a video!
@hulkhatepunybanner
July 24, 2024 at 12:38 pm
*The best part of this video is the realization that NO ONE is indigenous to Europe.* Even the Greeks were immigrants to Greece.
@M-_-O
July 24, 2024 at 12:58 pm
Ditch digging fans, relax.
This Professor had under 2 minutes to answer about the movie 300. Nothing he said was a direct contradiction, just an over simplification. He said “a lot of it is embellishment but there are some things right on the mark” then goes onto to give a small number of examples. If he had a whole 30 minutes for one subject I think you’ll find both historians agree.
@Pro-kesh
July 24, 2024 at 1:16 pm
Hades, Percy Jackson, and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey are my GOATS. I love Ancient Greece!
@tiffany5301
July 24, 2024 at 1:40 pm
how did people in BC times write the date ? did they have dates with month day year ? i assume they werent writing down that they were counting down were they ?
@preran01
July 24, 2024 at 1:47 pm
Mass literacy would have been possible with any script no? To be sure, the roman alphabets are nowhere as phonetically close as say, Devanagari.
@sammartens1090
July 24, 2024 at 2:18 pm
We need more Ancient Greece
@isaibro
July 24, 2024 at 3:10 pm
I’ve been waiting for this one
@raleighnoel
July 24, 2024 at 3:29 pm
Finally a professional Greek historian that isn’t a total Dbag
@preran01
July 24, 2024 at 3:35 pm
The concept of Gods intermingling with humans exists in Hindu mythology too.
@zonedereve
July 24, 2024 at 4:12 pm
So great! I learned a lot!
@supermavro6072
July 24, 2024 at 4:21 pm
yeah, I wanna ask you. How did ancient greece become a thing where there wasn’t any such thing as greece before 1821 A.D.
@neilonthetube
July 24, 2024 at 5:35 pm
Ed the 🐐
@FrogBurgerHD
July 24, 2024 at 6:40 pm
More i need more
@potatomo9609
July 24, 2024 at 6:55 pm
Aristotle thought very carefully and decided it’s misogyny, that this world need more misogyny, and this idea, along with a lot of his similarly plain out wrong idea lasted for centuries.
@kjsdpgijn
July 24, 2024 at 8:58 pm
“Which we would consider to be a **F E L O N Y**, but…”
😂
@alexkirrmann8534
July 24, 2024 at 9:17 pm
These questions are insulting to all of human intelligence. It sounds like a fellow American wrote this crap. The audacity. You wonder why America is a dumpster fire? I think this would be a real good place to start.
@Roeinesmati
July 24, 2024 at 9:25 pm
I could listen to him explain Greece for hours
@95mccorkle
July 24, 2024 at 11:48 pm
I love that the Greeks started what we now call voting people off the island
@valleyshrew
July 25, 2024 at 12:23 am
So Greece having huge territory across the eastern Mediterranean isnt an “empire”, but the tiny bit of land the Aztecs had is considered an empire? Gonna need you to define empire.
@Polisciandfries
July 25, 2024 at 1:39 pm
I think it needs a central administration to be considered an empire…
@racheldolfi6533
July 25, 2024 at 12:33 am
More of this please! I love the history ones.
@Ianiraklis
July 25, 2024 at 12:33 am
Realy well done . He knows what he is speaking about and use facts only . As a Greek realy i want to see a part two with this professor
@tidesonfire1004
July 25, 2024 at 1:06 am
Am i the only one that is seeing a bit of Will Forte? Love it!
@laprimaverrra
July 25, 2024 at 5:13 am
I can’t help thinking of that saying, “There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers”. This video is proof that there could indeed be stupid questions getting smart answers.
@mrxxin
July 25, 2024 at 7:22 am
4:18 was this SA of minors the same type of s*xuaI relations that British-stock White American overseers would have with their African sIave minors during the American colonial period?
@Breznak
July 25, 2024 at 8:50 am
Greek building vocabulary maybe became popular in the 1800s in the USA, but in Europe we have been returning to Ancient Greece and Rome since forever (most notably since the renaissance – hence the name).
@22Rokzar
July 25, 2024 at 10:33 am
Why there is this concept of greeks inventing the western civilization? The only thing they invented was democracy, and they were not even sure about it, it was only adopted in Athens for only 200 years. And the western democracy doesn’t have any similarity to the Athens one which was a direct democracy, it means people were gathering, discussing and voting about various subjects, if they’d seen our system they wouldn’t had ever called it democracy. And yeah they had only free, conscription complete man voting, try to apply this to modern days and still call it democracy.
@Polisciandfries
July 25, 2024 at 1:34 pm
People in the Renaissance got really into Ancient Greece basically and also it’s like a whole white supremacy thing
@LaMarula
July 25, 2024 at 10:59 am
As a Greek, I approve! (Thank God everything I was taught in school was correct!)
@GNdynames
July 25, 2024 at 7:25 pm
Which god?
@kosmasgvl1615
July 25, 2024 at 11:06 am
Macedonians were the best greek tribe 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
@tonygoodwinjr9293
July 25, 2024 at 11:22 am
Why haven’t they cashed in on a period piece about the Olympics? Sounds like the whole thing would be fun to watch
@SzaboB33
July 25, 2024 at 11:32 am
If people were nude in today’s gymnasium they would get expelled in a minute (gimnázium means high school in Hungarian and I believe in German it’s very similar as well)
@user-ur7qh2mu3k
July 25, 2024 at 12:15 pm
Modern Greeks look so disappointing compared to the Greeks in art.
@beefjerkythesecond
July 25, 2024 at 12:44 pm
BC not BCE!!!!
@Deedz1924
July 25, 2024 at 12:50 pm
The “long as poem” question has me cracking up.
@OvMov7
July 25, 2024 at 1:00 pm
16:54 I can’t understand what that map is
@Polisciandfries
July 25, 2024 at 1:32 pm
The white bits are land (the very left is the Iberian Peninsula and it stretches to Palestine-ish) and the light blue is the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic? beside Portugal
@OvMov7
July 25, 2024 at 2:01 pm
@@Polisciandfries oh, that makes sense! Thanks
@hmunoz314
July 25, 2024 at 1:26 pm
Under my study abroad program last year, I went to Greece (Athens, Delphi, Nafplion, Olympia) where we all learned the history of ancient sport and culture in Greece, as well as the history of the ancient Greek Olympics. I have gained such a monumental and insightful perspective on what it means to play and compete in sport as a collective narrative with humans. There is so much to know about the ancient Greek Olympics, and the history of the modern Olymics!
@ProSpyy
July 25, 2024 at 4:24 pm
He knows his stuff!!! Fascinating
@joedorben3504
July 25, 2024 at 4:52 pm
8:34 And this is exactly how it still works now, 2500 years later, all over the world and especially including America which is meant to be the bedrock of modern civilization right now.
@Hachidiego
July 25, 2024 at 5:14 pm
Very interesting! Thank you for making these videos!
@MoAnInc
July 25, 2024 at 6:09 pm
OH MY GOD HE ANSWERED KELSI’S QUESTION WHAT 🤩😂
@rhyswilliams7613
July 25, 2024 at 6:47 pm
MORE OF THIS GUY
@e2z212
July 25, 2024 at 6:49 pm
I had no idea Judith Butler was also an Ancient Greek history specialist 😂😂
@unicatsrdabest
July 25, 2024 at 9:07 pm
I WANT MORE!!!!
WIRED PLEASE BRING HIM BACK FOR PART 2!!!!!
@user-dj2vf6om8h
July 26, 2024 at 6:03 am
Can we have an episode on Indus valley civilisation as well or do we not know enough about them 🙂
@seansilence2697
July 26, 2024 at 9:26 am
Just to add on a bit to the part about Assassin’s Creed: The city of Athens was so well constructed in the game that historians have actually used it for research purposes.
@cs4887
July 26, 2024 at 9:42 am
15:19 i heard minotaurs 😂😂😂
@Akrafes
July 26, 2024 at 9:50 am
Every time a question is read, I feel the answer is going to be something pornographic thanks to music. May be change the tune eh?
@whymedk
July 26, 2024 at 9:53 am
I also studied with Play-Doe in my youth.
@ogrejd
July 26, 2024 at 10:36 am
Eh. Losing the Library of Alexandria isn’t THAT big of a deal. The odds of there having been anything significant in the collection that wasn’t also in dozens or hundreds or thousands of other places because of being useful or important are fairly low.
@SK_HIYA500
July 26, 2024 at 11:29 am
Wow.
@readwithrhys
July 26, 2024 at 11:46 am
I’m such a classical studies nerd that I have a degree and already know all of this but it’s just so FUN to learn about Ancient Greece
@vladtheimpaler9577
July 26, 2024 at 12:26 pm
How do they manage to find all these experts that look so stereotypical?
@charlisays
July 26, 2024 at 1:31 pm
My Greek boyfriend sat quietly throughout this q&a just murmuring agreement. 🤣🤣👏👏👏
@alexandrosbeleris6957
July 26, 2024 at 1:48 pm
It would be awesome if you had a actual Greek who is a Professor of Ancient Greek History.
@blanchefaux6016
July 26, 2024 at 1:54 pm
this is definitely one of the better ones
@nenapapa
July 26, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Thank you for your answer about the alphabet. The western world should at least know that their languages is based on Greek one, not Roman or Latin.
@myrdraal2001
July 26, 2024 at 2:15 pm
Next time please get an actual Hellenic person to do this so they can actually pronounce everything correctly. This “expert” is really butchering the Hellenic language.
@tedijevtic6756
July 26, 2024 at 3:17 pm
just arrived in Greece and this popped up! THANK YOU
@antonrusinov5088
July 26, 2024 at 3:26 pm
At 10:58 southern russia in the times of ancient greek? What?
@heideggersbeingandtimeavid7406
July 26, 2024 at 5:19 pm
glad you realize the golden age includes the philosophical golden age.. Plato and Aristotle
@Nefferious
July 26, 2024 at 5:33 pm
The answer about what the Greeks ate is ridiculously wrong.
The Mediterranean is a perfectly suitable environment for fishing and indeed the Greeks, like EVERY OTHER mediterranean based people ever, consumed basically every available species of fish (and other sea creatures) fairly regularly. Of course that wasn’t necessarily the case for the people that did not have an easy access to the sea and lived further inland. But coastal communities, which most of the Greek world consisted of, relied heavily on fishing for their diet. They also ate meat whenever available, mostly goats sheep and wild game like hare, deer or boar. Meat was however more difficult to come by for the average Greek citizen and domesticated animals were also valuable for other uses (their milk for example), so it was the richest members of society that undeniably consumed the most meat. Beef was of course very rarely consumed. They also had no shortage of all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables year-round, infact ancient Greek cuisine would not have existed without those. Very short, dismissive and ultimately uninformed answer i would say by the gentleman who is styling himself an expert (lmao)
@Aethon515
July 26, 2024 at 5:49 pm
Greece had an empire, the Macedonian empire!!!🇬🇷
@tham4378
July 26, 2024 at 5:58 pm
People are so ignorant so the ask why Alexander The Great died at 30’s. Depressing is getting pop!
@arjanpelle
July 26, 2024 at 6:04 pm
This is all so much better than that autcomplete junk Wired also makes.
@khurgar8120
July 26, 2024 at 6:18 pm
I have a question, how come English Speakers dont use the original Greek names? Such as Platon, Homeros, Aristoteles etc.
@Lucky008aau
July 26, 2024 at 6:37 pm
Age of Empires the video game was my first exposure to Ancient Greece. It led me to take Greek literature in college.
@DaBob34
July 26, 2024 at 7:07 pm
The problem with Aristotle was wrong about so many things, but later people just accepted his ideas.
@TheDylls
July 26, 2024 at 8:58 pm
Didn’t Eratosthenes actually “luck out” with his near spot-on estimate of Earth’s circumference??
IIRC, all his math was solid except for ONE assumption that he couldn’t prove:
That Venus was a similar size to Earth.
And it turns out it IS! At least close enough that Eratosthenes got a pretty darn accurate estimate
@SanyLiew
July 26, 2024 at 10:38 pm
The guy who invented the story putting coin on death one must be a tomb thief.
@Flavor88
July 26, 2024 at 11:23 pm
Professor, why don’t you use the proper terminology instead of referring to them as “ancient Greek people” or “ancient Greece”? We know there was no “Ancient Greece”, they were all city – states, not a political country. Call them as they were, Spartans, Athenians, Corinthians. Call them ancient Spartans etc. Greeks and Greece are 19th century terms. You don’t say “ancient Italy” for example, you say the Romans and ancient Rome.
@Raz.C
July 27, 2024 at 12:53 am
Alexander was great? Really? In what way, precisely? HE didn’t build that invincible army that conquered the Persians AND most other Greeks. HE didn’t equip them with Sarissa’s and cleverly decrease the size of the shield to counter the effect of having a MUCH longer spear! He didn’t train them!!
Philip of Macedon could be said to have been a military genius, because it was he who did ALL these things. It was Philip’s army that went on to conquer the empire that immediately fell apart on Alexander’s death. It was Philip’s brilliance to be able to see so clearly, that he could imagine an unbeatable army and then create it! Alexander did little more than use his father’s army and the equipment for that army that his father made, and then point them at nations that he wanted to control!! Alexander didn’t create the “Hammer and Anvil” tactical interplay between the Companion Cavalry (ie – the VERY first shock cavalry in the world, EVER. Which was also imagined, created, trained and equipped by Philip) and the phalanx.
If someone discovered a way to send back hundreds of fifty-calibre machine guns (as well as PLENTY of ammo), back in time to the classical period, to the most incompetent general in human history and then that general used those machine guns to conquer the world, would we then start saying that he was a military genius? Then don’t call Alexander a genius, either.
@PianoMelodicaDark
July 27, 2024 at 6:53 am
I wonder if that’d be THE Priyanka Chopra @ 12:28
@doloreslaflipoflopo2746
July 27, 2024 at 7:40 am
the Minoans were not greek? Google says otherwise. He has his points wrong in many ways.
@nangkhammar78
July 27, 2024 at 8:53 am
Hi Wired ! I Know You Aren’t Gonna See this comment But Can You Do Backstreet Boys Wired Autocomplete Interview I Have Seen The Jeremy Renner One And I Would Really Want To see The BSB One. Thanks A Lot And Love Your Videos Always ❤❤
@terenzo50
July 27, 2024 at 1:00 pm
However “great” a human may be, bacteria are greater. Bye, Alexander.
@bingo19871
July 27, 2024 at 1:09 pm
Some how accurate not much
@thomasdequincey5811
July 27, 2024 at 1:36 pm
This was excellent. I knew pretty much everything he said already, but Ancient Greece is so fascinating listening to it all again is no chore.
@laurkr
July 27, 2024 at 1:50 pm
Interesting how the explanation of Zeus and his child Harocles sounds a lot like christian/catholic religion.
@armita1501
July 27, 2024 at 1:58 pm
One for Ancient Persia please
@seyeruoynepotsuj
July 27, 2024 at 2:02 pm
I love that people religiously refuse to call Twitter by its slave name.
@elihinze3161
July 27, 2024 at 2:33 pm
I love seeing these ancient history experts!!
@starcapture3040
July 27, 2024 at 2:48 pm
Nothing about 300 is correct dose this man have any degree? There are no Greek alphabets they are Phoenician alphabets. Voles existed in the Mesopotamian system of cuneiform they mixed the two….
@Ecthelion3918
July 27, 2024 at 3:15 pm
This video is so cool, never stop making these
@shadowmann9
July 27, 2024 at 3:21 pm
The Greek culture was a pale imitation of another, far greater and more enlightened culture that preceded and co-existed with them in the beginning. They infiltrated that culture, subverted it and ultimately betrayed and destroyed and concealed and took credit for it (and most records of it). It’s a rabbit hole worth exploring thoroughly.
@withanear770
July 27, 2024 at 3:32 pm
300 is pretty accurate?! 😂 The depiction of Persians in this movie is accurate?! This is what you teach your students in class?!
@jessicarussell5373
July 27, 2024 at 4:49 pm
🇷🇺😙
@jocelynllamas6600
July 27, 2024 at 5:53 pm
I LOVED learning about ancient Greece and the ancient Egyptians in elementary school (3rd grade). I’m happy that I get to study the two again in college, but in greater detail❤❤❤❤. I’m in my 30s and decided to make a major career change and do something that revolves around what I’ve always loved, but I have been too scared to pursue ❤
@SamS-zu8up
July 27, 2024 at 6:51 pm
Alex wasn’t actually a twink, to many’s disapointment. It was a Roman statue recreation.
@courtneyboulds
July 27, 2024 at 7:01 pm
Please bring him back! I just went to Greece in May and fell in love with the beauty of the ruins! The Acropolis was gorgeous and hearing his stories brings me back to all of the tours I took!
@Nick-4K
July 27, 2024 at 7:23 pm
I bet the library of Alexandria had the documents that explained the pyramids… shame…
@SilviaSbraNutri
July 27, 2024 at 8:14 pm
this chanel is so addictive
@liamaugust
July 27, 2024 at 8:45 pm
YES. MORE ANCIENT HISTORY. MORE, I SAY!
(i’m sorry, that was aggressive, but i really like these, thank you for making them)
@user-fe8gx3ie5v
July 27, 2024 at 8:54 pm
Not “BCE.” Our calendar is Christian.
@leeks1408
July 27, 2024 at 10:44 pm
Even the Ancient Greeks knew that the rich would try (and most likely succeed at) gaming the system in any democracy
@lucasjones3338
July 27, 2024 at 11:47 pm
Ancient Olympics must have been an insane party
@shiranagronov5375
July 28, 2024 at 1:11 am
He reminds me of Professor Slughorn.
@jaspreetkr87
July 28, 2024 at 2:04 am
0:26 Sounds like the Greeks had more shame in their society than the world we have today.
@Gia1911Logous
July 28, 2024 at 5:10 am
The Greeks ate so well, they lived until very late in their lives
Greek Diet is one of the best diets
@Filonikis
July 28, 2024 at 6:33 am
We don’t know for sure whether the Minoans spoke Greek or not. Their language isn’t deciphered. The ancient Greeks did not consider Minoans as something foreign to them. There are plenty of myths about king Minos and Zeus. If i am not mistaken, Minos and his brother became the judges of the Greek Hades.
Once upon a time, we thought the same about Myceneans, until the Linear B script got deciphered and it was proven that their language was indeed Greek.
@jackguimaraesp
July 28, 2024 at 6:57 am
To say Alexander The Great had issues with alcohol was a far fetched one. It’s just a theory, the least probable one, and should not be presented as a fact. Unprofessional
@thiccum4004
July 28, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I’ll take his word above yours
@plato7771
July 28, 2024 at 9:24 am
Most of the questions are just plain dumb and are a commentary of just how stupid kids are today. They don’t read and they don’t learn. but they can post dumb questions on Twitter.
@Chiefs65tpt
July 28, 2024 at 10:29 am
Time has nothing to do with greatness
@IncubusFolly
July 28, 2024 at 10:40 am
Ostracism is alive and well today. Modern society dramatically outranks the Greek example.
@jax8608
July 28, 2024 at 11:11 am
Love these videos!
@invox9490
July 28, 2024 at 12:43 pm
“If you set up an electoral system, the people with money and wealth will find a way to game the system” – the Greeks certainly knew their s* ! 😅
@morganpavelka4945
July 28, 2024 at 1:53 pm
Would love to see one of these about voting! (Non partisan)
@daniyal72
July 28, 2024 at 2:33 pm
What was in the book written by aristotle on comedy?
@dcamron46
July 28, 2024 at 3:38 pm
300 was accurate…? It made Persians look like slavers and Greeks pro-freedom…opposite was true…
@darkfoxfurre
July 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
I’m surprised he didn’t talk about the most famous ancient Greek philosopher- Bophades
@spyrosmichas4349
July 28, 2024 at 4:16 pm
The Minoans were Greeks and they spoke Greek, as the deciphering of Linear B has proved.
@kristiannapotsari2343
July 28, 2024 at 5:12 pm
of course they ate fish
@Blepable
July 28, 2024 at 5:24 pm
Hold on – you can’t definitively say what killed Alexander, besides that his death was probably greaty contributed to by his wounds and his rampant alcoholism.
@sneakgamecrazy
July 28, 2024 at 5:46 pm
I’m slanging meat next time I’m in Planet Fitness
@JeantheSecond-ip7qm
July 28, 2024 at 6:19 pm
We need to bring back ostracism. Just one person who the most people consider the biggest threat to our society.
@mkmasterthreesixfive
July 28, 2024 at 7:02 pm
only olives wine and barley? My stomach bubblin’
@NaughtyJackal
July 28, 2024 at 7:07 pm
A part of the answer exists in the question
@user-nl3hj7ej8q
July 28, 2024 at 7:20 pm
Hello there, im greek and id like to share an experience i had three months ago. So, my family is orthodox and we had a very traditional funeral for my beloved grandmother. In the middle of the ceremony I saw my aunt (her daughter) putting a coin inside her clothes. I was really amazed about the action so i asked why she gave her money since she is dead. Then, she looks at me and says “when she is in the underworld she has to pay God Hades to open the Heave’s doors”. Im not gonna lie, i completely freaked out. Its actually amazing how the modern greek traditions are a combination of ancient greek culture and orthodoxy. Especially, in big traditional events, we still have keep a lot of paganistic elements. Greek culture will always amaze me.
@Thunder_Dome45
July 29, 2024 at 1:28 am
The library of Alexandria was burned down when Julius Caesar came and got between Ptolemy and Cleopatra’s civil war. It was the battle of Alexandria. Cleopatra was extremely upset and yelled at Julius Caesar about it. It’s sad it didn’t last to the modern age. You see, Rome was the protector of Egypt at the time. Ptolemy and Cleopatra’s father made sure of that before he died. The whole Ptolemy family was known for trying to kill their own family members to gain the throne, so he asked Julius Caesar to stand in to keep the country together.
@lordcarve
July 29, 2024 at 2:05 am
He is being misleading, Pederasty was not popular. This is what progressive academia is trying to push.
@Aristomenis31
July 29, 2024 at 5:11 am
17:16 Then what about Alexander’s empire? or the Byzantine empire which was primarily greek culture and language?
@Karditsa1
July 29, 2024 at 5:36 am
Hi, the greatest filosof is Democritos
@Manouil_III
July 29, 2024 at 6:24 am
16:37 Greeks didn’t have an empire that every Greek lived in. This is true, as you said.
But I’m not sure if this was actually the question.
Greeks had several empires, in the east, and many of them lived in those empires. After all, empires are multi-ethnic states, other ethnicities live in them too.
@menglongzzz
July 29, 2024 at 6:51 am
this has gotta be the top 10 in this series. Unbelievable❤❤❤
@Aristonika9999
July 29, 2024 at 7:05 am
The most important thing is that Alexander the Great was not a Greek, the Macedonians were not Greeks, for the Greeks they were barbarians and foreign conquerors. They are to blame for the death and destruction of Hellenic civilization. They led to this through their actions. Alexander was an immature idiot, not a “great one.”
@sakissakis3409
July 29, 2024 at 8:19 am
the river you have to cross after you died was called ACHERONTAS
@tillgaller6223
July 29, 2024 at 9:41 am
In Platos well known “The State” his protagonist Sokrates talks a lot about the different gods but then also about the “one” god (perhaps the one thought of by Xenophanes?). How could have these ideas interacted in the world of an ancient greek person?
@texanfrog1750
July 29, 2024 at 9:45 am
greece did have an empire
@kasp5152
July 29, 2024 at 10:40 am
The Greeks had an empire , the Greek Macedonian empire of Alexander and then for 300 years the empires of his succesors
@Gehinomlezvuvim
July 29, 2024 at 11:14 am
My answer to GIO: stop being jealous because Greece exists since always unlike your English country 🙂🙂🙂❤️❤️❤️❤️
@AndeB1209
July 29, 2024 at 11:19 am
Who knew Will Forte was so knowledgeable about ancient Greece.
@stylianosdimas1992
July 29, 2024 at 12:03 pm
17:00 Greeks never had an empire , that’s true, but even Alexander’s empire wasn’t that much centralised. The macedonian empire was actually a confederation of greek cities under the macedonian kingdom ( at that time only Macedonia and Epirus had kingdoms if im not mistaken). Moreover the greek cities had influence over their colonies , even though it wasn’t centralised.
The eternal plague of Greece, civil conflicts …
@Topaaz2805
July 29, 2024 at 12:37 pm
I thought it was a coin for each eye for passing the driver styx
@austinandries5528
July 29, 2024 at 1:37 pm
what I know : how to ball
what this man knows : aristotle
@itztwiztxdkhriz_
July 29, 2024 at 2:56 pm
We finally got the holy trio of ancient history…Ancient Rome with prof. Ginsberg, Ancient Egypt with Prof. Bestock and now Ancient Greece with Prof. Christensen
@originalthanos
July 29, 2024 at 3:15 pm
As a greek man, I have to add to the sort of grain also the lentils. tiny seeds in the form of disc boiled to become a meal. Also about the meat, was only eaten by the soldiers.
@vasilispapadopoulos4397
July 29, 2024 at 3:33 pm
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@sanopoulosd
July 29, 2024 at 3:36 pm
All about Greece is fake. Albanians and monkeydonians proved that anything greek was invented in 1832.
So please spreading blsht.
@noncatholiccatholicrat6309
July 29, 2024 at 6:02 pm
you are so brainwashed it’s sad
@eradication541
July 29, 2024 at 4:23 pm
How kids of Tito dident pop up here yet? Edit:sadly dumb western Bulgarians poped here aswell 😀
@redcrest5
July 29, 2024 at 5:41 pm
I imagine the death of Alexander the Great’s right hand man, BFF, lifelong love/companion and brother in arms Hephaestion the year prior had some bearing on his depression and untimely death too. 😢
@Science_-
July 29, 2024 at 5:56 pm
This was very interesting watched till the end. Major Historical accounts are my jam.
@originalbluemonkey
July 29, 2024 at 6:01 pm
A Part 2 needs to happen!
@elin_
July 29, 2024 at 6:21 pm
I wonder why women were so discriminated even in societies that didn’t have abrahamic religion.. It’s freaking ridiculous how women have been seen as subhumans for no freaking reason.
@nunu4evaaa
July 30, 2024 at 12:20 am
He died at 30 for plot reasons.
@Matthijs3476
July 30, 2024 at 2:09 am
Why is Alexanders age different in the thumbnail??
@edguybillakos
July 30, 2024 at 3:36 am
Great video! Thanks Wired!
@Gubers
July 30, 2024 at 3:58 am
Alexander the Great was indeed a great warrior and General. But his father, Philip II of Macedon made it all possible and perhaps should be the one with the “great” title.
@mariaGreenDay4ever
July 30, 2024 at 9:09 am
I really hope by macedonians you mean greek .Because I know no other macedonians
@momo.maru-kun
July 30, 2024 at 9:52 am
If Alexander didn’t die at 30, then we would have run out of superlatives to describe him. In 31, he would be Greater, in 32, he would be Greatest, so what now?
@demon6937
July 30, 2024 at 11:53 am
Wait Alexander died of Malaria? I just watched a movie react where the historian mentioned the cause of Alexander’s death is acute pneumonia due to the arrow injury
@orionaized
July 30, 2024 at 12:24 pm
To credit creation of alphabet to the Greek instead of pheoneciens is probably wrong. The significance alphabet is its sounds based which is a pheonociens invention.
@JT-nn2fi
July 30, 2024 at 12:45 pm
Christesen was one of my professors in undergrad, he was my favorite! He was such a talented and engaging lecturer and I’m glad that translated well to this YouTube video
@SarahMasonTalks
July 30, 2024 at 1:26 pm
PCC what are you doing here ??? nah but fr this dude is an icon !! his alexander course was A1 during my undergrad 🙂
@yaredmussie4086
July 30, 2024 at 1:41 pm
Because at the time 30 was the avg age of death
@benrandall89
July 30, 2024 at 2:08 pm
Any historian that uses “BCE” has an ax to grind. Take their words with a grain of salt.
@PublikSerpnt
July 30, 2024 at 2:22 pm
I stopped listening after he talked about 300 and called it pretty accurate. What an egregious thing to say. And to also not mention how the movie portrays the Iranians as Orc like savages compared to the god like Spartans.
@jonas.zehnder
July 30, 2024 at 3:11 pm
So fascinating! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us Professor Christesen. Your lectures must be so interesting!
@tony.h321
July 30, 2024 at 3:59 pm
I recall reading that the Library of Alexandria may have burned down multiples times (at least caught fire). One of the times being during a famous raid on the city. Not so?
@akanemilevski364
July 30, 2024 at 4:46 pm
I thought that the homeric texts the Iliade and the Odyssey weren’t actually written by one man only, nothing confirmed I should highlight but that some clues are hinting in the direction of more than one individual for the writing, is it? If possible an explanation on the matter would be awesome!
@fotiskoutsou2089
July 30, 2024 at 5:10 pm
I’m a proud Greek, for my past, we don’t talk about the present..
@MrBie0ner
July 30, 2024 at 5:36 pm
The ferryman, is death himself in ancient Greek mythology
@moestatk1
July 30, 2024 at 6:31 pm
Athens, named after the goddess of wisdom, Athena, did not allow women to vote. Am I the only one that sees the irony?
@ClickLikeAndSubscribe
July 30, 2024 at 10:58 pm
Most people don’t know this much about life in the modern world as this erudite knows about life in the world long gone.
@AproposOfWetSnow
July 31, 2024 at 12:27 am
Do a video with a philosopher please!
@ChoiceEnvironments
July 31, 2024 at 12:37 am
“It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” -Jeff Blackburn
@TrentonWilliamson-no3li
July 31, 2024 at 1:54 am
Jesus is the only God
@neilbrucker5985
July 31, 2024 at 8:44 am
I absolutely love these.
@lolekman97
July 31, 2024 at 8:54 am
How is omiros homer 😂
@amiamiami974
July 31, 2024 at 10:04 am
Request for babylonian, phenician and ottoman empire support!
@MsLaTrau
July 31, 2024 at 10:04 am
I’m 6 mins in and there’s already a huge imprecision. Homer didn’t write his poems. Ancient epics were narrated by sorta singer-songwriters by heart. Someone along the line of times put together the most widespread versions of each episode and collected all those stories under Homer’s name, whom in fact we don’t have yet solid proof was a single, actually existing figure.
@Zedisdeadbaby666
July 31, 2024 at 10:11 am
The question in the thumbnail is the pinnacle of stupidity
@metalhigh0043
July 31, 2024 at 11:52 am
I thought we didn’t know if Alexander had malaria or not?
@serenityq26
July 31, 2024 at 1:00 pm
a lot of “we” when mentioning modern world but i dont think like that so………ill keep it ancient greek i guess.
@romskiempire
July 31, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Southern Russia ancient Greeks?
@dannyarcher6370
July 31, 2024 at 1:34 pm
Diogenes was and is the GOAT!
@brinkfloyd12
July 31, 2024 at 2:20 pm
Asked why Alexander was so great, proceeds to explain his greatness by his elevated blood alcohol levels.
@stevenwymor1398
July 31, 2024 at 2:49 pm
Um, the Iliad and the Odyssey are also important to read because they influenced basically the history of all Western literature that followed.
@supershy0722
July 31, 2024 at 3:04 pm
As a history major we need more of this please 😭😭😭
@milemilic4859
July 31, 2024 at 3:09 pm
Ubio ga fauci zato sto se nije vakcinisao
@DefinitiveDubs
July 31, 2024 at 3:50 pm
If they didn’t eat a lot of meat, what about that huge barbecue you mentioned at the Olympics? Did they just only eat meat at the Olympics?
@MarbledKing
July 31, 2024 at 4:36 pm
15:17 – You don’t know whether Minoans speak Greek or not unless you personally deciphered Linear A. Please, be more accurate next time.
@shanzayaneel777
July 31, 2024 at 5:01 pm
Request for a video about islamic golden age
@yegortu
July 31, 2024 at 5:24 pm
Southern Russia? What is he talking about here when answering the Olympiad question?
@artbybard
July 31, 2024 at 7:07 pm
Paul is a really engaging speaker – is he making any other podcasts or videos? I would gladly listen to him talk about these things in more detail. Great video!
@charismw2319
July 31, 2024 at 7:13 pm
Love the ancient history versions of these!
@Chromebreaks
July 31, 2024 at 7:23 pm
crazy how we know so much about ancient greece with little amount of manuscripts in comparison with the bible, its like 1 to 1,000 ratio.
@csong9940
July 31, 2024 at 9:27 pm
Wait, he’s going to pretend that a person named Homer actually wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
@MarkoJuhaniMussalo
August 1, 2024 at 4:58 am
Professor? are you the who made the Concord for playstation?
@antonip1114
August 1, 2024 at 8:19 am
Good question that I have is Why The Ancient Greeks Couldn’t See Blue??????
@blazer9547
August 1, 2024 at 9:01 am
300 is accurate, leftists seething 😂
@Ajaxdamasta
August 1, 2024 at 9:22 am
Love this guy
@aonabiii
August 1, 2024 at 9:27 am
The amount of curiosity that i have in this videos is much more than listening to an actual class 😂
@agorivas
August 1, 2024 at 10:16 am
Thank you Colin Firth
@baxatakbaxatak2014
August 1, 2024 at 10:42 am
“Excuse me, but if he was so great, how come he’s dead?”—Homer Simpsons
@shermer75
August 1, 2024 at 12:08 pm
This was a really good one!
@returo7297
August 1, 2024 at 1:05 pm
The Burning Library of Andalusia and Baghdad
@Mugi2009
August 1, 2024 at 1:56 pm
Can you bring some professor to talk about ancient India
@Mugi2009
August 1, 2024 at 1:58 pm
Its facinating that even in southern Indian culture a coin is kept on a dead person’s forehead in their funeral
@clsisman
August 1, 2024 at 2:02 pm
This guy is such a university professor, I died when he pulled out his visual aids haha. Really interesting answers and you can tell he loves his subject. 15/10
@Michalis_Sideratos
August 1, 2024 at 2:27 pm
In Athens, at the last full moon of August, Acropolis gates stay open for the whole night. If you happen to be there, GO! It’s magical.
@ldtxelidwnis8445
August 1, 2024 at 2:46 pm
the question was about the 300, therefore about the battle of thermopylae not about spartan way of life or political power over the Helots,
@MacedonianBro
August 1, 2024 at 3:35 pm
MACEDONIA NEVER GREEK !!!!!🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰
@paulleddy3185
August 1, 2024 at 4:30 pm
Um, well, older man on younger man alive and well in the school system I saw in 80s!
@kallimaxos4720
August 1, 2024 at 5:03 pm
Alexander the Great was great because at the age of 32, he founded an empire of the entire then known world and laid the foundations for the spread of Greek civilization later.
@Olly07
August 1, 2024 at 5:04 pm
02nd August 2024
JB today
@kallimaxos4720
August 1, 2024 at 5:08 pm
6:20 The library of Alexandria was burned by the revolt of the Jews against the Greeks.
@kallimaxos4720
August 1, 2024 at 5:20 pm
16:40 The Greeks founded many empires, Macedonian, Hellenistic, Byzantine. Europeans want to lie that they are the successors of the Roman Empire and not Byzantium.
@kallimaxos4720
August 1, 2024 at 5:24 pm
14:50 The Minoans were Greeks and spoke Greek. It has been proven by the clay tablets with writing A and B. The Greeks are the native Mediterranean type of man for thousands of years in the same place.
@kallimaxos4720
August 1, 2024 at 5:27 pm
21:00 The ancient Greeks fished in the Aegean which is very rich in fish. they were always fishermen and farmers. They also had herds of animals, sheep, goats, etc.
@digits2skyharbor
August 1, 2024 at 6:30 pm
nothing on archimedes???
@CareyTisdal
August 1, 2024 at 7:23 pm
Thank you! You are good at this!–good sense of humor and clear delivery! I learned three things I wasn’t clear about: Greece’s not having an empire, how ostracism worked, and about the statue in Assassins Creed. The timeline was also helpful. Trying to get the ancient civilizations into a timeframe has always been hard for me. That was a great map too–helped me see where the Greek influence was strong!
@user-vp9ub1fm8y
August 1, 2024 at 8:31 pm
Everyone should know gym is not gym if people inside wear clothes……