Professor of Ancient Greek History Paul Christesen joins WIRED to answer your questions from Twitter. What do we know about the original Olympics? How did Ancient Greece elect leaders? Is the film ‘300’ accurate? Was there a huge outdoor statue of Athena in Acropolis as in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey? What exactly did we lose when the Library of Alexandria burned? Why did ancient Greeks place a coin in the mouth of the recently decesased? These questions and plenty more are answered today on Ancient Greece Support.
0:00 Ancient Greek Support
0:12 Did Ancient Greeks wear clothes?
0:54 Accuracy of ‘300’
2:06 Death of Alexander The Great
2:57 Athena Statue from Assassin’s Creed
3:54 Ancient Freeks
5:02 Not That Homer
6:16 The Burning of the Library of Alexandria
7:10 Coin in the mouth?
7:35 Best philosopher
8:16 How Ancient Greece elected leaders
10:09 The original Olympics
11:35 Ancient Greek inventions
12:32 Ancient Greek entertainment
13:28 Did anyone check on the gods or….?
14:51 Origins of Ancient Greece
16:37 Did Greece have an empire?
17:27 When was the ‘Golden Age’ of Ancient Greece?
18:28 Ancient Greek diet
18:53 Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
19:27 Origins of Ostracism
20:18 What do Greek columns represent?
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8:32 Ah yes, Athens already knew what was up with so-called “democracy.” We haven’t grown one bit.
Roman alphabet was NOT DIRECT it was via the etruscans who were extremely Hellenized
The people asking the questions are so dumb…. It is really kind of the man to answer
Does Paul know about ditches?
why are the majority of the experts in this channel straight up american?
DC does not resemble anywhere in the country. Coincidence or irony
ancient india expert too
Full of crap! Greeks never came out of Greece in the bronze Age and Minoans are Greeks! All the Neolithic sites in Greece have DNA continuity with today’s Greek, Check the site of Theopetra cave near Meteora and the cave of Fracthi in Peloponnese. Also the “professor” doesn’t say anything about the Cyclades . And he calls the thousands of documented Greek cities around the Med communities!!!!!!!!!! He is a joke!
The weirdest thing about 300 is no one speaks with a Greek accent. It would’ve been “THEES! EES! SPARRTA!”
“If Alexander the Great was so great why he die at 32?” …. I know as a professor myself we can not say such things, but this is one of the most stupid questions that I ever read.
So greek democracy understood lobbies and corruption better than many western countries. They even didn’t let migrants vote. Based
Was Alexander’s COD ever officially confirmed? I’ve heard many theories so far.
when you say “community” do you mean suburb, neighborhood, street, city, state, nation? i’m confused.
How were the greeks so jacked if they didn’t have much protein?
I REALLY LOVE THIS 😭 please can we have more of prof Christesen, I can listen his lecture for HOURS 🙏🏻😭❤️
You lost me at “the movie 300 is pretty accurate”.
Not many statements can compete with that in stupidity.
Don’t forget the pederasty.
Pretty good for someone who is not Roen
Interesting how the greeks knew that people with power would abuse the democratic system for their own interests and that judges can become corrupt, unfair and biased so you need more people judging