History of the city of Syracuse - Part 1

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • Sicily has been a melting pot of civilisations for pretty much all of its histories, due to its strategic spot in the centre of the Mediterranean, being a vital stepping stone between Africa and Italy. This was the case during the early years of civilisation in the region, with the island essentially being split into two zones of influences. The portion to the west of the island was dominated by the naval power of Carthage. Whilst to the East the area was under the direct influence of Greek colonies, with the principle Greek colony being located on the tip of this area. This is the history of the great city-state of Syracuse.
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  • @AncientHistoryGuy
    @AncientHistoryGuy  5 лет назад +15

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    • @smilodondesmilodon7050
      @smilodondesmilodon7050 5 лет назад +1

      Athens had a larger population over 300.000

    • @ZelograthWredolh
      @ZelograthWredolh 5 лет назад +1

      Macuahuitl​ weapon of the aztec

    • @frostyalaska6371
      @frostyalaska6371 5 лет назад +1

      Need to manage sound better to loud at points and a clearer mic would help great video though man! hope to see more like them new subscriber

    • @franciscomm7675
      @franciscomm7675 5 лет назад +1

      I am still waiting for part 2

  • @TheLacedaemonian300
    @TheLacedaemonian300 5 лет назад +33

    It's good to see Sicily get some love. It doesn't get nearly enough of the attention it deserves, considering the amazingly rich history it has.

    • @dayquonalielbey3986
      @dayquonalielbey3986 5 лет назад +2

      They would have to unveil the Moorish cannanite moabite roots of the entire are and we all know the want to keep area as Caucasian as possible

    • @thecrazydestructoniz
      @thecrazydestructoniz 5 лет назад +5

      @@dayquonalielbey3986 that is full on bullshit.
      Go back to your version of history, us sicilians have no space for you here.

    • @dayquonalielbey3986
      @dayquonalielbey3986 5 лет назад +2

      @@thecrazydestructoniz u must be a pale skin Sicilian i bet your great gramma kno the truth, so take your version of history since it benefits ur family line which u got from a Moor. U have every idea and u know the truth. Ur mixed with the servants of the Gad or Got Moher of Germany and the Moors who build and re build italy and Sicily and civilied the are. Is it coincidence the renosance the modernized eroupe happend when moors reconquered 🇪🇸 from the Visigoths.

    • @dayquonalielbey3986
      @dayquonalielbey3986 5 лет назад +1

      @@thecrazydestructoniz u also must have forgotten how the Phoenician Etruscians Mongol Abasenian empire extentions of Cananite Moabite Empires that ruled all of Asia and Asia minor was ur so called are where pale people like u served Asiatic's in the houses of nobility and and royality if they made to withering old age.

    • @dayquonalielbey3986
      @dayquonalielbey3986 5 лет назад +1

      @@thecrazydestructoniz futher moor if its all bullshit tell me why Moorsish coat of arms exist all through Europe which is a "African Queen" Eroupa from which the name derives. Another thing ," if" and im saying "if" ur descendants of Greeks and Romans are u not Etrurian or Etruscian cuz thoses are Moors realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Etruria_the_Etruscans_2.htm

  • @TylerCunninghamMusic
    @TylerCunninghamMusic 5 лет назад +58

    Such an interesting and important city in history yet so often overlooked. Keep up the great work!

  • @Catahract
    @Catahract 5 лет назад +72

    Hello, can you made a video for the Greek colony of Μασσαλία, Massalía? ( modern day Marseille/Marseilles)
    (Only the pre-roman era of course...) Also, you have an Interesting channel here, keep up the good work.

    • @flynn659
      @flynn659 5 лет назад +6

      I hope he does, Massalia is one of my favourite Greek colonies.

    • @SpartanLeonidas1821
      @SpartanLeonidas1821 5 лет назад +1

      Sebastian Massalia was a Greek Colony? Who says that it was Phoenician?? Nice in France was also a Greek City known as Nikaia from what I can remember!

    • @SpartanLeonidas1821
      @SpartanLeonidas1821 5 лет назад +1

      Sebastian Ok, so Phoenicians may have settled there? Def the “known” Massalia tho of Antiquity was Greek, its well documented in History Literature as well :)

    • @flynn659
      @flynn659 5 лет назад +1

      Looked it up, Syracuse was an ancient Norwegian colony founded by Toyotomi Hideoshi on a holiday trip from Babylon.

    • @SpartanLeonidas1821
      @SpartanLeonidas1821 5 лет назад

      Flynn Tom Haha, that sounds more correct :) 🤓

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    @haze154 5 лет назад +22

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      @skeletonrowdie1768 5 лет назад +3

      Jazza Ball first of all, because of the youtube algorithm

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    @cebenify 5 лет назад +22

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  • @alfredvinciguerra532
    @alfredvinciguerra532 5 лет назад +23

    My hometown Syracuse. I was born right on the island of Ortigia

    • @Anna-bq2zb
      @Anna-bq2zb 5 лет назад +2

      Vivi ancore qua ?
      Pure io sono nata a Siracusa

    • @alfredvinciguerra532
      @alfredvinciguerra532 5 лет назад

      No vivo negli USA 🇺🇸

    • @oldschoolgrech
      @oldschoolgrech 5 лет назад +3

      Great, visited Origia in Summer 2017 :) Lovely place.

    • @samwich9242
      @samwich9242 5 лет назад +1

      Scipio africanus lived there for some time!

    • @theodorospadelidis6537
      @theodorospadelidis6537 2 года назад

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  • @ThisisBarris
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    Glad to see you back man! Great music, great animation and great voice over - did you hire someone to do it for you? It feels so professional.

    • @AncientHistoryGuy
      @AncientHistoryGuy  5 лет назад +1

      Hey Barris! And Alex is an old friend of the channel, he narrated quite a few of the old videos, we started talking again about a bigger project for Ancient History Guy, and it sort of morphed into him doing the voiceovers again :)

    • @ThisisBarris
      @ThisisBarris 5 лет назад

      @@AncientHistoryGuy Ah okay, that's pretty neat!

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  • @skylerslack12
    @skylerslack12 4 года назад +1

    Highly unknown and under rated city state. Yet one of the most powerful

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    @PureAFM 5 лет назад +1

    I love your vids although your channel seems to always have beef with dialogue. It's not too quiet anymore but the distortion and sibilance is quite an ear sore. Get a bit the old dynamic compression, gain fiddling and putting the mic off axis will help. Keep up the good work!

  • @voluschpab4121
    @voluschpab4121 5 лет назад +1

    Great video, looking forward to the next!

  • @GarfieldRex
    @GarfieldRex 5 лет назад +1

    I need part 2!! Is not the first history channel I find, but I really like your style, I'm glad I found your channel. God bless, you will have more subs 😇😎

  • @christendomempire5657
    @christendomempire5657 4 года назад +2

    I go there tommorow on a tour. I'm from Australia, interesting that you mention name Tasmania in your video.

  • @antonio2170
    @antonio2170 5 лет назад +10

    italian - greek blood

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    I actually thought you had like 100k subs at least your quality is amazing !

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    Many thanks for all of your outstanding documentation on many topics of the Ancient.
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  • @urionnobili6781
    @urionnobili6781 5 лет назад

    Great video! Can't wait for part 2.
    Could you cover the history of Cyprus some time too?

  • @MrSticklife
    @MrSticklife 5 лет назад

    I love these videos, i hope you keep making them ancient history guy

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    @timalechkevitch4566 5 лет назад +2

    Love your content awesome vid!

  • @heathenfire
    @heathenfire 5 лет назад

    I didn't even know about the existence of Syracuse. Awesome video. Learnt a lot.

  • @chrisg.k487
    @chrisg.k487 3 года назад +2

    Hello to Italians cousines from Greece.

  • @oldschoolgrech
    @oldschoolgrech 5 лет назад +1

    Thank you for the explanation.
    Kindly also note that the nearby Maltese islands were Phoenician and eventually Carthaginian :)
    (Thus the Maltese archipelago also needs to be indicated as Carthaginian territory on the shown map)
    Thanks again,
    Ryan Grech

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    @quillinkhistory9539 5 лет назад

    Happy to see that your back! 😊

  • @HistoryHouseProductions
    @HistoryHouseProductions 5 лет назад +2

    Look who’s back!

    • @AncientHistoryGuy
      @AncientHistoryGuy  5 лет назад

      Wooooo!!!!! XD

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    @Dragon88Dark 5 лет назад

    Glad your back, look forward to more.

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    @storrho 5 лет назад

    Man you have a surprisingly low amount of subs considering the quality of your vids, keep it up and you'll get there!

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    @Ghost-vi8qm 5 лет назад

    Love the background music, its so calming.

  • @Cabin13houseoflife
    @Cabin13houseoflife 5 лет назад +20

    Who lives in Syracuse NY?

    • @coreyerica1916
      @coreyerica1916 5 лет назад +1

      I do

    • @negjuicy6150
      @negjuicy6150 5 лет назад +1

      I do

    • @thecrazydestructoniz
      @thecrazydestructoniz 5 лет назад +8

      i live in Syracuse, sicily :)

    • @jermainebarnum2312
      @jermainebarnum2312 5 лет назад +1

      Me

    • @echoesreverb
      @echoesreverb 5 лет назад +1

      For my whole 23 years of life up until a week ago when finally moved out of its trash hole place, it was home but gotta admit only part of the city that dosent look like a dump is the university hill area lol

  • @KyIeMcCIeIIan
    @KyIeMcCIeIIan Год назад

    What's that symbol on the shields mean? The one on Syracuses hoplites shields.

  • @diepssuarez2676
    @diepssuarez2676 5 лет назад +1

    I love Syracuse! Make another video!!!

  • @impsimp
    @impsimp 5 лет назад

    Can you please do the Greek Colony of Massalia in southern Gaul. How did their military operate, what Wars did they participate it. Did they trade with the Gauls, Carthage, Rome, and other Greek city states?

  • @philRminiatures
    @philRminiatures 5 лет назад

    Lovely animations on a fascinating subject!

    • @AncientHistoryGuy
      @AncientHistoryGuy  5 лет назад +1

      Thankyou! I tried to push my animating a little bit in this video :)

    • @philRminiatures
      @philRminiatures 5 лет назад

      @@AncientHistoryGuy Successfull, on land as on sea!

  • @SarisTX
    @SarisTX 5 лет назад

    y'all should cover crete and cretan archers

  • @haciwhat9972
    @haciwhat9972 5 лет назад

    Great video man, could you do ephesus ?

  • @georgetsapalos6258
    @georgetsapalos6258 5 лет назад +1

    In 643 bc the syracise found the colony of kasmene ( Κασμέναι ) not tasmania.
    Tasmania is in Australia.

  • @samwich9242
    @samwich9242 5 лет назад

    Hi, how's it going ? Would you be interested in doing a short video on the history of either pontus or armenia?

  • @sergiovieira8272
    @sergiovieira8272 5 лет назад +1

    Syrakousai, jewel of Sicily! Can't wait to see you Archimedes and his... Nope, I'm not going to spoil it!

    • @AncientHistoryGuy
      @AncientHistoryGuy  5 лет назад +1

      shhhhhh!!!! XD Now i've got to make part two lol, took long enough to release part one! :D

  • @kanyekubrick5391
    @kanyekubrick5391 4 года назад

    Amazing

  • @husted5488
    @husted5488 4 года назад

    250.000 people? That's so many for ancient standards, also today's Syracuse only have half the population of ancient Syracuse.

  • @BraydenLondon88
    @BraydenLondon88 5 лет назад +2

    YES Syracuse can you do sardinia too

  • @azjt101
    @azjt101 5 лет назад

    Great work

  • @thecrazydestructoniz
    @thecrazydestructoniz 5 лет назад

    do a video on Gela, the main rival of Syracuse in the domination of Sicily

  • @thx1138thecrane
    @thx1138thecrane 5 лет назад

    Great video!~!~!

  • @tymills9709
    @tymills9709 5 лет назад +1

    Who does your animations?

  • @Rocinante2300
    @Rocinante2300 5 лет назад

    Can you do a video about the structure of a Roman legion?

  • @IpernickTheGreat
    @IpernickTheGreat 5 лет назад +1

    Yas Syracuse, finally!

  • @SuperJJ247
    @SuperJJ247 5 лет назад

    I was curious if there was a way to contact you about future business proposals. I have a BA in History from Florida State University and id love to help you write and research

  • @Michaelmouse23
    @Michaelmouse23 5 лет назад +1

    Little known fact Syracuse is the actual birth place of Democracy not Athens. Will there be a part 2 btw ?

  • @ajavierb2078
    @ajavierb2078 5 лет назад

    Great video part 2?

  • @sao7967
    @sao7967 5 лет назад

    Oh yeah boiiii finally new episode :D

  • @theshinycharmander258
    @theshinycharmander258 2 года назад

    Syracuse NY: huh. neat.

  • @Armorius2199
    @Armorius2199 5 лет назад +8

    Great video, just try to improve pronuncianciation of city and people's names. As a Greek I can say that my ears hurt.

    • @erikmatsson9822
      @erikmatsson9822 5 лет назад

      Argyrus 47 are u 3000 year old

    • @willmatthews4708
      @willmatthews4708 4 года назад

      Erik Matsson are you not aware that Greece still exists, and that ethnic Greeks still exist?

  • @hithere1435
    @hithere1435 5 лет назад

    So good :)

  • @lokoomontana4818
    @lokoomontana4818 4 года назад

    what about the romans tho. how can u leave that out

  • @mishkosimonovski23
    @mishkosimonovski23 Год назад

    I wonder, did Alexander knew of Syracuse? I mean Persia was threat so he focused there but surely he would've liked to have this mediterranean jewel.

    • @wankawanka3053
      @wankawanka3053 Год назад

      Syracuse was a greek colony Alexander would have cared to conquer carthage not Syracuse

    • @paokaraify
      @paokaraify Год назад

      @@wankawanka3053 he is an imaginary slav from skopje, he thinks he can discuss about ancient macedonia ....

  • @YouTuber-gm9xf
    @YouTuber-gm9xf 5 лет назад +1

    I hear a change in your voice?!

  • @BrodyMarody
    @BrodyMarody 5 лет назад

    Nice video, however you read directly from Wikipedia, without changing the structure or the manner of the narrative.
    Verdict:
    - Good voice,
    - well placed animation,
    this could have been much better if the author committed more than 15 min to prepare the body of the text. No value added.

    • @AncientHistoryGuy
      @AncientHistoryGuy  5 лет назад

      First, of thank you for the compliments, as regards to reading directly off of Wikipedia, that's just not the case, this script has over 800 words, whilst the Wikipedia page until Gelos death has a little over 400 words. Further, you cannot exactly change the structure of events in history, overwise, it wouldn't be historical, things have to be done linearly otherwise it just wouldn't make sense. The script also takes several days to write, with various sources, as shown in the description being regularly researched, not to mention the proofreading process which can sometimes take up to a week. Then on top of that further research needs to be done for the animations, in terms of armour, boats, city structure, maps, trade networks, moving of people, cities, sacking of cities and territories during this timeframe. Again thank you for the compliments and have a nice day! :)

    • @BrodyMarody
      @BrodyMarody 5 лет назад

      Ancient History Guy, thank you for quick response!
      I will provide exact time stamps of items taken directly from Wikipedia: (almost word for word)
      - 0:55 to 1:15 - first paragraph of history of Syracuse: Greek Period
      - 1:58 to 5:50 - second, third and fourth paragraphs + first sentence of the fifth paragraph history of Syracuse: Greek Period
      To summarize, I think it’s a good video, especially the animation. It was wrong of me to say entire thing was from Wikipedia, but I found only 1:38 seconds of the video that didn’t correspond to the Wiki article directly. I would say you provided about a third and definitely not a half outside of wiki.
      Also to clarify I don’t think it’s wrong to take from wiki, I just thought you could have made the text you took a bit more engaging, after all oral presentation has the flexibility that written lacks. I never read that article about Syracuse and I went to read it after seeing your video, and to me it just seemed as exact replica.
      Furthermore, if you would like to improve the oral story telling, look up some books they are able to breakdown the difference in oral vs written presentation and what points to Accenture to achieve formidable difference in narrative styles.

  • @spidermovies30
    @spidermovies30 5 лет назад

    +1 sub

  • @thewitchfindergeneral81
    @thewitchfindergeneral81 5 лет назад

    Are you okay man? You haven’t uploaded in months

  • @mytidysoul8561
    @mytidysoul8561 5 лет назад +1

    4000 SUBSCRIBERS

  • @blueboy5120
    @blueboy5120 5 лет назад +1

    i thought this was about syracuse ny aHH

  • @juanmam.2113
    @juanmam.2113 5 лет назад +1

    Yay!

  • @mytidysoul8561
    @mytidysoul8561 5 лет назад

    Finally

  • @steviecav7252
    @steviecav7252 5 лет назад +1

    Go Orange 🍊

  • @MFC343
    @MFC343 Год назад

    just here to learn to make memes.

  • @gogetter9888
    @gogetter9888 5 лет назад +1

    The Indians owned syracuse, new york back in those days!!!

    • @dayquonalielbey3986
      @dayquonalielbey3986 5 лет назад +1

      Those we're moors my friend

    • @gogetter9888
      @gogetter9888 5 лет назад +1

      @@dayquonalielbey3986 moors or Indians what ever you want to call it! Moors mean black back tha??

  • @CabbannaeDabbanna98
    @CabbannaeDabbanna98 4 года назад

    Is not Tasmania but kasmenai THE second colonie of Syracuse 😂

  • @corn1971
    @corn1971 2 года назад

    Why does he butcher the name of Syracuse?

  • @sagidasyed6314
    @sagidasyed6314 3 года назад

    Mafia statti

  • @justsomeyetiwithinternetac2182
    @justsomeyetiwithinternetac2182 5 лет назад

    Do Kurdistan

  • @dayquonalielbey3986
    @dayquonalielbey3986 5 лет назад

    Greek meaning Etruscan

  • @historycenter4011
    @historycenter4011 5 лет назад

    Tasmania? Oof

  • @teocarre4026
    @teocarre4026 5 лет назад

    Athena is not the goddess of warfare...

    • @AncientHistoryGuy
      @AncientHistoryGuy  5 лет назад +3

      Goddess of warfare and wisdom hence the depictions of her wearing a corinthians helmet there's a famous tale where she easily beats ares god of war in a duel :)

  • @tadeuszsa8314
    @tadeuszsa8314 5 лет назад +1

    Amazing