Ancient Greek State Politics and Diplomacy

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  • Опубликовано: 1 июл 2020
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    Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the ancient civilizations continues with a video on the Ancient Greek state forms. The mainstream idea of the Ancient Greek state is a city-state - a polis, but that was hardly the only form of polity the Greeks lived under. This video will cover the various Leagues and Federations and how they were formed and how the great states like Athens, Sparta, Macedon and Thebes interacted within them forming their hegemonies.
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    The video was made by our friend András Szente-Dzsida while the script was researched and written by Johan Melhus
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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  4 года назад +91

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    • @user-kt1lh5sz1i
      @user-kt1lh5sz1i 3 года назад +4

      Thanks for doing this K&G. I've been asking for this vid for a while.

    • @dietoxickidthe2nd889
      @dietoxickidthe2nd889 3 года назад

      love your content bro

    • @Jackal263
      @Jackal263 3 года назад +11

      Lovely work but yet again....
      Dont mislead your viewers.
      Greece mainly colonised Asia Minor.
      And I say this cause lately the Turkish propaganda claim otherwise.

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea 3 года назад +1

      Can't wait to take one of the Warhammer 40k tanks out for a spin.

    • @AhmedIbrahim-by9he
      @AhmedIbrahim-by9he 3 года назад +3

      Best channel ever love the graphics and everything keep making these videos your the best. Just interested, what type of editors do you guys use.

  • @johanm_16
    @johanm_16 3 года назад +954

    Hello, I am the writer and researcher for the video, I hope you enjoy it!
    The sources used for the video are: Greek federal states by J. A. O Larsen and Federalism in Greek Antiquity by Beck and Funke

    • @hexapodc.1973
      @hexapodc.1973 3 года назад +6

      thank you mate!

    • @thomashartman7649
      @thomashartman7649 3 года назад +3

      Thank you for all that you do!

    • @mitsoulas76
      @mitsoulas76 3 года назад +9

      Trully amazing work, one notice though, the word "koina" is pronounced as "kiná" and it actually means "commons" in ancient and modern greek.

    • @AhmedIbrahim-by9he
      @AhmedIbrahim-by9he 3 года назад +1

      Wow you guys so much work for us thanks for that.

    • @AhmedIbrahim-by9he
      @AhmedIbrahim-by9he 3 года назад

      @Johan M What type of editor did you guys use?

  • @xusteve4820
    @xusteve4820 3 года назад +542

    It seems that one state becoming a dominant power after leading a struggle against another great power is a common scene in history.

    • @dojokonojo
      @dojokonojo 3 года назад +54

      Nature abhors a (power) vacuum

    • @paulmartin591
      @paulmartin591 3 года назад +32

      And of course repeating the cycle of self-justified conquest and colonization.

    • @LorolinAstori
      @LorolinAstori 3 года назад +20

      Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it

    • @RodolfoGaming
      @RodolfoGaming 3 года назад +5

      @@dojokonojo second this

    • @RodolfoGaming
      @RodolfoGaming 3 года назад +24

      @@LorolinAstori yet those who know are doomed not to be able to do anything about it

  • @Azr4el
    @Azr4el 3 года назад +225

    See the title: Ancient Greek Leagues
    See the animated thumbnail: Tanks flying everywhere
    ...OK

  • @arandurion
    @arandurion 3 года назад +296

    Me: Kings and Generals, how many series do you want to start?
    Kings and Generals: Yes

    • @Bonservisjohnny
      @Bonservisjohnny 3 года назад +12

      It’s kinda frustrating tbh they’re good videos no doubt but it’s just too much yknow

    • @weirdofromhalo
      @weirdofromhalo 3 года назад

      This isn't a new series.

    • @arandurion
      @arandurion 3 года назад +7

      @@weirdofromhalo I suppose not, but my statement still applies.

    • @nomadlong85
      @nomadlong85 3 года назад +2

      Yeah i wish they would smash out a series before starting a new one, but they are clever as they know we will all hang around and keep an eye out for the next 'episode' in whatever part of history were following.

  • @aokiaoki4238
    @aokiaoki4238 3 года назад +359

    I was expecting a reference to the "Panhellenic idea". Many ancients Greeks write and support the unification of all Greeks. It was supported by Gorgias, Issocrates, Aristotle, Jason of Pherae, Dionysius I of Syracuse and Phillip II. While other were against it, such as Demosthenes

    • @USERCRETE
      @USERCRETE 3 года назад +12

      correct

    • @Gentleman...Driver
      @Gentleman...Driver 3 года назад +62

      Demosthenes feared a loss of power. He also wrote some propaganda, calling the Macedons "Barbarians".

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 3 года назад +37

      @@Gentleman...Driver Demosthenes with 4 speeches managed to convicted Athenians to start war with Macedonia. He fought himself in the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC).

    • @cht4263
      @cht4263 3 года назад +6

      It actually happened with Philip's and Alexander's Hellenic league

    • @christossaroglou7158
      @christossaroglou7158 3 года назад +27

      @MEDAURIN god of war Romans named the greeks "greeks" you know, and that's why it stayed that way for the rest of the western world, only greeks and 3-4 eastern (east of greece) nations use the name "Hellenes" and "Hellas" each with a linguistic variation ofc to this day. And the funny thing is most of the eastern world calls greeks "Yunan" (or again with variations) which would translate to "Ionians" and tbh it sounds more legit, where as the term "Greece" and "Greeks" is found nowhere in ancient "Greece".
      I say funny thing because the western world is supposed to be built as a continuity to the civilization of ancient Greece.

  • @barbiquearea
    @barbiquearea 3 года назад +111

    In the ancient Greek world, a polis could be referred to any city, town or village. It included a settlement and the surrounding land it controlled. The city states either remained independent, grouped together into leagues by mutual interests or were forced to join them through coercion or intimidation.
    After the decline of central control and collapse of the Mycenaean Empire in the 12th century BCE, the Greek world entered a chaotic period of nomadic migrations, invasions and fragmentation, as a result the ancient Greeks were very divided and subdivided. But they created for themselves a world like no other, a world where each city state had its own unique (and often fantastic) culture.

    • @adarshmohapatra5058
      @adarshmohapatra5058 3 года назад +10

      Greece has such a diverse, flourishing and ancient history! Respect to Greece from India.

    • @user-oe3il6wi8g
      @user-oe3il6wi8g 3 года назад +10

      there's a lot of uncertainty about the period followed the collapse of Mycenaean civilization. Actually we know almost NOTHING. The most amazing mysterio is the fact that after a blank period all of a sudden appeared an new alphabet , an unbelievable perfect language , and so much wisdom.. I believe we miss a tremendous important part of the puzzle .

    • @adarshmohapatra5058
      @adarshmohapatra5058 3 года назад +1

      @Chaudhry Vikrant ror ik brother, we were very strong as well. I was just giving credit to Greece as they influenced western civilization and Europe, just like we influenced eastern civilization and South/South-East Asia

    • @MyKillyy
      @MyKillyy 3 года назад +5

      @Chaudhry Vikrant ror are there actually clear evidences for Alexander being defeated in India? I have recently read a lot about his conquest and there are only exclusively Indian people one the internet who are claiming that.

  • @croesuslydias6488
    @croesuslydias6488 3 года назад +208

    Polis - singular
    Poleis - plural

    • @keithbrown7685
      @keithbrown7685 3 года назад +13

      enough of this pedantry or I'll .... call the police!

    • @panosbravakis860
      @panosbravakis860 3 года назад +2

      Poli-singular

    • @youreskimofriend2327
      @youreskimofriend2327 3 года назад +3

      @@panosbravakis860 nnnnnope. Croesus is right.

    • @3SLBK
      @3SLBK 3 года назад +5

      @@panosbravakis860 it's the ancient greek, not modern

    • @AleksandarVelikiMirijevski
      @AleksandarVelikiMirijevski 3 года назад +2

      @@3SLBK And in modern to... because modern and ancient greek are very similar

  • @skyfragmented3933
    @skyfragmented3933 3 года назад +27

    THANK YOU. This is why this channel is great. You know that in order to understand the history you also need to understand the underlying political systems. Kudos to you

  • @narxes
    @narxes 3 года назад +79

    I'm worldbuilding a low fantasy universe largely inspired by ancient Europe. especially Greece, so this is super useful!

    • @giannisg3387
      @giannisg3387 3 года назад +5

      @Somali Kid Well, people had a thing for knights in shining armor for a very long time, so that's one reason. Only now, in recent years has fantasy started to get more innovative and diverse.

  • @JonatasAdoM
    @JonatasAdoM 3 года назад +181

    So does ethnicity comes from the Greek word Ethnos?

    • @Dourios_96
      @Dourios_96 3 года назад +106

      Yes that is correct 👍

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 3 года назад +64

      Yes and it is connected to the word Ethics also, as people of the same Ethnos have common ethics.

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 3 года назад +35

      @@spiritusIRATUS We have, we actually have even more concepts than English see εθνικότητα, ιθαγένεια, υπηκοότητα, φυλή, γένος, ημεδαπότητα ...

    • @stratilatis8562
      @stratilatis8562 3 года назад +10

      @@aokiaoki4238 I'm not sure about that. Ethos from greek ήθος
      Ethnos from greek έθνος.
      Complitly different words even their routes don't match

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 3 года назад +4

      @@stratilatis8562 Etymologically are connected. Έθνος is what Nation is in English, Ethnicity in English is meant ιθαγένεια. There is no word or legal concept in Enlgish for ημεδαπότητα for example. In Greek you may have the Εθνικότητα (nationality) and the ημεδαπότητα ( live were you were born) but not the ιθαγένεια(ethnicity). Or you may have Εθνικότητα (nationality) and the ιθαγένεια(ethnicity) but not the ημεδαπότητα ( you were born somewhere else)

  • @thanoss7441
    @thanoss7441 3 года назад +48

    Hellene from Thessaly here. Love your videos.

  • @Telenil
    @Telenil 3 года назад +182

    If one of these cities is razed by the others, can we say that they defound the polis?

    • @kostas3577
      @kostas3577 3 года назад +1

      yes tse they would

    • @kerzariz8717
      @kerzariz8717 3 года назад +2

      Hahaha

    • @Samuelpiang511
      @Samuelpiang511 3 года назад

      I'm being lazy saying this but whenever I play rome total war 2 I would always occupy than subjugate or raze any cities I just conquered. I dont see much benefit or understanding of razing a city.

    • @Samuelpiang511
      @Samuelpiang511 3 года назад +1

      @@Vandelberger thank you! that makes sense. I've been playing easy mode because the game takes over 20 hours I swear.

    • @CliveBurr4
      @CliveBurr4 3 года назад

      That's a great avatar

  • @realtangerine4910
    @realtangerine4910 3 года назад +219

    how can people dislike this? its not even controversial, its just a documentary

    • @Sunrah
      @Sunrah 3 года назад +42

      mostly because they don't list their sources so fact checking is quite hard

    • @JCRS2
      @JCRS2 3 года назад +26

      Whilst sources would be good, ancient sources are not 100% anyway. Like the accounts of the battle of Thermopylae state more than 10x the actual number of soldiers I believe. But there’s no other proof than herodotus. Ancient historians just conclude the largest army Xerxes could possibly assemble.

    • @croesuslydias6488
      @croesuslydias6488 3 года назад +17

      Ares I think we are more interested in the scholarly sources for the video, not the primary or secondary sources. I wouldn’t really trust anything anyone said just by citing ancient sources because people spend years in school learning how to actually interpret and understand sources and those interpretations are generally peer reviewed. Usually the lead researcher will post a comment stating the scholarly sources used for the video.

    • @stehfreejesseah7893
      @stehfreejesseah7893 3 года назад +2

      it was a little boring compared to other videos they have done.

    • @selucusptolemy3149
      @selucusptolemy3149 3 года назад +3

      Because this video offended me xD

  • @Tiberon098
    @Tiberon098 3 года назад +17

    Its cool to hear The Epitaph of Seikilos being played near the end.

    • @Gojoseon
      @Gojoseon 3 года назад +1

      It’s from the Civilization VI music for Greece (also based on the Epitaph of Seikilos), I think, though their music otherwise seems to be from Epidemic Sound.

  • @britisheastindiacompany6031
    @britisheastindiacompany6031 3 года назад +52

    Another wonderful content. Liked it very much. Greeks are so awesome that no matter what you know about the Greeks and Greek culture, you still have a lot to learn.

    • @vesnanuspahic7510
      @vesnanuspahic7510 3 года назад

      British East India Company Yea but true history ‼️‼️‼️

    • @charadradam9985
      @charadradam9985 3 года назад

      @@vesnanuspahic7510 this is the pattern of a flag not the history of a people (history, culture, civilization, language etc). they are two different things.
      in your way of thought, france romania and italy are the same because they use the same flag pattern in other colours or russians and hollandese are the same because they use the same pattern in different colours. you must be very stupid not to understand what you told.

  • @augustus8913
    @augustus8913 3 года назад +16

    Interesting fact : In Athens , every adult male citizen had the responsibility to participate in the politics , so that the democratic City-State could take decisions. It was illegal for free men to abstain from the discussions and from the voting. Because some men didn't participate in democracy , Athens hired Macedonians (Macedonian "Μακεδόνας" means long-tall. Macedonians were known for being tall and strong. ) to form some kind of "police". Their job was to seek for abstaining men and lead them to the agora (they could use force if needed). Those that were forced to attend were called "Ιδιώτες" (idiotes) meaning "those who care only for themselves". This "title" was in fact so humiliating , that nowadays "idiot" means stupid. So , in Ancient Athens , Democracy was so important that they literally had "police officers" to force everyone to the agora and anyone who tried to abstain was considered stupid.

  • @adarshmohapatra5058
    @adarshmohapatra5058 3 года назад +37

    Good video! It gives an insight into Greek culture. Love from India!
    Also Greece has such a rich and ancient history. Certainly something to be proud of.

  • @babs2800
    @babs2800 3 года назад +33

    Kings and Generals, lately you're spoiling us Greeks. Keep it up!

    • @babs2800
      @babs2800 3 года назад +1

      @Gonzalo Araujo By "spoiling us", I mean, the channel excessively gratifies our wish to hear about historic events that happened in our land. And by "us" i mean - of course - the modern Greeks. Are we allowed to like learning about the ancient Greeks' history, your majesty?

    • @keithbrown7685
      @keithbrown7685 3 года назад

      you Greeks have been spoiled enough. You need to be put in your place. The Consuls are on the way. Tremble, o Athenian!

  • @aokiaoki4238
    @aokiaoki4238 3 года назад +107

    Funny fact, Spartans had huge iron coins so they can't have and carry many of them

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea 3 года назад +32

      Yeah it was to make hoarding vast amounts of money undesirable as iron would be very heavy to carry around, one cannot flaunt their wealth without also being weighed down by it.

    • @NobleKorhedron
      @NobleKorhedron 3 года назад

      "Koinon" refers to the League itself, not a monetary unit....

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 3 года назад +5

      @@NobleKorhedron Koinon means common. It can be referred to many things

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 2 года назад

      I thought they were strips of leather to discourage the use of gold.

  • @USERCRETE
    @USERCRETE 3 года назад +55

    3:47 Ethnos (Έθνος) = Nation . Greeks gave the first definition of that word

    • @kylewilliams8114
      @kylewilliams8114 3 года назад +4

      I mean, I don't think the concept was never used before. It's just the word english speakers use to convey the idea.

  • @CommonSense858
    @CommonSense858 3 года назад +1

    I love this channel. Always spot on! Look forward to each new video! Thanks Kings and Generals

  • @MrJonLott
    @MrJonLott 3 года назад +5

    Fantastic content. Well done all around. This is why you've got 1.32M subscribers.

  • @XxAverageJoexX
    @XxAverageJoexX 3 года назад +2

    One of the best channels on RUclips. Thank you.

  • @wingedhussar4219
    @wingedhussar4219 3 года назад +1

    I like that you are doing many videos for Greece recently. Nice vid

  • @konstantinossfoungaris8474
    @konstantinossfoungaris8474 3 года назад +45

    Please refrain from using spurious omega's and Greek sigma's for 'O' and 'E' characters. It makes the Greek alphabet look like a novelty item, and distances the Latin alphabet user from it by alienating them from the similarities between the two.
    It would be of great help to write Greek and Latin in parallel instead, as it can help people pick up some rudimentary Greek, and promote its-however limited-usage.

  • @theconqueringram5295
    @theconqueringram5295 3 года назад +3

    This documentary explores a subject that is hardly touched in popular history and goes into great detail on the organization and management of the leagues.

  • @michaelmatthews2434
    @michaelmatthews2434 3 года назад

    Great video guys. Glad to see you guys doing so well.

  • @surgicalcrabby8993
    @surgicalcrabby8993 3 года назад +4

    I am an early subscriber and a lover of history. Please continuethe good quality and don’t focus on views. I have been watching since the battle of al qaddisheah. Thanks good job

  • @meepk633
    @meepk633 3 года назад +1

    The art and design in these is so good. Looks fun to do.

  • @22vx
    @22vx 3 года назад +39

    I could spend ages poring over the multitudes of modern derivations of Greek concepts, constructs and institutions. Koinon/Community; Polis/City; Ethnos/Nation - I love how our past illuminates our present.

    • @user-kt1lh5sz1i
      @user-kt1lh5sz1i 3 года назад +1

      Hey man. We did it by asking in the comments section.

    • @shikra6668
      @shikra6668 3 года назад

      Sir please reply me.
      Who is use battles graphic ??
      Who is software use???

    • @keithbrown7685
      @keithbrown7685 3 года назад

      Yeah, but I'm not making any money off it, so why should I care? : )

  • @Miamcoline
    @Miamcoline 3 года назад +3

    You guys should do a detailed mini-series of the Peloponnesian War next. It may be overdone but most documentaries and books gloss over it, only focusing on key events and people without too much real context. You guys have done most of the key episodes around it so you might as well.
    You could even team up with HistoriaCivilis, who is the strongest on ancient political/military context but does not seem to have the time or the resources to dedicate to create videos on drawn out episodes in history. You would be a very strong team.

  • @illerac84
    @illerac84 3 года назад +3

    Great work, as always. Looking forward to more Roman economic episodes!

  • @elliott7706
    @elliott7706 3 года назад +5

    I find Mycenaean Greece much more facinating. Bronze age nations were so advanced, its baffling to me to try to understand how many times our civilizations have rised and fallen. Mycenaean had toilets, sewers, hot water etc.

    • @Thessaloz
      @Thessaloz 3 года назад +1

      Minoans propably had that too.
      I found my dna match with some minoan skeletons recently and i start reading some things about them, they even had water treatment devices and water came in their towns with aqueducts.

  • @lukezuzga6460
    @lukezuzga6460 3 года назад +3

    Very interesting Fellas, thanks!

  • @starman1144
    @starman1144 3 года назад +8

    6:18 in modern Greek Bouli (βουλή) is the parlement

    • @user-nf9xc7ww7m
      @user-nf9xc7ww7m 3 года назад +1

      Ancient Greece was different than modern, for sure.
      Despite its unwieldy size, the 500-member Boule was actually the executive. The legislature were all the citizens (ie not women, children, or slaves) in direct democracy. Specific offices were appointed, but they would be more akin to a mix between modern day civil servants (well, spoils-day civil servants at least) and US-style cabinet secretaries.
      Be interesting if modern Greece were to become the Greek League and have all city-states confederate with it, with direct democracy (but with universal suffrage) at the polis level. Everybody copied the british or american system, though others have perfected it (eg sweden, germany, new zealand).

    • @starman1144
      @starman1144 3 года назад +2

      @@user-nf9xc7ww7m I meant the word. In modern Greek the word Bouli means parlement. Bro, I'm Greek. Do you really think that I wouldn't know that. It's my country's history.

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 3 года назад +2

    This was a great n informative video. And a nice insight into what Greece was like at this time. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

  • @josephstevens3942
    @josephstevens3942 3 года назад +9

    Man, mishearing "Phocian League" really made my day!

    • @Bejunckt
      @Bejunckt 3 года назад +1

      Yeah lol made me wanna join xd

    • @CuriousInquiror
      @CuriousInquiror 3 года назад +1

      They need do a whole video on the history of the Phocian League

  • @georgeabraham5672
    @georgeabraham5672 3 года назад

    Awesome as always

  • @user-wd2du6ze5p
    @user-wd2du6ze5p 3 года назад +38

    Αt 2:15 we see the ancient symbol for the panhellenic socialist movement aka ΠΑΣΟΚ.

    • @vega5297
      @vega5297 3 года назад +3

      Χχαχαχα

    • @user-nf6rq4jo3e
      @user-nf6rq4jo3e 3 года назад +8

      Ο ηλιος ο πρασινος ο ηλιος που ανατελει!

    • @dma3d
      @dma3d 3 года назад +5

      Το ΠΑΣΟΚ το ορθοδοξο υπαρχει απο την αρχαιοτητα, ξυπνατεεεε XD

  • @MaidenWithEyesOfBlue384
    @MaidenWithEyesOfBlue384 3 года назад +4

    1:47 to skip the World of Tanks ad

  • @johanalitalo8331
    @johanalitalo8331 Год назад

    Nice overview of the city states. Hope to see moore videos of them (if possible Athens or Sparta).

  • @henriquecarvalho880
    @henriquecarvalho880 3 года назад +1

    I wish the sources were added to the video description, it would make a lot easier to look more into this topic. i'm have no interest in specialize myself in ancient history nor the greek, but I really like the subject and would appreciate if you guys could do that in the future videos

  • @vladimirbazhaev7851
    @vladimirbazhaev7851 3 года назад +1

    Can you make a video about the sacred wars? they are fascinating!

  • @mohammadsaida4603
    @mohammadsaida4603 3 года назад

    Nice history video talking about policy interfering among several parts of one league's 👍👏🏾👏🏾🌟

  • @KonekoEalain
    @KonekoEalain 3 года назад +6

    I'd love to learn more about what led to the rise in population in the 8th cent. bce, and what caused the decline in the Spartan population that led to the end to their hegemony.

  • @thomasrinschler6783
    @thomasrinschler6783 3 года назад +3

    I responded to one post concerning the pronunciation of οι, but I'm seeing so many other posts bringing it up that I'll make a general post. So basically, οι was originally pronounced like the narrator pronounced it, "oi". It eventually began to pronounced the same way as the ancient υ (like the German "ü") with this happening between the third century BC and third century AD. That pronunciation lasted until around AD 1000, when both οι and υ transitioned, along with several Greek vowels like η, ει, and υι (which all originally had their own pronunciations) to the modern pronunciation of "i". So, pronouncing οι as "oi" is correct for the time frame that the narrator is describing, as οι only began to be pronounced as "i" after AD 1000 or so. For more detail on this, have fun in the "Diachronic phonetic description" section of the following article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek_phonology

    • @nopenoperton5448
      @nopenoperton5448 3 года назад

      It’s like shouting into the wind. I’m not sure why modern Greek speakers are so adamant that the language hasn’t changed in 2000+ years (a linguistic impossibility for a spoken language) and some here even openly denounce the Erasmian model.

  • @blackbirdgriffin
    @blackbirdgriffin 3 года назад

    Well thank you for the vid I will now go back and play some EBII Koinon Hellenon, This is too tempting :)

  • @kostageorgiou3741
    @kostageorgiou3741 3 года назад

    Yes thanks for these videos makes me proud of my heritage

  • @prometheuskomnenos2116
    @prometheuskomnenos2116 3 года назад +41

    As a Greek , I really appreciate when non-Greeks take the time to learn about our history . I would like to congratulate this channel for explaining it so accurately . But I would also like to point out a small but crucial language mistake , there are some letter combinations in Greek which make a different sound from what it looks like. For example ... "Koina" is pronounced Kiná and not as it looks like. The following letters when combined make this sounds : o+i= i , a+i= ae , o+u= ooo (u).
    Respectfully , Greek viewer

    • @queldron
      @queldron 3 года назад +6

      These only apply to the modern Greek pronunciation. In ancient Greek it was actually as the narrator pronounced.

    • @Skeloperch
      @Skeloperch 3 года назад +3

      As is the case with English, ancient Greek sounds much different from modern Greek despite being ostensibly the same language.

    • @monkey_ona_donkey6272
      @monkey_ona_donkey6272 3 года назад +1

      @@Skeloperch well i think i will have to prove you wrong because when i learn ancient Greek phonetically speacking the pronunciation was the same with the ancient Greek and modern Greek ... is something was pronounced differently it was evident in writing ... and the explanation is simple really

    • @godnkls
      @godnkls 3 года назад

      @@monkey_ona_donkey6272 Where did you learn about ancient greek phonetics? I guess you are a Greek having learnt the ancient language as a course in Gymnasium, where they only teach the basics and the rules of declination, nothing about phonetics. The pronunciation was really different 2000 years ago. The best example I can give you is "υ", which was pronounced as "hι", something that got transferred to latin and later to other languages. Words like "hydra","hyper" etc, but originally with "ι" instead of "αϊ" sound

    • @sakdavid
      @sakdavid 3 года назад +3

      @@godnkls And where did you learn ancient Greek phonetics? Were you taught by the Euboean colonists in the bay of Naples? The idea that ancient Greek did not have dipthongs and this feature was picked up along the way for whatever reason is absurd.

  • @TheMichaell522
    @TheMichaell522 3 года назад

    Please do more of Caesar,I’m so interested.
    Thanks

  • @jordancaleb5790
    @jordancaleb5790 3 года назад

    cool new map style!

  • @angelusvastator1297
    @angelusvastator1297 2 года назад +3

    "God why is everything so political these days?"
    Greeks:

  • @gardenlizard1586
    @gardenlizard1586 3 года назад

    Good video 👍

  • @chrisgotsopoulos7878
    @chrisgotsopoulos7878 3 года назад +7

    I live in Greece and I believe that we even now have the disadvantage to love our land(city) and press our local interests before the interest of the state,you can found politicians and common people that they only care about developing their local interests inspite of the common good of the state, that's the true problem that keeps Greece behind and corrupted

  • @giwrgosemdou6545
    @giwrgosemdou6545 3 года назад +6

    A small correction all the Greeks belong to the same ethnos(έθνος) which means nation but there were smaller groups called fillo(φύλο) which means something like tribe.

    • @nopenoperton5448
      @nopenoperton5448 3 года назад

      That’s not always the case; ἔθνος has a semantic range. Thucydides, for example, uses it on several occasions to refer to different groups of people from the same geographic area in Greece (e.g. 5.52 Ἡρακλεώταις τοῖς ἐν Τραχῖνι μάχη ἐγένετο πρὸς Αἰνιᾶνας καὶ Δόλοπας καὶ Μηλιᾶς καὶ Θεσσαλῶν τινάς.
      προσοικοῦντα γὰρ τὰ ἔθνη ταῦτα τῇ πόλει πολέμια ἦν: οὐ γὰρ ἐπ’ ἄλλῃ τινὶ γῇ ἢ τῇ τούτων τὸ χωρίον ἐτειχίσθη.)

    • @Thessaloz
      @Thessaloz 3 года назад +1

      They knew that they were all Hellenes, but i am not sure if they called that ethnos.

  • @JohnyAngelo
    @JohnyAngelo 3 года назад +2

    As a history grad student, this was helpful. :)

  • @MrKIMBO345
    @MrKIMBO345 3 года назад +29

    This is interesting. Some political concepts of the West civilization came from Ancient Greek like federation and alliance.

    • @The-Plaguefellow
      @The-Plaguefellow 3 года назад +2

      Yes, because diplomatic concepts only arose from a singular civilization, and definitely weren't developed independently across the world and at different times...

  • @cembiten911
    @cembiten911 3 года назад

    You guys deserve your own Netflix series..

  • @sirmoglok
    @sirmoglok 2 года назад

    I've been falling asleep to so many of these that i had a dream last night where i was in a pub with a friend and this guys voice came on and it was on a t.v. in there. and i would enter different parts of town and randomly start hearing him narrating, or a person break out into a narration channeling his voice

  • @OmegaTrooper
    @OmegaTrooper 3 года назад +2

    Seeing as how Kings and Generals is sponsored by Imperator: Rome (amongst others) it would be cool to see the various types of Greek leagues represented in that game as well! Its actually quite similar to some of the Stellaris federations.

  • @Anthony_Matabaro_3D_360
    @Anthony_Matabaro_3D_360 3 года назад

    Hi Kings and Generals, another great video, could guys kindly provided the names or some links to the music you use? Thank you and have a good day.

  • @markusskram4181
    @markusskram4181 Год назад

    I love The vid !

  • @VoidLantadd
    @VoidLantadd 3 года назад +1

    Great improvement pronunciation-wise! Pronouncing kappa as a k. Much better.

  • @baileycampbell1710
    @baileycampbell1710 3 года назад

    Cant get over that he used the civ 6 sound track as back round music. It works nicely but all i can picture is civ 6

  • @joeshmoe8345
    @joeshmoe8345 3 года назад

    Thanks

  • @menaseven9093
    @menaseven9093 3 года назад +1

    Nice story of the Ancient Greek Leagues.

  • @Hugh_Morris
    @Hugh_Morris 3 года назад +10

    Emperor Hadrian, years later, also attempted to unite the Greeks under the Roman banner. I believe that was also in the form of a League.

  • @loupiscanis9449
    @loupiscanis9449 3 года назад

    Thank you

  • @sturmgewer44
    @sturmgewer44 3 года назад +1

    K&G , please make a serie about the byzantine macedonian and Komnenian renaissance !!

  • @PranavMV
    @PranavMV 3 года назад +1

    Just letting the creator know that the amount of knowledge that I gain from watching his videos is far more than what my history books have taught..
    I have tried reading about this but never understood so, when we talk about ancient greeks before it became a roman state, it's the people, not the empire or kingdom, right? Or were these city-states part of a single federation?
    Like the leagues mentioned were still independent but was there a superstate? Like during the Greco Persian war, it was Greece against Persians.

  • @PackHunter117
    @PackHunter117 3 года назад +3

    3:46 That must be where the word ethnicity and ethnic come from.

  • @user-jz7pq7iz8h
    @user-jz7pq7iz8h 3 года назад +4

    Greetings from athens!You never disappointed us for another video!

  • @b.m.5068
    @b.m.5068 3 года назад +1

    Make one on Indus civilization

  • @tristanverbeek6741
    @tristanverbeek6741 3 года назад

    Please make an episode about the pelopenisian war

  • @sixshooter500
    @sixshooter500 Год назад

    "When we learn about in school."
    We don't learn 98% of what this channel teaches in school... and I love you for that.

  • @AhmedIbrahim-by9he
    @AhmedIbrahim-by9he 3 года назад +10

    In certain ways Sparta had more rights then Athens. For example women could own property in Sparta while not in Athens.

    • @cjlogic6908
      @cjlogic6908 3 года назад

      Ouch...

    • @keithbrown7685
      @keithbrown7685 3 года назад

      @@kafon6368 hahaha! give her the boot! : )

    • @user-nf9xc7ww7m
      @user-nf9xc7ww7m 3 года назад +1

      I want to know which city-state had pride parades🏳️‍🌈🎉🎊, open transgender & transracial folks🏁, no slavery🏴‍☠️, and universal suffrage🏳.
      🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
      [Citizens vote to exile me]👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👧👨‍👩‍👧‍👧👨‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👩‍👧‍👧👩‍👧👩‍👧‍👧👨‍👧👨‍👩‍👦

    • @keithbrown7685
      @keithbrown7685 3 года назад

      @@user-nf9xc7ww7m Well, the Thebans were ok on things like gay pride. e.g. the so called "sacred band".

    • @the_chosen_one5642
      @the_chosen_one5642 3 года назад

      Also had a slave based economy

  • @xaros738
    @xaros738 3 года назад +1

    Πολις with "ι" is for one city, Πολεις is plural. Ι think the use in the beginning of the video is for one city if i understand right, so was wrong. Thanks again for your videos. I m not telling this because of the Greek content, i love history in general, but especially military history. And i love to watch things from other countries and periods so i learn something more.

  • @mooneyplovwer4040
    @mooneyplovwer4040 3 года назад +2

    I’m so thankful that i found this channel some time ago it was all I ever wanted exactly the way i wanted it never stop making videos!

  • @trueblueclue
    @trueblueclue 3 года назад +1

    I hear that Imperator: Rome music in the intro.

    • @Gojoseon
      @Gojoseon 3 года назад +1

      Oddly Kings and Generals never credits the video game music they use....

  • @LetsBeBlunt
    @LetsBeBlunt 3 года назад +3

    Amazing channel I'm always looking forward to your uploads, keep it up 💯

  • @petermills3814
    @petermills3814 3 года назад +2

    Next up for your videos! = ideas as follow ups.
    Ancient Roman state politics and diplomacy
    Ancient + Medieval Byzantine state politics and diplomacy
    Ancient + Medieval Chinese state politics and diplomacy.

  • @Scornbrand
    @Scornbrand 3 года назад

    Will we ever get a Phoenician version of this?
    Or something about the Phoenician world and sphere

  • @Evilprimarch
    @Evilprimarch 3 года назад

    That popping sound made me check if I had Slack still open, despite the fact the business hours for me were over at the time. Real creepy.

  • @PackHunter117
    @PackHunter117 3 года назад

    Do a video on the view of Rome by the recent conquered Greeks.

  • @aquaticsplashes
    @aquaticsplashes 3 года назад

    Hey I have a question at @3:30 it has very small letters I heard italian but it reads something like haetallian not sure if I'm reading that right cuz it's so small on my screen how is that spelled? When I search what I typed it doesn't pull up anything... Are those the same people that founded rome? Are they related to the etruscans? Do they have any relation to the tribe of ramnes?

  • @louiscasteran6298
    @louiscasteran6298 3 года назад

    Good civilization 5 music 😉

  • @prvt.paulalawrence5782
    @prvt.paulalawrence5782 2 года назад

    Hello,
    its a nice video, keep up the good work.
    But if you could get me the script so i can read it while i can listen to you. it would be very helpful for me.

  • @nikos1614
    @nikos1614 3 года назад +2

    I love these kind of videos but I feel the need to point this out. People need to stop (at least when they write something about Greece) using the letter Σ as an E because Σ is the greek letter for S so every time I read texts like these I feel like my eyes are gonna pop out trying to make sense of them.

  • @rasulpourjafar2080
    @rasulpourjafar2080 3 года назад

    Finally a favorite content of mine thanks god 🙏🙄

    • @stefanoslyras1187
      @stefanoslyras1187 3 года назад

      I was waiting for your comment my dear apprentice. So......Mehmet....in which cave your ancestors were.....when we were building the Parthenon and a couple of Ancient Wonders...?

    • @user-ls3tl2vm7s
      @user-ls3tl2vm7s 3 года назад

      @@stefanoslyras1187 why being so bad at him he did not said nothing bad to you.

    • @stefanoslyras1187
      @stefanoslyras1187 3 года назад

      @@user-ls3tl2vm7s exactly my Fellow Greek. He was sarcastic with others things to begin with

  • @warreng675
    @warreng675 3 года назад

    Hey Patric Stewart, whens the next stream

  • @user-pe4kg5ev8j
    @user-pe4kg5ev8j 3 года назад +3

    Hellen from the ORIGINAL GREEK MACEDONIA here!!!

  • @mikes7566
    @mikes7566 3 года назад

    Come on, give us the 30 years war finale already!!!! We need the ending!!!!

  • @TheTheusdeus
    @TheTheusdeus 3 года назад +2

    Love your work, however ;
    How come Corinth was destroyed by "the romans", whereas Thebes is still standing it's ground (in the last map You showed) after being tear down by Alexaner the 3rd ?

    • @jhunpalz06
      @jhunpalz06 2 года назад +2

      Cassander one of Alexander's generals ruled Macedonia after Alexander's death and killed his child, wife and mother. He was the only one of the Diodochi to try distance himself from Alexander and rebuilt Thebes to gain favor with greece by appearing generous.

  • @giannisgiannis870
    @giannisgiannis870 Год назад +1

    I am greek and i don't know how much wars my ancestors have make and they have fight each other.

  • @geraltgrey-mane695
    @geraltgrey-mane695 3 года назад +1

    have how the city states declare war been coverd here ? Just a random thought I had hmm I guess I will having a good long read then :D If I cant find any here

  • @nazzawirockful
    @nazzawirockful 3 года назад +1

    4:28 Fuckin league lmfao
    I spat my coffee when I heard it

  • @TheExsi
    @TheExsi 3 года назад +67

    The Greeks could rule the world...Alexander did. He took a Greek army to the far Indus,the was nothing left to conquer ...anyone ?

    • @emololasdf5492
      @emololasdf5492 3 года назад +4

      The known world of time yes, Greeks carried their power, traditions at time to far India and rest territories

    • @njbatoto9338
      @njbatoto9338 3 года назад +14

      Rome total war reference

    • @TheExsi
      @TheExsi 3 года назад +16

      @@njbatoto9338 you sir , are a man of culture.

    • @Juggernaut909
      @Juggernaut909 3 года назад +19

      But Alexander is dead...his empire is gone. And so we live in evil days. The free men of Greece have turned on each other instead of their proper enemies, those who envy all the Greeks have done!

    • @brunonogueira3547
      @brunonogueira3547 3 года назад +12

      ...perhaps its time to another Greek to conquer the world, perhaps... best intro ever

  • @dion8306
    @dion8306 3 года назад +37

    Hello from Macedonia, Greece🇬🇷❤
    (Alexander is Greek)

    • @christermi
      @christermi 3 года назад +24

      (That's a given , no point in addressing this fact)

    • @dion8306
      @dion8306 3 года назад +9

      @@christermi indeed

    • @shudheshvelusamy7644
      @shudheshvelusamy7644 3 года назад +5

      Actually, if I look at some completely biased sources, I can eventually find somewhere that Alexander wasn't Greek!

    • @siou3268
      @siou3268 3 года назад +7

      @@shudheshvelusamy7644 Really?Then how could they participate Olympic games?Only those who considered Greek could take part.

    • @siou3268
      @siou3268 3 года назад +12

      @@shudheshvelusamy7644 I guess Tito's sources correct?

  • @ketalegaming2572
    @ketalegaming2572 3 года назад

    Kesken videon= markku! Me ollaan uudelleen synnytty pingviineinä!