That;s just a Spaniard desperately trying to pronounce words he doesn't understand. That's nowhere near what ancient Greek of the classical period would have sounded like.
Great work as always from the team at Timeline. Please continue to bring such historically important information such as you do. As I wait for your next episode and speculate as to the next subject you⁰
What did the ancient Persians look like? I understand that it might be confusing at first look due to their lack of representation, but it will actually become pretty clear upon a second glance. For now as you read this just keep in mind that most contemporary art, even the ones depicted by modern Iranians themselves are based on ancient Persian Royal art, which itself was directly copied from the Assyrians and Babylonians who came before them - a highly symbolic, flat type of art where all faces regardless of which nation was represented, looked almost identical (for more see the last two paragraphs). Some of the modern art also conflates the current Middle-Eastern phenotype with that of the ancient peoples of Iran. The Persians and Spartans were both Indo-Europeans (Caucasians). But according to Greek historian Herodotus (Father of History), the Medes were blonds and sandy-haired Northern Iranians. Xerxes’s father, Darius, was a Mede, his mother a Persian. That collaborates centuries later with Roman poet and historian Ovid’s analysis when he said Northern Iranians (the Parthians, Scythians, Alans, Sarmatians, etc), were no different in appearance to the Celts and the Germanic tribes. The Roman author Ammianus Marcellinus, centuries earlier had stated the same. The few realistic art work we have of the Persians themselves done by Greek and Roman artists, depicts them as white, but dissimilar to the Greeks, and far more resembling the French, the Spaniards, and reveals them as Eastern European-like. Herodotus also noted that Xerxes was supposedly one of the most youthful in appearance and handsome men in Asia during his time, whatever that means. The most life-like depiction of ancient Persians are the “Bishapur art”, the wall and mosaic drawings done by Roman prisoners of war where they put their well-known talents to use and aided with decorating some newly constructed Persian palaces. In those, Persian women specifically and other female courtesans are depicted as almost pale with somewhat thick, flat eyebrows, with brown and black hair, very rarely some, including men, with red hair (as also depicted by Greek artists on the so-called Alexander’s sarcophagus and Sassanian floor fresco). The “Sassanian silver plates art”, also repeat the some of the same type of depictions, but since it was done by Persian artists, again many faces look similar, and have a symbolic quality to them to a certain extent, yet still a very good starting point. Other notable art include, “The Parthian solider” bust, (Greek-based), “The Dying Persian”, and “The Parthian statue”, a remarkable ancient Roman work of art with black marble used as the body, contrasting it with beige and black marble as his clothing and cape. Lastly, of importance are the many Parthian coins still in survival. Clean shaven (or not), and inspired by realistic portrayals unique to Hellenic art, Parthian kings and Princes with their Iranian weapons of choice, the bow and the arrow, look like Scandinavian war-lords, or at the very least are very Robinhood-like (see Arsaces I). Alexander’s northern Iranian wife who was after his death murdered by his mom or his men, was named Rukhshanaa (Roxana, Roxanne). In ancient Iranian and still today’s Persian, it means, shiny-faced, light-face. Back then, and even today in Iran, the more secluded a tribal group was/is, the “lighter-skinned” in appearance they are, something that again, is Specially true for some reason or the other with Iranian women, signaling lack of intermarriage. The indigenous peoples of the Iranian plateau, the Elamites, had beautiful olive-skin with long braided hairs, whom Persian royals went on to copy, as a form of fashion of the times, as well as borrowing their long robes with wide bejeweled sleeves. Their sophisticated culture was long established before the arrival of the Persians and other Iranian tribes. THE BOTTOM LINE? Northern Iranians aside, focusing strictly on the Persian tribes (Southern Iranians), THEY, resembled modern Albanians, Romanians, and modern Northern Italians, as well as very strongly, the Medieval Europeans (excluding Northern Europe). When you see an image of a Medieval European, from Hungary, Spain, and above all, France and Portugal, you are most likely coming very close to seeing the face of an ancient Persian. Accordingly, see the rock carving of the Khosrow II, an artistic work and an archeological piece 1000 years before the emergence of the Medieval Europe and the concept of the heavy armored worrier (the Chevalier, or the knight). It is also noteworthy to indicate the remnants of the Northern Iranians (the Alans and the Sarmatians) are still living today on the region of Ossetia-Alania in the Northern Caucasuses. Ancient Iranian tribes hailed from Ukraine by the way, at least that’s as far as we can tell. As the late Prof. Emeritus Richard Frye of Harvard noted, while the Iranians are not geographically Eastern Europeans, they are however, “The Europeans of the East”. Or according to encyclopedia Brittanica, “The name Persia derives from Parsa, the name of the Indo-European nomadic people who migrated into southern Iran…in about 1000 BCE”. It’s important to note that Persian imperial art itself in Persepolis and other places does NOT depict the Persians, or any other groups, realistically, as they all show a flat profile, with most faces looking very similar or almost identical. This was partially borrowed from the Assyrian and Babylonian empires who came before them, to portray a continuity and homogeneity of races. It was also an attempt to legitimize Persian rule, the world’s first Indo-European super power, who replaced thousands of years of semitic kingship (the Egyptians and the aforementioned civilizations). Let me repeat that one more time, ancient Persian art itself is NOT realistic, but more symbolic. Where the “Indo” suffix of the designation, Indo-European comes from is due to the fact that while some Iranians tribes where settling in their new homeland, in modern Iran, simultaneously other Iranic tribes invaded Northern India. That is why many Indic and ancient Iranian Gods and religious beliefs display similarities. The British scholar who coined the term thought that the related-European groups passed through the Hindu Kush mountains. Although at some point the old Aryans (Iranian tribes) who invaded India were fortunately, eventually absorbed by the indigenous Brahmin population. Otherwise we wouldn’t have the nation of India, as we know it today. Something that for anyone who is a lover of cultures, arts, mathematics and good food would be unimaginable. That’s ethnicity; linguistically Iranian languages are classified as the aforementioned Indo-European, which can in turn be termed as ancient English. Words like, mother, father, son, daughter (dokhtar). ponder (pendaar), nice (nik,neekoo, nikki; Greek: Nike), Jasmine (yaasamin), scarlet (saghalaat, see Merriam-Webster), Melchior, art (Old Pers.: arta), mind (manaa), grab (Avestan/Eastern Persian, grab), far (related to fara, ex: faravahar; fra, par-vaaz), being (boodan), is (hast), you, tiger (tighra; Merriam-Webster), it (een), Allan (Alan, Alania; from the Northern Iranian tribes who settled in modern day Scotland), Ariana (Arya, Aria, Aryan, Eire-aan, ultimately, “Iran”). Amazon (hama-zan; see “Sarmatians” in Brittanica; also Online Etymology Dictionary; also Adrienne Mayor, The National Geographic; also “The Early Amazons, JH Block, 1995), Caucasian (search engine: etymology of Caucasus), etc, are mostly still found in Farsi. I hope this was helpful.
The result of genetic studies: The Proto-Iranians can trace their origin to roughly modern Ukraine and Chelyabinsk, Oblast, Russia. These sites have been archeology completed and they are the so-called Sintasha and other cultures where the horse was first most likely domesticated. Before that we had the Andronova culture, with similarities to the Sintasha. On the other side, to the West of these cultures there was the Srubnaya culture that later both layered and replaced the Potapovka peoples. The Potapovka culture in turn was derived from the Poltavka culture. The genetically and culturally related “coded ware” was to the North of Srubnya and Sintasha cultures; the aforementioned “Coded Ware” culture was the first to migrate to the European continent. Although partially most of these related cultures migrated to Europe, some came back to Central Asia and Russia, some stayed in Europe. In these cultures mentioned, we see the emergence of various Iranian languages, a sub section of the larger Indo-European linguistic family that itself first bloomed in the Yamnaya culture in Southern Russia. The catacomb culture was to the South of ALL of these cultures mentioned. There were other cultures (settlements), but there no absolutely no need to go through every single one. Ultimately, the aforementioned populations were ALL related, yet with slight variations. At any rate, below are genetic studies and scholarly works that will expand on these answers further, “In studies from the mid-2000s, the Andronovo have been described by archaeologists as having cranial features similar to ancient and modern European populations. Andronovo skulls are similar to those of the Srubnaya culture and Sintashta culture, exhibiting features such as dolicocephaly. Through Iranian and Indo-Aryan migrations, this physical type expanded southwards and mixed with aboriginal peoples, contributing to the formation of modern populations…”- Kuzmina, 2007, p. 171. “The Potapovka culture is thought to belong to an eastward migration of Indo-European-speakers who eventually emerged as the Indo-Iranians. David W. Anthony considers the Potapovka culture and the Sintashta culture as archaeological manifestations of the early Indo-Iranian languages.” “In a genetic study published in Science in 2018, the remains four individuals ascribed to the Potapovka culture was analyzed. Of the two males, one carried R1a1a1b2a2a and U2e1, while the other carried R1 and C. People of the Potapovka culture were found to be closely related to people of the Corded Ware culture, the Sintashta culture, the Andronovo culture and the Srubnaya culture. These were found to harbor mixed ancestry from the Yamnaya culture and peoples of the Central European Middle Neolithic. The genetic data suggested that these related cultures were ultimately derived from a remigration of Central European peoples with steppe ancestry back into the steppe.” “The Potapovka people were massively built Caucasoids/Europoids. Their skulls are similar to those of the Catacomb culture. Potapovka skulls are less dolichocephalic than those of the Fatyanovo-Balanovo culture, Abashevo culture, Sintashta culture, Srubnaya culture and western Andronovo culture. The physical type of the Potapovka appears to have emerged through a mixture between the purely dolichocephalic type of the Sintashta, and the less dolichocephalic type of the Yamnaya culture and Poltavka culture.”
The only thing I didn't see was the 400 yard sprint the Athenians did to close the distance at the start of the battle. That initial charge shocked the Persians.
They did it until they reached 200m, then they marched in formation (phalanx formation), to surprise the Persians. Phalanxes afforded enough protection against missiles when tightly packed.
Not much compared to iran . Iran has the many provinces and each province has a city and each city is as if you have entered yet another country with completely different architecture, culture , language . Food , clothes , they don’t and didn’t have a common language . Pars was a national language.
I visited the Marrathon battle site. It's a big column in the middle of farms in the countryside. I drove there from Athens. There was a museum near the monument but it was closed the day I was there. I drove north and saw the Plataea and Thermopylae battlefields
Great production of clothing, armour styles, and background. Celebrated run of Pheidippides to Athens not shown, nor the actual battle maneuver.. Possibly, the Carthaginians, yrs later, copied these tactics for the disastrous defeat of Romans at Cannae? .
You don't necessarily require the phalanx for an effective double-envelopment... In fact, comparatively few of the #Punic army were actually #Carthaginian citizens.
Notice that Philippides is shown wearing his garment first over one shoulder, then the other during his run to Sparta. Notice also that the pennants above the tent on the large warship show the wind blowing in one direction, while the ship's sails are being filled with wind coming from the opposite direction.
The Movie 300 came on Television yesterday. I had company that came to my house for a Sunday Cookout. Everyone brought something. Melons, Vegetables Juices, Soda and Beer etc.. One of my friends wasn't completely versed on his Greek History. I was tell him because of Sparta and Greece (I brought up Marathon) I said we owe them some Gratitude because it's where Democracy was originally Born. I told him that it would be put to the Test. I told my friend that Kings and Generals had excellent Videos about this. When I got home from work at 3:00am I was eating some fruit for a snack, and Miraculously this Great Movie/Documentary was there. Thank You for this Excellent Movie/Documentary with Excellent Commentary from Excellent Greek Historians. The Actors and Actresses are Excellent both Greek and Arab. I have been sharing this all day. Thank You!
They’re Persian not Arab lol. The movie 300 is nonsensical rubbish based on a comic, not true history and even if Athens might have a claim to some form of democracy. The Spartans were anything but democratic who enslaved their neighbors.
You now have an excuse to vacation to mainland Greece!! When you go you will learn very quickly the terrain is very mountainous especially in Central Greece all the way down to the bottom of the Peloponnese. Pheidippides likely would have had a time crossing through the Taugytos MTS, but since he was such a highly trained athlete, as ALL omerodromous would have been in that time, that run through [the City State of] Lakonia to the Capital, Sparta, the 36 hr run is very impressive BUT even for him would have been very very challenging , It would have been nearly IMPOSSIBLE for horses to navigate those mountains then. Even today, cars and buses don't have an easy time either. I understand the island of Krete is very similar. I need to get there to make a comparison.
Ingenious tactic to sprint the majority of the distance and then reform up which was never done before in that fashion, not to mention against a vastly numerically superior enemy.
It's funny seeing Xerxes practicing with swords, because unlike the Greek commanders, every time the battle got too close to him he always ran away! He was just a coward, not a soldier.
As a Greek, listening to the accent they're using for the ancient greek is hilarious because it's so wrong. They're getting all the double vowels wrong. Still, a well-made documentary.
Both Athens and Sparta killed the PersIan emissaries, with Sparta displaying their usual sadism by throwing them down a well and letting them starve to death. This begaviour was most likely based in both fear and cruelty from Greek point of view. At some point, the Spartans elders began to reverse course and to amend for what they have done they sent two innocent Lakemonian slaves to Persia to be sacrificed in return. When the slaves arrived in Persia and explained the situation, a shocked Xerxes explained that in Iran they can’t sacrifice innocent men unless they were guilty of something. He consequently sent them back to Sparta loaded with gifts Ave fresh outfits. Xerxes’ son Artaxerxes forgave Themistocles the hero of the Greco-Persian wars and the subject of this video, when he ran for his life from Athens and took refuge in Persia.
@@hmldjr I have studied Latin and ancient Greek its mandatory in Greece schools. Lets just say they aint speaking any of them. But thanks for the history of language.
@@billm3210 I have seen how much ancient Greek they teach in modern Greek schools. I am not impressed. The average modern Greek cannot read any of the classics outside of picking out a word or two and they are totally ignorant on how the participles or the subjunctive and optative moods were used in 5th century Athens. And none of them are acquainted with the modern revised pronunciation.
@@hmldjr true you have to select it but why that would be any country trying to learn their ancient language(s). Plus only under Alexander did it become Koine (common form). But then their is Byzantine Greeke from Eastern Roman Empire which was spoken over 700 yrs. I not gonna say the school system is great in Greece its not. Most Greeks now dont even speak katharevousa (clean) Greek. Its Greek with Romance words and others. But that root worda are their causw in science all I had to do is simple breakdown of combined words and translation. Im saying in this video they butchered any form they tried to use even the sound (phonetic).
@@billm3210 You are correct - They should have practiced more using the revised pronunciation. My mother used Katharevousa and I was taught to speak it and read it. Today I can barely understand an average conversation at all in Hellas. I do what I accuse a lot of people do with ancient Greek - I pick out a word or two and try to get the gist of the conversation.
Absolutely love hearing ancient Greek spoken.
really?!! are they speaking ancient GR + ...modern persian? or...?
That;s just a Spaniard desperately trying to pronounce words he doesn't understand. That's nowhere near what ancient Greek of the classical period would have sounded like.
Very well done…including the animation. This documentary brings to life an ancient episode of extreme importance in a unique manner.
This is great production imo. I like the format and style and atmosphere.
I also love ancient Greece so more of these would be nice thanks
I've always been enthralled by ancient Greece and it's mythology going back to middle school. Love these kind of documentaries.
Great documentary would like to see part 2.
Amazing content. Thank you
EXCELLENT HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY👏
Unbeatable, seen nothing like it. Great acting.
Great work as always from the team at Timeline. Please continue to bring such historically important information such as you do. As I wait for your next episode and speculate as to the next subject you⁰
Nicely done. Good pacing. Well acted. Quite impressive.
Very good. ❤
What did the ancient Persians look like? I understand that it might be confusing at first look due to their lack of representation, but it will actually become pretty clear upon a second glance. For now as you read this just keep in mind that most contemporary art, even the ones depicted by modern Iranians themselves are based on ancient Persian Royal art, which itself was directly copied from the Assyrians and Babylonians who came before them - a highly symbolic, flat type of art where all faces regardless of which nation was represented, looked almost identical (for more see the last two paragraphs). Some of the modern art also conflates the current Middle-Eastern phenotype with that of the ancient peoples of Iran.
The Persians and Spartans were both Indo-Europeans (Caucasians). But according to Greek historian Herodotus (Father of History), the Medes were blonds and sandy-haired Northern Iranians. Xerxes’s father, Darius, was a Mede, his mother a Persian. That collaborates centuries later with Roman poet and historian Ovid’s analysis when he said Northern Iranians (the Parthians, Scythians, Alans, Sarmatians, etc), were no different in appearance to the Celts and the Germanic tribes. The Roman author Ammianus Marcellinus, centuries earlier had stated the same.
The few realistic art work we have of the Persians themselves done by Greek and Roman artists, depicts them as white, but dissimilar to the Greeks, and far more resembling the French, the Spaniards, and reveals them as Eastern European-like. Herodotus also noted that Xerxes was supposedly one of the most youthful in appearance and handsome men in Asia during his time, whatever that means.
The most life-like depiction of ancient Persians are the “Bishapur art”, the wall and mosaic drawings done by Roman prisoners of war where they put their well-known talents to use and aided with decorating some newly constructed Persian palaces. In those, Persian women specifically and other female courtesans are depicted as almost pale with somewhat thick, flat eyebrows, with brown and black hair, very rarely some, including men, with red hair (as also depicted by Greek artists on the so-called Alexander’s sarcophagus and Sassanian floor fresco). The “Sassanian silver plates art”, also repeat the some of the same type of depictions, but since it was done by Persian artists, again many faces look similar, and have a symbolic quality to them to a certain extent, yet still a very good starting point. Other notable art include, “The Parthian solider” bust, (Greek-based), “The Dying Persian”, and “The Parthian statue”, a remarkable ancient Roman work of art with black marble used as the body, contrasting it with beige and black marble as his clothing and cape. Lastly, of importance are the many Parthian coins still in survival. Clean shaven (or not), and inspired by realistic portrayals unique to Hellenic art, Parthian kings and Princes with their Iranian weapons of choice, the bow and the arrow, look like Scandinavian war-lords, or at the very least are very Robinhood-like (see Arsaces I).
Alexander’s northern Iranian wife who was after his death murdered by his mom or his men, was named Rukhshanaa (Roxana, Roxanne). In ancient Iranian and still today’s Persian, it means, shiny-faced, light-face. Back then, and even today in Iran, the more secluded a tribal group was/is, the “lighter-skinned” in appearance they are, something that again, is Specially true for some reason or the other with Iranian women, signaling lack of intermarriage. The indigenous peoples of the Iranian plateau, the Elamites, had beautiful olive-skin with long braided hairs, whom Persian royals went on to copy, as a form of fashion of the times, as well as borrowing their long robes with wide bejeweled sleeves. Their sophisticated culture was long established before the arrival of the Persians and other Iranian tribes.
THE BOTTOM LINE? Northern Iranians aside, focusing strictly on the Persian tribes (Southern Iranians), THEY, resembled modern Albanians, Romanians, and modern Northern Italians, as well as very strongly, the Medieval Europeans (excluding Northern Europe). When you see an image of a Medieval European, from Hungary, Spain, and above all, France and Portugal, you are most likely coming very close to seeing the face of an ancient Persian. Accordingly, see the rock carving of the Khosrow II, an artistic work and an archeological piece 1000 years before the emergence of the Medieval Europe and the concept of the heavy armored worrier (the Chevalier, or the knight). It is also noteworthy to indicate the remnants of the Northern Iranians (the Alans and the Sarmatians) are still living today on the region of Ossetia-Alania in the Northern Caucasuses. Ancient Iranian tribes hailed from Ukraine by the way, at least that’s as far as we can tell.
As the late Prof. Emeritus Richard Frye of Harvard noted, while the Iranians are not geographically Eastern Europeans, they are however, “The Europeans of the East”. Or according to encyclopedia Brittanica,
“The name Persia derives from Parsa, the name of the Indo-European nomadic people who migrated into southern Iran…in about 1000 BCE”.
It’s important to note that Persian imperial art itself in Persepolis and other places does NOT depict the Persians, or any other groups, realistically, as they all show a flat profile, with most faces looking very similar or almost identical. This was partially borrowed from the Assyrian and Babylonian empires who came before them, to portray a continuity and homogeneity of races. It was also an attempt to legitimize Persian rule, the world’s first Indo-European super power, who replaced thousands of years of semitic kingship (the Egyptians and the aforementioned civilizations). Let me repeat that one more time, ancient Persian art itself is NOT realistic, but more symbolic.
Where the “Indo” suffix of the designation, Indo-European comes from is due to the fact that while some Iranians tribes where settling in their new homeland, in modern Iran, simultaneously other Iranic tribes invaded Northern India. That is why many Indic and ancient Iranian Gods and religious beliefs display similarities. The British scholar who coined the term thought that the related-European groups passed through the Hindu Kush mountains. Although at some point the old Aryans (Iranian tribes) who invaded India were fortunately, eventually absorbed by the indigenous Brahmin population. Otherwise we wouldn’t have the nation of India, as we know it today. Something that for anyone who is a lover of cultures, arts, mathematics and good food would be unimaginable.
That’s ethnicity; linguistically Iranian languages are classified as the aforementioned Indo-European, which can in turn be termed as ancient English.
Words like, mother, father, son, daughter (dokhtar). ponder (pendaar), nice (nik,neekoo, nikki; Greek: Nike), Jasmine (yaasamin), scarlet (saghalaat, see Merriam-Webster), Melchior, art (Old Pers.: arta), mind (manaa), grab (Avestan/Eastern Persian, grab), far (related to fara, ex: faravahar; fra, par-vaaz), being (boodan), is (hast), you, tiger (tighra; Merriam-Webster), it (een), Allan (Alan, Alania; from the Northern Iranian tribes who settled in modern day Scotland), Ariana (Arya, Aria, Aryan, Eire-aan, ultimately, “Iran”). Amazon (hama-zan; see “Sarmatians” in Brittanica; also Online Etymology Dictionary; also Adrienne Mayor, The National Geographic; also “The Early Amazons, JH Block, 1995), Caucasian (search engine: etymology of Caucasus), etc, are mostly still found in Farsi.
I hope this was helpful.
The result of genetic studies: The Proto-Iranians can trace their origin to roughly modern Ukraine and Chelyabinsk, Oblast, Russia. These sites have been archeology completed and they are the so-called Sintasha and other cultures where the horse was first most likely domesticated. Before that we had the Andronova culture, with similarities to the Sintasha. On the other side, to the West of these cultures there was the Srubnaya culture that later both layered and replaced the Potapovka peoples. The Potapovka culture in turn was derived from the Poltavka culture. The genetically and culturally related “coded ware” was to the North of Srubnya and Sintasha cultures; the aforementioned “Coded Ware” culture was the first to migrate to the European continent. Although partially most of these related cultures migrated to Europe, some came back to Central Asia and Russia, some stayed in Europe. In these cultures mentioned, we see the emergence of various Iranian languages, a sub section of the larger Indo-European linguistic family that itself first bloomed in the Yamnaya culture in Southern Russia. The catacomb culture was to the South of ALL of these cultures mentioned. There were other cultures (settlements), but there no absolutely no need to go through every single one. Ultimately, the aforementioned populations were ALL related, yet with slight variations.
At any rate, below are genetic studies and scholarly works that will expand on these answers further,
“In studies from the mid-2000s, the Andronovo have been described by archaeologists as having cranial features similar to ancient and modern European populations. Andronovo skulls are similar to those of the Srubnaya culture and Sintashta culture, exhibiting features such as dolicocephaly. Through Iranian and Indo-Aryan migrations, this physical type expanded southwards and mixed with aboriginal peoples, contributing to the formation of modern populations…”- Kuzmina, 2007, p. 171.
“The Potapovka culture is thought to belong to an eastward migration of Indo-European-speakers who eventually emerged as the Indo-Iranians. David W. Anthony considers the Potapovka culture and the Sintashta culture as archaeological manifestations of the early Indo-Iranian languages.”
“In a genetic study published in Science in 2018, the remains four individuals ascribed to the Potapovka culture was analyzed. Of the two males, one carried R1a1a1b2a2a and U2e1, while the other carried R1 and C. People of the Potapovka culture were found to be closely related to people of the Corded Ware culture, the Sintashta culture, the Andronovo culture and the Srubnaya culture. These were found to harbor mixed ancestry from the Yamnaya culture and peoples of the Central European Middle Neolithic. The genetic data suggested that these related cultures were ultimately derived from a remigration of Central European peoples with steppe ancestry back into the steppe.”
“The Potapovka people were massively built Caucasoids/Europoids. Their skulls are similar to those of the Catacomb culture. Potapovka skulls are less dolichocephalic than those of the Fatyanovo-Balanovo culture, Abashevo culture, Sintashta culture, Srubnaya culture and western Andronovo culture. The physical type of the Potapovka appears to have emerged through a mixture between the purely dolichocephalic type of the Sintashta, and the less dolichocephalic type of the Yamnaya culture and Poltavka culture.”
Incredible!!!
What perfect casting. These guys are amazing.
REminds me alot of the "Romes Greatest Battles" program. Wish they made more of those.
Kings and generals
I loved it
cant wait for the next one!!!!!!
VERY WELL FILMED I LIKE IT!!!!!!!!
🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏
Thank you for sharing .
Hype machine go!
The only thing I didn't see was the 400 yard sprint the Athenians did to close the distance at the start of the battle. That initial charge shocked the Persians.
They did it until they reached 200m, then they marched in formation (phalanx formation), to surprise the Persians. Phalanxes afforded enough protection against missiles when tightly packed.
I'm going to Greece in September and will be visiting Marrathon
Not much compared to iran . Iran has the many provinces and each province has a city and each city is as if you have entered yet another country with completely different architecture, culture , language . Food , clothes , they don’t and didn’t have a common language . Pars was a national language.
@@Lovelife-lw7fy Does Iran let women read books yet? I’ll check back in a year.
Lacedonians were Doric I think, which meant they were from modern Romania.
I visited the Marrathon battle site. It's a big column in the middle of farms in the countryside. I drove there from Athens. There was a museum near the monument but it was closed the day I was there. I drove north and saw the Plataea and Thermopylae battlefields
Can't wait to see more fantastic
Spartans Enslaved a entire population. This was how they were able to concéntrate all their males into the army.
Not so different from Athens, how do u think they citizens have time to do philosophy and invent democracy?
nice to see mo salah make his acting debut
Well done thanks people.
Great production of clothing, armour styles, and background. Celebrated run of Pheidippides to Athens not shown, nor the actual battle maneuver.. Possibly, the Carthaginians, yrs later, copied these tactics for the disastrous defeat of Romans at Cannae? .
You don't necessarily require the phalanx for an effective double-envelopment...
In fact, comparatively few of the #Punic army were actually #Carthaginian citizens.
Notice that Philippides is shown wearing his garment first over one shoulder, then the other during his run to Sparta. Notice also that the pennants above the tent on the large warship show the wind blowing in one direction, while the ship's sails are being filled with wind coming from the opposite direction.
The Movie 300 came on Television yesterday. I had company that came to my house for a Sunday Cookout. Everyone brought something. Melons, Vegetables Juices, Soda and Beer etc.. One of my friends wasn't completely versed on his Greek History. I was tell him because of Sparta and Greece (I brought up Marathon) I said we owe them some Gratitude because it's where Democracy was originally Born. I told him that it would be put to the Test. I told my friend that Kings and Generals had excellent Videos about this. When I got home from work at 3:00am I was eating some fruit for a snack, and Miraculously this Great Movie/Documentary was there. Thank You for this Excellent Movie/Documentary with Excellent Commentary from Excellent Greek Historians. The Actors and Actresses are Excellent both Greek and Arab. I have been sharing this all day. Thank You!
That sounds very nice
"Arab"?
@@teresabenson3385 Haven't you heard of the Arabian Knights?
@@teresabenson3385 their language is Arabic too
They’re Persian not Arab lol. The movie 300 is nonsensical rubbish based on a comic, not true history and even if Athens might have a claim to some form of democracy. The Spartans were anything but democratic who enslaved their neighbors.
Numero Uno!
Ancient Macedonians were Greeks!!!
This is historically in accurate. The Aryans are blonde and blue eyed not Semitic. Persia was and still is Iran, not Arabia.
Do you know what the definition of Semitic is?
These are just actors not real life dummy.
I never understood why they couldn't spare a friggen horse for Pheidippides. I mean Re-ee-eee-eeeally!?!
The Problem w Horses in those times were the Terrains. They r impassable for horses. Taking the road would take longer time which they do not have.
You now have an excuse to vacation to mainland Greece!! When you go you will learn very quickly the terrain is very mountainous especially in Central Greece all the way down to the bottom of the Peloponnese. Pheidippides likely would have had a time crossing through the Taugytos MTS, but since he was such a highly trained athlete, as ALL omerodromous would have been in that time, that run through [the City State of] Lakonia to the Capital, Sparta, the 36 hr run is very impressive BUT even for him would have been very very challenging , It would have been nearly IMPOSSIBLE for horses to navigate those mountains then. Even today, cars and buses don't have an easy time either. I understand the island of Krete is very similar. I need to get there to make a comparison.
Before it's all over for me I have vowed to visit the Hellas. @@eleni1968
@@eleni1968aye and not only that, did he even know how to ride a horse.?
@@eleni1968very mountainous, Crete. Narrow coastal plain.
Ingenious tactic to sprint the majority of the distance and then reform up which was never done before in that fashion, not to mention against a vastly numerically superior enemy.
Subtitles? If I want to read I'll go to the library.
pleb
@@lifeofsomeguy8093 me and all the other Philistines will rule the world!!
Lol the thumbnail is using a greek hoplite from assassins creed odyssey
It's funny seeing Xerxes practicing with swords, because unlike the Greek commanders, every time the battle got too close to him he always ran away! He was just a coward, not a soldier.
Bring on the fire boats...
Do they speak arabic or persian?
Thanks
Running Marathon to Athens: maybe he used a horse. They had horses.
40:18 since when did the greeks use the gladius haha
So do I.
I see these leaders, and then I see our Boris Johnson... 😐
Could of been worse .. could of been Corbyn
@@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 Corbyn was 10 x the man Johnson was
@@hmldjr that terr or ist supporter .. you’re deluded.
Not as Worse as FJB! So dnt complain!
As a Greek, listening to the accent they're using for the ancient greek is hilarious because it's so wrong. They're getting all the double vowels wrong. Still, a well-made documentary.
The history channels version was better.
Lmao whyyyyyyyyy do they make these ?!?
It is a shame you are still trying to geo-block educational content. Buy rights for all or none.
At 35:49 defer, not differ.
So they killed the messenger and his interpreter ... really uncivilised. i wonder who the good guys were as it doesn't seem like there were any.
Both Athens and Sparta killed the PersIan emissaries, with Sparta displaying their usual sadism by throwing them down a well and letting them starve to death. This begaviour was most likely based in both fear and cruelty from Greek point of view.
At some point, the Spartans elders began to reverse course and to amend for what they have done they sent two innocent Lakemonian slaves to Persia to be sacrificed in return.
When the slaves arrived in Persia and explained the situation, a shocked Xerxes explained that in Iran they can’t sacrifice innocent men unless they were guilty of something. He consequently sent them back to Sparta loaded with gifts Ave fresh outfits.
Xerxes’ son Artaxerxes forgave Themistocles the hero of the Greco-Persian wars and the subject of this video, when he ran for his life from Athens and took refuge in Persia.
What language are they speaking cause its such bad Greek and nor is it ancient since I speak Greek and studied ancient.
They didn't speak modern Greek in 5th century BC Athens
@@hmldjr I have studied Latin and ancient Greek its mandatory in Greece schools. Lets just say they aint speaking any of them. But thanks for the history of language.
@@billm3210 I have seen how much ancient Greek they teach in modern Greek schools. I am not impressed. The average modern Greek cannot read any of the classics outside of picking out a word or two and they are totally ignorant on how the participles or the subjunctive and optative moods were used in 5th century Athens. And none of them are acquainted with the modern revised pronunciation.
@@hmldjr true you have to select it but why that would be any country trying to learn their ancient language(s). Plus only under Alexander did it become Koine (common form). But then their is Byzantine Greeke from Eastern Roman Empire which was spoken over 700 yrs. I not gonna say the school system is great in Greece its not. Most Greeks now dont even speak katharevousa (clean) Greek. Its Greek with Romance words and others. But that root worda are their causw in science all I had to do is simple breakdown of combined words and translation. Im saying in this video they butchered any form they tried to use even the sound (phonetic).
@@billm3210 You are correct - They should have practiced more using the revised pronunciation. My mother used Katharevousa and I was taught to speak it and read it. Today I can barely understand an average conversation at all in Hellas. I do what I accuse a lot of people do with ancient Greek - I pick out a word or two and try to get the gist of the conversation.
Glory to the Greeks!!!
Glory to Hellenes!!!
Pronunciation of greek languagein this video is deplorable, at least. Never ever greek language was spoken like this!!
so Why send a runner when you can send a horse man
Rocks?
The quickest route n terrains were not suitable for Horses!
The reenactment of Greek battle formations is a joke. Stopped watching.
This is the equivalent of historical junk food, fun to watch, but probably worse to help understand the subject than better
I've never heard of Marathon being told the same way twice, and that's probably because all the intricate details have been lost forever.
Hippias has no teeth.
testices.
Dang that was lame - lol 😀
Yes ur mama was lame.
¹1¹st !
The Ukrainians are the modern day Spartans 🇺🇦🦖✊
Rather Athenians. Free men, and women.
Very inaccurate documentary