You're the perfect reader. Quit, gentle but firm and clear. Pace and pauses are excellant. Audiobook readers on RUclips, professoanal & volunteers have allot to learn from you!
I came back from Athens just a week ago, and your virtual tour enriched my experience so much. I paid for a guided tour, but it was too hot, poor guide was melting in front of our eyes, he was mostly just stating some facts that you can find after 2 min browsing on internet...point is you did so much better job in reveling the basic history of this magnificent place.
@@kimberlyperrotis8962 So true! I would recommend everyone to avoid June, July and especially August. I'm planing to visit Athens again, but i will go either in spring or autumn.
Wow! That was great. That was what I needed. I would have had to do a hell of a lot of research to learn all that. I always try to research places before I visit. As I am interested in mythology and religion, Greece attracts me. However, I knew that I had a lot to learn before traveling. Thank you. I still have much to learn.
I used to read a now defunct English language newspaper in Greece called Athens News. One repeated phrase, especially in the business section, was "by Greek standards" I had a chuckle when I heard it here 😄
I always think the same thing. Like what would it be like to spend a couple days in Ancient Rome, Athens, Egypt, etc. Of course we don’t know the language and such but it is imaginary so that don’t matter. One RUclipsr has videos on Roman street food and things like that. I’d also like to go to some kind of modern day rave, play, concert, opera, week long festival, etc at the acropolis, coliseum, etc.
There's a full size replica of the Parthenon in Nashville Tennessee, complete with colossal gilded Athena statue inside. It was built in 1897, and meant to be temporary and dismantled immediately after, but everyone wanted it to stay. It doubles as a museum.
@@histguy101 I want to see that someday, it’s reportedly very accurate, and the best way to “experience” the Parthenon at the height of Athenian civilization.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has an example of a painted pediment. Regarding the Elgin marbles taken from the Acropolis, all traces of paint were removed according to the artistic sensibilities of the day.
Really, they ought to make accurate copies and return the originals. Generally I don’t support “returning” museum artifacts but they are a particularly egregious case.
After the Persian Wars, when the Acropolis was rebuilt after the destruction of the temples, the Propylaea was realigned to view the island of Salamis where the naval battle against the Persians was fought in 480 BC
I would like to hear more about what people of the Middle Ages or just generally in the centuries after thought about Athenians and what they knew about them.
I've been here. It's much smaller in person, there are people who follow you and make sure you don't pick anything up but they aren't subtle, literally a random person in a foreign country standing very close to you at all times making it very hard to concentrate. This is also smack dab in the middle of a city and neighborhood, on a smallish hill. There was taxis EVERYWHERE, vying for business. I was very disappointed. The city itself is far more interesting. I was standing, waiting for a train and there was a plexy glass cut out in the sidewalk that looked down on to an ancient mosaic. Little things like that everywhere. Markets, that our taxi driver/tour guide/new friend said had been there for hundreds of years with a guy selling wooden penises of all sizes, and stalls selling everything you can think of. The food there was AMAZING. Even just street food was fantastic. Salads and bread were of particular note. Highly recommend visiting, but don't plan on the empty, large scale ruins you see in videos like this.
Some of the features are difficult to see: it would be useful to have close ups of the features you mention and the inclusion of reconstruction images.
That USA, will not be what it is, come another 50 years. YOUR massive, debt, now at 28,883,286,876,000 will become due, SOONER . The country will not be in existence, in 50 years. Not as you all know it, today. No more extensions, to that debt ceiling.......take a hint,...... U S A .................just last week, raised it ,...but,....barely.......keep on being Sodoma and Gomorahh. .....the result, will be deadly, and catasrophic,. it is IMMINENT........
Fun fact: the marble used to restore important elements of the Parthenon (and the other buildings on the Acropolis), it's the exact same marble they ancients used for constructing the original building. It is excavated from Mt. Pentelikon, from the same ancient quarry.
sad fact: anybody can buy marble from that same quarry and even though it is supposed to be in limited quantities the black market can help you with that, this has been going on for more that 30 years :-(
@@Butt_Slayer Just did a small research on this. It seems that excluding the main quarry which is still active, there were many smaller quarries on Pentelikon until the end of WW2, some of them owned by brits. After the war all these quarries closed and later they were bought by one company which after about 40 years withdrew from business. The main quarry where the Parthenon Marbles came from and still provides marble for the restoration, is very much active and a very expensive one too. Your ancestor must have owned one of the smaller ones I previously mentioned.
@@papertoyss Thanks, appreciate the research and quick response to your older post. I've got a letter of his from the quarry in 1935, the header says 'Dionysos - Pentelicon Marble Quarries', so likely one of these smaller ones you mentioned.
@@Butt_Slayer I actually found this name while researching. This is indeed the company that bought all quarries, but on my previous reply I was wrong. Some years later this company closed all quarries on Pentelikon (no information on when this took place) and kept active a quarry next to Mt Pentelikon.
@@toldinstone Appreciate your work Dr, keep it up. Would you please make a short documentary story on public latrines in Rome. I've always wondered how that knowledge and technology of running water bathrooms was lost in medieval Europe. Thanks
The Parthenon is such a magnificent structure. It's a shame all the damage it has sustained. It's truly a loss for humanity, as is with any damaged ancient treasure.
yepp. 7 lost ancient buildings by toldinstone gives another insight. better not thinking what wast lost. people can be ignorant and rather destroy everything.
depends on the stone. marble is excellent for burning to make lime. in post classical times building were often stripped of marble for just this reason.
Now I wonder whether the sculptures described (other than the destroyed ones) actually are there in the Acropolis No close ups. Were you talking about the Elgin Marbles? No direct mention about how and why part of the Parthenon ended up in the British Museum. Not bad, but less imaginative depictions of Pericles going here and there, wars and wars, but more about the building itself, would have been more to the point. Also, describing the wars with such a small map makes hard to understand the combatants movements. I guess that 5 years later things have improved.
This could have been a good "exploration" with proper attentions to the video such as sketches, animation and diagrams that correlate with what is being said. It begins "In 490 BC Athens was a substantial city..." and shows a map where "Athens" is hardly visible under army trails that are not explained at this time. Expressions like "Now you look up at...." don't match the few slides and there is none of the continuity expected of a "walking tour". I echo the comment by J A Jones-Ford below. Even a little pan-and-zoom or "Ken Burns effect" could have made the video livelier. Surely no gentleman should go past the caryatids of the Erechtheion without acknowledging these elegant ladies!
Fair enough. The basic problem is that the tour was originally written to be a true walking tour - an audio file played on a iPhone - and when I put it on RUclips I didn't bother to make an engaging video out of it. But fear not! It will be replaced in the fullness of time (i.e., when I get back to Greece) with something much better.
Why did you have to use all of these photos of the Acropolis covered with scaffolding ? There are many beautiful photos of the buildings NOT covered with scaffolding , why didn't you use some of those ? There are also some lovely recreations of what the whole Acropolis complex looked when it was originally dedicated , again, why didn't you use some of these? Listening to your commentary and looking at these very unflattering photos of the Acropolis is very disconcerting !
I took those pictures in September 2013, when most of the Parthenon happened to be shrouded in scaffolding. I have plans to make a more aesthetically appealing video as part of a larger series on the ruins of Greece.
@@toldinstone I was surprised that someone would ask for more when they just got a free lecture that they would have had to get in college or do a lot of reading.
I don't like "BCE" or "CE"; it's "BC" or "AD". In all other religions except Christendom, it's OK to say "before Mohamed did this or that" or "AM before a Jewish important date" or the same in Hindu, Buddhism etc. WHY is Christendom's date modified.
BC & AD are also a relatively recent invention. Historically, it was normal to restart the count of years with the ascension of any new monarch. The monarchical counts have been recalculated by typically western christian historians to create a continuous timeframe. Thus, BC/AD is itself a revisionist paradigm, arguably relevant only to christendom and not to other religion's regions, as your own post intimates. The alignment with BCE and CE is no more difficult to the competent mind than making a comparison between centimetres and inches.
You're the perfect reader. Quit, gentle but firm and clear. Pace and pauses are excellant. Audiobook readers on RUclips, professoanal & volunteers have allot to learn from you!
I agree
"Quiet"
@@AJZulu shhh
It's amazing, as a teenager in Nashville, TN - we would skateboard all over the 1:1 Parthenon steps and stairs. What an odd, modern situation.
I came back from Athens just a week ago, and your virtual tour enriched my experience so much.
I paid for a guided tour, but it was too hot, poor guide was melting in front of our eyes, he was mostly just stating some facts that you can find after 2 min browsing on internet...point is you did so much better job in reveling the basic history of this magnificent place.
That’s why I wouldn’t go to Greece in high summer or early autumn, it’s just too hot.
@@kimberlyperrotis8962 So true!
I would recommend everyone to avoid June, July and especially August.
I'm planing to visit Athens again, but i will go either in spring or autumn.
Excellent on all counts: content, pictorial and narrative excellence. I feel refreshed by videos such as these.
Wow! That was great. That was what I needed. I would have had to do a hell of a lot of research to learn all that. I always try to research places before I visit. As I am interested in mythology and religion, Greece attracts me. However, I knew that I had a lot to learn before traveling. Thank you.
I still have much to learn.
This was an amazing virtual tour, what a fantastic RUclips channel.
Love these longer videos, love all your work!
I used to read a now defunct English language newspaper in Greece called Athens News. One repeated phrase, especially in the business section, was "by Greek standards" I had a chuckle when I heard it here 😄
"socrates began to ask his irritating questions" loooool
I always wish I could see The Parthenon as it stood back then in all its glory. Would be an amazing sight to see
I always think the same thing. Like what would it be like to spend a couple days in Ancient Rome, Athens, Egypt, etc. Of course we don’t know the language and such but it is imaginary so that don’t matter. One RUclipsr has videos on Roman street food and things like that.
I’d also like to go to some kind of modern day rave, play, concert, opera, week long festival, etc at the acropolis, coliseum, etc.
There's a full size replica of the Parthenon in Nashville Tennessee, complete with colossal gilded Athena statue inside. It was built in 1897, and meant to be temporary and dismantled immediately after, but everyone wanted it to stay. It doubles as a museum.
@@histguy101 I’ve been planning to go there if I’m ever in Nashville. Would definitely be a sight to see, one day I’m gonna make that trip
@@histguy101 I want to see that someday, it’s reportedly very accurate, and the best way to “experience” the Parthenon at the height of Athenian civilization.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has an example of a painted pediment. Regarding the Elgin marbles taken from the Acropolis, all traces of paint were removed according to the artistic sensibilities of the day.
The most evocative painted statues that I've seen are the Archaic korai in the Acropolis Museum.
Really, they ought to make accurate copies and return the originals. Generally I don’t support “returning” museum artifacts but they are a particularly egregious case.
@@jaybee9269 The present caryatids are all copies, the originals having been moved indoors due to the high smog levels in modern day Athenai
I suspect the story of he paint having been removed from the marble reliefs (all traces!) is likely apocryphal unless you can cite a firsthand source.
After the Persian Wars, when the Acropolis was rebuilt after the destruction of the temples, the Propylaea was realigned to view the island of Salamis where the naval battle against the Persians was fought in 480 BC
I didn’t know that, thanks!🙂
I would like to hear more about what people of the Middle Ages or just generally in the centuries after thought about Athenians and what they knew about them.
I've been here. It's much smaller in person, there are people who follow you and make sure you don't pick anything up but they aren't subtle, literally a random person in a foreign country standing very close to you at all times making it very hard to concentrate. This is also smack dab in the middle of a city and neighborhood, on a smallish hill. There was taxis EVERYWHERE, vying for business. I was very disappointed. The city itself is far more interesting. I was standing, waiting for a train and there was a plexy glass cut out in the sidewalk that looked down on to an ancient mosaic. Little things like that everywhere. Markets, that our taxi driver/tour guide/new friend said had been there for hundreds of years with a guy selling wooden penises of all sizes, and stalls selling everything you can think of. The food there was AMAZING. Even just street food was fantastic. Salads and bread were of particular note. Highly recommend visiting, but don't plan on the empty, large scale ruins you see in videos like this.
Some of the features are difficult to see: it would be useful to have close ups of the features you mention and the inclusion of reconstruction images.
Really interesting
For those who havent been, I highly recommend a visit to the Acropolis and to the museum dedicated to it.
I imagine the US capital building being studied as a ruin in 2,500 years from now
Most of the US capitol is made of cast iron and not stone. Cast iron won't last too long in the elements without constant maintenance.
studied ? lol you mean as public latrine ?
With the Socialist Liberal Democrats in control of America, that will happen sooner than later.
“The architectural style clearly shows that these were Romans. How did they get all the way over here?”
That USA, will not be what it is, come another 50 years. YOUR massive, debt, now at 28,883,286,876,000 will become due, SOONER . The country will not be in existence, in 50 years. Not as you all know it, today. No more extensions, to that debt ceiling.......take a hint,...... U S A .................just last week, raised it ,...but,....barely.......keep on being Sodoma and Gomorahh. .....the result, will be deadly, and catasrophic,. it is IMMINENT........
Fun fact: the marble used to restore important elements of the Parthenon (and the other buildings on the Acropolis), it's the exact same marble they ancients used for constructing the original building. It is excavated from Mt. Pentelikon, from the same ancient quarry.
sad fact: anybody can buy marble from that same quarry and even though it is supposed to be in limited quantities the black market can help you with that, this has been going on for more that 30 years :-(
An ancestor of mine owned this quarry from 1920 - c1950, some how. Not sure how he managed to do that.
@@Butt_Slayer Just did a small research on this. It seems that excluding the main quarry which is still active, there were many smaller quarries on Pentelikon until the end of WW2, some of them owned by brits. After the war all these quarries closed and later they were bought by one company which after about 40 years withdrew from business.
The main quarry where the Parthenon Marbles came from and still provides marble for the restoration, is very much active and a very expensive one too.
Your ancestor must have owned one of the smaller ones I previously mentioned.
@@papertoyss Thanks, appreciate the research and quick response to your older post. I've got a letter of his from the quarry in 1935, the header says 'Dionysos - Pentelicon Marble Quarries', so likely one of these smaller ones you mentioned.
@@Butt_Slayer I actually found this name while researching. This is indeed the company that bought all quarries, but on my previous reply I was wrong. Some years later this company closed all quarries on Pentelikon (no information on when this took place) and kept active a quarry next to Mt Pentelikon.
They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is...
What do they say?! What do they say?!
nice one.
Glad you enjoyed it!
27:06 Dr. Garrett, where is the new Parthenon museum located?
"With no further ado" - followed by five minutes of further ado.
also how close can you get to the parthenon? i know it is under restoration but even when they aren't working on it how close can you get?
Unfortunately, a low fence surrounds the temple; you can never get close enough to touch the columns
@@toldinstone shiiiettt i wanna touch em :(
@@toldinstone
Appreciate your work Dr, keep it up. Would you please make a short documentary story on public latrines in Rome. I've always wondered how that knowledge and technology of running water bathrooms was lost in medieval Europe. Thanks
13:00 Interesting that Athena won Athens from Poseidon, and Plato associated Poseidon with Atlantis.
The Parthenon is such a magnificent structure. It's a shame all the damage it has sustained. It's truly a loss for humanity, as is with any damaged ancient treasure.
yepp. 7 lost ancient buildings by toldinstone gives another insight. better not thinking what wast lost. people can be ignorant and rather destroy everything.
The worst part was that explosion in (I think) the 17th century. Because, yes, let’s keep all our explosives in an ancient, glorious temple.
Video was published on my 18th birthday lol.
Im curious how you burn down an all stone building
who said it was entirely stone?
depends on the stone. marble is excellent for burning to make lime. in post classical times building were often stripped of marble for just this reason.
Now I wonder whether the sculptures described (other than the destroyed ones) actually are there in the Acropolis No close ups. Were you talking about the Elgin Marbles? No direct mention about how and why part of the Parthenon ended up in the British Museum.
Not bad, but less imaginative depictions of Pericles going here and there, wars and wars, but more about the building itself, would have been more to the point.
Also, describing the wars with such a small map makes hard to understand the combatants movements.
I guess that 5 years later things have improved.
Will you ever do videos about the mongols ???
👍
Europe was born on the Plain of Marathon.
You really missed a trick not calling this Acropolis Now!
that picure is not the parthenon which happens to sport 8 columns on its end, not six as your photo shows. Fake
BCE? Don't tell me you've joined the ranks of the revisionists!!
Please advise what relevance the dating of the birth of Christ has to a civilisation that fell centuries before he was supposedly born?
Not a walking tour just a history lesson
This could have been a good "exploration" with proper attentions to the video such as sketches, animation and diagrams that correlate with what is being said. It begins "In 490 BC Athens was a substantial city..." and shows a map where "Athens" is hardly visible under army trails that are not explained at this time. Expressions like "Now you look up at...." don't match the few slides and there is none of the continuity expected of a "walking tour". I echo the comment by J A Jones-Ford below. Even a little pan-and-zoom or "Ken Burns effect" could have made the video livelier. Surely no gentleman should go past the caryatids of the Erechtheion without acknowledging these elegant ladies!
Fair enough. The basic problem is that the tour was originally written to be a true walking tour - an audio file played on a iPhone - and when I put it on RUclips I didn't bother to make an engaging video out of it. But fear not! It will be replaced in the fullness of time (i.e., when I get back to Greece) with something much better.
Well I have to say that takes some gall to ask for more when you got a whole lecture for free.
As a results of your speech problem we can not understand you, too bad because you have a lot interesting things to say.
Why did you have to use all of these photos of the Acropolis covered with scaffolding ? There are many beautiful photos of the buildings NOT covered with scaffolding , why didn't you use some of those ?
There are also some lovely recreations of what the whole Acropolis complex looked when it was originally dedicated , again, why didn't you use some of these?
Listening to your commentary and looking at these very unflattering photos of the Acropolis is very disconcerting !
I took those pictures in September 2013, when most of the Parthenon happened to be shrouded in scaffolding. I have plans to make a more aesthetically appealing video as part of a larger series on the ruins of Greece.
@@toldinstone I was surprised that someone would ask for more when they just got a free lecture that they would have had to get in college or do a lot of reading.
A shame you cant pronounce greek names :-(
Yes, your Greek pronunciation could be a lot better, it’s not difficult to learn.
Blah blah blah Elgin Marbles, blah. Blah? Blah blah blah!
I don't like "BCE" or "CE"; it's "BC" or "AD". In all other religions except Christendom, it's OK to say "before Mohamed did this or that" or "AM before a Jewish important date" or the same in Hindu, Buddhism etc. WHY is Christendom's date modified.
BC & AD are also a relatively recent invention. Historically, it was normal to restart the count of years with the ascension of any new monarch. The monarchical counts have been recalculated by typically western christian historians to create a continuous timeframe. Thus, BC/AD is itself a revisionist paradigm, arguably relevant only to christendom and not to other religion's regions, as your own post intimates.
The alignment with BCE and CE is no more difficult to the competent mind than making a comparison between centimetres and inches.
Go back to Greece and take better photos of the Parthenon. 🏛