when i was in athens i came across it by accident and thought "what a cute lil church, though a bit decreped" and moved on clueless. that’s how unassuming it is.
Fun fact: We were REAL close to loosing the big building. The Building was known to have structural problems, and even an entire metro line was redirected to not drill underneath it. But even then, the Cathedral was damaged in the 1999 Athens earthquake and at some point in the 2000s there was a real fear of collapse. But it was gradually reinforced and earthquake-proofed. Works completed in 2016. During the restoration, the Church of Greece didn't have an official seat. 2 Archbishops refused to move their seat from this Church, to another.
Spolia alert: Blue actually constructed Little Mitropoli last year after he had the dome idea to build one dome in every country each few years of his life.
I already wanted to go to Greece to do a tour of as many Pagan sites as I humanly (and financially) can, but Blue here just ups my wanderlust by a factor of 100 with his infectious passion for its history.
Born and raised Athenian here. I didn't know about the Little Mitropoli and the ancient stones it has. I guess being so invested in the ancient past makes one turn a blind eye to such masterpieces like the Little Mitropoli. Thank you!
I love that the whole period between Michael Choniates and Ottoman Era Maybe is just Crusaders. But I also want to include that that period should be “whatever the heck the crusaders were doing.” Because my Crusades class has reinforced my idea that I don’t think the crusaders knew what they were doing half the time.
@ yeah, I mean the whole 4th Crusade failed because the crusaders decided they wanted to play Kingmaker and stayed because they were mad that the Byzantines couldn’t pay their full debt.
@@anezay4987 The first three had some competent people involved, it's just that most of the later ones were entirely made up of idiots. Except that time Frederick II decided to take the piss after he'd already been excommunicated and just negotiated for control of the bits the crusades were allegedly supposed to be about instead of actually, you know, CRUSADING about it. He absolutely knew what he was doing. :p
The church is actually an Eldritch being that subsists by consuming structures around it. That's why they built the big church right there, so it has food and stays passive.
I wonder if we now have an explanation for why Blue missed a taping of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast (he was in Athens filming on location) and Magenta joined instead. Great episode, I love talking about the architecture and what it says about the culture and how the culture views its history.
Just yesterday finished the first research paper of my PhD program, and part of it necessitated learning about the dam at Marathon. The absolute drama of this dam, I swear. If you haven't looked into it, you definitely should.
"Dams as Symbols of Modernization: The Urbanization of Nature Between Geographical Imagination and Materiality," by Maria Kaika, just go read that. It's like 20 pages, it's free. They built a replica of the Athenian Treasury in the spillway!
I love being Greek precisely because of shit like this, i'm out for a stroll in August and go under some shadow to catch my breath only to find that it is in fact a millennia old church casting it. Now this is epic.
The video title almost feels like boss subtitles. In any case, fascinating look at a pair of cathedrals I genuinely hadn't heard of until now. Thank you for this.
9:50 it is mindblowing to see a person I look up to like a professor / fave teacher standing in a place I've been. Part of my student exchange trip to Germany was a week in Italy, where we visited a number of historic sites and I got to see with my own eyes buildings older than my brain easily comprehends. 20 years later, and yet it all looks the same. Thanks for that extra clip, Blue. Made my night
I go by these churches like every other day and never once have I noticed these details, only that they look pretty. Thank you for another excellent analysis Blue!!
Dang. That's awesome. I remember walking past this after admiring the Aeropagus and all the stray cats and being awestruck by it but had no idea what it was. It's nice to see it finally brought to light.
I saw the Little Mitropoli while walking around Athens when I visited in 2019, and it struck me by how small and charming it was. It was just out of place enough, the smallest building in sight but unmistakably important, and I've always wondered what it's deal was... Good to know *everyone* is wondering that! XD Thanks for shedding a little light on it, making me appreciate 'the cute little church' me and my mom walked by
I remember I went to Athens a few years ago, we left early in the morning to go to Delphi, but I went out early to get coffee for me and my friends and I walked past the tiny one. I remember wanting to stop by and take a look cuz I've never seen a church that small before, but it was locked and I was going to be late and miss my bus
This is why history is important: not as stagnant information but as steps down the course of time, windows into the lives of those who came before, their effects on those who followed, and advice on how to lay out the road ahead for ourselves and those who follow us. The mitropolis are testimonies to which aspects of history the Athenians embraced even as they confirmed a different path forward. Beautiful.
OMG😮! I grow up going to church on Sunday in Panagia Kapnikaréa and my family took our Sunday coffee and sweets in the café opposite to the little Metropoli!!! Thanks for giving some love to those magnificent pieces of history culture and faith. ❤
5:00 There are a lot of mosques in little towns in Turkey built out of spoila from ancient sites. Hell, the Isa Bey Mosque in Selçuk was built using the marble from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
I'm pretty sure I've learned more history and architecture from your videos than I did in my university art history classes. And your videos are a lot more fun and in-depth. So thank you for all your work and your enthusiasm for domes 🤣
Ηi! I am a graphic designer that worked with an Architect/ Historian that plans to publish a book regarding that temple! We have photographed all the angles, spolia and the inner part of the temple! The fun fact is that on the main door, or above it, there is an ancient Greek calendar that during the Byzantine Empire flipped and its wrong haha! Lovely video!!! The temple is an absolute ode to all the different eras. A proper Frankenstein creation haha
Would you ever do an episode on displaying human remains? I learned about it in a grad school archaeology class, and it’s fascinating since there’s so much controversy around it- when is it grave robbing and when is it archaeology? Should peoples’ ancestors be in museums? It’s a bit more of a different topic than you’d normally do, but perhaps it’d be interesting!
I say it’s stupid. We’ve been doing it as memento mori for millennia. By their logic, the entire Paris catacombs should be closed off and sealed in cement and all those ossuaries should be destroyed. It would destroy the whole point of entire museums, like the Mutter Museum and make them suck. The National Museum of Health and Medicine used to be an amazing monument to medicine. Once they got rid of all the bodies and body parts, it’s now so boring and nobody wants to go there. Whole generations of healthcare workers and scientists were inspired before. The purpose of museums is to teach and inspire learning and that mission is ill-served by a social justice moral superiority bent. You don’t like it? Don’t go.
Another great temple build during a time of transition would be the Aphaia temple on Aegina, ca. 20 miles out from Athens it was build around the time of the persian invasion and distinctly highlights the change in architecture and sculpture from the archaic to the classic era, as it displays both.
I do really like this way of looking at architecture and history, because it helps add a ton of context and why something was built a certain way. I have a suspicion that the bell-towers were built the way they were on the big Mitropoli because that was the standard for many European cathedrals and Athens was trying to emphasize how European they are as it feels like something you’d see in gothic architecture, but it screwed up the proportions of the building and hid the dome as Greek orthodox architecture tended to not have such prominent bell towers. It’s trying to say “we are connected to the glories of Ancient Greece and the Byzantine empire and we are fully a part of the rest of Europe, kin to France, Italy, Germany, etc.” I love this sort of video.
In the Mitropoleos Square in front of the Cathedral stand two statues. The first is that of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Emperor of the Byzantine Empire. The second is a statue of Archbishop Damaskinos who was Archbishop of Athens during World War II and was Regent for King George II and Prime Minister of Greece in 1946.
I saw both of these on my trip to Greece but I didn't have nearly this much context for them. Makes me want to go back to Athens at some point because you just reminded me that it's one of those places where you're tripping on historical stuff constantly to the point it's actually really difficult to digest it all.
not a masterpiece in the current sense of the work, but considering how much of the Athenian imagery they manage to cram into each church, this fits absolutely with the classic definition of a Master Piece: It's the whole portfolio condensed into a single work
2:27 was that the appearance of Azul!? We get to see Blue's face and an Azul appearance? I swear if we see any time machines we're having an Across the Blue-verse event!
I actually visited those recently, so learning about their history was pretty cool! (I also did a point at the screen thing like “WAIT I KNOW THAT PLACE”)
What a wonderful video, showing how we can glean a wider story of past people through the things they create and leave for us in the future. Your comment about owing memory - that got to me more than I thought it would. ~~Just Greek Diaspora Things~~ I suppose. I will definitely have to go there the next time I’m in Athens, so thanks Blue in advance! Also, hope your trip to Greece went well and the citizenship stuff didn’t get mired in bureaucratic nonsense.
Could you do a video on "The One Before" Trope? It's a trope where a character (usually an antagonist) is connected to another character by being some sort of predecessor; such as a parent or parental figure, an older sibling, or former student of the same teacher. They often oppose the character their connected with in some way, and often had something happen to them in the past, such as turning evil, dying, or leaving for another reason such as a disagreement. Examples include Tai Lung from Kung Fu Panda, Morro from Lego Ninjago, and Dabi from My Hero Academia.
Not even bringing up using the Annunciation as the centerpiece over the doors, very traditional, but also drawing a direct connexion between that tradition and Greek Independence, claiming the tradition into their modern era.
The church of St. Donatus in Zadar, Croatia is also built on spoils of a Roman pagan Temple that was dedicated to godess Juno. One can clearly see how the foundation of the church is made out of chopped roman Columns. Worth checking out! 😊
@@OverlySarcasticProductions oof, bad timing. as an athenian i have went a few times, it has a decently sized collection of religious artifacts and relics. highly reccomend it if you ever go again (given your love for athens, i expect a return lol)
Workers used marble from 72 demolished Orthodox Churches to build the Cathedral’s immense walls. On May 21, 1862, the completed Cathedral was dedicated to the Annunciation of the Mother of God (Ευαγγελισμός της Θεοτόκου) by the King and Queen. Inside are the tombs of two Saints killed by the Ottoman Turks: Saint Philothei and Patriarch Gregory V.
Its not quite the same as deliberately choosing parts of History to emphasize, but the Cathedral in Trier, Germany, has a broadly similar thing going on by simply being so darn old. In the middle of the building is the core of the original-built Roman church from the 4th Century, with a with a romanesque section slapped on the front in the early medieval era, a baroque part on the other end from the 17th century, and a gothic Chapel slapped on the side in-between
1:20 I was sure the little metrópoli was just the size of treehouse. Maybe 10ft height. Odd angle really confused me. For those interested, it’s 25x40ft base (7.6x12.2m) but I couldn’t find the height but it looks to be in between 25 and 40 ft
Hello, big fan here. I really aprecciate the spotlight of Panagia Gorgoepikoos, as a compelling piece of architecture, although I have to point out that the use of clearly pagan spolia isn't an one time thing in Byzantine churches. While Little Mitropolis is clearly more refined, you can find examples everywhere in Greece especially in rural places where its hard to find many resources, like the mani peninsula. Unfortunately though, its quite common for those spolia, to be victims of smuggling in recent years.
Something about the angles of the photos of the Little Mitropoli makes it look child-sized. Even though I can see a very adult man standing next to it
Looks like Fisher-Price's My First Bishop set
when i was in athens i came across it by accident and thought "what a cute lil church, though a bit decreped" and moved on clueless. that’s how unassuming it is.
I know, right! More than once I found myself asking "What, can they only fit like 4 people in there?!" XD
@@larsdewit6521 my favourite set alongside the Pyramid one!
No offense, but something about it makes it look like a shed. Maybe the mismatched construction, maybe the looming buildings in the backgrounds.
the mitropoli is the power house of the cell
No no, that's domes. Domes are the power house of the Cell
@@Bluerockpie Those are only the power house of Blue cells.
@@Bluerockpiethey are the most essential part of the cell
😂😂😂😂😂
It is known ^^
Fun fact: We were REAL close to loosing the big building. The Building was known to have structural problems, and even an entire metro line was redirected to not drill underneath it. But even then, the Cathedral was damaged in the 1999 Athens earthquake and at some point in the 2000s there was a real fear of collapse. But it was gradually reinforced and earthquake-proofed. Works completed in 2016. During the restoration, the Church of Greece didn't have an official seat. 2 Archbishops refused to move their seat from this Church, to another.
Also the bell towers used to be more elegant but they were changed during the restoration in order to stabilise them
Spolia alert: Blue actually constructed Little Mitropoli last year after he had the dome idea to build one dome in every country each few years of his life.
Dome appreciation, taking almost half the video to get on point, and the looming menace of the Athenian Ego (TM)? truly the Bluest of Blue's videos
Deep blue
Nature is healing
A deep, royal blue
it is very blue but to be the bluest blue blossible it would need to have venice. it could still be bluer.
9:54 genuinely impressive how I don’t think I’ve ever seen either red or blue dressed outside of their colors on the channel. Love the dedication
First time I've seen either, but blue looks exactly how I expected (I hope he takes that as a compliment!)
@@allibababoo He really does look like a "Nerdier Nathan Drake" (complimentary) or a "Cooler Daniel Jackson" :D
I already wanted to go to Greece to do a tour of as many Pagan sites as I humanly (and financially) can, but Blue here just ups my wanderlust by a factor of 100 with his infectious passion for its history.
Last time I was this early, they still haven't figured out how to stack stones in a pyramid-y shape.
Born and raised Athenian here. I didn't know about the Little Mitropoli and the ancient stones it has. I guess being so invested in the ancient past makes one turn a blind eye to such masterpieces like the Little Mitropoli. Thank you!
I love that the whole period between Michael Choniates and Ottoman Era Maybe is just Crusaders. But I also want to include that that period should be “whatever the heck the crusaders were doing.” Because my Crusades class has reinforced my idea that I don’t think the crusaders knew what they were doing half the time.
That take is extraordinarily generous to the crusaders.
@ yeah, I mean the whole 4th Crusade failed because the crusaders decided they wanted to play Kingmaker and stayed because they were mad that the Byzantines couldn’t pay their full debt.
It's just a case of Oooops, All Crusaders!
@@anezay4987 The first three had some competent people involved, it's just that most of the later ones were entirely made up of idiots. Except that time Frederick II decided to take the piss after he'd already been excommunicated and just negotiated for control of the bits the crusades were allegedly supposed to be about instead of actually, you know, CRUSADING about it. He absolutely knew what he was doing. :p
As a Greek Orthodox here in America thank you doing this and bringing our church’s history to light. Χριστός Ανεστι ☦️
Happy Nativity Fast. αληθώς ανέστη ☦️
0:00 "What does a Culture owe to it's past?" Domes! Lots and Lots of Domes!
i see you called the end XD
Domesgiving. Sponsored by Doug Dimidome, owner of the Dimsdale Dimidome.
The church is actually an Eldritch being that subsists by consuming structures around it.
That's why they built the big church right there, so it has food and stays passive.
It's actually there to help socialize it with other buildings to dampen its aggression.
This is canon now.
And that's enough RUclips for today...
I wonder if we now have an explanation for why Blue missed a taping of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast (he was in Athens filming on location) and Magenta joined instead. Great episode, I love talking about the architecture and what it says about the culture and how the culture views its history.
As an Athenian this makes me quite proud. Thank you.
also fleshy Blue looks like a Doctor Who character & i find that so on point, i can't help but celebrate the fact
Fleshy blue, oh my god 💀
Blue giving us a presentation of his vacation slides, and we're all here for it.
Ooh a Blue Friday
It’s a Blue Day
Blue Monday would be new wave-er
Just yesterday finished the first research paper of my PhD program, and part of it necessitated learning about the dam at Marathon. The absolute drama of this dam, I swear. If you haven't looked into it, you definitely should.
"Dams as Symbols of Modernization: The Urbanization of Nature Between Geographical Imagination and Materiality," by Maria Kaika, just go read that. It's like 20 pages, it's free. They built a replica of the Athenian Treasury in the spillway!
To throw in an extra incentive.
It is the only dam in the world (that I know of) that's covered in marble.
Also great place for a summer outing 😅
I love being Greek precisely because of shit like this, i'm out for a stroll in August and go under some shadow to catch my breath only to find that it is in fact a millennia old church casting it. Now this is epic.
You gotta retake Constantinople
Sometimes it feels like these videos were made specifically to cater to my interest istg, I love this sm
I love how you always capture the essential Greekness of us in your videos about Athens.
The video title almost feels like boss subtitles.
In any case, fascinating look at a pair of cathedrals I genuinely hadn't heard of until now. Thank you for this.
9:50 it is mindblowing to see a person I look up to like a professor / fave teacher standing in a place I've been. Part of my student exchange trip to Germany was a week in Italy, where we visited a number of historic sites and I got to see with my own eyes buildings older than my brain easily comprehends.
20 years later, and yet it all looks the same.
Thanks for that extra clip, Blue. Made my night
He just said that's the little Mitropoli in Athens, not Italy?
Well... athens is in greece but ok
I go by these churches like every other day and never once have I noticed these details, only that they look pretty. Thank you for another excellent analysis Blue!!
1:19 IRL Blue jump scare
Dang. That's awesome. I remember walking past this after admiring the Aeropagus and all the stray cats and being awestruck by it but had no idea what it was.
It's nice to see it finally brought to light.
Always lovely to see videos that touch on Byzantine and Modern Greek history.
I saw the Little Mitropoli while walking around Athens when I visited in 2019, and it struck me by how small and charming it was. It was just out of place enough, the smallest building in sight but unmistakably important, and I've always wondered what it's deal was...
Good to know *everyone* is wondering that! XD Thanks for shedding a little light on it, making me appreciate 'the cute little church' me and my mom walked by
I remember I went to Athens a few years ago, we left early in the morning to go to Delphi, but I went out early to get coffee for me and my friends and I walked past the tiny one. I remember wanting to stop by and take a look cuz I've never seen a church that small before, but it was locked and I was going to be late and miss my bus
Thank you for making lesser known periods of the history of Athens known to the world.
This is why history is important: not as stagnant information but as steps down the course of time, windows into the lives of those who came before, their effects on those who followed, and advice on how to lay out the road ahead for ourselves and those who follow us. The mitropolis are testimonies to which aspects of history the Athenians embraced even as they confirmed a different path forward. Beautiful.
9:37 Now I'm jealous 😂
*Me who lives in Athens*
The Little Mitropoli looks so charming. What a cute little church. If I ever get to visit Athens, I'm going there.
Gotta love this video coming out right when I'm craming for my test on Athenian history. OSP, coming in clutch since HS and still into college
I saw these on my week trip to Athens. They're really beautiful.
OMG😮! I grow up going to church on Sunday in Panagia Kapnikaréa and my family took our Sunday coffee and sweets in the café opposite to the little Metropoli!!! Thanks for giving some love to those magnificent pieces of history culture and faith. ❤
5:00 There are a lot of mosques in little towns in Turkey built out of spoila from ancient sites. Hell, the Isa Bey Mosque in Selçuk was built using the marble from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
I'm pretty sure I've learned more history and architecture from your videos than I did in my university art history classes. And your videos are a lot more fun and in-depth. So thank you for all your work and your enthusiasm for domes 🤣
Ηi! I am a graphic designer that worked with an Architect/ Historian that plans to publish a book regarding that temple! We have photographed all the angles, spolia and the inner part of the temple! The fun fact is that on the main door, or above it, there is an ancient Greek calendar that during the Byzantine Empire flipped and its wrong haha! Lovely video!!! The temple is an absolute ode to all the different eras. A proper Frankenstein creation haha
Would you ever do an episode on displaying human remains? I learned about it in a grad school archaeology class, and it’s fascinating since there’s so much controversy around it- when is it grave robbing and when is it archaeology? Should peoples’ ancestors be in museums? It’s a bit more of a different topic than you’d normally do, but perhaps it’d be interesting!
I say it’s stupid. We’ve been doing it as memento mori for millennia. By their logic, the entire Paris catacombs should be closed off and sealed in cement and all those ossuaries should be destroyed. It would destroy the whole point of entire museums, like the Mutter Museum and make them suck. The National Museum of Health and Medicine used to be an amazing monument to medicine. Once they got rid of all the bodies and body parts, it’s now so boring and nobody wants to go there. Whole generations of healthcare workers and scientists were inspired before. The purpose of museums is to teach and inspire learning and that mission is ill-served by a social justice moral superiority bent. You don’t like it? Don’t go.
This video dropped right while I was looking for something to watch while crocheting tiny chickens for Christmas presents so hell yeah OSP
Love your local niche history Blue, you cover new intersting topics and architecture that arint the same battles over and over again
Another great temple build during a time of transition would be the Aphaia temple on Aegina, ca. 20 miles out from Athens it was build around the time of the persian invasion and distinctly highlights the change in architecture and sculpture from the archaic to the classic era, as it displays both.
I do really like this way of looking at architecture and history, because it helps add a ton of context and why something was built a certain way. I have a suspicion that the bell-towers were built the way they were on the big Mitropoli because that was the standard for many European cathedrals and Athens was trying to emphasize how European they are as it feels like something you’d see in gothic architecture, but it screwed up the proportions of the building and hid the dome as Greek orthodox architecture tended to not have such prominent bell towers. It’s trying to say “we are connected to the glories of Ancient Greece and the Byzantine empire and we are fully a part of the rest of Europe, kin to France, Italy, Germany, etc.” I love this sort of video.
In the Mitropoleos Square in front of the Cathedral stand two statues. The first is that of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Emperor of the Byzantine Empire. The second is a statue of Archbishop Damaskinos who was Archbishop of Athens during World War II and was Regent for King George II and Prime Minister of Greece in 1946.
What im hearing is the Little Metropoli is perfect for a wedding. Old, new, borrowed, and blue ( 5:18 )
Thanks for the modern athens video, definetely need more of these.
What does a culture owe to its past?- An appreciation for the follies of pursuing 'glory'
I saw both of these on my trip to Greece but I didn't have nearly this much context for them. Makes me want to go back to Athens at some point because you just reminded me that it's one of those places where you're tripping on historical stuff constantly to the point it's actually really difficult to digest it all.
Glad to see this Blue. My wife and I will be traveling there this summer and we can put this on the list of things to see that aren’t the acropolis 👍🏻
"Babe, wake up -- Blue just uploaded an architecture video!"
I love how I was there literally a couple of days ago and I have more context for such a cool pair of buildings now!!!
"Don’t worry, it's not heresy, we just like the art!" Love it 😂
Red: Blue, as a Christmas present you get to make a video on a topic of your choosing.
Blue: Athenian DOMES!
Red: I should have seen that coming.
Να στε καλα
I’ve stumbled upon it last year, knew nothing about it back then but it looked super cool. Now I know why
Great video man!
not a masterpiece in the current sense of the work, but considering how much of the Athenian imagery they manage to cram into each church, this fits absolutely with the classic definition of a Master Piece:
It's the whole portfolio condensed into a single work
My inner Catholic school girl awoke as soon as I saw the title. I love historical cathedrals.
Please do Notre Dame next!
First time I’ve seen your face! I’m somehow shocked you’re not actually a blue-outlined cartoon character.
I wonder what a modern link to culture would look like? Perhaps a glass dome showcasing the various transitions that have occurred?
Whoa, didn't expect the sudden appearance of irl Blue at the end there!
2:27 was that the appearance of Azul!? We get to see Blue's face and an Azul appearance? I swear if we see any time machines we're having an Across the Blue-verse event!
You went to Athens?I’m so jealous. This was great video. Keep up amazing work.
Adding this to the travel plan, can’t wait to see it!
Blue,
you look like the dictionary picture of a "Scholar".
If i must clarify, this is a compliment - it's awesome.
I actually visited those recently, so learning about their history was pretty cool! (I also did a point at the screen thing like “WAIT I KNOW THAT PLACE”)
What a wonderful video, showing how we can glean a wider story of past people through the things they create and leave for us in the future. Your comment about owing memory - that got to me more than I thought it would. ~~Just Greek Diaspora Things~~ I suppose.
I will definitely have to go there the next time I’m in Athens, so thanks Blue in advance! Also, hope your trip to Greece went well and the citizenship stuff didn’t get mired in bureaucratic nonsense.
awesome video as always ❤
There's a very dramatic shift in art style at the end of the video that I was not expecting.
Blue being mind controlled by Athena is a great gag, can't wait to see it happen more often.
Thank you for the video.
Could you do a video on "The One Before" Trope? It's a trope where a character (usually an antagonist) is connected to another character by being some sort of predecessor; such as a parent or parental figure, an older sibling, or former student of the same teacher. They often oppose the character their connected with in some way, and often had something happen to them in the past, such as turning evil, dying, or leaving for another reason such as a disagreement. Examples include Tai Lung from Kung Fu Panda, Morro from Lego Ninjago, and Dabi from My Hero Academia.
4:53 "i'm not furry! i just like the art!"
Not even bringing up using the Annunciation as the centerpiece over the doors, very traditional, but also drawing a direct connexion between that tradition and Greek Independence, claiming the tradition into their modern era.
love the outro XD
I was inside there this past spring with my wife. Nice to see it covered on the channel
Never been this early, this is very cool
Ah, Blue and his dome addiction. I'd call for an intervention, but it's too amusing. 😁
Maybe he needs an Arch nemesis, emphasis on the Arches!😉
The church of St. Donatus in Zadar, Croatia is also built on spoils of a Roman pagan Temple that was dedicated to godess Juno. One can clearly see how the foundation of the church is made out of chopped roman Columns. Worth checking out! 😊
Great vid as always! You went to the museum beneath the big Metropoli right?
I would have loved to but there was actively a Fancy Funeral for a city judge the day I was there, so no dice.
-B
@@OverlySarcasticProductions oof, bad timing. as an athenian i have went a few times, it has a decently sized collection of religious artifacts and relics. highly reccomend it if you ever go again (given your love for athens, i expect a return lol)
Blue, you're making me miss Athens 😭 Very cool to see a place I've visited featured, though.
Blue is the sort of anthropologist who sees an Athenian Double-D Dome, and swipes left.
Oh hey! I just saw this thing in September! Had no clue the significance, just followed the "tourist attraction" marker on Google XD
It would be great if you did some vlogs of your research trips for audience immersion. If you want to though :)
The little Mitropoli is really fekkin cute
Workers used marble from 72 demolished Orthodox Churches to build the Cathedral’s immense walls. On May 21, 1862, the completed Cathedral was dedicated to the Annunciation of the Mother of God (Ευαγγελισμός της Θεοτόκου) by the King and Queen. Inside are the tombs of two Saints killed by the Ottoman Turks: Saint Philothei and Patriarch Gregory V.
Its not quite the same as deliberately choosing parts of History to emphasize, but the Cathedral in Trier, Germany, has a broadly similar thing going on by simply being so darn old.
In the middle of the building is the core of the original-built Roman church from the 4th Century, with a with a romanesque section slapped on the front in the early medieval era, a baroque part on the other end from the 17th century, and a gothic Chapel slapped on the side in-between
How did I manage to live in Athens for many years and never once see this cute masterpiece?
"... while appreciating some good domes..." could be the tag line for Blue's half of this channel.
That was truly a great one ☝🏾.
Another great video 👏
This style of dome is called the Attick dome. Because it was used mainly I Attica. And the little metropolis is also the church of saint Eletherios.
Age of mythology music in background
It always makes me wanna play
Nice. Didn’t expect Real Blue to show up😂
I went to Athens last month and I saw those two churches. Because of this video I deeply regret not going inside any of them 😭
5:49 the stone choices remind me of early life minecraft. The inscriptions being carved sandstone lol
Yessssss finally someone old and nerdy like me lol
@KalGiaquinta im not that old lol. I am pretty nerdy :3
1:20 I was sure the little metrópoli was just the size of treehouse. Maybe 10ft height. Odd angle really confused me.
For those interested, it’s 25x40ft base (7.6x12.2m) but I couldn’t find the height but it looks to be in between 25 and 40 ft
Hello, big fan here. I really aprecciate the spotlight of Panagia Gorgoepikoos, as a compelling piece of architecture, although I have to point out that the use of clearly pagan spolia isn't an one time thing in Byzantine churches. While Little Mitropolis is clearly more refined, you can find examples everywhere in Greece especially in rural places where its hard to find many resources, like the mani peninsula. Unfortunately though, its quite common for those spolia, to be victims of smuggling in recent years.