Diogenes Laërtius once stated: "One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist"
This an insult to Alcibiades. Littlefinger never served in the field or had enough real influence to scheme out in the open. He's just a treacherous survivor who tries to play his own game and thinks he's more clever than he ever shows. Alcibiades time and time again was able to demonstrate incredible talent and that's why every time he changed sides he was considered invaluable, because he knew how to make himself useful in a variety of ways. Littlefinger could not dream of being this competant.
A very instructive and unbiased biography of Alciabiades! Aristophanes characterized the relationship between him and the Athenians with the gorgeous phrase "Loves,hates,wants to have him!"
Outstanding presentation! "Tides of War", by Stephen Pressfield is a very good, albeit fictional, account of his life. Even the actor George C. Scott, in "Patton", mentioned him as "someone who always went for the throat".
A remake of one of your older videos, and a great subject 😁 I love how your choice of biographies, though it's for my taste too much focused on 20th century history. I would love to see you do a video on one of the crazier Chinese or Roman emperors. Or perhaps an extended video on the Taiping rebellion and the crises of the late Qing. Anyway, good luck with your future projects 🖖🏼
You have a good memory! I agree that my content is (too) focused on the 20th century. There is a very simple reason for that: I relied on footage available in the public domain to tell my stories. Because I felt it was limiting me, and because the growth on RUclips and Patreon has allowed me to invest more time and considerably more money into my channel, I have devoted the past few months to learning After Effects. This video is still somewhat of a trial video. I am currently rendering a video on General Sulla's civil wars in the Roman Republic (88-81 BC). Once it is uploaded as unlisted I will link it for you here. If you want, you can tell me what you think of it before it will be published to my subscribers (+- 2 weeks from now). I am fascinated with pre-1900 Chinese, Japanese and Russian history. Getting a grasp on proper map animations ensures that I can dedicate many of my future videos to those eras, as I do not have to rely on public domain footage anymore. I can create it myself.
@@HoH Thanks for the offer, I'd gladly watch it :-) I got very lucky, because Sulla is one of the most interesting Romans if you ask me. Do you think that after Marius managed to push him out of his designated position as leading general for the Pontic war, that Sulla was in danger for his life? I didn't understand whether he marched on Rome because he would not accept this insult by his ungrateful ex-mentor, or also because he thought that Marius would send assassins if he remained in power. Interesting area, the Far East :-) This video got me really curious, it's about Japanese activity in the short period between unification and political isolation: ruclips.net/video/T-9rSKIh9ig/видео.html
@@Crafty_Spirit Here is the video, just finished uploading: ruclips.net/video/BrSxuHKBJPo/видео.html About Sulla's march on Rome: it would require a lot of speculation from my part. It is probable that he would be assassinated, but let us not forget the significance of honour and prestige in the Roman Republic. I will watch the Jabzy video tomorrow! This video is a considerable deviation from the content I have created so far (in terms of quality, era and use of graphics). Hopefully I will be able to keep up and improve this new standard. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
@@HoH Hi again, Oskar it is I think? So I watched your video on Sulla and as you asked, here are my thoughts on it. I think the video is solid but honestly I think it would be much better if it wasn't (as I perceived it) so hasty. It is in a weird place where a viewer who knows little about the topic may be left confused while someone who knows the essentials misses the juicy details that make it all such a great tale. And I think the significance of some events were not emphasised enough. Here are some aspects a clueless viewer may have missed: -What does a consul actually do? (didn't know that he would lead the army) -What are proscriptions? (essentially that you could be attacked by anyone without repercussions) Juicy details I missed: -That Sulla managed to capture Jugurtha, yet Marius claimed the victory for it. You should mention how driving of a force prestige and arrogance were in Rome. -The massacre in Rome Marius was responsible for when he attacked with his "thug army" from Africa -That Sertorius antagonised these actions -That Marcus Licinicus Crassus became rich due to the proscriptions -That Sulla personally disliked Caesar I wished for more emphasis on this: -That Sulla represents the failing of the system, even though he tried to fix it, he showed to everyone how frail it was or had become -That Mithridates VI. was one of the last real military threats for the Republic. Rome's exceeding militarism granted her victories against anyone in that time, but it also enabled all the countless "civil wars" (more wars between ambitious general-politicans) that defined much of its later history -The irony that despite Sulla's conservative political leaning he caused a turmoil that would eventually lead to a Populari, Caesar, to rise Some technical remarks: -the sound effects may be tuned roughly 20% louder -Music would be great, especially to introduce a chapter or transition between them -The logos for people who die should shrink or vanish dramatically, not swell first -That symbol for the letter sent to Mithridates looks cheap, unfitting So I think it wouldn't hurt if videos like these are 5 minutes longer yet contain more details, a slower pace and short breaks in speech. This would imho help to better convey the importance of the events... Hope that helps you, kind regards from Switzerland
Thank you for the in-depth reply. It is much appreciated and allows me to reflect on my work from a different perspective (believe it or not, actual in-depth feedback is relatively rare on here). About the video being hasty and details missing: personally I am not too familiar with Roman history. I have taken multiple classes in university on it but it has not been a topic I have covered on my channel so far. Writing about this leaves me in the awkward position of not being able to put several things into context (yet). The only way to improve on that is to keep reading and creating videos on it. I appreciate you, as someone who is obviously more well-versed in this era, shedding light on several points. The part I agree most with is that I should and could have emphasised more how much prestige and arrogance played a role in Rome. It is something that seems so obvious, but it would not hurt to dedicate a short paragraph in my script to it. The technical remarks I am incredibly happy with, because this truly is at a stage of trial and error for me. Next month I am getting a premium subscription on a music service to be able to use cinematic music in my videos. The death animation is another point I want to work on and I am still trying to figure out what a good design is. Shrinking makes much more sense than increasing its size. And hopefully I will be able to find a scroll icon available in the public domain that is not as cheap-looking as the one I currently use. Thank you again for your time and effort to write your message out. If you ever have any type of feedback to not hesitate to share it!
@@Th3BigBoy look around you. Of all the degeneracy and lack of life, when you get a chance to meet someone truly alive, you would think of nothing else. Why would you kill somebody who is so alive and so much fun?
Very good short biografic resume of Alcibiades's life, but I have to mention that from the sources that I read, two things seem a little bit dramatised from what you have said: Firstly, he did not send in advanced word to the syracusans of the coming of the athenian armada and their plans. The campanign commenced already and they reached Sicily when he heard that he had been convicted and that he needed to return to Athens to face trial. At this point, knowing that most of his supporters embarked on the voyage with him and that he had little support at home, he decided that exile was better than death. Secondly, there is no proof that he had an affair with the spartan king's wife - that is just speculation, but there was indeed envy and distrust between them. The rest was very on point! Keep up the good work - I belive this is the 17th video of yours that I've watched this week!
This video is awesome and so much knowledge ful I get various knowledge from this not only from this your all videos are full of the glory of history and wisdom but your this video is perhaps the stunning one. . Your videos are heart touching and it is quite normal that those are win the heart of any one . So according to me your RUclips channel is best channel on you tube . I subscribed you from 6k because of your that type of great videos and admiring work so I requested you to make a video on Skanderbeg please.
Technical comment (small). The sound-effects (whoosh and ding, etc.) are loud compared to your voice and hurt in the ears when listening on a headseat/earplugs. Besides that they don't add much to the storytelling tbh. Content comment: I like this subject a lot!
Thank you for the feedback, it is very valuable and appreciated. This was the first time I used sound effects, and will try to keep improving the experience in the future!
This guy is massive pain in the neck. The most surprising thing about the story is how long it took for someone to beat him to death. Good video though.
very good video my friend. you killed the greek names but it is understandable. no worries. there is another scenario about Alkiviadis' death, that he was murdered from the Persian emperor
A brilliant general and we can only hypothesise on the outcome of the Sicilian campaign if Alcibiades had remained in command instead of the over cautious Nikias.
Very interesting video - but it would help if you checked how certain names and words are pronounced in English before you begin filming, e.g. Nicias, Thucydides, and many others.
Love your videos… but the color scheme for the Peloponnesian and Delian leagues seemed to be swapped to me. Bit of a nit picky comment, and I know I am 2 years late to the party. Don’t take it as a criticism, just a history and map nerd’s observation who has been plagued by Yellow Prussia’s and Green France’s throughout my Highschool and college career. Fantastic video nonetheless.
Great work, thank you!... However, I would rather "hear" the names as they are really pronounced in their mother tongue... E.g. that's "Alkibiadis", hearing something else is like hearing another story....
Diogenes Laërtius once stated:
"One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist"
Your use of graphics improves with each video you do. 👍
Heeey love this guy...hes like the real life Littlefinger
This an insult to Alcibiades. Littlefinger never served in the field or had enough real influence to scheme out in the open. He's just a treacherous survivor who tries to play his own game and thinks he's more clever than he ever shows. Alcibiades time and time again was able to demonstrate incredible talent and that's why every time he changed sides he was considered invaluable, because he knew how to make himself useful in a variety of ways. Littlefinger could not dream of being this competant.
A very instructive and unbiased biography of Alciabiades! Aristophanes characterized the relationship between him and the Athenians with the gorgeous phrase "Loves,hates,wants to have him!"
This guy was very nicely depicted in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. Although it doesn't show what he would do later in life. This was an excellent video.
The living embodiment of Chaotic Neutral
A wonderful story of reality surpassing fiction.
Outstanding presentation! "Tides of War", by Stephen Pressfield is a very good, albeit fictional, account of his life. Even the actor George C. Scott, in "Patton", mentioned him as "someone who always went for the throat".
A remake of one of your older videos, and a great subject 😁 I love how your choice of biographies, though it's for my taste too much focused on 20th century history. I would love to see you do a video on one of the crazier Chinese or Roman emperors. Or perhaps an extended video on the Taiping rebellion and the crises of the late Qing. Anyway, good luck with your future projects 🖖🏼
You have a good memory! I agree that my content is (too) focused on the 20th century. There is a very simple reason for that: I relied on footage available in the public domain to tell my stories. Because I felt it was limiting me, and because the growth on RUclips and Patreon has allowed me to invest more time and considerably more money into my channel, I have devoted the past few months to learning After Effects.
This video is still somewhat of a trial video. I am currently rendering a video on General Sulla's civil wars in the Roman Republic (88-81 BC). Once it is uploaded as unlisted I will link it for you here. If you want, you can tell me what you think of it before it will be published to my subscribers (+- 2 weeks from now).
I am fascinated with pre-1900 Chinese, Japanese and Russian history. Getting a grasp on proper map animations ensures that I can dedicate many of my future videos to those eras, as I do not have to rely on public domain footage anymore. I can create it myself.
@@HoH Thanks for the offer, I'd gladly watch it :-) I got very lucky, because Sulla is one of the most interesting Romans if you ask me.
Do you think that after Marius managed to push him out of his designated position as leading general for the Pontic war, that Sulla was in danger for his life? I didn't understand whether he marched on Rome because he would not accept this insult by his ungrateful ex-mentor, or also because he thought that Marius would send assassins if he remained in power.
Interesting area, the Far East :-) This video got me really curious, it's about Japanese activity in the short period between unification and political isolation: ruclips.net/video/T-9rSKIh9ig/видео.html
@@Crafty_Spirit Here is the video, just finished uploading: ruclips.net/video/BrSxuHKBJPo/видео.html
About Sulla's march on Rome: it would require a lot of speculation from my part. It is probable that he would be assassinated, but let us not forget the significance of honour and prestige in the Roman Republic.
I will watch the Jabzy video tomorrow!
This video is a considerable deviation from the content I have created so far (in terms of quality, era and use of graphics). Hopefully I will be able to keep up and improve this new standard. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
@@HoH Hi again, Oskar it is I think? So I watched your video on Sulla and as you asked, here are my thoughts on it.
I think the video is solid but honestly I think it would be much better if it wasn't (as I perceived it) so hasty. It is in a weird place where a viewer who knows little about the topic may be left confused while someone who knows the essentials misses the juicy details that make it all such a great tale. And I think the significance of some events were not emphasised enough.
Here are some aspects a clueless viewer may have missed:
-What does a consul actually do? (didn't know that he would lead the army)
-What are proscriptions? (essentially that you could be attacked by anyone without repercussions)
Juicy details I missed:
-That Sulla managed to capture Jugurtha, yet Marius claimed the victory for it. You should mention how driving of a force prestige and arrogance were in Rome.
-The massacre in Rome Marius was responsible for when he attacked with his "thug army" from Africa
-That Sertorius antagonised these actions
-That Marcus Licinicus Crassus became rich due to the proscriptions
-That Sulla personally disliked Caesar
I wished for more emphasis on this:
-That Sulla represents the failing of the system, even though he tried to fix it, he showed to everyone how frail it was or had become
-That Mithridates VI. was one of the last real military threats for the Republic. Rome's exceeding militarism granted her victories against anyone in that time, but it also enabled all the countless "civil wars" (more wars between ambitious general-politicans) that defined much of its later history
-The irony that despite Sulla's conservative political leaning he caused a turmoil that would eventually lead to a Populari, Caesar, to rise
Some technical remarks:
-the sound effects may be tuned roughly 20% louder
-Music would be great, especially to introduce a chapter or transition between them
-The logos for people who die should shrink or vanish dramatically, not swell first
-That symbol for the letter sent to Mithridates looks cheap, unfitting
So I think it wouldn't hurt if videos like these are 5 minutes longer yet contain more details, a slower pace and short breaks in speech. This would imho help to better convey the importance of the events...
Hope that helps you,
kind regards from Switzerland
Thank you for the in-depth reply. It is much appreciated and allows me to reflect on my work from a different perspective (believe it or not, actual in-depth feedback is relatively rare on here).
About the video being hasty and details missing: personally I am not too familiar with Roman history. I have taken multiple classes in university on it but it has not been a topic I have covered on my channel so far. Writing about this leaves me in the awkward position of not being able to put several things into context (yet). The only way to improve on that is to keep reading and creating videos on it. I appreciate you, as someone who is obviously more well-versed in this era, shedding light on several points.
The part I agree most with is that I should and could have emphasised more how much prestige and arrogance played a role in Rome. It is something that seems so obvious, but it would not hurt to dedicate a short paragraph in my script to it.
The technical remarks I am incredibly happy with, because this truly is at a stage of trial and error for me. Next month I am getting a premium subscription on a music service to be able to use cinematic music in my videos. The death animation is another point I want to work on and I am still trying to figure out what a good design is. Shrinking makes much more sense than increasing its size. And hopefully I will be able to find a scroll icon available in the public domain that is not as cheap-looking as the one I currently use.
Thank you again for your time and effort to write your message out. If you ever have any type of feedback to not hesitate to share it!
If it were possible to meet any person from the past, I would choose to have dinner and drinks with Alcibiades.
Boy what a riot
To kill him, right?
@@Th3BigBoy look around you. Of all the degeneracy and lack of life, when you get a chance to meet someone truly alive, you would think of nothing else. Why would you kill somebody who is so alive and so much fun?
@@Greg-yu4ij Thucydides was right about Alcibiades.
this channel is cool. new sub
Welcome aboard!
Very good short biografic resume of Alcibiades's life, but I have to mention that from the sources that I read, two things seem a little bit dramatised from what you have said:
Firstly, he did not send in advanced word to the syracusans of the coming of the athenian armada and their plans. The campanign commenced already and they reached Sicily when he heard that he had been convicted and that he needed to return to Athens to face trial. At this point, knowing that most of his supporters embarked on the voyage with him and that he had little support at home, he decided that exile was better than death.
Secondly, there is no proof that he had an affair with the spartan king's wife - that is just speculation, but there was indeed envy and distrust between them.
The rest was very on point! Keep up the good work - I belive this is the 17th video of yours that I've watched this week!
This video is awesome and so much knowledge ful I get various knowledge from this not only from this your all videos are full of the glory of history and wisdom but your this video is perhaps the stunning one. . Your videos are heart touching and it is quite normal that those are win the heart of any one . So according to me your RUclips channel is best channel on you tube . I subscribed you from 6k because of your that type of great videos and admiring work so I requested you to make a video on Skanderbeg please.
Technical comment (small). The sound-effects (whoosh and ding, etc.) are loud compared to your voice and hurt in the ears when listening on a headseat/earplugs. Besides that they don't add much to the storytelling tbh.
Content comment: I like this subject a lot!
Thank you for the feedback, it is very valuable and appreciated. This was the first time I used sound effects, and will try to keep improving the experience in the future!
Enjoyable videos, thanks
This guy is massive pain in the neck. The most surprising thing about the story is how long it took for someone to beat him to death. Good video though.
Yes there will always be those guys who seem to do the impossible over and over.
I’m confused!😂
very good video my friend. you killed the greek names but it is understandable. no worries. there is another scenario about Alkiviadis' death, that he was murdered from the Persian emperor
The pronunciation is something I really need to work on indeed
@@HoH the important is the knowledge that you provide. You are doing a great job
9/10 video
Athens should be blue on the map, Sparta red.
This is just an unspoken rule from idek XD
jk fr great video - LOVE Alcibiades :D
A brilliant general and we can only hypothesise on the outcome of the Sicilian campaign if Alcibiades had remained in command instead of the over cautious Nikias.
Yeah. Athens would have won if Nicias had been heeded.
Very interesting video - but it would help if you checked how certain names and words are pronounced in English before you begin filming, e.g. Nicias, Thucydides, and many others.
Wasnt the battle of Mantinea after the peace of Nicias
He was an hero
Love your videos… but the color scheme for the Peloponnesian and Delian leagues seemed to be swapped to me. Bit of a nit picky comment, and I know I am 2 years late to the party. Don’t take it as a criticism, just a history and map nerd’s observation who has been plagued by Yellow Prussia’s and Green France’s throughout my Highschool and college career. Fantastic video nonetheless.
Lol, I wanna write a book about this guy. He´d make a fabulous anti-hero, as you point out.
Stupid advertisement at the front end.
Ya...it's way animated and totally is not barley a sideshow..!!
(evillaugh)
its al-key-be-ah-dees
I think that Boris Johnson aspires to be like Alcibiades, relying on his charm and ability to fool people.
You have a point xD He lacks his sexiness though 🤣
he will have to rely more on his ability to fool people then lol
Great work, thank you!... However, I would rather "hear" the names as they are really pronounced in their mother tongue... E.g. that's "Alkibiadis", hearing something else is like hearing another story....
why do brits all mispronounce his name so bad ?