The Innumerable Legacy Of The Ancient Greek Gods | Lost Gods | Parable
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- Опубликовано: 24 май 2024
- When the Western world lay under a pool of ignorance and savagery, a new power was rising in the land - people who would raise up cities of marble and worship their many gods from the high places within them. Their philosophers questioned the heavens and the earth, their astronomers mapped the skies, and their mathematicians measured the planets. They would produce art, sculpture, drama and architecture so wondrous that the Romans would copy it. They were the Greeks.
From a time before time was first measured, humankind has pondered the question of God. As the image of that god formed in their mind, they fashioned it in wood, paint and stone and housed it in holy places. The ancient world was populated with gods beyond counting. Today, just one God dominates the world of believers. Where have the old gods gone? Our quest is to peel away the layers of time to examine the civilizations that brought the gods to power and honoured them with art and architecture and to discover the ultimate fate of the Lost Gods.
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I liked the production value of this video as much as the content. The imagery, music and voiceover provided an engaging narrative. Loved seeing the ruins and footage on location! Thank you for this video.
The Persians were defeated at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC, when Pericles was a wealthy young man who would not rise to power for another decade or more. So his role in deciding to fight the Persians is a bit anachronistic in this presentation as I understand it. The priestess gave two oracles in response to the query about war with the Persians. The first said, 'Why sit you doomed one? Fly to the ends of the earth. All is ruin for fire and headlong god of war shall bring you low.' But the second, which some scholars believe was issued the same day, was less sinister, yet mysterious: 'Though all else shall be taken, Zeus, the all seeing, grants that the wooden wall only shall not fail.' The traditional view is that this was interpreted by Themistocles as meaning that the Athenian navy, whose triremes were made of wood, would protect the Athenians, as indeed they did, in the battle noted above.
There seemed to be a lot of emphasis on the Greeks not having an idea of what the afterlife held and that just simply isn't true.
great video! clean graphics and editing .. i hope to get to this level in a few months!
The Greeks put far less emphasis on the afterlife than did either the Egyptians before them or the Christians that followed them. The video suggests that the Greeks were constantly seeking the answer to the afterlife, which is belied by the works of their greatest thinkers. Plato believed in reincarnation, not an ascent to an eternal heaven, and Aristotle believed that the soul perished with the body. Their works are efforts to ascertain, by use of reason as opposed to faith, the best way to live in the here and now. The gods were not beseeched by ordinary Greeks for eternal life, but for assistance in present difficulties.
The result is that the video implies that Greek culture was deficient, and was finally completed by Christianity. This is the interpretation that was promoted by the Church and became popular during the middle ages and renaissance. It is a disservice to that great civilization to suggest that it was incomplete, particularly in comparison to the illiteracy and superstition that followed for 1000 years of western history.
The popular view seems to be that most of the dead resided in a bleak, shadowy underworld: only the worst offenders against the gods were punished in Tartarus; and only the privileged heroes were allowed into the Elysian Fields. The average person had to gain divine favor by participating in mystery cults: there are some hints that psychotropic drugs such as hallucinogenic mushrooms may have been involved, to produce the ecstatic experience there.
@@Lucius1958 Aside from the evidence reported in Scientific American about a vent in Delphi that may have emitted ethylene during the time the Pythia priestesses were going into a trance, I'm not aware of any source for psychotropic drugs except by speculation. I'd be most grateful if you could supply a reference.
I got sick of all the spinning images and gave up.
The visuals are all re-creations the sounds( the words, and the ideas they carry) are more substantial. The areas they emphasis is also likely important. For eg. that moment of disobedience towards the Oracle in resisting the Persians( probably the wrong thing to have done by Pericles)
This made me seriously laugh. Nailed it.
Starting sentence suits even for today
Great video!
Hi nice video
Good documentary, but didn't mention the Mycenaen Civilization, arguably the oldest and the most advanced in Europe (18th-11th Centuries BC). It's legacy gave way to the Classical Greece afterwards and it's Golden Age.
this was really good. i was sad when the program ended. i expected it to keep going! lol but i expect we can not do 2000 years in 30 minutes. i was riveted and enthusiastically consumed. thank you for this
Is the narrator Carson from Downton Abbey?
The screeching noise throughout and the spinning images put me off. I couldn’t see it through.
Every stoic was a stoic, but in christiandom where is the Christian? RALPH Waldo Emerson
The too-loud and melodramatic “music” and sound effects make this unwatchable.
This isn't actually about the Greek Pantheon. It's kind of a meandering list of facts and events about the Mediterranean civilizations of the Bronze Age.
Really poor photography. Don't do rushing photos; it detracts rather than adds.
I I'm neither an athenian nor even a Greek but a citizen of the universe!
Did the Southeast Asian immigrants introduce the sky god they worshipped to the island of Cretes? Does it mean that Greeks also have Southeast Asian roots?
The Minoans married sky and earth. The union of sky and earth produced mortals and immortals. Could you please elaborate on this "mythological" statement?
None of these ideas came from greece, we don't owe anything to the greeks, they owe to the Persians, and other early Asian cultures. Also the use of terms like barbarian and savage is extremely offensive.
I didn't purchase premium youtube. But I'm literally watching history about Gods. 2 amazing things happened in 1 day! God is good..
What about the Mycenaeans? It seems odd that you just skip over 1000 years of history...
Hm can't put my finger on the narrators dialect... irish? Those rolling r's... but they are not consistent through out. Scots melody... sometimes... northern Irish even... aaargh lol so frustrating
I too was curious as to narrator's origins so re-watched, at 1:37 it shows his name, it's Cristy Kenneally. Per Wikipedia he was born in Cork, Ireland.
@@laly0033 google is our friend, duh... ty for your trouble!
It took another three four hundred year'smaybe more before Christianity came to Greece. ✌️
Calling our native Americans ignorant and savage was uncalled for. Besides, look at the Incans and Mayans. The native Americans in North America were wise in other ways.
Remember The Commandment Thou Shall Not Have Flase Gods Before Me.☘🇮🇪
saying war against the Persians united the Ancient Greece and made Athens their leader is a gross oversimplification. and the Erechtheion has nothing to do with Poseidon! it was a monument to Athena Polis, Athena of the City, and to the demi-god Erechtheus, mythical founder and first king of Athens. good god at least try.
Jesus is King he is coming back soon real soon repent turn to him now❤️❤️❤️
Thet didn't get anything wrong they said one of the great kingdoms was could fall. They didn't say which one they assumed it was them they was going against.
There are many mistakes and outdated opinions. Thumbs down.
Please stop with the terrible editing.
idiotic sound effects that drown out the narrative at time , very frustrating and annoying ,
not to mention just plain STUPID !
Only one God not many.
Many meaning fake.
The Holy Trinity.💚
"One of the first cities of the Sumerians was Eridug/Eridu. It was first settled around 5400 B.C. It doesn’t mean that there weren’t other people around, like the Aboriginal Australians or the Ancient Egyptians near the Nile River. It just means that this is where “a relatively high level of cultural and technological development specifically: the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained.”
These were the first people to keep records of the Anunnaki.
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