Plato To Pythagoras: How The Ancient Greeks Created Our World | The First World | Odyssey

The influence of Ancient Greece's greatest thinkers has had an enormous effect on how we perceive the world today. From the fundamentals of mathematics to thought experiments that help us comprehend our modern reality, it all began with the Greeks.

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[reimaginingPlato]

What a gem. I really enjoy these slightly older documentaries, well done.

[Pontiki]

Shaptai/Sabetai Unguru @ 6:10, died this last January(06/12/2024). May he rest in peace. Thank you for your work sir.

[jaredsmith]

Excellent video. The Greeks were fascinating and advanced for their age

[arissarkides]

Along the same pattern I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's video "the rise and fall of the Hellenic civilization", especially as far as the rationalistic development is concerned

[TheAnarchitek]

Point of order:
Pythagoras was born 150 years BEFORE Plato! Perhaps you mean Solon (laws - 638BC), to Socrates (Philosophy - 470BC), via Pythagoras (Mathematics - 570BC), Aeschylus (Literature - 525BC), and Hippocrates, (Medicine - 460BC).

[gotasification]

My favourite is the shadow of the red trousers of the dude that describes the balet..

[Merc_E]

in accordance with the theme, don't watch the video just listen.... The editors weren't as good as the message. It's distracting.

[categories]

Pythagoras came before Plato. The title should be Pythagoras to Plato

[maplehugger]

guys... remember that this is a documentary from 1990. of course it's not going to be 100% up to date.

[brandonleroux]

Judging by the sound I think this documentary was made inside a submarine.

[bsaxton]

Dont forget about the Persians. They made the worlds first sewage system.

[drdread]

So before the “ancient Greeks” there was no math?!🤔🤣

[psychonaut]

Does anyone have a reference for the assertion made in the video that Plato advocates the burning of heretics?

[ODGColornChrome]

Trigonometry has been found on some of the Babylonian tablets well before Greece. Just saying, you may want to redo this vid!

[DanH-uf]

The Ancient Egyptians had advanced mathematics thousands of years before the Greeks. They used advanced math to construct the pyramids with great precision.

[theostapel]

China was long ago - advanced in the work - with mathematics and the like.
There were ancient ties of - India with Egypt and therefore links with Greece - in these fields. If one researches - ancient India - knowledge spheres - one will be truly amazed and grateful - to those seers.
The Zero (all important concept) - arises out of the - being of Bharat.
It was gifted - as so many of India's ideas - freely Fare thee well.

[fabiodeoliveiraribeiro]

This documentary is old and disseminates outdated ideas. The theorem supposedly discovered by Pythagoras was recorded in Cuneiform writing on a clay tablet made 1000 years before that philosopher. We owe modernity more to the Babylonians than to the Greeks.

[donaldwhittaker]

I think Pythagoras would be repelled by rap and other sounds that do not contain melody, but only harmony and rhythm, which without melody are just folks beating on logs or drums. If you cannot whistle the music then it isn't music.

[starcapture]

this title need some fixation, How Greek Philosophers added to Mathematics. Math existed long before the Greeks.

[minutestomidnight]

However, we all have different perceptions on reality, and so different perceptions on the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth may exist - in fact it does exist - but how we see it and understand it when we see it is key. Being able to look beyond the veil of mundane reality and understand truth is part of the human condition.

On a side note, you cannot really call Russian communism a parallel to Plato's republic because it was quickly distorted and twisted by Stalin, who dominated it and used the entire society for his own personal gain - in fact, he became a tyrant King instead. This tainted all of USSR society which came afterwards.