Let's Visit An Athenian Home - History Tour in AC: Odyssey Discovery Mode

Let's visit the famous Athenian home of Pericles in Assassin's Creed Odyssey Discovery Mode! In this video I provide a guided tour of a typical wealthy Athenian home while discussing private security, architecture, social norms, cooking, bathing, and more. This educational tour in a virtual Athenian home is just one of many videos I will be producing on the daily life of ancient Greeks. A huge thanks once again to the Assassin's Creed Odyssey team for all the work that went in to the base game and especially the discovery mode.

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[ISawABear]

I actually really like you're covering things that aren't covered in the tours

[rahzark]

*Yo MTV, this is Perikles, and welcome to my crib!*

[sba]

>Your average Athenian home
>Pericles' mansion

hmmm....

[stolensweetroll]

Assassin creed: *makes discovery mode*
History channels:"its free real estate"

[ArturdeSousaRocha]

Once again kudos to the game makers for the quality of their work, and to you for presenting this with scientific background. All the books, all the television programs about the ancient world just paint a pale, drab shadow of this. I have to wonder what it was like in other cities — was it similar, did it have local flavor, was it less impressive (or more)?


About the reference to India, I don't recall if it was Michael Wood or Bettany Hughes but one of them said that if you want to know what life in ancient cities looked like then some places in India can give you a good facsimile of that.

[blognroses]

I am Greek, living 2 hours away from Athens and I really loved this video and your talk over. You are so on point! And it is the first time I have a full visual conception of the interior of an ancient greek house. No matter how many museums I have visited, it's not the same.

[SwedishmafiaMemeCorporation]

The level of detail in this game is stunning

[keldelmini]

It's kinda weird for me to see Athenian home in first person after killing all Athenians few hours ago in Europa Barbarorum.

[shidorikuroko]

LOVE this tour. Thank you so much for presenting this to us! Small request on behalf of the folks with motion sickness (like me): please try hard to avoid shaking the camera around when you're trying to draw attention to something in front of you. (eg: a doorway, the bread on the table, the loom, etc) It makes some of us rather woozy. I know you're probably accustomed to encircling something with a cursor to draw the viewer's attention but since there's no cursor present ... well, you're just kind of giving us a jostle. LOL Many thanks again for this immersive tour!

[ericspencer]

The House of Pericles in AC Odyssey is not a good, or authentic representation of a home in Ancient Athens. First no home, however rich, would have had open yard space as real estate in a walled city was at a premium, and the Greeks just didn't build urban dwellings this way (with yards and lawns). Secondly, the interior rooms are way, way too large here. The only spacious areas of a Greek house were the courtyard and dining hall; the rest of the rooms were small and cramped. Lastly, which Invicta does mention in the video, this house has far too many windows, and they're far too large for a true Athenian home. In an urban environment where houses were built right up against neighboring homes, and back to back, and where the front door opened directly into the street without a yard to buffer it; windows were tiny and set high near the ceiling for letting in a little sunlight and ventilation, not for looking out. Greek homes looked inward to the courtyard, not outward to the street.

[odd-ysseusdoesstuff]

Hey! How about Military Garrisons, Ports, or Barracks. Yeah, sure, you get the manly men in their shiny armours but it would be nice to get a detailed vid on military garrisons. If not, check the Agora!

[hamzapetridis]

I just discovered this video and I've been following for ages. I think we just reached the peak of vulgarisation and ease of access to historic information with this. Great content, thank you !!

[flatlo]

Suddenly I’m looking into Mediterranean real estate.

[ZamboniBerlusconi]

This mode really gives you the opportunity to take in the beauty of ancient greek homes. Nice video!

[nohbuddy]

Whoa didn't know Athenian homes had glowing beams of light all along the floor

[firouz]

This separation between men and women is mentioned in Camille Paglias work very often.
It is such an important issue that has been going on for many many thousands of years and it gets ignored in the feminism debate a lot!
It still informs our view on male/men and female/women!
Good to see a prime example of that aspect.

[ClariceAust]

That's amazing! Great attention paid to accuracy in regards to diet and lifestyle of the inhabitants of the villa.

[bongoslide]

Beautifully done, I could imagine living like that. the music helps soften it all.

[bridaw]

Your videos are always so informative and beautiful. I didn’t realize that in upper class Athenian homes, they still did a lot of crafts and food production. What a beautiful home and architecture fit the needs and life so well.

[Petey]

Very cool, guys. I heard the team was trying to be historically accurate with origins and odyssey which made me inner historical geek, well, geek out lol. I love that you guys are covering this.