The Ancient History of the Acropolis

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The Acropolis is home to some of the most recognisable landmarks of all Ancient History. This is a tour which takes us from the earliest days of Athens, under the Stone Age king Actaeus, through contests between Gods, the patronage of Athena, and on to the buildings which even predate the Parthenon. Learn how the rejection of Poseidon led to the construction of beautiful temples and statues. Learn the chronology of these buildings, as ancient ones give way to even more ancient ones, such as the Pre Parthenon and the Ur Parthenon - the Hekatompedos - which go way back to Archaic age.

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Sources Used

Ancient Texts:
Plutarch - Life of Pericles (Βίοι Παράλληλοι: Περικλῆς)
Herodotus - The History (Ἱστορίαι )
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library (Βιβλιοθήκη Ἱστορική)
Pseudo-Apollodorus - Library (Βιβλιοθήκη)
Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War (Ἱστορίαι Πελοποννησιακοῦ Πολέμου)
Vitruvius - On Architecture (De architectura)

Credits
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Film, TV & Game Clips:
'Assassin's Creed Odyssey' (2018) | Ubisoft Montreal ©
'Immortals' (2011) | Dhandwar | Relativity Media ©
'Total War Saga: Troy' (2020) Creative Assembly ©

Music:
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:11 Actaeus and Cecrops
02:34 Athena vs Poseidon
04:15 The Birth of Erechtheus
05:43 The First Major Buildings
06:28 The Hekatompedos
07:08 The Pre Parthenon
07:27 The Sacking of Athens
08:24 Pericles & The Parthenon

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[caseymiller]

As an avid lover of history, I've seen more and more history videos that are clearly AI generated or enhanced with poor writing and grammar or even incorrect facts. Your videos are such a breath of fresh air...Everything is well polished with proper introduction and writing and immersive to the viewer with Ancient Greek readings and great imagery. Please don't stop making content as they truly give the events of the past the demonstration they deserve.

[alakhazom]

Sir, really enjoy your take on ancient history-especially since the Diadochi general, Antigonus.
The greek language included is a huge bonus.
Efharisto poli!

[tanzanos]

It never ceases to amaze me how wrongly foreigners pronounce ancient Greek.
However I enjoyed the video very much. Subbed.
Greetings from sunny Greece.

[FreeOpenTruth]

There is an exact 1 to 1 replica of the Parthenon, including a gold statue of Athena holding Nike, in Nashville, Tennessee. She is 42 feet tall.
It's amazing!

[WojciechP]

I WILL FINISH IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION -Greek mythology.

[ΓιώργοςΑ-ψψ]

the acropolis was built long before Mycenae and initially it was built for the soldiers to live there and it had a much larger area but as the ancient sources mention after great floods and a devastating earthquake this small part of it remained that exists from the archaic era until and today.

[issith]

Acro-, acri-, or acra, all of them, in the beginning of the word mean: edge. The edge of the second part of the word. Acropolis = edge of the city, whether it is in the horizontal or vertical perspective. Acrokeramo= each one of the last line’s tiles of the roof, etc etc

[waynescott-lppm]

Been to the great one in Athens. Stood where Napoleon and Hitler stood, my hands on the sane parapet wall where they were, near the remnantsvof the small temple. If I remember If I remember correctly, The Temple Of Athena!

[yvonne]

Zeus was a Pelasgian (ancestors of Albanians), not a Helen. Iliad and Odyssey were oral poems of Pelasgians, which later were written in Illyric/ Albanian. The oracle of Zeus, Dodona of Epirus, was the Temple of Pelasgians. After Iliad the language of Gods was Gheg, North Albanian Dialect. (Herodotus)

After Science Magazine 2023, the Albanian Language is older than 8000 years, much older than the Greek and Armenian languages.

Zacharias Papantoniou (Greek: Ζαχαρίας Παπαντωνίου) was a Greek writer. He was born in Karpenissi of Evrytania in February 1877 and died in Athens in 1940. He spent the first years of his life in Granitsa, where his father was a teacher. Apart from a writer, he was also a journalist. Many of the works of Zacharias Papantoniou, unfortunately, are censored because they tell the truth on Greek history. In that censored group is also the book, ''The King Otto''. Below we state a fragment from this book: ''The young Prince for first time come in Athens on January 25, 1833, he hardly heard anyone speak in Greek and so he asked: "Where are the Greeks in Athens?" His court looked at each other and answered: "There are no Greeks, but do not be troubled because this Albanian population will always be faithful to your monarchy."

Triantafyllidis later wrote, with some exaggeration, that the introduction of Demotic Greek into schools in 1917 was the first official recognition of the mother tongue ever made. Now that Greece had succeeded in winning Macedonia and other regions, disputed until that moment, Venizelos no longer considered it dangerous to introduce demotic Greek into the schools; indeed, one of the main reasons why the triumvirate [Triantafyllidis, Delmouzos, Glinos – the three leaders of the Educational Association] was appointed was the problem of integrating the non-Greek speaking populations of Greek Macedonia.
Venizelos had already argued in Parliament, in 1914, that the populations of the New Lands (areas included within Greece as a result of the Balkan wars), only by being educated in the spoken language, could learn Greek. Triantafyllidis noticed that even the Albanian-speaking populations of Attica, at the gates of Athens, were not linguistically Hellenized.

Title: Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976
Author: Peter Mackridge
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2010

[ShBestfame]

Too complicated english, exhausting Video

[andrewtoniolos]

Great video but please stop trying to speak Greek lmao😂