Ancient Greece in 18 minutes

Homer, The Minotaur, 300 spartans, Greek theatre, Parthenon, democracy — everything that you once knew, but forgot, in a crash course video by Arzamas.

Narrated by Brian Cox.

"Ancient Greece in 18 minutes" is an English version of a Russian video by Arzamas. We also have a few other projects in English:

[beesonbandit]

“The Trojan wars are as distant to Alexander the Great as we are to the Viking age” now that’s crazy to think about

[Lunkster]

This guys voice is unreal. I haven’t heard a better voice actor/narrator

[rimkyul]

Im guessing we all are either preparing for a test
or
we're just nerds

[krystianbozsodi]

so Ancient Rome was just the dlc of the Greeks

[kinglycan]

“If an Ancient Greek were to see modern democracy, he would only have one word... oligarchy...”

Great quote my friend

[MrFantocan]

*Rome video ends*


Me: "Oh this video is so interesting sad it is over"


Video: "We have another one about Greeks"



Me "NICE!" *clicks*


*Greek video ends*


Me: "Oh this video is so interesting sad it is over"


Video: "We have another one about Rome"


Me "NICE!" *clicks*


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[themachne]

Fun fact: the man who carried the message from Marathon to Athens yelled out nike, victory in ancient Greek. The distance of the run is also what our modern marathons are loosely based on. Great video! Thank you for expanding my knowledge on the subject!👍

[neutralhistory]

Ancient Greece always fascinated me. As many historians agreed upon, was the most advanced civilization in history. The names of Greek philosophers such as Aristoteles take a massive place under popular culture. Their influence and legacy are still on everyone's tongue. And will continues from today until forever.

[Danymok]

This video is so amazing. Please make a version of this video that is a few hours long. I would watch the whole thing!

[konstantimas]

The name Alexander is derived from the Greek "Ἀλέξανδρος" (Aléxandros), meaning "Defender of the people" or "Defending men" and also, "Protector of men", a compound of the verb ἀλέξειν aléxein, "to ward off, to avert, to defend" and the noun ἀνήρ anḗr, "man" (GEN ἀνδρός andrós)

[thomaslinssen]

"leaving us the weird Russian alphabet for instance" this man just casually roasted the Russians

[lGalaxisl]

I'd subscribe to your channel, but most videos are in russian. I really liked this one and the roman one

[PaulCreeden]

Have studied Greco-Roman history since prep school (over 50 yrs) and this is the best summary of Greek civilization I have ever seen.

[conm]

This has to be one of the best videos covering the period of Ancient Greece out there. Professional, specific and the timeline at the bottom is a way way to understand the scale of time across the different items!

[geesus]

History of ancient India.
History of Japan.
History of Americas (before the European immigration)
History of Byzantium empire.
And history of China.
Also, thank you for making this wonderful video.

[zombiepenguin]

Been playing Assassin's creed Origins and was so surprised to see all the Greek stuff in Egypt, Greek people, Greek culture, Greek architecture, Alexandria, the library! Trying my best to understand it all and this video has really helped, thank you so much, your channel is awesome!

[megamaniscoolrightguys]

"The Trojan War was as distant in time to Alexander the Great as the Vikings are to ourselves."

I'm going to have to stew on this fact for a little while 😵

[pOpCoRn]

Imagine subbing right away after one minute of watching and then finding out that you don't understand the rest of the videos in the channel at all.

[sc]

This is some high quality shit right there.

[konstantimas]

Origin of the name Philip: Derived from the Latin Philippus, which is from the Greek Philippos (lover of horses). The name is composed of the elements philos (loving) and hippos (horse) in Greek