Ancient Greece Was HORRIBLE! Don't Time Travel THERE!

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On this video we are reading and addressing an article which is telling us many things about Ancient Greece! Let's check it out!

Here is a link to the original article I'm responding to.

Here is a link to the video about Minoan Make up I mentioned on this video

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[metatronyt]

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[JaelaOrdo]

Good thing you made this video, I saw the title just as I was getting ready to turn on my time machine and go back to try and annoy Socrates by asking him endless questions.

[Passolargo_Junior]

Can you imagine people from 1000 years in the future finding this articles and saying "people from the 2000's didn't understand the past." What a good example we're leaving to the next generations. Good video as always, mate.

[Atenejin]

As a Greek, I have to say that your channel is a real masterpiece to historical research! I have been following you for years and your videos are absolutely amazing.

[bipolarminddroppings]

I was having this conversation with my dad the other day, he grew up in a house without any kind of central heating, no indoor toilet, no running hot water. It's bonkers that things invented by the Greeks and Romans (indoor plumbing, flushing toilets, underfloor heating) took so long become the norm for everyone.

It's not like nobody in the middle ages had indoor toilets, running water etc, it was just rarer...

[kjk]

Curse you for not making this video sooner! I just came back from Ancient Greece and it was a nightmare, I was in Athens and I asked some weird bearded guy called Socrates or something if he knew where I can charge my phone and instead of answering me like a normal person je started to question my motives for wanting to charge my phone by using bizzare comparisons with sailors, soldiers and somehow even managed to bring in the need for censoring Homer into the conversation. This went on for two hours, I finnaly ran away after he began talking about the moral qualities of rocks. Ancient Greece must be a hallucination, don't go there!

[davidogundipe]

I love when you debunk nonsense Metatron, and love your humor alot.

[iberius]

Nothing would stop me from at least visiting any era of Ancient Greece if I could. I am currently learning both the Modern and Ancient Greek language.

[Jon_FM]

As a modern person who had heart surgery and type 2 diabetes I would definetly not want to time travel anywhere beyond a week to any place before 2000.

However, as you said modern writers seem to think things were always bad in the past. Most of the plagues and disease happened in relatively short time periods. The reason the Black Death and the plagues of Justinian were so particularly terrible was that they just kept coming back over and over. Without a modern understanding of viruses from basically anytime before 1950 death by plague still kind of happened (see the Spanish Flu).

Labour up until modern times was largely done by very poor or slave/servile classes throughout history until the industrial revolution gave some parts of the world the ability to limit the types of jobs needed for that kind of labour. Still there are people that live like that now (industrial near slavery in the 3rd world still is happening).

We just love to give ourselves too much credit because technology advances and forget that we still have the same basic body type, brain capacity, and limits our ice age ancestors did.

[philkallberg]

I was a soldier in the US Army from 2000 to 2005. One day just for the fun of it I weighed myself in just my uniform and then again with all my equipment (flack vest, weapon, etc). The equipment added around 50 pounds.

[toucansam]

I’m an old guy who has always had a keen interest in the periods of history on which you focus. Thank you for well presented entertaining videos.

[SlurpeeBoy]

Watching Diogenes at work would be worth the trip back in time.

[frost]

I remember reading a historical account where ancient Greeks loved to display physical prowess, where one commander climbed up a rope in armor using one arm only and then did a flip at the top of the wall. I don't know if the story is true, but that story always gave me the impression that the Greek armor had to be light enough for scaling walls, charging, et cetera.

[danielmalinen]

Today there is still a myth that an ordinary citizen in ancient Greece was highly sophisticated and highly educated, practiced philosophy and was an atheist or at least an agnostic. In reality, this idealized depiction of the Greeks only concerned a small part of their philosophers and not their entire people, but modern people still love the story for an unknown reason that has remained a mystery to me because people are usually not willing to tell about it.

[squamish]

I've found that a lot of people have bizarre views of history like we've degraded from back in the day because they simply don't know stuff. When The Passion of the Christ came out, my friend, who I met when we both got our PoliSci degrees, said it affected her because "How could people in the past do that to others?" I had this wtf moment in my head like "You-you mean you _didn't know_ about all the messed-up sh*t that people did historically? What?" How do you make it through a political science degree _without_ learning this stuff?

[brunobengala]

Great video as always. Now, my usual nitpicking: as far as I know, the shield was called the “aspis”, and the term “hoplon” referred to the gear as a whole. The “Hoplite” would be “the equipped one” and the term “panoply” derives from what they called “full gear”(helmet, cuirass, shield and greaves), as “pan”=“whole” or “all”. Please correct me if I am mistaken. 😉

[doyouwanttogivemelekiss]

"horrible, carrying 70lbs" - I remember a news article a couple years ago that explained that the us airborne forces used the same parachute for decades.
but now (then) had to switch to a newer model, optimised for heavier weights, because they also had to carry all of these electronics...

[pieshka]

Love the "armor weight 40 pounds!" Type stuff about any historical period. They say the entire suit weighs so much and was encumbering, yet my plate carrier without any mags in it weights 22 pounds (11 pounds each steel plate)

[ivanthemadvandal]

I may be wrong on this, but I always thought that a major reason for Sparta not having walls was to prevent the Helots from being able to fortify a position while the army was off on campaign.

[andrewstrongman]

Have you heard of the "Radium girls" in the 1920's? Their job was to paint the numbers on watch faces - with radium paste. They had to 'point' the brushes with their lips, as other methods were 'more wasteful and time-consuming'. Several of them took to wearing the stuff as make-up, and were considered very glamourous at the time. Other toxins commonly ingested in fairly recent history are lead and mercury. English candies used to use such ingredients to make them look more colourful. Arsenic was also used to dye cloth green. We have a sad history of poisoning ourselves, mostly through sheer ignorance.