Daily Life In Ancient Greece (3D Animated Documentary) - Everything You Need To Know

Experience daily life in ancient Greece in this animated documentary.
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In this video, you'll see everything you need to know about how Greeks lived during the golden age.

We start with a brief overview of how Greece came to be and some of the misconceptions about its formation. Following this, we get to know the people of ancient Greece, through their love of leisure. This favorite pastime is heavily reliant upon a busy open air market called the Agora.

Moving away from the agora briefly, we explore the theatre experience. The theatre was a popular hobby of thousands of Greeks. Moving back to the Agora, we bump into Socrates.

Socrates is an excellent vessel for knowledge in more than one way. Through his unusual mannerisms and fashion sense, we learn how Greeks dressed at the time. His wife emerges and models some women's clothing. This bores Socrates, so he suggests an adventure to the Olympic Games.

Getting to the Olympics is easier said than done. We'll really need to figure out how to get there as Olympia is on the other side of Greece, a 6 day walk. This leads to the few transportation options we have: horses, donkeys and boats.

Whilst walking is the easiest option, it's slow and incredibly dangerous for a number of reasons. Greek pirates are a huge one.

Spending the day on the farm is far more relaxing. Most Greeks were attached to farms in one way or another, so this is an important segment. It leads nicely into foods and beverages that were consumed in Ancient Greece.

Next up is houses. How they were designed: interior and exterior. Another important thing to note is how the household was structured. It encompassed everyone, including domestic helpers (sIaves).

There were a few groups that had a hard time in Greece. Women were one of them. It wasn't just social expectations that made life challenging for Greek women. Death was also something they had to deal with far too frequently.

Premature death was prominent in all of the ancient world. Religious beliefs (mythology) helped guide Greeks through the process. There will be separate videos on mythology as it's far to broad of a subject to address in this video. Enjoy the documentary!
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TIMESTAMPS
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00:00 - Ancient Greece 101
02:01 - Leisure
02:50 - The Agora
04:14 - The Theatre
04:51 - Meet Socrates
05:40 - Clothing & Fashion
07:50 - The Olympic Games
08:36 - Travel & Transportation
10:08 - Sailing & Ships
10:43 - Time
12:10 - Dangers Outside The City
13:56 - Agriculture & Farming
15:39 - Jobs & Work
16:16 - Pirates
17:38 - More Jobs
18:57 - SIavery
20:06 - Houses & Architecture
22:41 - Food
24:38 - Women
25:59 - Death
28:17 - Mythology/Religion
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MUSIC
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Ashe - Songs of Water
A Step Further - Max LL
Built Up North - Luke Atencio
Indulgence -Topu
Katrina - Kerry Muzzey
Meandering - Topu
Of Waving Woods and Waters Wild - timbre
Premonition - David A. Molina
Regeneration - Max LL
Surrender - Songs of Water
The Ascent - Generdyn
The Rebellion - Ryan Taubert
Undertow - Blake Ewing
White Knight - Ryan Taubert

Footage is a combination of custom CGI renders, AC: Odyssey and public domain images.

[bombfog]

“Domestic Helper” is likely the funniest YouTube engendered euphemism that I’ve yet come across.

[krisconrad]

There needs to be a viable alternative to You Tube. Slavery has existed throughout human history. What's the point in trying to hide that fact?

[Insectoid_]

YouTube has become far too censored. It’s absolutely ridiculous you can’t say slave without consequences

[elvishiekios]

If you visit the subway in Athens you will see the Ancient Athenians had ceramic pipes for clean drinking water and sewers with traps to clean them from blockages . They also had public baths and all Theater spectators were given dry fruit like figs and nuts by the play's sponsor to watch the show!Weaving and beautifully decorated ceramic vase making in Athens was widely practiced

[Philflash]

There is an olive tree on Crete 3000 years old and continues to yield olives.

[Jearbear]

Odyssey. <3 AC gets better and better with their visuals. Great Documentary.

[s.v.]

Your videos are so compelling- especially the scenic overviews. One is drawn into the cityscape, sunlight limns the outlines of a building. In one the kinetic energy builds as the wind sweeps across a field, blowing dust behind a group of farmers. I can almost smell the dirt as I scan the video, watching intently for movement I might have missed. In the Greek videos there appears to include an homage to the artists Alma-Tadema? (I love the strewn roses around people's feet in a couple scenes.) Add to that pretty good historical accuracy, (never something we can take for granted.) Great videos. 👍

[CliveBurr]

You forget 2 things.
1. ''Domestic helpers'' could win their freedom by fighting in battles
2. Women in Sparta had MANY rights.

[AlbertM]

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We've seriously missed you.
These high quality documentaries are just too addictive.

[ambermaccraig]

Love the voiceover dude..., it's refreshing to watch a documentary w a narrator that "makes light" of certain situations and can sound sarcastic when speaking on certain topics. Please keep it up, it's one of the MAIN things that I enjoy about these little docs aside from the fact that they are animated. Very unique channel and I subscribed right away!!! Look forward to more.

[spiritof]

The animation is mindblowing. You clearly put in an intense amount of time, detail and attention and it pays off bigtime.

[HistoryExplained]

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[readysea]

This is a riveting illustration that makes history come alive. The colors, the music—creating a stunning and fascinating portrayal of a time most people don’t think about. As I grow older I love finding common values and parallels when encountering other cultures—your video enables me to do this in another historical era as well—bravo!!

[rogerhinman]

"...ancient Greece never existed..." Let me sell you some shirts from our Ancient Greece Collection...

[Jobe-]

Corinth, Thebes, Delphi, and Argos were other major Greek city states. Would be cool to see videos on them too.

[Loukilouk]

What is in this documentary described, it's not the life of ancient Greeks but the life of rich people in ancient Greece (1% - 10% of the population.)
People back then had really to work, that's why, although Perikles established the Democracy in Athens, people who were drawn ( yeap they were not elected, they were drawn) to take part at the Ecclesia of Demos didn't really participate in this citizens assembly, because they were poor and had to work. So Pericles came up with a solution, he said let's pay the participants (Members of Parliament back then) their daywork so that they don't have to go to work but they could take active part in the Ecclesia of Demos.

[meadow]

I am OBSESSED with you videos!!! I have always loved history and you really bring it alive! I recommend your videos to my ancient civilizations teacher and she thinks they are amazing!!

[stefanoskamarados]

Hi from GREECE
An example that is wrong in this video is the AGORA IS NOT THE MARKET, ANCIENT GREEK AGORA WAS THE PLACE WHERE PEOPLE HAD CONVERSATION, AGOREVO MEANS I TALK TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE. ALL SCIENCES HAVE GREEK NAMES BECAUSE THEY ALL STARTED IN GREECE. THE THEATER THAT IS AN ELEMENT OF CULTURE IS GREEK etc. We must say specifically what culture means and only then will we find the roots.

[bitasheibani]

Love, love the animation and the music! There are hardly any films about Ancient Greece, the Hellenistic period, 3rd century, 2nd century BCE, or any other time. This animation gives us a great feel for what it would have been like to actually be there! Thanks for this! There should be more of this kind of documentary out there!

[celticlass]

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