Professor Answers Ancient Greece Questions From Twitter - Tech Support - WIRED
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Date: 2024-07-24
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seermayton-el3488
300 accurate So Persians owned slaves The Persians had harp playing goat men Their leader was a god king despite having the first monotheistic religion in the world The immortals were fanged monster men The Athenians never made an alliance with the Spartans Xerxes was just a tyrant conqueror, he wasn't responding to the Greek city states atognizing colonists in Anatollia Eat your heart out primary sources
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300 accurate So Persians owned slaves The Persians had harp playing goat men Their leader was a god king despite having the first monotheistic religion in the world The immortals were fanged monster men The Athenians never made an alliance with the Spartans Xerxes was just a tyrant conqueror, he wasn't responding to the Greek city states atognizing colonists in Anatollia Eat your heart out primary sources
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M-_-O
Ditch digging fans, relax.
This Professor had under 2 minutes to answer about the movie 300. Nothing he said was a direct contradiction, just an over simplification. He said a lot of it is embellishment but there are some things right on the mark then goes onto to give a small number of examples. If he had a whole 30 minutes for one subject I think you’ll find both historians agree.
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Ditch digging fans, relax.
This Professor had under 2 minutes to answer about the movie 300. Nothing he said was a direct contradiction, just an over simplification. He said a lot of it is embellishment but there are some things right on the mark then goes onto to give a small number of examples. If he had a whole 30 minutes for one subject I think you’ll find both historians agree.
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jaydoggy9043
20: 17 The page has five pillars but he only points out three. The other two specifically are Roman: The Tuscan is made plainer than the Doric (but incidentally more stable, and the Composite which is a mix of Ionic and Corinthian. But the Greeks should definitely get credit for the main three. Shout out to any fellow travelers who have to learn that to the right of the east.
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20: 17 The page has five pillars but he only points out three. The other two specifically are Roman: The Tuscan is made plainer than the Doric (but incidentally more stable, and the Composite which is a mix of Ionic and Corinthian. But the Greeks should definitely get credit for the main three. Shout out to any fellow travelers who have to learn that to the right of the east.
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alanfike
On the Alexandria library question, he left out that when they asked other countries to borrow their sacred manuscripts to copy for their own library, they would do that but send back the copy and keep the original. This library became infamous for that. So when the library allegedly burned down. those original manuscripts went with it.
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On the Alexandria library question, he left out that when they asked other countries to borrow their sacred manuscripts to copy for their own library, they would do that but send back the copy and keep the original. This library became infamous for that. So when the library allegedly burned down. those original manuscripts went with it.
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thelostone6981
Diogenes was a leech on his society. If a farmer doesn’t go out and plant crops, what is there to eat Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Hellenistic cynicism, but I cringe anytime someone mentions Diogenes because the very fabrics of society would turn into anarchy if we just lived as a dog on the street.
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Diogenes was a leech on his society. If a farmer doesn’t go out and plant crops, what is there to eat Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Hellenistic cynicism, but I cringe anytime someone mentions Diogenes because the very fabrics of society would turn into anarchy if we just lived as a dog on the street.
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sommelierofstench
zoom in, zoom out. zoom in, zoom out. i appreciate the effort of the edit, but doing these quick zooms so often doesn’t make this more interesting when it happens so often to me. just gets kind of annoying.
anyways it’s always cool to hear an expert speak on subjects. thank you
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zoom in, zoom out. zoom in, zoom out. i appreciate the effort of the edit, but doing these quick zooms so often doesn’t make this more interesting when it happens so often to me. just gets kind of annoying.
anyways it’s always cool to hear an expert speak on subjects. thank you
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tomosdavies1980
Very informative overall, only thing I can see that is incorrect is that there was a fire in the library of Alexandria that destroyed thousands of scrolls, caused by Julius Ceaser, as described by Plutarch. Although you are correct that the fire didn’t lead to its destruction.
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Very informative overall, only thing I can see that is incorrect is that there was a fire in the library of Alexandria that destroyed thousands of scrolls, caused by Julius Ceaser, as described by Plutarch. Although you are correct that the fire didn’t lead to its destruction.
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mikets42
wovel-less alphabet was sufficient for semitic languages due to their structure. today, hebrew, arabic, farsi, etc are still written down without wovels, and that's mosty ok. big troubles come when you want to write a borrowed word in these scrits.
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wovel-less alphabet was sufficient for semitic languages due to their structure. today, hebrew, arabic, farsi, etc are still written down without wovels, and that's mosty ok. big troubles come when you want to write a borrowed word in these scrits.
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freakingriddle
On the top of mount Olympus, in the peak theres the throne of Zeus, it has a shape like the letter C and in the center theres the seat and even has a headrest, it actually looks like a throne on the highest altitude of Greece.
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On the top of mount Olympus, in the peak theres the throne of Zeus, it has a shape like the letter C and in the center theres the seat and even has a headrest, it actually looks like a throne on the highest altitude of Greece.
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wired
there are mark-of-the-beasted mark-of-the-beasting rats that are 1 meter long in length that not only mark-of-the-beast people but devour people over and over again after mark-of-the-beasting people; hail satan!
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there are mark-of-the-beasted mark-of-the-beasting rats that are 1 meter long in length that not only mark-of-the-beast people but devour people over and over again after mark-of-the-beasting people; hail satan!
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blarfroer8066
Sure, the Spartans had Helotes, like every other place in ancient Greece. But how does that tie in with little boys being sent out of town in 300 Is that an issue with the cut or what's going there
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Sure, the Spartans had Helotes, like every other place in ancient Greece. But how does that tie in with little boys being sent out of town in 300 Is that an issue with the cut or what's going there
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juanjuri6127
Thumbnail reads like he's accusing me of having participated in the Ancient Olympics. I'd be careful of making such baseless claims, professor. And even if it were true, you'd have no evidence.
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Thumbnail reads like he's accusing me of having participated in the Ancient Olympics. I'd be careful of making such baseless claims, professor. And even if it were true, you'd have no evidence.
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brunnomenxa
1: 45 But the Spartans, according to historians, were good image sellers, so much so that people think the Spartans were very good at war, but in fact they lost fights against Athens.
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1: 45 But the Spartans, according to historians, were good image sellers, so much so that people think the Spartans were very good at war, but in fact they lost fights against Athens.
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Fubs_the_queen
Just a reminder that Assassins Creed is INCREDIBLY well researched and it shows. I had multiple art history professors use it as visual references, and I use it now in my lectures!
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Just a reminder that Assassins Creed is INCREDIBLY well researched and it shows. I had multiple art history professors use it as visual references, and I use it now in my lectures!
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brandond8197
When I was playing AC odyssey I loved exploring all the building and statutes. Watching the behind the scenes video you saw they really tried to replicate all the buildings.
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When I was playing AC odyssey I loved exploring all the building and statutes. Watching the behind the scenes video you saw they really tried to replicate all the buildings.
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Ambryu1
Since it was the Gregorian's that invented the modern calendar a. k. a Christians why not give credit where credit is due by just using BC even Neil Degrace Tyson agrees on that.
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Since it was the Gregorian's that invented the modern calendar a. k. a Christians why not give credit where credit is due by just using BC even Neil Degrace Tyson agrees on that.
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ingGS
What he mentioned about killing 100 cows made its way to Romance languages as HECATOMBE, with the meaning of tragedy or large loss of life. Not very common in English apparently.
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What he mentioned about killing 100 cows made its way to Romance languages as HECATOMBE, with the meaning of tragedy or large loss of life. Not very common in English apparently.
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dpetkov21
I love the fact that, us, modern Greeks, Macedonians, Albanians, Italians, Bulgarians share roots and traditions of the same ancient past, culture and traditions
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I love the fact that, us, modern Greeks, Macedonians, Albanians, Italians, Bulgarians share roots and traditions of the same ancient past, culture and traditions
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tiffany5301
how did people in BC times write the date did they have dates with month day year i assume they werent writing down that they were counting down were they
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how did people in BC times write the date did they have dates with month day year i assume they werent writing down that they were counting down were they
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LifeStartsNow33
wired please NEVER stop making these - specifically the ones about ancient civilizations and scientific experts. i'm OBSESSED and have learned so much
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wired please NEVER stop making these - specifically the ones about ancient civilizations and scientific experts. i'm OBSESSED and have learned so much
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