Ancient Words, Modern Wars: The Nazi Misuse of Pericles | Ancient Greece Revisited 

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The smartest Greeks such as Socrates, Plato, Aristole and many more hated democracy. The closest to Platos utopia in The Republic of modern times would have been the NSDAP

Really engaging and thought provoking video. Ancient Athens continues to fascinate so many today. I had seen the connection between the Third Reich and the militaristic, state run life of Sparta but had no idea the Nazi's used a speech from Pericles to justify their aims. The discussion on what the word "city " actually meant in Ancient Athens is very poignant. Thank you.

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Good video and the comments section is full of conviction from all sides.

Excited for more great content! Always helps to hear some perspective especially with regards to American democracy. But I would like to add is that modern socialists in the US reject the Soviet system as just more autocratic feudalism in a different form, and what they advocate for (at least the ones I am aware of) is democracy in the workplace (without having to fight the often futile battle of creating a workers union). So in that sense I would argue they are actually trying to make America more democratic and like the Athenian ideal than it is now (especially when you consider our extensive problems with corruption)

Τhe fate of heroes is tradegy. Μου αρέσει, ακούγεται αληθινό.

Mixing historical context with modern, personal views is very weak move, propaganda style. No matter the opinion on someone and their politics, saying something like "She's German therefore..." is invalid as an argument. Adding Stalin seems involuntary ironic as it is exactly the same move as non-democratic, autoritarian leaning states are using to discredit their opponents.

...not fully sure what you're trying to get at, your presentation is somewhat convoluted. 'Misuse' is inevitable when we're talking about a mass movement (in an age of mass movements) employing the rhetoric of a city state of few thousand citizens. In actuality, compared to Ancient Greece Nazis seem tame both in their racism and their capacity for violence, but if anyone can claim a spiritual affinity to the ancient world, that's 19thC to 1945 Germany, Nazis included.

When I think of hubris, I think of Creon in Antigone, who was more of a tyrant than a hero. There are plenty of racist and/or tyrannical politicians in nominal democracies also.

Pericles' speech was published in the Third Reich, that's true. Polis in it was translated as state and not as city or municipality, but in German this was the traditional mode of translation (so it wasn't misuse as the author of the video claims). This supposedly turned the speech into a defense of Nazism, which strikes me as a rather crazy claim, and that's because in Nazism the constructive category is not the state, but the nation. I suppose the reason Pericles was translated by National Socialists was more the ethos of heroism and self-sacrifice for the community (or general admiration for the Pericles era, see Mein Kampf).

Peak normie tier.

Germans.... 😢

Every nation misuse what the Ancient Greeks say from every nation every church even the Greek Orthodox church. Greeks made the republic and democracy but both misused. Clement of Alexandria's Stromateis "the Apostle Paul says: 'Take also the Greek Bibles, know the Sibyl, who declares one God and the future, and you will find our Lord Jesus Christ written more clearly.'" ""why should I linger over the barbarians, when I can adduce the Greeks...holy Apostle Paul says" All Ancient Greek words and letters have meaning. Greek has the oldest text in the world over 7000 years with one example is the dispilio table. Origins of the alphabet Example Θ Θεός (theos=God)=theology, theolatry, theosophy, etc, etc ΘΕΟΣ=GREEK GOD = What I see, feel, touch, smell, understand create] words: theater, theatrical, theamatic, theatrics, The problem with today's man is how to understand the difference between God and religion: (First we have to analyze the word "GOD" the word god comes from the ancient Greek word THAO (ΘΑΟ) that means I see and understand that I am the viewer of things and since I am an intelligent person I understand my environment, I study I learn we are wise and do so at will so the people themselves were called "THEOI=GODS" by the word ΘΑΟ created the words " θεατής viewer , θέατρο theater, θαυμάζω admire, θεωρώ sagest, etc.," they stood up and reviewed the facts and came to conclusion that no creature on earth is superior to them, for this they called them selves Θεοί (=Gods), the word «ΘΕΟΣ» (=God) meaning MAN because man is the only creature on earth to use logic and thorough knowledge can reach God (=logic), the word ΘΕΟΣ is a replacement of the ancient word «ΘΑΩ» meaning broad vision and mind, and did not resemble the God we know today. Long before the floods (cataclysm) they created the 12 Gods of Olympus (=heavens). As professor Fr Metallenos says "Christianity is a spiritual continuation of Hellenism, in almost everything... the sequence from Zeus to Jesus" "The so-called gods of Olympus were believed to be all children of the one and only god, Zeus, and constituted a kind of numerous Holy Family or eleven (+1) Saints." Which is why Apostle John & James father name was Zebedeos (Ζεβ+εδαίος from Zeus+Ideal)." One does not have a name praising the other religions God. "The first concerns the idiomatic expression "Son of God" which Jesus often attributes to himself. According to the author, the word Θεός is an anti-loan of the Latin word Deus, which comes from the Greek Δεὺς (gen. Διὸς) or Μεὺς. So when Jesus identifies himself as "Son of God", he does not mean essentially anything more than that he is "Son of Zeus". In the same way, the word "ἀμὴν", which Jesus uses many times to oppose his teaching to that of the Pharisees, is nothing more than a coded version of Ammon Zeus: "Because the Greeks of Egypt, with whom Christ was associated with when he lived in Egypt, they called Zeus Amen or Amen, the final conclusion emerges after certainty that the Amen of the Gospels is the name of Zeus in its Egyptian version"." Which is why professor of theology Luke Filis of the theological school of the university of Athens "the language of the Greek "New Testament" comes linguistically and ideologically from the venue of Greek thinking and intellect and it is composed in order to be a complete ideology, with the pure Greek way of wording" & how the Greek ideas and words of that Jesus used, got completely twisted throughout the years to represent something different and foreign to the original meaning and purpose."