I was in a museum in Greece this summer and in the exhibit about everyday life I asked the attendant that worked there if the Greeks had slaves, she made a horrified gasp and looked at me like I was crazy and said that was impossible. I then Googled it and found there were thousands of slaves in Athens and showed her that. She denied it and said that couldn't be true and I asked her and she was oblivious to the fact that everywhere in the world almost had slaves that why would Greece be different? Even if you're very proud of your ancestors it's still okay to acknowledge they made terrible mistakes.
@@nikosenergy5585 wow. slavery was common all over the world. it was later in western history that introduced slavery based on prejudice. how could someone working at a museum not know this?
@@RealAmericanSicko Thats not quite true. Like, at all. The greeks could be extremely prejudice. To one another, and, even the term barbarian is a prejudice to non greeks. Whats new about the world is how much we think its abnormal for groups of people to value their differences.
Well,all Greeks know there were slaves in the ancient world. This is something that children are taught in history at primary schools here in Greece. I can't imagine why she said what she said.
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
yeah thats somethign that was missing here i thought. They had as far as ive read , Sewers underneath the streets that did wash away waste and the sanitation i always believed was more advanced than this.
We used the metro almost exclusively as a mode of transport through Athens Ατηινα but didn't see anything like that. Could you specify which station, please. Btw, we nearly got robbed by a couple of old pickpocketeers in a jammed compartiment. They kept shoving their hands into my husband's pockets. However, being an Italian, he was one up on them so they got zilch.
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. 👍
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!!
Your rapid growth is absolutely jaw dropping. I thought I was growing fast by reaching 5k subs with only 5 videos, but you’re absolutely blowing me out of the water. I can see why though. Your videos are beyond incredible and impressive! Good luck with your channel and I look forward to watching your rise on RU-vid! ⭐️
Wow this really sounds like the worst way at trying to get subscribers. Hidden in a compliment 😂 you shouldn't come onto others comments disguising your pathetic grab for attention as a compliment on someone else's fan base.
I`ve already seen your video about first pharaon. Difference between your videos and his is just angle of view. He has showed what was real life in old Greek (Hellas). About culture, arts and science of old Greeks has learned everybody in school. He has showed reality. Greeks were in average the same as other people. I think You didn`t see the main point of video. All greeks achievement were result of free time to find new angles of view, because of use "home helper". Most important for human race aren`t stone monuments big or but small invents, that has improved our society. Everybody admire old Romans and their civilisation. But their civilisation was created on a cheating, stealing and blood. For me were more civilisated Gauls and Etrusci (also Veneti, by the way). Both have invented a lot of different solutions, Romans have just stolen them. Do you prefer sword and steal, or invention?
@@georgem3270 It isn`t dilema at all. Now you could feell what war expres in everbody day life. Price of everything are increased this day. For me isn`t any dilemmas. Sword cannoz invets anything good for mankind.
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.
Actually he talks in the video about a lot a types of works in Athens, like fishing, pottery, he also talks about merchants, sailors, farmers, etc, the only part where he talks about the rich people is when he says "lazy greeks", i know that you can be offended by that, but he obviously was just making a reference to this lifestyle from richer people, but he tells a lot about the workers and the slaves or "domestic helpers"(obviously this term is wrong but you need to understand the youtube algorithm censure). I understand that you greeks can be a little unsatisfied with this video, but you need to understand that it is made not for historians or you greeks, who know's your own history better than anyone, but to someone who likes history and want's to know more about the ancient Greece. So he kind of give just a general view of how life was in one of the most popular city states at the time. So of course it don't have enough details, or some little inconsistencies but it does teach a lot and they are correct in the far majority of the facts, maybe not all of them, but you know that they are being more precise them american series and movies and we need to give them some credit for that.
And the narrator talks about how "you" would be at the market and "your wife" would be at home. Women in Sparta may have had many rights,but this man is still in the dark ages. He assumes viewers are all male.
@@ResliCostabell How do you know what he assumes? I am female and wasn't offended. Let's be honest many females ain't watching videos like this...too busy watching Makeup tutorials on RU-vid. And if you look at his analytics, it is probably mostly males watching. I can scroll in the comment section, and the usernames seem mostly male. Many content creators knows who their viewers are. Not everything got to be a whiny ass "dark ages" femininst rant.
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.
An completely inaccurate by a landslide. No. I`m not a hater. I know things he completely missed but he put in a lot of work on graphics so i am not gonna rag on him too hard.
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.
@@Janemas "The ancients don't recognize the word Greece." Because that is ENGLISH In Greek it is something else unpronounceable which I can't spell. They also do not recognize oil or Lubricant or "K-Y jelly"
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!!
I absolutely LOVE that you use animation for your videos. I enjoy watching documentaries very much, this is a nice change of pace and I have watched every one you have available. I'd like to see an animated one on the lives of particular pharaohs ( any of the interesting ones will do lol) and either do them separately or all in one, I'd prefer the latter. I enjoy pretty much anything to do w ancient Egypt, however I think if you created one of these wonderful documentaries of the Valley of the Kings, it's layout and how a tomb was constructed ( all the detail and meticulous work that went into building one for a pharaoh) that it would quite possibly be your best documentary created yet!! Please consider this idea, I know I can not be the only one that be fascinated by this. All of the hard work, that goes into these little videos, is greatly appreciated by ppl like me...
GOOD FOR FILM, BUT...MANY DETAILS. WOMEN- ЖЕНЩИНЫ ВСЕГДА В ПЛАТКАХ НА ГОЛОВЕ. НЕ ТКАНИ, А ЦИНОВКИ ИЗ КАМЫША УПОТРЕБЛЯЛИ И НА АГОРЕ И В БЫТУ. NOT BELTS- НЕ БЫЛО РЕМНЕЙ, ИХ НЕ НОСИЛИ. ДАЖЕ МЕЧИ БЫЛИ НА ПЕРЕВЯЗИ. АРХИТЕКТУРА- ТУТ ВООБЩЕ ОДНИ ОШИБКИ...
Amazing, as always!! And happy to spend the 15 seconds to watch the ads, to help support the channel to continue to produce high-quality, free video. :)
The description of Greece you mentioned is like to mention the life of Steve Jobs or Jef Bezos. The other were producing civilisation, culture, mathematics, physics you still learn today, astronomy, Philosophy, architecture, discoveries, Boats, weaponry, and many others never produced by Slaves. Also slaves were not something like the African Americans of today era or of the last 200-300 years, but mostly prisoners of war who knew that if defeated in a war, they could be slaves for ever.
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!
I dont think it has anything to do with 'cancel culture'. I think RU-vid is being lazy and has bots that flag anything 'adult'. You can still mention these things, curse, mention slaves, incest, nazis, etc but the video will be demonitized. Its really lazy, the same with RU-vid turning comments off for anything child related, for example even cartoon theme songs from the 80s where the vast majority of viewers are adults. I think yt can't keep up so they are making these sweeping gestures.
Breathtaking animations, New Historia. All those times I’ve wandered around a classical site, trying to see with my minds eye beyond the modern ruins or modern city to the living ancient ones, THIS is what I’ve been trying to see. You’ve ripped aside the curtain of time better than any other attempt I’ve seen on RU-vid or anywhere else. With gratitude and good wishes ..... from a new fan. PS Equal thanks for the comprehensive bibliography. A real bonus. New Historian, you’re a bit of a find, tbh .
Thank you for this video. In Athens of the classical era the "slaves" were called "oiketai": domestic helpers / servers/ household servants! Unlike Sparta where they were called "eilwtes": hard laboring slaves. Xanthippe, Socrates wife, threw a... skillet against him because he gave back all the food a wealthy citizen sent him as a payment for his teaching in the Agora. Socrates afterwards went to that man and begged for the food he had previously refused to get, because he was teaching for free! He could not sell wisdom! Vanya Kouveli PhD in Ancient Greek ethical & political philosophy
Hey New Historia i am curious why did you stop this channel your last video was 2 years ago. How come you stopped? Did RU-vid end Your channel or is it something else?
Very well put together. I really like Greece. I had a Greek American girlfriend for ten years and went to greece in 2003. My girlfriends mother had a house in Athens and Kos Island and went to Delphi and Patmos Island. Had a Spiritual experience in Delphi and Patmos Island. I really wish i could go back to patmos it has a Mystical, spiritual, religious portal. Delphi also has a presence.
I found it fascinating to learn about the origin of Ancient Greece's city-states, and how the natural boundaries created within the land shaped their development. It's also interesting to hear about the culture of leisure, and how it was made possible by domestic helpers. It's always great to see historical facts being presented in an informative and engaging way, and this video definitely achieved that. Thank you for sharing and educating us on this topic!
I really need a road trip movie about a hapless scribe's walk to the Olympic Games accompanied by Socrates, getting lost and nattering about politics all the while.
It it almost impossible to walk from Athens to Olympia, the city at the steps of Mt. Olympus, even if you had a pass for the Games. Normal people caught rides on ships, usually to portage points, then on towards the next destination.
When I lived in China I had a friend from Tennessee. One night we were eating at an outdoor restaurant with his Chinese friend. In the middle of the meal, his Chinese friend looked at me and said, "Sparta?" probably because it was about a year after the movie "300" came out, and a few people in China mistook me for a Greek before. My friend ripped off his shirt and shouted, "SPARTA!!!" But he was kind of lanky, hairy, and had a beer belly. His Chinese friend goes, "No! You are MONKEY Sparta!" 😂
"Domestic helper" is a standard profession for Overseas Filipino Workers, especially the female ones. In some countries, under certain circumstances, they are "domestic helpers" in the same sense as described here. I won't call out any places, but if you go, say, southeast from Greece to any of the patriarchal societies that treat women the same way as described in this video and you get the picture. On the other side, in tribal societies here in the Philippines women were important, especially those who were spiritual leaders (known here in Mindanao as "baylan"), every bit as important as the tribal chief ("datu"). One thing that I did note is that RU-vid doesn't censor classical art in this video, whereas so often breasts and genitals are blurred out. I completely disagree with any of the forms of censorship of certain terms, nudity and so on, while gratuitous violence is not censored.
RU-vid is ridiculous. Not allowing the use of the word Slave within proper context is outrageous. What doesn't make sense is that I've watched other videos that use the word slave copiously.
I challenge you to see if you can get away with calling them "shaves" in a future video. The sensor bots are pretty thick when it comes to accents and you could totally make it a funny little gag for the channel.
This channel no longer produces wonderful enjoyable videos because of youtube policing and demonitization. Sad these were beatiful and I have been waiting two years for more. Funny how youtube is still making money off these videos but the channel owner can not. The channel owner should sue. Thank you, as the owner, for not removing these videos!
If ancient Greeks were like this how did they create such a memorable civilization? Could Philosophy, math, geometry, arts, advance in a decline society like we saw in this video?
Your thought is correct. Greeks were not like this. There are so many myths out there, that make it very difficult to clarify all mistakes and all slanders. Multiple ancient texts were mistranslated, making things even worse...
@@johncaccioppo1142 well we will be here but if the youtube overlords will erase every good content because of "content policy" what will be the reason to be here? just asking i can't even watch mouse trap videos you know where vermins got caught.
Perhaps using a Greek word such as "doulos" might have been best although it is beyond ridiculous to ban the word "slave", a word that is derived form Medieval Latin "sclavus" which referred to the great numbers of "Slavs" who were sold as, euphemistically speaking, "domestic helpers". Perhaps RU-vid is fearful that some (presumably, mostly American) people might be "triggered" by the word "slave" and hence the need to banish the offending word which refers to an offensive human condition. An Orwellian newspeak term for "slave" has dawned. Thanks Silicon Valley!
The East Romans innConstantinople around 800AD got to know the slaves the Vikings used when reaching the city and they called them sklavi or σκλαβοι = slaves= SLAVS!
A great animation in the deep introduction of the ancient living style. Hope can make some about China or Mongolia (Yuan Dynasty) in China some stage. This is fabulous.
Just came here from his daily life in Egypt video. Okay lets say the Greeks were blessed with a far more lush and fertile environment giving them a much easier, richer lifestyle, and that just makes me respect the Egyptians more. They built what they had under terrific survival pressure with greater constraints on them. Their diet was less varied, lives more frought with disease and dangers like crocodiles and hippos plucking them right from the water. And they has less slaves, especially on their farms. Yes the Greeks were incredible and they gave us much, but they were given much by their environment, they won a geographical lottery, in terms of soil. climate, water, more easily defensible land, access to the ocean over greater expanses of land and not having to deal with so many deadly animals parasites and insects.
@@JohnSmith-fl5qn O wow strong argument followed by ignorance, its ok, let me teach you a bit of history, in sparta when you turned 18 goverment gave you land you got married and lets say you joined the army, you died cause of course you would, and your wife would keep the land, now, she marries again, and oh boy she got 2 lands, but wait, she has children, the boy turns 18 gets a lovely land right next to yours, joins the army and dies, well now she owns 3 lands and so on... It's said women owned so much as 60% of all land in sparta and could also take part in voting and had a lot of power restrain from commenting when you don't know anything, maybe ask someone will teach your ignorant ass
Fascinating. As a boy I was enthralled by ancient Greece. I watched all those Italian Heracles movies. I pretended I was in ancient Athens at a Balboa Park (San Diego, Ca., USA) fountain. For me Balboa Park was ancient Greece...hey, I love the comment thread about slavery. Often the comments are as engaging as the program. Yes, historical context is important for undertanding; but for me, an injustice is an injustice, no matter the context. Slavery was, is, a tragic error for Humanity.
Omg Iäm an Athenian leaving in Finland atm but i got to say thnx you so much from bring my country's past to life i admire your job you are a great artist continue bring the ancient civilizations back to life! What you do is unique and very special and let its mark in this world and help people to visualize the past of every special ancient passivization we thank you! But i got to make one question for you , whats your favorite ancient civilization and what you admire to it most ?
It IS a day job in most country, except in America where most people are too poor to afford help... That's what a slave is, somebody who can't afford domestic helpers.
@@panda_chan6953 I'm not sure why everyone in this comment section is holding RU-vid responsible for something the video maker could have disambiguated without being nicked by RU-vid. But my comment didn't address any of that, I merely cast shade on the absolute definition of "slave". There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of "help". None of them involve illegality as this is something denoted by the reigning political entity... unless doing so suits their immediate whims.
This is the best history channel ever, the quality of the videos and all the information is just mind blowing! Since you already cover up Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome, i wish there would be people that would do the same as you but with other significant eras like Medieval Europe/England, Vikings, Ancient/Edo Japan, Aztec, Ancient China, Ottoman Empire etc. or any important period of time really. Anyways thank you for all the content you have been putting out. Keep it up!
I don't know if they meant it to be funny, but I started laughing when he said, "all things considered, walking is probably the best option." Loving this fascinating and beautiful to watch episode.
Great video! It is really well done, and I enjoyed it. But I do have a couple of complaints: #1: There's a problem with the travel scenario proposed here. Socrates never actually travelled outside Athens, except on a few rare occasions when he was on military campaign during the Peloponnesian War. Plato has Socrates say this in his own words in.... Crito I believe it was. #2: Most trade skills in Athens were performed by μετοικοι (resident aliens) or by δουλοι ('domestic helpers'), not by citizens. The majority of citizens in Athens were farmers, whether big time operations run by aristocrats, ranging all the way down to small plots of land that could barely produce enough food to feed the family. Remember that for most of human history, the overwhelming majority of the population has spent the overwhelming majority of its time farming. For the Greeks, farming was a respectable job, which was one of the few exceptions to Greek snobbishness about doing menial labor. #3: By the time the Delian League (later the Athenian Empire) really got going, small-time piracy in the Aegean sea seems to have been largely under control. Thucydides alludes to efforts made by the Athenians to reign in the problem of piracy. #4.) The lot of women is depicted more or less accurately, but there is one exception: Sparta. Women in Spartan society enjoyed a much higher status than elsewhere in Greece.
I absolutely LOVE that you use animation for your videos. I enjoy watching documentaries very much, this is a nice change of pace and I have watched every one you have available. I
the ''domestic helpers'' existed in rich peoples' houses. The biggest difference compared to slavery in other countries, was that they could apply to take back their freedom, either by the will of their ''owner'' or when doing something outstanding. We people need to understand that it is incosinstent to compare the world of these times with today's standards.
In the American Slave colonies/states, freeing special slaves (manumission) was legal and not uncommon. Furthermore, it was illegal to free them when they were too old, so no kicking them out once they were uneconomical, to fend or starve on their own. There are reasons that the only case in history that slavery grew its numbers by breeding, not capturing new ones, was in the American South.
One citation by Ambrose Bierce: history is a narrative, for the most part false, of events, for the most part insignificant, that it creates a ruler, mostly criminal, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Around the middle, you mention ancient Greeks having or growing corn. Huh? I thought corn, aka maize, was solely an Americas thing (at least until it was brought over the ocean to Europe in the 1500's)
The word corn in some places of the world can be a flexible term for refering to grains such as wheat, oats, or barley, depending on the particular region. I'm guessing this is the context in use here.
Yea, I noticed that too Here's what I found in reddit "This is a running joke among myself and some of my archaeologist friends. It's basically a translation quirk of British scholars. The Greek is usually σῖτος, which generally means wheat, barley, or cereal grains which Brits then translate as corn. Favorite example: The Sitophylakes of Athens were officials in charge of supervising the sale of grain. "Corn Constables" or "Grain Guardians" would both be suitable translations."
Yeah, it's one of those typically american "Weird that you call it this" when it's literally the whole world who calls it this and american english is actually the weird one...
