I believe that it is the destiny of all good male youtubers to go bald and grow a beard and slowly become more and more eccentric..... I.e. Michael of Vsauce
It shows how long ago this was recorded. It's interesting to use Simon's beard as time stamps 😂. I'm not bored enough yet to figure out when he trimmed it 🤣
Simon's Beard is the secret of his supernatural strength - if he ever were to cut it he would be weakened and vulnerable to capture by the You Tube Philistines.
Re: Spite There are several more steps to go from a CITY-state to a Nation. But in essence you are exactly right, it’s all about turning that tribal loyalty slowly into city, state, national, global and eventually loyalty to the species. The Olympics is a great case study of watching those ties intertwine, both then and now.
Ideas for next Videos Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, King of Hungary and Croatia Wenceslas IV, King of Bohemia
Pericles is cool and this video is very informative but you should give his common-law wife the hetera Asapsia a video because she was such a badass lady
@@shebbs1 where are you getting that that's what it will be? Simon and team have covered quite a lot of people in a reasonably unbiased fashion, why would it be a white wash for this was one person? You are projecting your own bias.
It would be nice if you made a video about Alcibiades, nephew of Pericles and student of Sacrates! His life was like one of a literature hero. Keep up the great work!
Do King George III. We got the cartoonish version of him from Hamilton. The real history of the king during the American Revolution, the Irish Union, and the Napoleonic Wars would be very interesting.
You have to admit that history for the Ancient era is the polar opposite for modern history, since there is a lack of sources then and now too many sources now
Has anyone else noticed that Simon is starting to look like some of the powerful historical figures he talks about? What would his portrait look like? Museum piece, definitely.
Of all the names, of all the historical figures, of all the important happenings, all I recognised was "Argos" and how they're scrapping their catalogues, my brain is just useless... :P
A cool biographic could be about an other larger than life Athenian xenophon the " attic muse" Or the Spartan general klearchos who was to much of a warmonger even for Spartan standards 😁👍
@@PatBat3man I worded it wrong, things I’ve already known I’ve seen in assassin‘s creed odyssey, and things I didn’t know I’ve learned in the game itself to.
Biographics is one of my favorite channels. I'd love to see more videos on Latin American leaders and figures like Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Coronado, Salvador Allende, Rafael Trujillo, Manuel Noriega, Somoza Dynasty etc.. Videos on Aaron Burr, General Sherman, Tecumseh, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison and Daniel Boone would be great too.
@@DrJellyFanguzzz no pantheon is a greek word in and of itself, it was just adopted by Latin speakers. Its essentially an ancient greek hyphenated word that the Roman's mushed into a single word. Pan more or less means 'all' In Greek, and Theon essentially means 'gods' Pantheon was a natural evolution. What this person meant, is that there Is a specific monument built under the Roman Emperor Trajan called "The Pantheon"
Also feels like timy wimy stuff when you realize thus video was recorded pre trimming the beard but uploaded past talking about having had to trim it for family pictures
1:55 - Chapter 1 - Early years 4:15 - Chapter 2 - Athenian politics 5:50 - Chapter 3 - Rise to power 10:45 - Mid roll ads 12:10 - Chapter 4 - Athens vs sparta 16:35 - Chapter 5 - The 1st peloponnesian war 19:55 - Chapter 6 - The age of pericles ends
the word you want is, I believe, helical, or a spiral... although events may appear to repeat, the surrounding conditions are different, and therefore the results will always be different... (I think this was postulated by Hegel, but in a quick search, I couldn't confirm this)
I just wanna take the time to say that I'm amazed by your upload schedule: you have so many channels for today's standards, and yet you manage to keep uploading a lot of quality videos (with lots of research required for every single video) on all your channels every week. Your work ethic (and I assume, your team's work ethic), is unbelievable. Congrats.
@@TihetrisWeathersby Stop it. Don't you know all "games" are meant to be historically accurate and cannot take any liberties for entertainment and creative purposes you fool! Also Halo sucked because the Flood were actually called the "Flud". Silly developers, bad game.
Hey Simon--I'm usually a big fan of your work, but this time... nothing on the funeral oration? Aspasia? Alcibiades? The political vacuum Pericles left behind? This video felt more like a history of Athens during Pericles' time than a Pericles video. Better luck next time.
Πρώτο πολίτη των Αθηνών! During Pericles' rule (461-429 BC), Athens was truly at its "Golden Period" (Χρυσού Αιώνα), whether culturally, economically, militarily or politically. In the V century BC, Athens was at the height of its power. Throughout the V century BC, in my own words, Athens represented the "pride" and the "glory of Attica (Η υπερηφάνεια και η δόξα της Αττικής), the "cradle of democracy" (Το λίκνο της δημοκρατίας), the "queen of Attica" (Η βασίλισσα της Αττικής), a "city of philosophers and scholars" (Μια πόλη φιλοσόφων και μελετητών), the "capital of philosophy" (Η πρωτεύουσα της φιλοσοφίας) and the "queen of the cities" (Η βασίλισσα των πόλεων). The construction of the Parthenon, in my historical analysis, had exactly the intention to symbolize and "personify" the glory of the city. The Athenian Acropolis (Ακρόπολη Αθηνών), more precisely the Parthenon, became "Pericles' greatest legacy" ("Η μεγαλύτερη κληρονομιά του Περικλή"), as I like to call the monument. The Parthenon was not only the greatest legacy of the men who was called the "first citizen of Athens" (Πρώτο πολίτη των Αθηνών), but it was also (and still is) the very "personification" of the Athenian Golden Age, the so-called "Age of Pericles (Εποχή του Περικλή). Pericles' legacy, therefore, remained intact!
Having to currently re-read Thucydides’ Pelipponesian war, this video’s timing was very freaky, tho the comment about his head bugged me, that was the responsibility of his enemies, such as cleon, who claimed this because his statues were always with him wearing a helmet
Please do videos on the following people: 1. Dennis Rader 2. Jack London 3. Upton Sinclair 4. Jack Ketchum 5. Jane Austen 6. Anton LaVey 7. Annalise Michel
@Kevin Cline Dennis Rader is the BTK killer. Upton Sinclair was an early 20th century writer, journalist and socialist. Anton LaVey founded the Church of Satan. And Annalise Michel was a German woman who died during an exorcism and whose family and exorcist were later put on trial for it (it inspired the movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose).
SIMON! You MUST do a video on Lord Timothy Dexter. I know you get this all the time but even a brief look at his life will confirm what I know to be true.
Simon, I love your videos and stuff BUT butchering a few Japanese and/or German pronounciations may be OK, most of the time, calling the PARTHENON the Pantheon, which is in ROME, is too much! The most elegant building ever built deserves a bit better!
I came here for PERICLES, and what I got was the history of Athenian politics. Yes, a little background about the politics was necessary but if I'm told about the politics for 14.30 mins, then someone is wrong with the research... Tell me about the famous oration that Pericles gave, his strategies regarding the building of Athens and empowering Labour classes etc
The only downside to this channel is the INSANE amount of ads RU-vid puts on every video. It's seriously every 2 or 3 minutes I get two ads. Always right before the mid video sponsor plug, and right after too
Plutarch's kinda not particularly reliable as a source since I'm pretty sure he even states in that his work isn't really meant to be historically accurate, he was basically just trying to entertain people with his stories of history... Like I think there'd be people having dinner while Plutarch talked about the history of Alexander The Great as a sort of entertainment thing... So he has a lot of crazy aspects to his stories that don't seem very realistic plus he goes into details that it's not very likely he'd know about considering he lived centuries after Alexander The Great... Like he's probably one of the best sources available for some of that stuff along with Arrian, but still...
Great video. Can you do one on Xenophon please? He had a truly interesting life, studying under socrates, then the famous march of the 10,000 in asia, then being exiled by athens and living with spartans, participating in the battle of coronea, as well as being an avid writer.
Yep, I`ve been to the Panthenon whilst never been to Greece. I remember a lass - by the way - telling me that the Menin Gate is in Berlin. I told her that I`ve walked under and through the Menin Gate whilst never having ever set foot in Germany, but she would still have none of it. I think she might have been thinking of the Brandenburg Gate.
Not related to this topic specifically, but just finished watching your videos on Murieta and Zacapa and I think you might like to look into and probably do a video on Francisco Morazán from Honduras (and Central America as he is know as "The Paladin of Central America" since his influence spanned the 5 countries and beyond) 😀!
Hey, Simon! Really love all your channels.. Thank you! It'd be really great to see more bio's on women of history (if you're able to dig some up, that is. I know you'd be aware women have been historically excluded from notable history, so their info is not as widely available). Anyhow, think of it as a challenge ;) And keep up the great work.
The point about Spartans objecting to the other Athenian City States building walls reminds me of learning about some famous Spartan Quotes. When asked why Sparta didn't have walls, one leader pointed to the Spartan soldiers and replied that the soldiers were the walls of Sparta. When shown the fortifications of another Greek City, one Spartan leader remarked that it looked like a nice home for Women. Interesting to learn here that Spartans thought city walls were a weakness if an invader occupied a walled location, they would also be much harder to root out.
Simon, I've been watching so much of business blaze I've been waiting for your bah bah BOOM's LOL! I love all your channels and beng them everyday, keep up all the great content on all of them. 🤙🤙
Can you please do a video on Rod Sterling at some point? I'm a huge fan of the channel and would love to see one either on Rod Sterling or Alfred Hitchcock.
We wish to know about Abu Ali Hasan ibn Ali Tusi,....titled "Nizam al-Mulk",.........which is equivalent to the "'Order of the Realm", in English,...the archetypal "good vizier" of Islamic history...😉😉😉😉😉😉😉.....April 10, 1018 - October 14, 1092,..........a Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuk Empire......was the de facto ruler of the empire for 20 years after the assassination of Alp Arslan in 1072,.........☺☺☺☺☺😀😀😀😀😀🤗🤗🤗🤗💓💓💓
The nay watch,.........is looking marvelous and quite classy on you,.........😀😀😀😀😘😘😘😘😘 typical to every other navy thing on you,.............😉😉😉😉😄😄😄😄😄😄🤩
Awesome video Ancient Greece is interesting but not my favorite time period I’m still hoping you’ll do a video on Alexander suvorov soon If not then at least another Romanov Though if you wanted to change up monarchs have you done any Chinese emperors or even Korean emperors? That could be cool
