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1. Introduction
Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205) Professor Donald Kagan explains why peopl...
published: 20 Nov 2008
Author: YaleCourses
1. Introduction
Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205) Professor Donald Kagan explains why people should study the ancient Greeks. He argues that the Greeks are worthy of our study not only because of their vast achievements and contributions to Western civilization (such as in the fields of science, law, and politics) but also because they offer a unique perspective on humanity. To the Greeks, man was both simultaneously capable of the greatest achievements and the worst crimes; he was both great and important, but also mortal and fallible. He was a tragic figure, powerful but limited. Therefore, by studying the Greeks, one gains insight into a tension that has gripped and shaped the West and the rest of the world through its influence. In short, to study the Greeks is to study the nature of human experience. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Ancient Greece as the Foundation of Western Civilization 13:06 - Chapter 2. The Judeo Christian Tradition 24:50 - Chapter 3. Problems Posed by the Western Tradition Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2007.
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Greek Sculpture (BBC: How Art Made The World)
How greek art created something more human than human. Excerpt from the BBC documentary &q...;
published: 27 May 2008
Author: babylonianman
Greek Sculpture (BBC: How Art Made The World)
How greek art created something more human than human. Excerpt from the BBC documentary "How Art Made The World" concerning greek sculpture. Presented by Dr Nigel Spivey (University of Cambridge). Music: "Enfer (La Double Vie De Veronique)" by Zbigniew Preisner.
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Seven Wonders Of Ancient Greece (part1/5)
Documentary which explores the Seven Ancient Wonders of Greece: the Theatre of Epidaurus, ...
published: 18 Nov 2009
Author: 1andonlyhistorylover
Seven Wonders Of Ancient Greece (part1/5)
Documentary which explores the Seven Ancient Wonders of Greece: the Theatre of Epidaurus, Olympia, Delphi, the Colossus of Rhodes, Santorini, The Palace of Knossos and the Parthenon.
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Athens: Ancient Greek Supercity
This documentary examines the city state of Athens during the period of Pericles, their de...
published: 10 Dec 2011
Author: gt68100
Athens: Ancient Greek Supercity
This documentary examines the city state of Athens during the period of Pericles, their democratically elected leader for 30 consecutive years and never ostracized. Pericles had a vision of what Athens should look like and this episode tries to show you what it was in historical context. Athens at that time was also a direct democracy and it was during this period that it achieved its height and its glory, but it was very short-lived. Due to disease and military conflict, Athens eventually had to surrender to Sparta. The documentary focuses on the architectural, cultural and military history of the period. It begins by looking at the Acropolis but more specifically at the Parthenon, one of the most perfect buildings ever constructed and the most duplicated building and architectural style for hundreds of years worldwide. For people who have never seen the Parthenon in person or for those who have, this episode provides you a closer look at the interior of the building, how it was constructed and it's long history, a few of the things that you may have missed on your visit to the Parthenon! They end the segment by showing you how it most likely would have looked like in the past with its statues and its elaborately painted exterior. It also examines in-depth the Agora just below the Acropolis -- the heart of ancient Athens. It looks at its uses, some of the important buildings that were located there and it provides you with a graphical reconstruction of the area and its <b>...</b>
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Engineering an Empire - The Ancient Greeks
Western Civilization has been influenced by many cultures, but it was born in Ancient Gree...
published: 13 Dec 2011
Author: gt68100
Engineering an Empire - The Ancient Greeks
Western Civilization has been influenced by many cultures, but it was born in Ancient Greece. The Ancient Greeks laid a foundation that has supported nearly 3000 years of European history. Philosophers like Aristotle and Socrates, Olympian gods, the beginnings of democracy and great conquering armies can be attributed to the Ancient Greeks. This strong and charismatic people strategically harnessed the materials and people around them to create the most advanced technological feats the world had ever seen. From The Tunnel of Samos: a mile-long aqueduct dug through a large mountain of solid limestone, to Agamemnon's Tomb, to The Parthenon, we will examine the architecture and infrastructure engineered by the Greek Empire. Peter Weller hosts.
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Athens & Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 1/6
Athens & Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 1/6 Ελλη&n...;
published: 28 Feb 2012
Author: ekfansi
Athens & Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 1/6
Athens & Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 1/6 Ελληνικοί υπότιτλοι ancient civilization ATHENS and Sparta were both Greek cities and their people spoke a common language. In every other respect they were different. Athens rose high from the plain. It was a city exposed to the fresh breezes from the sea, willing to look at the world with the eyes of a happy child. Sparta, on the other hand, was built at the bottom of a deep valley, and used the surrounding mountains as a barrier against foreign thought. Athens was a city of busy trade. Sparta was an armed camp where people were soldiers for the sake of being soldiers. The people of Athens loved to sit in the sun and discuss poetry or listen to the wise words of a philosopher. The Spartans, on the other hand, never wrote a single line that was considered literature, but they knew how to fight, they liked to fight, and they sacrificed all human emotions to their ideal of military preparedness.
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Archaic Greek in a modern world
An endangered Greek dialect which is spoken in north-eastern Turkey has been identified by...
published: 04 Jan 2011
Author: CambridgeUniversity
Archaic Greek in a modern world
An endangered Greek dialect which is spoken in north-eastern Turkey has been identified by researchers as a "linguistic goldmine" because of its startling closeness to the ancient language, as Cambridge researcher Dr Ioanna Sitaridou explains.
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The Greeks -- Introduction of the PBS series
The first few moments of the PPS series "The Greeks -- Crucible of civilization"...
published: 20 Jan 2007
Author: ulver22
The Greeks -- Introduction of the PBS series
The first few moments of the PPS series "The Greeks -- Crucible of civilization"
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Greek Odyssey: The land of the Ancient Greeks (1 of 3)
Playlist with all 4 episodes: www.youtube.com Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey Episode: 1...
published: 28 Oct 2011
Author: gt68100
Greek Odyssey: The land of the Ancient Greeks (1 of 3)
Playlist with all 4 episodes: www.youtube.com Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey Episode: 1 of 4 Title: The land of the Ancient Greeks Joanna begins her Greek odyssey at the Parthenon in Athens, which was created by the ancient Greeks two and a half thousand years ago. This was the dawn of western civilisation, which saw the birth of democracy, language, science and medicine. From here Joanna travels around the southern region of Greece from Athens to the Peloponnese, visiting spectacular mythical and historic sites left by this great civilisation. These were places of theatre, death, sport and religion to the Ancients and they represent the very cornerstone of this empire. The Greeks flocked to these sites and Joanna follows in their footsteps. En route she meets modern Greeks who are still influenced by this ancient era. From the marble cutters on the Acropolis who continue to use the same tools as their ancestors, to the Englishman who now worships the god of Apollo at Greece's most sacred place, Delphi. Joanna's route takes her off the tourist trail to places where ancient myths and cultures live on. She meets villagers who communicate by whistling, a lady who lives a solitary life in an almost deserted village, surviving by eating wild plants and shrubs and a fisherman who takes her to the gates of Hades, the underworld, where the Ancients went when they died. Joanna finds inspiration in the isolated peninsula of the Mani, where its haunting tower house settlements and <b>...</b>
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Ancient Athens Part 1
History of Ancient Athens with Greek subtitles from History Channel...
published: 03 Nov 2007
Author: oposoum
Ancient Athens Part 1
History of Ancient Athens with Greek subtitles from History Channel
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Ancient Greek: Reconstructed Pronunciation: Hesiod
This is a recitation of lines 1-20 of Hesiod's Theogony as it would have been pronounc...
published: 01 Apr 2011
Author: MrMucas
Ancient Greek: Reconstructed Pronunciation: Hesiod
This is a recitation of lines 1-20 of Hesiod's Theogony as it would have been pronounced by an Athenian rhapsode in the 4th century BC. All phonological analyses of ancient, dead languages rely on the work of early phoneticians (like Dionysius of Halicarnassus) and on internal evidence (evidence in the language itself). Though there used to be uncertainty on the issue, the majority of scholars now agree on a particular pronunciation. This video presumes this pronunciation and acts upon it. This video also employs the use of pitch accents, a fundamental characteristic of the language not employed in Ancient Greek pedagogy. The results of employing the accents are tremendous. The language sounds thoroughly different. On the acute accent, I rise a fifth. The grave, I choose to ignore, believing with some support that it merely indicates the starting pitch from which the acute rises. On the circumflex, I rise and then dip downward. Stress, although often thought not to exist in Classical Greek at all, was in fact a key element of the language. Dynamic modulation, vowel modification - all key elements of stress are not only impossible to avoid in language generally, but even in music.
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What the Ancient Greeks did for us
The ancient Greek civilisation flourished for about a thousand years, not as a unified cou...
published: 12 Dec 2011
Author: gt68100
What the Ancient Greeks did for us
The ancient Greek civilisation flourished for about a thousand years, not as a unified country but rather as a loose association of city states, both on the mainland of Greece and elsewhere around the Mediterranean. The philosopher Plato described the states as being like a series of frogs sitting around a pond. Although the Greeks drew on the ideas of various earlier civilisations, they were the people who, more than any other, handed down to us the foundations of our democracy, our notions of ethics and justice, our science, our mathematics and our music. But perhaps their most amazing invention is the first known computer. This was a small box stuffed with cogs and moving parts all skilfully made and by turning a handle it would display the movements of planets to an astonishing degree of accuracy -in fact it was a planetarium.
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Athens, Greece: Ancient Acropolis and Agora
Crowned by the mighty Parthenon temple, the Acropolis rises above modern Athens; a lasting...
published: 27 Nov 2009
Author: RickSteves
Athens, Greece: Ancient Acropolis and Agora
Crowned by the mighty Parthenon temple, the Acropolis rises above modern Athens; a lasting testament to Greece's glorious golden age. The Acropolis was the center of ritual and ceremony, and the religious heart of the city. The marketplace at its base is Agora, and was the hub of commercial, political and social life. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit www.ricksteves.com.
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Ancient Greek Music - Mesomedes - Hymn to the Muse
Mesomedes of Crete (Ancient Greek: Μεσομήδη&sig...;
published: 27 Jul 2012
Author: kakosuranosx
Ancient Greek Music - Mesomedes - Hymn to the Muse
Mesomedes of Crete (Ancient Greek: Μεσομήδης ὁ Κρής) was a Greek lyric poet and composer of the early 2nd century. He was a freedman of the Emperor Hadrian source: en.wikipedia.org YMNOΣEIΣMOUΣAN AEIΔEMOYΣAMOIΦIΛH MOΛΠHΣΔEMHΣKATAPXOY AYPHΔEΣΩNAΠAΛΣEΩN EMAΣΦPENAΣΔONEITΩ Hymn to the Muse - by Mesomedes of Crete 2nd century AD Sing, dearest Muse, and help me start my song. Let the breeze coming through your forests make my soul vibrate!
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Homosexuality in Ancient Greece - The Myth is Collapsing [Audio Edited]
Debunking the Myth of Homosexuality in ancient Greece...
published: 16 Apr 2007
Author: HELLENICBLOOD
Homosexuality in Ancient Greece - The Myth is Collapsing [Audio Edited]
Debunking the Myth of Homosexuality in ancient Greece
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Athens vs Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 1 HQ
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published: 02 Oct 2008
Author: documentariess
Athens vs Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 1 HQ
Ελληνικοί υπότιτλοι ancient civilization ATHENS and Sparta were both Greek cities and their people spoke a common language. In every other respect they were different. Athens rose high from the plain. It was a city exposed to the fresh breezes from the sea, willing to look at the world with the eyes of a happy child. Sparta, on the other hand, was built at the bottom of a deep valley, and used the surrounding mountains as a barrier against foreign thought. Athens was a city of busy trade. Sparta was an armed camp where people were soldiers for the sake of being soldiers. The people of Athens loved to sit in the sun and discuss poetry or listen to the wise words of a philosopher. The Spartans, on the other hand, never wrote a single line that was considered literature, but they knew how to fight, they liked to fight, and they sacrificed all human emotions to their ideal of military preparedness.
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According to Ancient Greeks, You're Not Free
Complete video at: fora.tv Professor Hunter Rawlings III explains that ancient Greeks had ...
published: 08 Sep 2009
Author: ForaTv
According to Ancient Greeks, You're Not Free
Complete video at: fora.tv Professor Hunter Rawlings III explains that ancient Greeks had a very different concept of freedom, which they perceived as an obligation, while the American tradition defines freedom as individual rights. ----- Hunter Rawlings, President Emeritus of Cornell University, explores the origins of the American idea of freedom. He explains that it arose from two conflicting schools of thought: the ancient Greek strand, which valued communal society over the individual, and the Enlightenment, which prioritized individual freedom. He discusses how these ideas influenced the founding of America and how they continue to shape modern American society. - Chautauqua Institution Hunter Ripley Rawlings III (born 1945) is an American classics scholar and academic administrator. He is best known for serving as the 10th president of Cornell University from 1995 until 2003. Currently, he serves a professor of classical history in Cornell's Department of History and Department of Classics.
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