- published: 10 Jun 2008
- views: 8714
- author: MEGANUT29
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Greek Colonization
ROME The Greeks started to colonize a long time ago. It started with Romulus and Remus who...
published: 10 Jun 2008
author: MEGANUT29
Greek Colonization
ROME The Greeks started to colonize a long time ago. It started with Romulus and Remus who were Greek Trojans. Their father and mother fled Troy after the war of Troy. They were then born in Alba Longa. After they were around 30 they found the city of Rome. They then took the Greek alphabet and changed it to Latin. More Greeks came there also after a while. Rome then took the Greek Gods and Latinized them. They also took Hercules. Henceforth if you can trace your family lineage to Rome you are a Greek and your ancestors came from Troy. SICILY The Peloponnese Greeks sailed to Sicily. They colonized most of the land. They then started to speak a dialect of Greek which has little Latin influence (Sicilian). This region was called Magna Graecia (Greater Greece). Henceforth if you can trace your linage to Sicily you are Greek. KINGDOM OF NAPLES The Greeks from Macedonia which was part of Byzantium sailed to the land above Sicily. This whole land was called the Kingdom of Naples in 1494. They colonized this and started to speak Latin, Sicilian, and the closest language to Greek, Griko. Henceforth if you can trace your linage to the Kingdom of Naples you are Greek. CYRENAICA (CYRENE) The Greeks colonized Cyrene. These Greeks were from Crete. Cyrene comes from the Greek word Crete. Look carefully Krit, Kriti, Kyrit, Kyreti, Cyrete, Crete. That was the evolution of Crete. The second last one was Cyrete. The evolution of Cretan is: Krito, Kritas, Kyriton. Kyrene, Cyrene, Cretan ...
- published: 10 Jun 2008
- views: 8714
- author: MEGANUT29
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published: 02 Jan 2013
author: PersianFunnyClip
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- published: 02 Jan 2013
- views: 4122
- author: PersianFunnyClip
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Corinth: Mother of Greek Colonies
The song is ΠΑΠΑΡΟΥΝΑ (Poppy) by Notis Sfakianakis (ΝΟΤΗΣ ΣΦΑΚΙΑΝΑΚΗΣ). The paintings are ...
published: 24 Jun 2008
author: Yanitsaros
Corinth: Mother of Greek Colonies
The song is ΠΑΠΑΡΟΥΝΑ (Poppy) by Notis Sfakianakis (ΝΟΤΗΣ ΣΦΑΚΙΑΝΑΚΗΣ). The paintings are mostly by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema. There is a lot to say on a city such as Corinth (Κόρινθος). She has mythical heroes like Bellerophon (βελλεροφῶν) who rode Pegasus (Πήγασος) and slaughtered the Chimera (Χίμαιρα). She is also the home of Arion the great poet. Periander (Περίανδρος), one of the seven wise men of Greece is also Corinthian. Corinth was by far the richest city of Ancient Greece. She was inhabited by Dorians, and her artisans created great hellenic sculptures and weapons. The shield and helmet of Corinth was the model for most of the other Greek city-states. The Corinthian column structure was especially favoured during the Hellenist Era after Alexander the Great. Corinth's wealth came from arts, trade, commerce, shipping and science. Ancient Greeks used to say 'not everyone can afford to live in Corinth'. Corinth also had many colonies, such as Syracuse in Sicily, Apollonia, Epidamnus and Ambracia in Epirus. Corinth's troubles with some of its colonies led to the Peloponnesian war. Corinth was the city that Philip II of Macedon chose to make the Hellenic League, to plan the invasion of Persia. Corinth destroyed by the Romans, later rebuilt and it became the capital city of the Achaean province of the Roman Empire. Corinthian women had long hair tied in the back with a knot held together with ivory and silver hairpins. Paul the Apostle instructed these women to cover ...
- published: 24 Jun 2008
- views: 5898
- author: Yanitsaros
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GREECE, THE LAND WHERE MYTHS REPLACE THE HISTORY. (Myths about Epirus)-PART V-
There is nothing Greek in Illyria and its geographical division Epirus, beside some coloni...
published: 09 Dec 2009
author: arberiaonline
GREECE, THE LAND WHERE MYTHS REPLACE THE HISTORY. (Myths about Epirus)-PART V-
There is nothing Greek in Illyria and its geographical division Epirus, beside some colonies: And since we are talking about Epirus, there was only two of them with Greek colonists(not natives), Ambracia and Corcyra which was build in the Corcyra island originally inhabited by the Illyrian Liburnians. Almost all ancient authors who described Epirus were stressing the term Hellenic polises(urbes-lat.) for the Greek colonies in Epirus and Illyria, a term that wouldnt be necessary to use if Epirus was a Greek land. Epirus is a geographical term, and opposed to the general idea does not have ethnic implication in its meaning, when we talk about ancient times. It was inhabited from a series of Illyrian and Thracian tribes and Greek colonies, people who had in common the same origin and was sharing the same language who is regarded today as Greek but was in fact the language of all these people, and if we name it: Pelasgian, we dont fall in big mistake, although the wrong idea spread from Greek propaganda that this race was living only in Greece before the arrival of Greeks.
- published: 09 Dec 2009
- views: 4325
- author: arberiaonline
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7. The Greek "Renaissance" - Colonization and Tyranny (cont.)
Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205) In this lecture, Professor Donald Kagan e...
published: 20 Nov 2008
author: YaleCourses
7. The Greek "Renaissance" - Colonization and Tyranny (cont.)
Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205) In this lecture, Professor Donald Kagan explores the rise of Greek colonies. He argues that the rise of new colonies was primarily due to the need for new farmland, although he acknowledges several other important reasons. He also shows where the Greeks colonized and explains that the process of founding a new colony probably took place within the dynamics of a polis. Finally, he offers a few important outcomes of this colonizing impulse. 00:00 - Chapter 1. The Rise of the Greek Colony 12:01 - Chapter 2. How Greek Colonies (or Apoikiai) Worked 37:55 - Chapter 3. Mapping the Colonies 57:27 - Chapter 4. Consequences of Colonization to Greek Life Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2007.
- published: 20 Nov 2008
- views: 16316
- author: YaleCourses
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SPARTA TOTAL WAR PrincessOfMacedon and HECTOR.
Ancient Greek and Macedonia My total war player friends were asked exhibit total war games...
published: 29 Dec 2010
author: SithParmenionRadomex
SPARTA TOTAL WAR PrincessOfMacedon and HECTOR.
Ancient Greek and Macedonia My total war player friends were asked exhibit total war games,prior rome total war and medieval2total war will be exhibited . I received authority broadcast ranger group games ,particularly preferred modes of total war, First games belonging to hectorian first packet sent to me by courier .When reached other players hey will be publish this game sent by PrincessOfMacedon rome total war Sparta total war strategy game ancient wars sparta empire Teutons British tribes Numidia Iberia Macedonia Thrace Scythians Illyrians The Celts Roman Empire Lydia Egypt Babylon Persian Greek colonies Carthage Phoenicia
- published: 29 Dec 2010
- views: 12478
- author: SithParmenionRadomex
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Professor Jack Davis on The New Greek Temple at Apollonia
The New Greek Temple at Apollonia: Excavations of a New Greek Temple: The Bonjakët Hamlet ...
published: 18 Aug 2011
author: UoNCC
Professor Jack Davis on The New Greek Temple at Apollonia
The New Greek Temple at Apollonia: Excavations of a New Greek Temple: The Bonjakët Hamlet near Illyrian Apollonia By Professor Jack Davis Free Public Seminar -- Held on Tuesday 9 August 2011 at 1 pm Cultural Collections, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle, Australia Background: Jack Davis completed his undergraduate education at the University of Akron in 1972 and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati in 1977. From there he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he taught until 1993. Since 1993 he has been a member of the faculty at the University of Cincinnati where he holds the post of Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology. Since 2007 he has been serving as Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Professor Davis has directed archaeological projects on the island of Keos, in the Nemea Valley, and in the area of the Palace of Nestor in Messenia. His research interests include the history and archaeology of Ottoman and early modern Greece and the history of Classical archaeology, in particular its relationship to nationalist movements in the Balkans. Currently Prof Davis is directing regional studies and excavations in Albania, in the hinterlands of the ancient Greek colonies of Durrachium/Epidamnos and Apollonia and he is also engaged in a project to publish unpublished finds from Blegen's excavations at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. For more info: uoncc.wordpress.com
- published: 18 Aug 2011
- views: 321
- author: UoNCC
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REVIEWING AN ""ANCIENT"" MAP.(Part II)
When it comes to the language spoken by Epirotes has been implied as Greek by the map crea...
published: 12 Nov 2009
author: arberiaonline
REVIEWING AN ""ANCIENT"" MAP.(Part II)
When it comes to the language spoken by Epirotes has been implied as Greek by the map creator, and supported only from the scripts found on a limited number of archeological artifacts such as coins, tablets, steles etc most of which are found where ancient Greek colonies were established, and almost never in a rural Epirotic area. The truth is that very few scholars are suggesting Epirotic language to be a form of Greek. Lets grant the pleasure to them for now, admitting that Epirotes were using Greek, but if so, what about uncountable coins, steles, tablets from Illyria where scripts found on artifacts were Greek, and not only around places where Greek colonies had been built, but everywhere even in the most remote Illyrian cities, far from Greek influence? The excuse that only the Illyrian elite was using the Greek language is just such, otherwise it must be applied for the Epirotic elite too, making null the argument that entire population of Epirus had been speaking Greek. So the selective reasoning of these scholars is just another speculation, making inevitable the falsity of their arguments and the map where those pseudo arguments are synthesized.
- published: 12 Nov 2009
- views: 868
- author: arberiaonline
10:32
SPARTA TOTAL WAR mod Hectorian v RangerXIIIjustlikebrothers.
My total war player friends were asked exhibit total war games,prior rome total war and me...
published: 04 Dec 2010
author: SithParmenionRadomex
SPARTA TOTAL WAR mod Hectorian v RangerXIIIjustlikebrothers.
My total war player friends were asked exhibit total war games,prior rome total war and medieval2total war will be exhibited . I received authority broadcast ranger group games ,particularly preferred modes of total war, First games belonging to hectorian first packet sent to me by courier .When reached other players hey will be publish rome total war darth mod strategy game ancient wars sparta empire Teutons British tribes Numidia Iberia Macedonia Thrace Scythians Illyrians The Celts Roman Empire Lydia Egypt Babylon Persian Greek colonies Carthage Phoenicia
- published: 04 Dec 2010
- views: 2955
- author: SithParmenionRadomex
5:48
Sexy Italian dancer
Not for the faint hearted!! Parts of South Italy in ancient times were Greek colonies. Eve...
published: 12 Sep 2009
author: HARRY TSOUKALAS
Sexy Italian dancer
Not for the faint hearted!! Parts of South Italy in ancient times were Greek colonies. Even today they still use ancient Greek words. A local band visited Arillas in Corfu. They brought with them the goddesses. Was this one dancing Aphrodite or Diana?
- published: 12 Sep 2009
- views: 2242
- author: HARRY TSOUKALAS
1:11
GREEK COLONIES
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published: 18 Feb 2012
author: TheCjorgensen
GREEK COLONIES
- published: 18 Feb 2012
- views: 43
- author: TheCjorgensen
9:40
RomeTotal War DARTH mod TheHectorian vRangerXIIIJustlikebrothers
My total war player friends were asked exhibit total war games,prior rome total war and me...
published: 04 Dec 2010
author: SithParmenionRadomex
RomeTotal War DARTH mod TheHectorian vRangerXIIIJustlikebrothers
My total war player friends were asked exhibit total war games,prior rome total war and medieval2total war will be exhibited . I received authority broadcast ranger group games ,particularly preferred modes of total war, First games belonging to hectorian first packet sent to me by courier .When reached other players hey will be publish Phoenicia Carthage Greek polis Greek colonies Persian Empire Babylon Egypt Lydia Roman Empire The Celts The Celts Illyrians Illyrians Scythians Thrace Macedonia Iberia Numidia British tribes Teutons
- published: 04 Dec 2010
- views: 1342
- author: SithParmenionRadomex
8:11
Ancient Greek Temples (part 3)
The 3rd video in the trilogy, presents the Ancient Greek Temples of Greek colonies in sout...
published: 04 Jul 2009
author: dionisosb
Ancient Greek Temples (part 3)
The 3rd video in the trilogy, presents the Ancient Greek Temples of Greek colonies in southern Italy and Sicily. The region is known as the "Magna Grecia"
- published: 04 Jul 2009
- views: 5204
- author: dionisosb
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Ancient Greek Cities in Italy - Magna Graecia.
Ancient Greek Cities in Italy - Magna Graecia. Explore the virtual streets of the original...
published: 24 Aug 2012
author: ekfansi
Ancient Greek Cities in Italy - Magna Graecia.
Ancient Greek Cities in Italy - Magna Graecia. Explore the virtual streets of the original Greek colonies of Italy, and experience the creation of the Magna Graecia. tjbuggey.ancients.info news.bbc.co.uk Magna Græcia (Latin meaning "Great Greece", Greek: Μεγάλη Ἑλλάς, Megálē Hellás) is the name of the coastal areas of Southern Italy on the Tarentine Gulf that were extensively colonized by Greek settlers; particularly the Achaean colonies of Tarentum, Croton, and Sybaris, but also, more loosely, the cities of Cumae and Neapolis to the north. The colonists, who began arriving in the 8th century BC, brought with them their Hellenic civilization, which was to leave a lasting imprint in Italy, particularly on the culture of ancient Rome. Antiquity Main article: Greek colonies ("apoikiai") In the eighth and seventh centuries BC, for various reasons, including demographic crisis (famine, overcrowding, etc.), the search for new commercial outlets and ports, and expulsion from their homeland, Greeks began to settle in southern Italy (Cerchiai, pp. 14--18). Also during this period, Greek colonies were established in places as widely separated as the eastern coast of the Black Sea, Eastern Libya and Massalia (Marseille). They included settlements in Sicily and the southern part of the Italian Peninsula. The Romans called the area of Sicily and the foot of Italy Magna Graecia (Latin, "Great Greece"), since it was so densely inhabited by the Greeks. The ancient geographers differed on ...
- published: 24 Aug 2012
- views: 631
- author: ekfansi
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4:17
No Safe Words
A single-channel view of the piece. Check out the installation documentation video here: h...
published: 18 May 2010
author: Noam Gonick
No Safe Words
A single-channel view of the piece. Check out the installation documentation video here: http://vimeo.com/11270893
The New Water Sports:
Totalitarian Aesthetics, Pride and the Cleansing of Queer Identity in Noam Gonick’s No Safe Words.
By Francisco-Fernando Granados
Noam Gonick’s No Safe Words is a multi-channel video installation that expands on a short film originally shown in large outdoor screens during the 2008 Toronto Pride Parade. The short film is contextualized by footage documenting the parade and the prominent participation of police forces in the festivities. Queer and politicized, the piece operates at the uncomfortable juncture where oppressive state apparatuses meet public expressions of non-normative sexuality. Appropriating the conventions and venues of mass media, Gonick uses contemporary and historical references to draw a link between the politics of totalitarianism and the aesthetics of sexual power-play that coincide in current North American culture. No Safe Words makes visible a kind of late capitalist gay identity that seeks to un-queer itself, obscuring the history of struggle for gay rights and creating a problematic dynamic that allows some queer bodies to pass as normative and achieve privileges while leaving oppressive hierarchical structures intact.
Gonick utilizes the aesthetics and channels of mass media to intervene in the logic of popular visual culture. No Safe Words recalls Sunday Night Football promotional spots, putting together electric guitar-driven music, animated commentary, popping captions and action shots commonly featured in sports advertising. But the conventions and the logic end there. The players are called “fudge packers.” Instead of famous NFL giants like Peyton Manning and Adrian Peterson, the stars featured here are Adolf Hitler and Augusto Pinochet. The teams in the scoreboard are Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. Muscular young men, most of them white, cross the boundaries between the athletic and the erotic by engaging in light bondage and making each other wet with beer and water. This is not NBC, but it looks like it could pass. Placed in an outdoor mega screen, the film functions as a queer impostor, planted by Gonick as a means to address the lack of political awareness that is often encountered in contemporary pride parades across large North American urban centres. By creating a sequence that passes as a mainstream media form, the film gives its public something to recognize, but quickly twists this recognition by inserting a seemingly unrelated combination of references to gay male sexuality – “fudge-packers” being men who to anally penetrate other men – and totalitarian politics – Hitler and Pinochet being genocidal dictators.
While the relationship between homoeroticism and totalitarianism explored in the piece may not be immediately recognizable, there are a series of iconographic precedents in the history of Western art that link the two. Gonick shows one of the football players, shirtless, tied to a post; his long curly hair drips with beer poured on by his mates. “I think he likes it!” says the announcer, explaining the athletic young man’s open-mouthed smile. He is presented in ecstatic captivity, the sexual appeal of his body only intensified by the vulnerability of his situation. The open-mouthed smile grants an identity to the body. His pose and expression recall Il Sodoma’s 1531 work, Saint Sebastian. The painting presents the saint, almost naked, being pierced by arrows but with a rather orgasmic expression on his face. Gonick’s allusion to Il Sodoma provides historical context to his choice of subject matter.
Citing examples that range from Ancient Greek sculpture to early twentieth century photography in the racist American South, Stephen F. Eisenman traces the history of representations of violence as bliss. The “formula of beautiful suffering” (111) presents victims in rapture, as though their punishment transported them into a state of delight. The representation of such delight in punishment works as a legitimization of violence. The Christian civilizing mission of sixteenth century Europe frames the beautiful suffering in Il Sodoma’s image; Gonick’s critical iteration of the formula is framed by the politics of North American occupation in the Middle East. He restages the formula of beautiful suffering in No Safe Words, amplifying its scale and highlighting its persistence in Western culture.
No Safe Words recasts the images of (homo)sexualized torture that have emerged in the aftermath of North American intervention in the Middle East. In another scene, five bare-chested hunks, arms tied back again, kneel in line facing the camera. Rainbow coloured underwear is put on their heads by men dressed in dark gear. The men then pour bottled water on the captive’s heads. These are “the new water sports,” the voiceover says. The image of underwear covering a man’s features echo
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[English/French Subtitles] Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah(HA) - War On Terror - March 21, 2002
Landmark speech by Hizbullah Secretary General - delivered on the 20st of March 2002 (6th ...
published: 03 Jul 2011
author: Shabbir Hassanally
[English/French Subtitles] Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah(HA) - War On Terror - March 21, 2002
Landmark speech by Hizbullah Secretary General - delivered on the 20st of March 2002 (6th Muharram 1423) regarding the recently (at that time recently) US imposed so-called "War on Terrorism" - following the attacks on the World Trade Centre Towers in New York.
This version has English and French Subtitles.
"The racial discrimination towards the blacks is still persisting in every aspect. Moreover, there is a racial discrimination towards the Red Indians who are the original inhabitants of the country. ...I tell you frankly that if it wasn't for the determined willingness, ... and fight of the Palestinian people, the Americans and their civilization would have decided to solve that problem of...Palestinians just like they did with the Indians. This is the picture that lies in the mind of the American." --Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah - Muharram 7, 1423
The Secretary General of Hizbullah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah(HA), addressing the people on the seventh night of Muharram for the year 1423 (March 20, 2002)
In this lecture, Sayyed Hassan(HA), explains the roots of Zionist occupation and American colonialism and so-called "New World Order", this is well worth reading.
In the Name of Allah the most Beneficent and most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah the lord of the world, and may peace and Allah's praises be upon our master and prophet, the purifier of our sins, and the love of our hearts Mohammed ibn Abdullah followed by his pure progeny, rightful followers, and all the martyrs and mujahideen for Allah's teachings since the birth of Adam until the day of judgment.
May peace be upon you my lord and master Abu Abdullah Al Hussein, and upon those spirits who are floating around thy grave.
I send you my adoration as long as night follows day.
I ask my dear Allah to keep me committed to continuously visit thee and thy family.
May peace be upon Al Hussein, Ali the son of Al Hussein, the sons of Al Hussein, and the followers of Al Hussein.
Dear brothers and sisters, May peace be upon you all;
Allah says in his Glory book Verily, Fir'aun (Pharaoh) exalted himself in the land and made its people sects, weakening (oppressing) a group (i.e. Children of Israel) among them: killing their sons, and letting their females live. Verily, he was of the Mufsidûn (i.e. those who commit great sins and crimes, oppressors, tyrants). And We wished to do a favor to those who were weak (and oppressed) in the land, and to make them rulers and to make them the inheritors, And to establish them in the land, and We let Fir'aun (Pharaoh) and Hâmân and their hosts receive from them that which they feared.
Let's remember some of the words in my speech I read to you on the first night.
I said that Al Hussein may peace be upon him, rose up and fought with the very few members of his family and his companions. He was protecting Islam, the values of Islam, and the existence of this religion, in order to prevent its termination, transformation, vanishing, or the manipulation of its teachings in an aim to send the people back to the early days of ignorance.
I added saying that there are many challenges at this time in which we are living. The declaration of war by the American Administration these days is nothing but a war on Islam, on the values of Islam, on the understandings of Islam, on the Quraan of Islam, and on the Prophet of Islam on the grounds that the existence this religion lives among the people of this nation and its Muslim followers.
I would like to stand up today in the atmosphere of this declaration of war to try and comprehend, explain, and realize the issues widely surrounding us. Consequently we'll realize our stand, the enemy we are facing, and the sort of reality or fact we are living in at this present time.
When we go back and read some of the words or phrases of the American president Bush speeches during the past few days, weeks and months, we will find that some of his words and phrases identified the title of this war.
For example, from what he said: it is the responsibility of each American at the present time to guarantee the domination and the spread of the American values in other parts of this world. I repeat the domination and the spread of the American values in other parts of this world. He spoke these words while he was addressing his officers and soldiers, encouraging them to be patient, endure and tolerate the difficulties.
He told them we are fighting for the values of civilization (of course it would be the materialistic American civilization!). He promises to send forces to this country or that in more than one occasion, and that he aims at transferring the values of the American society to the various countries, societies, and states, since terror cannot be exterminated by the means of military and security only. Yet he says it should be fought by means of culture, which means that we should wipe out the culture that gives birth to terrorists and uprisings, in order to replace it
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Delta Epsilon Psi Rho Colony Presentation
Rho Colony of Delta Epsilon Psi presented the greek council with this video for their acce...
published: 26 Apr 2011
author: Viraj Ajmeri
Delta Epsilon Psi Rho Colony Presentation
Rho Colony of Delta Epsilon Psi presented the greek council with this video for their acceptance.
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Delta Phi Lambda - GVSU Multicultural Greek Showcase
Delta Phi Lambda, GVSU Colony, performs at the 2010 Multicultural Greek Showcase....
published: 31 Mar 2010
author: GVgreeks
Delta Phi Lambda - GVSU Multicultural Greek Showcase
Delta Phi Lambda, GVSU Colony, performs at the 2010 Multicultural Greek Showcase.
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Agrigento - Archaelogical Site - Sicily - Italy
Ferries to Sicily: ferriessicily.com Agrigento, is a city on the southern coast of Sicily,...
published: 01 Dec 2010
author: THEWORLDOFTRAVEL
Agrigento - Archaelogical Site - Sicily - Italy
Ferries to Sicily: ferriessicily.com Agrigento, is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragas (also known as Acragas (Ἀκράγας) in Greek, Agrigentum in Latin and Kerkent in Arabic), one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden age of Ancient Greece.Agrigento was founded on a plateau overlooking the sea, with two nearby rivers, the Hypsas and the Akragas, and a ridge to the north offering a degree of natural fortification. Its establishment took place around 582-580 BCE and is attributed to Greek colonists from Gela, who named it Akragas. Akragas grew rapidly, becoming one of the richest and most famous of the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia. It came to prominence under the 6th-century tyrants Phalaris and Theron, and became a democracy after the overthrow of Theron's son Thrasydaeus. Although the city remained neutral in the conflict between Athens and Syracuse, its democracy was overthrown when the city was sacked by the Carthaginians in 406 BCE. Akragas never fully recovered its former status, though it revived to some extent under Timoleon in the latter part of the 4th century. ( source Wikipedia )
- published: 01 Dec 2010
- views: 652
- author: THEWORLDOFTRAVEL
14:39
Ancient Greek Cities in Italy - Magna Graecia 1/2
Explore the virtual streets of the original Greek colonies of Italy, and experience the cr...
published: 11 Mar 2012
author: phocaean
Ancient Greek Cities in Italy - Magna Graecia 1/2
Explore the virtual streets of the original Greek colonies of Italy, and experience the creation of the Magna Graecia. Magna Græcia (Latin meaning "Great Greece", Greek: Μεγάλη Ἑλλάς, Megálē Hellás) is the name of the coastal areas of Southern Italy on the Tarentine Gulf that were extensively colonized by Greek settlers; particularly the Achaean colonies of Tarentum, Crotone, and Sybaris, but also, more loosely, the cities of Cumae and Neapolis to the north.[1] The colonists, who began arriving in the 8th century BC, brought with them their Hellenic civilization, which was to leave a lasting imprint in Italy, particularly on the culture of ancient Rome.
- published: 11 Mar 2012
- views: 368
- author: phocaean
1:59
Delphi - Greece
Ferries to Greece: ferriesgreece.org Delphi is both an archaeological site and a modern to...
published: 05 Jul 2010
author: THEWORLDOFTRAVEL
Delphi - Greece
Ferries to Greece: ferriesgreece.org Delphi is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python, a deity who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth. Python (derived from the verb pythein, "to rot") is claimed by some to be the original name of the site in recognition of the Python that Apollo defeated (Miller, 95). The Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo recalled that the ancient name of this site had been Krisa. His sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 586 BC (Miller, 96) athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic (or stephanitic) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics. The victors at Delphi were presented with a laurel crown which was ceremonially cut down from a tree in Tempe by a boy who re-enacted the slaying of the Python (Miller, 96). Delphi was set apart from the other games sites because it hosted the mousikos agon, musical competitions (Miller, 95). These Pythian Games rank second among the four stephanitic games chronologically and based on importance (Miller, 96). These games, though, were different from the games at Olympia in that they were not of such vast importance to the ...
- published: 05 Jul 2010
- views: 4055
- author: THEWORLDOFTRAVEL
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Proud To Be Hellene (Greek)
There are thousands of reasons to be proud, if you are a Greek (Hellene). At this video, y...
published: 11 Apr 2008
author: Nikos AE
Proud To Be Hellene (Greek)
There are thousands of reasons to be proud, if you are a Greek (Hellene). At this video, you can see only some of them. I recently saw some Albanian videos, claiming Epirus was Illyrian, when at the same time we are not even sure that Albanians have something to do with Illyrians! In their trying to promote their country they show us as Illyrian, the ancient monuments of Greek colonies at Lissus, Epidamnus, Apollonia, Dassaretis, Antipatrea and all the southern cities of modern Albania, when it's obvious they are Greek! They claim Pyrrhus the king of Epirus and Alexander the Great were Illyrians when both of them and their kingdoms were obviously Greek. Every ancient inscription is Greek (actually they are EXACTLY the same with Modern Greek as showed in this clip). About Fake Macedonians or VETOnias (which is their temporary country's recent name), I have nothing to say. Even my friend Patrick is clever enough to understand that is useless to try to convince them. It's more possible for a stone to understand than for a brainwashed, unhistorical, VETOnian. As for their supporters, Bush and his government's policy: I have no comment (there are enough clips in YouTube). MUSIC: 01 Nightwish - Troy soundtrack -- Tristania 02 Clint Mansell - Lord of the Rings - Two Towers Trailer Song (Requim for a Dream) 03 Immediate Music 3- Epicon 04 300 Soundtrack - 15 - No Mercy 05 Clint Mansell - Requiem For A Dream - 32 - Lux Aeterna
- published: 11 Apr 2008
- views: 29959
- author: Nikos AE
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