- published: 03 Nov 2007
- views: 70039
- author: oposoum
45:21
Athens: Ancient Greek Supercity
This documentary examines the city state of Athens during the period of Pericles, their de...
published: 11 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 ...
- published: 11 Dec 2011
- views: 76011
- author: gt68100
2:18
Reconstruction of Ancient Athenian Girl
Scientists in Greece have reconstructed the face of an ancient Athenian girl, using the te...
published: 14 Sep 2010
author: NTDTV
Reconstruction of Ancient Athenian Girl
Scientists in Greece have reconstructed the face of an ancient Athenian girl, using the teeth and skull found in a mass grave. Named "Myrtis", the life size mannequin now forms part of an exhibition called "Face to Face with the Past." Greek scientists and archaeologists have given a face to an ancient Athenian girl from the 5th century BC The facial reconstruction process utilized the teeth and skull from her skeleton, discovered in a mass grave in 1995. The 11 year old girl, known as "Myrtis", died of typhoid fever during a plague in 430 BC Manolis Papagrigorakis, a professor and orthodontist from the University of Athens, worked with a team of 20 scientists on the project. [Manolis Papagrigorakis, Professor and Orthodontist]: (Greek) "We had all of the skull, the jaw, and the teeth, and something very rare - the milk teeth on the skull. These all helped us to be accurate with the final product, and we are very close - 95 percent close to reality with the final product." The scientists used a 3-D technological program called the "Manchester method" - from the University of Manchester - often used on Egyptian mummies, for the reconstruction process. [Manolis Papagrigorakis, Professor and Orthodontist]: (Greek) "The first part of the research was an analysis of the ancient DNA in order find out what the Athenians of the period had died of in Athens. This study took place in 2006 and it was found to be typhoid fever." Typhoid fever killed many during the period, including ...
- published: 14 Sep 2010
- views: 64262
- author: NTDTV
4:25
HORRIBLE HISTORIES - Wife Swap: Spartans and Athenians
GREAT NEWS! A brand new series of Horrible Histories starts on CBBC on 31st May 2010!! In ...
published: 30 Jun 2009
author: horriblehistoriesBBC
HORRIBLE HISTORIES - Wife Swap: Spartans and Athenians
GREAT NEWS! A brand new series of Horrible Histories starts on CBBC on 31st May 2010!! In the meantime... Another Horrible Histories gem: an ancient Athenian and an ancient Spartan swap lives... an experience no-one enjoys.
- published: 30 Jun 2009
- views: 430898
- author: horriblehistoriesBBC
89:30
Treasures of Ancient Greece - Walk Through Classical Athens
Come with us and become acquainted with the most important monuments, temples and archaeol...
published: 21 Feb 2012
author: TravelVideoStore
Treasures of Ancient Greece - Walk Through Classical Athens
Come with us and become acquainted with the most important monuments, temples and archaeological sites of the city of Athens, of Eleusis and of Cape Sounion. Acropolis Parthenon Erechtheion Temple of Nike Propylaia Theatre of Dionysos Herod Atticus Odeon Pnyx Hill Areopagus Ancient Agora Kerameikos Eleusis - Sanctuary of Demeter Sounion - Temple of Poseidon
- published: 21 Feb 2012
- views: 117
- author: TravelVideoStore
9:54
Athens vs Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 1 HQ
Ελληνικοί υπότιτλοι ancient civilization ATHENS and Sparta were both Greek cities and thei...
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.
- published: 02 Oct 2008
- views: 84728
- author: documentariess
9:55
Athens & Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 1/6
Athens & Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 1/6 Ελληνικοί υπότιτλοι ancient civiliza...
published: 29 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.
- published: 29 Feb 2012
- views: 2846
- author: ekfansi
10:00
Athens vs Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part2 HQ
Ελληνικοί υπότιτλοι ancient civilization ATHENS and Sparta were both Greek cities and thei...
published: 02 Oct 2008
author: documentariess
Athens vs Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part2 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.
- published: 02 Oct 2008
- views: 41179
- author: documentariess
10:02
Athens vs Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part3 HQ
Ελληνικοί υπότιτλοι ancient civilization ATHENS and Sparta were both Greek cities and thei...
published: 03 Oct 2008
author: documentariess
Athens vs Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part3 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.
- published: 03 Oct 2008
- views: 29912
- author: documentariess
5:13
Solon an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and elegiac poet
Solon (ancient Greek: Σόλων, c. 638 BC558 BC) was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and ele...
published: 08 Nov 2009
author: tektamos
Solon an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and elegiac poet
Solon (ancient Greek: Σόλων, c. 638 BC558 BC) was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and elegiac poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.
- published: 08 Nov 2009
- views: 4960
- author: tektamos
14:43
Lost Worlds - Athens Ancient Supercity part 1
The fifth episode of the History Channel documentary series "Lost Worlds". All rights belo...
published: 25 Sep 2011
author: aleca996
Lost Worlds - Athens Ancient Supercity part 1
The fifth episode of the History Channel documentary series "Lost Worlds". All rights belong to the History Channel.
- published: 25 Sep 2011
- views: 3657
- author: aleca996
9:52
Athens vs Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 5
Ελληνικοί υπότιτλοι ancient civilization ATHENS and Sparta were both Greek cities and thei...
published: 03 Oct 2008
author: documentariess
Athens vs Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 5
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.
- published: 03 Oct 2008
- views: 21732
- author: documentariess
4:41
Athens vs Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 6
...
published: 03 Oct 2008
author: documentariess
Athens vs Sparta, Sokratis and ancient Greece part 6
- published: 03 Oct 2008
- views: 16868
- author: documentariess
Vimeo results:
1:14
Absolute Body Control
Epopoeia of the Food and Drink of the United States (A Dream in Hell)
1
Beautiful like a ...
published: 08 Sep 2010
author: soonaspossible
Absolute Body Control
Epopoeia of the Food and Drink of the United States (A Dream in Hell)
1
Beautiful like a baby calf is the song of chicken fried with batter,
the long red and white picnic tablecloth is finer than the finest lady’s legs, the finest thing there is to embark upon a heaping bowl of coleslaw,
shrimp from the gulf coast are delicious, gushing with wine as if feeling,
like honey mussels, in Redmond or Olympia, harvested by fishwives, in the seaweed,
and the glory of banjos in Baton Rouge, their juices course through them like
ageless autumn lemons,
like mom's fragrant pot pie, chocked full of juicy stew, widens the gullet,
and, baked, cries out blooming peach tree blossoms.
2
What would you say to some barbecue ribs, burning hot
grilled on a charcoal fire in June on the banks of a man made lake,
pines or cedar trees that sum up the dramatic atmosphere of a
damp sunset at Lake Lanier or Stone Mountain,
or to a clam chowder, whose name is inextricably related to Manhattan or
Rhode Island or New England?
No, you hunt quail and you grill it, just like you hear honky-tonk or stars and stripes
at the feet of Mount Rushmore, and fried catfish along the Chattahoochee
where it leaps into the sacred sizzling skillet, superbly fine
river fish, makes fishing boats rich while the sisters Lee,
as if in pain, sweat what's human and divine on the grand antique family fiddle.
3
Tremendous turkeys that smell like summer, almost human, autumn shades of
walnut or chestnut, I eat them everywhere, and in D.C. I kiss them,
like the vats where barley sighs like the prettiest girl in Jersey
raising her skirt underneath the lights of the big apple, same
as the roof off of a block party with streamers and flags where we drink in red plastic cups
a substantial whiskey and beer,
or the love mattress, upon which we set sail and sighing face each other and
the night’s tremendous oceans, into whose horrible darkness,
black and tenacious flows the bloody calla lily,
or the teardrop that falls in our moths as we joyfully sing.
4
Napa Valley wine is enormous and dark in the California sunset, and when
it's in your blood, nostalgia
and the apology to heroism sing in the wheels of spurs to
the beast’s hide, dancing to the fundamental tune of backwater rapids
against the frothy red glare.
5
Nicely aged bourbon bellows in its cellars like a great sacred cow,
and St. Louis will be golden, like a rib-eye on the grill, all over
the bloodied paths towards Oklahoma, autumn's
guitar will weep like a soldier's widow,
and we'll remember everything we didn’t do and could have and
should have and wanted to, like a madman
staring down a town's abandoned well,
watching, ear shattering, the engines of youth rev down dawn's
wide gust
crumbling like memories in the abyss.
6
The saddle glows all across the Midwest, mountain range to mountain range, booming like a great combine with its 20 foot span, booming
like a cow auctioneer or a righteous pastor or tornado season,
lasso raised up against the sky
on top of a guffaw, a hyuck or a yeehaw, splashed with sun and hard work, where manure perfumes dung heaps like a domestic god, with tremendous balls like a widow.
7
A mighty log cabin with its open yard, apple trees, front porch
scented with remote antiquity,
where the bootlegger and his still would sing, drop by drop, a sense of eternity into
the water, recalling old ancestors with its tremulous pendulum,
exists, same as in Madison as in Franklin or Fairview or Springfield,
although it’s the little town of Hodgenville Kentucky that most proudly proclaims the wooden troughs or pig iron pots, wide open spaces, the Appalachians, the original wild west, civil war and emancipation, in little log cabins,
from Tennessee to Ohio, who express it proudly in tremendous language, eating ears of pigs eating ears of corn.
8
Because, if it's necessary to stuff yourself with hot dogs in a Detroit Coney before dying,
on a rainy day, blessed with a strawberry milkshake from fresh upstate dairy, and smoke, bathing in conversation, friends and the munchies, launching yourself into terrible leaps and bounds, blubbering, savoring the booming chili in spoonfuls and fries,
it's also necessary to get your meat from the Kansas City stockyards in March, when the pigs
look like televangelists and the televangelists look like swine or hippopotamus,
and wash the food down with some fiery sips from a short glass,
yes... in Dallas or Fort Worth the corn tortillas look like the local ladies: wide white waists and sleepy half moon eyes, since, ticklish and cuddly,
they turn their faces, and let themselves be kissed, unendingly on either end.
9
And the chit'lins, swimming and searing in broth and tabasco, and the cornbread that moaned in broiling bacon fat, is blessed where thunder rolls in wide whips, along the Mississippi,between one drink and the next,
but it never surpasses a gamy partridge, savored in the dry underbrush of July,
in t
4:59
East Pediment, Parthenon, c. 448-32 B.C.E.
Phidias (?), Sculpture from the East Pediment of the Parthenon, marble c. 448-432 B.C.E. (...
published: 18 Sep 2010
author: Smarthistory Videos
East Pediment, Parthenon, c. 448-32 B.C.E.
Phidias (?), Sculpture from the East Pediment of the Parthenon, marble c. 448-432 B.C.E. (British Museum)
A Smarthistory.org video
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
4:13
Night Fishing with Cormorants
Awards and Honors:
Special Prize, Hiroshima International Animation Festival
Special Menti...
published: 31 Jul 2009
author: Betsy Kopmar
Night Fishing with Cormorants
Awards and Honors:
Special Prize, Hiroshima International Animation Festival
Special Mention, Premio Simona Gesmundo Animation Festival
Prize for Best Animated Work, Chelyabinsk No-festival of Video Art and Animation
Screenings:
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece, May, 2012.
Istanbul Animation Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, November, 2011.
Animatic 2011, Pamplona, Spain, November, 2011.
Punto y Raya Festival 2011, L'Alternativa Curated Program, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain, November, 2011.
Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, Russia, November, 2011.
Golden-Kuker, International Animation Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, September, 2011.
Santa Rosa International Film Festival, Santa Rosa, CA, September, 2011.
Northwest Animation Festival, Portland, OR, June, 2011.
Visual Music Concert, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, May, 2011.
Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose, CA, March, 2011
Savannah International Animation Festival, Savannah, GA, February, 2011
Animpact Animation Festival, Seoul, Korea, December, 2010
2010 Animation, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL, December, 2010
Hiroshima 2010 Special, Animax TV, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2010
No-festival of Video Art and Animation, Chelyabinsk, Russia, November, 2010
17th International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima 2010, Krakow, Poland, November, 2010
Kinofest 2010, International Digital Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania, November, 2010
Tindirindis 8th International Animation Film Festival, Tindirindis, Lithuania, November, 2010
Prize Simona Gesmundo for Animated Films, Cetraro, Italy, October, 2010.
FIA Festival 2010, Forum for International Animation, Stockholm, Sweden, October, 2010
London International Animation Festival, London, UK, September, 2010
Strasbourg International Film Festival, Strasbourg, France, August, 2010
Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Hiroshima, Japan, August, 2010.
New Filmmakers, Contemporary Experimental Animation, New York, NY, July, 2010
Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia, June, 2010
Vesak 2010 International Buddhist Film Festival, Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 2010
backup_festival 2010, Bauhaus Film Institute, Weimar, Germany, May, 2010
SoundImageSound VII, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, March 2010
Videographies 21, Digital and Experimental Film Festival, Liege, Belgium, March 2010
ByDesign10, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, March, 2010
Anima2010, Brussels Animation Festival, Belgium, Feb.2010
Iota Salon, UCLA Art and Media Dept, Los Angeles, Ca Jan.2010
Music &Technology; Concert, DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK, Oct.2009
Stash DVD magazine, #60, Sept. 2009
Siggraph 2009 Computer Animation Festival, New Orleans, LA, Aug.3-7, 2009
This animation is a very loose and abstract meditation, inspired in part by the 17th Century Japanese screen painting by Kano Tanyu, "Night Fishing with Cormorants", and by the very stark and beautiful novel of Akira Yoshimura, "Shipwrecks". I am not telling a naturalistic story in this piece, but rather I have tried to make a work that will hold in equal reverence the spirit of the bird, the fish, and the fisherman.
Music by The Headroom Project, “Winter Skies”, from the CD, Dominatus Illuminato Mea.
Is there a link between the Japanese tradition of painting and your film? (iota center interview)
sumi ink AND drawing, both the inky look of the final piece, and the drawing process inform the entire piece.
I work very free-form in Cinema 4D, moving around as if I'm painting on a large canvas. I don't use any sketches or preparatory studies for my 3D work. I use the motion sketch tool in Cinema to draw everything free-hand, all the movement of the shapes, even cameras, even some of the smaller parameter values I create using an improvised "scratcher" that is driven by simple expressions.
Did that style inform some of the choices you were making when designing
this film? (iota center interview)
I wanted something very simple with the feeling of compressed energy that can be found in some classical ink drawings --- so I intentionally limited myself in Cinema 4D to five simple 3D cubes, and created the entire animation with this restricted palette of shapes. I choreographed many small interactions between these basic shapes, always looking for a balance of stillness, space, movement, coming together, exploding together. Then I moved these 3D renders into the VJ application, Modul8, where I could explore further association of time, sequencing, and effects -- I composed the final mix using this real-time VJ software and a midi controller. Audio was added after the final visual mix was completed.
6:03
Schiniathlon May 2009. The short story...
6 minutes short story of the classic triathlon event at Schinias bay, Athens, Greece. 1500...
published: 26 Oct 2009
author: conpap
Schiniathlon May 2009. The short story...
6 minutes short story of the classic triathlon event at Schinias bay, Athens, Greece. 1500m open water swim, 60km bike on public roads and 15km run into the forest.
Youtube results:
7:12
Chopin-Nocturne Op.9 No 1-ATHENS MEGARON-Classical Guitars Live-Evangelos Boudounis - Maro Razi
www.facebook.com MEGARON LIVE -ClassicalGuitars-Evangelos Boudounis Maro Razi Guitar Duo [...
published: 14 Feb 2011
author: dimitriosdoulias
Chopin-Nocturne Op.9 No 1-ATHENS MEGARON-Classical Guitars Live-Evangelos Boudounis - Maro Razi
www.facebook.com MEGARON LIVE -ClassicalGuitars-Evangelos Boudounis Maro Razi Guitar Duo [Chopin -Nocturne Op.9 No 1] THE ATHENS CONCERT HALL [02-12-2010] ΜΕΓΑΡΟ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗΣ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ [02-ΔΕΚΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 2010] ΛΥΔΙΑ ΜΠΟΥΝΤΟΥΝΗ-ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ ΜΠΟΥΝΤΟΥΝΗΣ -ΜΑΡΩ ΡΑΖΗ -ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ ΜΠΟΥΝΤΟΥΝΗΣ [Φ.Σοπέν Νυχτερινό Op.9 No1] MEGARON PROGRAMME Ludwin van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata [Adagio Sostenuto] -- Bassilis Tsitsanis -- Aharisti -- Gioul Bahar -- Paul Simon -- The Boxer -- Bob Dylan -- Blowin in the wind --Manos Hadjidakis -- My Love -- Evangelos Boudounis -- Angelica -- Tsifteteli -- Frederic Chopin -- Nocturne Op.9 No 1 -- The Beatles - A Hard Days Night -- When Im sixty four -- Nicolo Paganini -- Trio [Quartett] Allegro con brio -- Evangelos Boudounis - Blue Suite [1.A Song for Manos 2.Saltarello 3.Deep Blue 4.Elizabeth's Dance] Heitor Villa Lobos -- Bachianas Brazileiras No 5 [Aria Cantilena] Astor Piazzolla -- Bordel 1900 [Histoire du Tango] - Libertango www.boudounis.gr -info@boudounis.com www.facebook.com
- published: 14 Feb 2011
- views: 14657
- author: dimitriosdoulias
9:00
The Greeks Crucible of Civilization - Part 3 - Empire of Mind (1 of 5)
The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization: A documentary consisting of 3 parts: Part 1: Revolu...
published: 29 Apr 2011
author: gt68100
The Greeks Crucible of Civilization - Part 3 - Empire of Mind (1 of 5)
The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization: A documentary consisting of 3 parts: Part 1: Revolution www.youtube.com Part 2: Golden Age www.youtube.com Part 3: Empire of Mind www.youtube.com The Greeks built an empire that laid the foundations for modern science, politics, warfare and philosophy, and produced some of the most breathtaking art and architecture the world has ever seen. This documentary, narrated by Liam Neeson, recounts the rise, glory, demise and legacy of the empire that marked the dawn of Western civilization. Using the latest advances in computer technology, the story of this astonishing civilization is told through the lives of the heroes of ancient Greece. It combines dramatic storytelling, stunning imagery, groundbreaking research and distinguished scholarship to render classical Greece gloriously alive.
- published: 29 Apr 2011
- views: 10910
- author: gt68100
59:00
Luxury in Ancient Greece
This documentary follows the debate about luxury which convulsed ancient Greece from the b...
published: 11 Dec 2011
author: gt68100
Luxury in Ancient Greece
This documentary follows the debate about luxury which convulsed ancient Greece from the beginning of the classical era. In Athens, it explores the role of luxury in the beginnings of democracy - how certain kinds of luxury came to be forbidden, and others embraced. A simple luxury like meat could unite the democracy, and yet a taste for fish could divide it. Some luxuries were associated with effeminacy and foreigners. Others with the very idea of democracy. Yet in Sparta, there was a determined attempt to deny luxury, and the guilty contradictions of this eventually brought what had been the most powerful state in Greece to its downfall. When Sparta was replaced by the Macedon of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, the absolute luxury of his court set new standards for luxury as political propaganda. Yet the guilty anxiety of ancient Greece could not be suppressed and still affects our ideas of luxury today.
- published: 11 Dec 2011
- views: 19564
- author: gt68100
9:30
The Greeks Crucible of Civilization - Part 2 - Golden Age (1 of 6)
The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization: A documentary consisting of 3 parts: Part 1: Revolu...
published: 28 Apr 2011
author: gt68100
The Greeks Crucible of Civilization - Part 2 - Golden Age (1 of 6)
The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization: A documentary consisting of 3 parts: Part 1: Revolution www.youtube.com Part 2: Golden Age www.youtube.com Part 3: Empire of Mind www.youtube.com The Greeks built an empire that laid the foundations for modern science, politics, warfare and philosophy, and produced some of the most breathtaking art and architecture the world has ever seen. This documentary, narrated by Liam Neeson, recounts the rise, glory, demise and legacy of the empire that marked the dawn of Western civilization. Using the latest advances in computer technology, the story of this astonishing civilization is told through the lives of the heroes of ancient Greece. It combines dramatic storytelling, stunning imagery, groundbreaking research and distinguished scholarship to render classical Greece gloriously alive.
- published: 28 Apr 2011
- views: 18133
- author: gt68100
