The Real 300 // Spartans History Documentary

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2. I've watched/listened to pretty much all of your videos at some point during the last few years, but this might be my favorite, and not just because it's a topic I love. Great narration and loved the scenery… will definitely check out Arcas as well since I'm planning to trip to Greece sometime in next year. Thanks again for all the great work!

3. Another unbelievable entry in an already impressive portfolio of some of the finest history content on this platform. ❤

4. @ 30:08 … So the Greeks invented ViceGrip pliers? 😂

5. While i loved the movie 300, i dislike how some Documentaries uses Frank Miller's comic designs for Spartan hoplites.

6. I cannot bear to listen to your mispronunciations of Leonidas and Phocians, unless you alone are pronouncing them correctly.

7. I cannot bear to listen to your mispronunciations of Leonidas and Phocians, unless you alone are pronouncing them correctly.

8. Awesome depiction of Greek history. Thanks

9. Congratulations as a Greek for this video. The only thing that always makes me curious is that no one can pronounce or accent a Greek word or name the right way. They are always butchered. A Greek would not understand told in his face what you mean. Even though so many western languages are descended from Greek they never got it right. Nevertheless your work on the subject is admirable.
   Thank you

10. The real deal at Thermopylae was indeed the assassination of Xerxes. Te attempt was made and nearly succeeded. Sparta had no tradition of ssuicidal stances. There are other historians than Herodotus.

11. Lmaooo the Persians impressions are so funny: “Those guys? Warriors? They’re doing gymnastics and combing their hair!😂”

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13. Yea we've been at war with the east in one way or another for thousands of years now.

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17. Love this stuff! Thank you for deep research, that I may watch and learn history

18. Genius thanks…..

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21. Is there a way to contact Pete Kelly?

22. Such great effort. Love your usr of contemporary scenery but…. MAPS!

    Please find a way to ( if you need to include then at all) use maps as they are unfenced, to give perspective, to explain.

    Flashes of maps ( especially half mixed ) do nothing to add to the story. Especially if the commentary continues in an unrelated way.

    Use the maps. Or don't. Whatever.
    But the useless way they are presented here does nothing to improve your otherwise excellent production.

23. I love the better help tie in with spartan trauma victims lo.

24. I'm glad I persevered through your up front ad. Nearly, didn't see you decent content.

25. I forget the historians name but she argues the Spartans didn’t practice homosexuality and pedophilia. Pretty sure they had laws against it, the woman were treated as equal more or less. At least in comparison. They weren’t restricted to homes, they practiced sports used gymnasiums, etc. their art doesn’t depict any homosexuality or pedophilia unlike other Greek states art. And other reasons. I’ve never heard a good argument refuting hers. For instance and it’s just a movie but I always wondered if Leonidas in “300” doesn’t call the Athenians boy lovers because the writer read that historians’ take himself.

26. Great video, just finished it. Um.. The pronunciations of Greek place names is rather hilarious for someone who grew up there though lol. Perhaps in future jot them down phonetically when your tour guides say them? Just a thought for future videos that I'm sure will also be very good and in-depth.

27. Love your videos so mutch and your voice is so soothing. New big fan. When i cant fall asleep your videos helps alot (Don't mean that in a bad way 🙂 ). As a Dane its facinating to learn more about the vinking age.

28. I enjoyed your video…. but if you are flashing a map on the screen to describe a particular site or event …. could you please indicate on the map where you are talking about.

29. Imagine, nowadays you d be called a racist, if you wanted to protect your homeland … what a joke era we live in.

30. Excellent video. Surprised not more views..yet..thank you

31. After giving a brilliant summary of how the Spartans were abominable militarists, slave holders, inhuman brutes and how the Achaemenids were the most enlightened and civilised rulers of the ancient world I find it confusing that you tell the stereotyped story of their « last stand » with unabashed bias in their favour. What is so bloody attractive about a bunch of half naked scoundrels being cut to pieces while trying to murder as many others as possible?

32. is there any connection between the helots and the original mycenaen populations of sparta and pylos?

33. Great story. Just a bit confused by the tool being used by the blacksmith at 30:05–30:09…it looks like a pair of vise grips about 1000 or so years too early. 😅

34. 📌I don't know who, but someone actually needs to hear this, you've got to stop saving all your money. Venture into investing some, if you really want financial stability.

35. 4:20 A little error with the dating there, 1941 BC 🙂

36. I have one word for you and Herodotus. "Bullshit"

37. “The Kingdom of Heaven & Hell”

    My last article:
    “What one makes of varying narrations on the ancient Persians is best left to the reader, however, this author has endeavoured to present a fresh, new perspective”

    What we know as the West today carries Persia’s legacy massively (“albeit in silence”), to the point that it maybe – maybe – the West is more Persian than Greek (see the recent discussion at “London University by Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Tom Holland, U of Oxford; for further studies see, Dr. Richard Frye at Harvard; Professor Patrick Hunt at Stanford, and Prof.⁠​⁠ Maria Brosius, author of “The Persians” and lecturer at Queens College at Oxford University; and finally preeminent research by Dr. Gernot Windfur at the university of Michigan; lastly Dr. Barry Strauss, Hellenistic studies, Cornel University).

    At the very least, its [Persia’s] global influence, “matches that of Athens, certainly surpasses Sparta’s” (Holland, T., author of “Robicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic”).

    The Persians who lay the foundation for Christianity via Zoroastrianism, also invented the notion of chivalry (and consequently jousting, the heavy armoured knights, and the concept of the duel passed on to Medieval Europe), the raising of one’s right hand as an oath and during an swearing in ceremony, the very basic conception of human rights, which includes religious and cultural freedom and refusal to enslave the subject populations (see “The Edict of Cyrus”; also the Jewish liberation during the Babylonian captivity in the Old Testament; also Josephus, History of The Jews).

    Persia – one of history’s first Caucasian nations to settle in Asia along with their Indo-European cousins the Ionian Greeks (who settled in Asia Minor), or according to Dr. Frye, “the Europeans of the East”, was also the first superpower to use force of arms to provide security for a group of other nations.

    Cyrus the Great used his might to liberate the Jews held captive in Babylon. It is said that when in 5378 BC news came of their emancipation, the Jewish tribes broke into spontaneous songs of celebration and freedom. A scene that would not be repeated till millennia later when President Abraham Lincoln freed the Southern slaves.

    As the late Prof. David Stronach succinctly wrote, “For the first time in human history, Cyrus used his great powers to lift, not degrade the human condition”.

    One can safely assume that despite their many imperfections, Persia and the United States were not, and are not your typical superpowers.

    But according to Prof. Emeritus Richard Frye of Harvard, one of the biggest “contributions the Persians made to the modern world, is the idea of a secular government, free of religious influence”. This is despite the discoveries made at the palace of Pasargsde that shows two fire alters adjoining its para-disia (the walled, or open, garden behind a reflective pool; eg., as seen at the Palace of Versailles, and The White House). The alters have religious significance and are indications of Zoroastrian symbol of light and purity (the fire), as well as for ceremonial purposes. One such ceremony would be when the newly sworn king would uphold a written “Contract” while standing at a pedestal directly across from the marble alter and swore to uphold the contract by law (usually containing specifics on how to allow for religious freedoms and protect the peoples of the empire, including pacifying the Eastern and Western fronts and securing farm-lands from marauders).

    The notion of the Contract, a sacred Iranian and proto-Iranian cultural tradition, was associated with the Sun-God Mithra (also God of Justice ) whom was incorporated (although demoted) onto a diety when prophet Zoroaster on a Spring day next to a river (in the first documented case of baptism), created the world’s first monotheistic religion via a “revelation by a Light” that spoke to him, declaring that there are no multiple deities or Gods, rather there is only one Supreme Being, and “We are all created in his image”. The religion decreed that, the World is divided between Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, and The Truth vs. Deceit – and thusly it is, “only up to us to choose between them”. The cosmic battle was said to be headed by Spenta Mainu (the Splendid Mind) on one side, and Angra Mainu (the Angry One) at the opposing end.

    Zoroaster also reveled that in end we will be judged by our actions, and that there will come a time when there will be an Armageddon, ushering the coming of a Saoshiant (Saviour). Such language were unheard of previously in the ancient world.

38. I’ve so missed your videos!!!!

39. Homosexuality was far from being encouraged. In fact, it was immensely shunned. It was despised by Lycurgus who was the lawgiver as you say.

40. Awsm 👌

41. Homosexuality was quite rampant in Spartan culture and was promoted. Spartan boys were placed under a soldier as their apprentice of sorts. Many times this relationship became physical in nature and homosexual lovers became the best fighters. I believe men in his Majesty's various militaries today should take a leaf out of the Spartan book and hump each other up the whoopsies.

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