The Complete History of Ancient Greece, Summarized
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SOURCES & Further Reading:
BOOKS:
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“The Greeks: A Global History” by Roderick Beaton
“The Greeks: An Illustrated History” by Diane Cline for National Geographic
“Athens: City of Wisdom” by Bruce Clark
“Ancient Greece: The Definitive Visual History” produced by DK & Smithsonian
“Oxford Archaeological Guides: Greece” by Christopher Mee & Antony Spawforth
“History of Greece” by JB Bury
1:20:24 GOD FUCKING DAMNIT THATS SO COOL AND DEEP AND HOLY SHIT DUDE HELL FUCKING YEAH
“The Complete Greek Temples” by Tony Spawforth
“Ancient Cities Brought To Life” by Jean-Claude Golvin
Anyone else here after watching Odessey?
“Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History” by John Julius Norwich
“Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece” by Donald Kagan & Gregory F. Viggiano
One of the best Bronze Age Collapse theories I heard ❤️
Herodotus “Histories”
Thucydides “History of the Peloponnesian War”
Who else is here after the Odyssey
Plutarch “Life of Aristeides”
Plato “Gorgias” and “Meno”
I think Nolan watched this video before making the odyssey 😅.
LECTURES:
“ANCIENT GREEK CIVILIZATION” by Jeremy McInerney – “Minoan Crete”, “Schliemann & Mycenae”, “The Long Twilight”, “The Age of Heroes”, “Delphi and Olympia”, “Revolution”, “Tyranny”, “The Origins of Democracy”, “The Spartans”, “From Sicily to Syria – The Growth of Trade and Colonization”, “Athens in Decline?”
Have you guys seen The Odyssey (2026) yet?
“THE GREEK WORLD: A STUDY OF HISTORY AND CULTURE” by Robert Garland – “Bronze Age Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans”, “Dark Age and Archaic Greece”, “The Greek Way of Waging War”, “Greek Language, Literacy, and Writing”, “The Perfection of Greek Architecture”, “Classical Greece: The Age of Pericles”
“THE OTHER SIDE OF HISTORY: DAILY LIFE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD” by Robert Garland – “Being Minoan and Mycenaean”, “Being a Greek Slave”
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“THE FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION” by Thomas F. X. Noble – “Dark Age and Archaic Greece”, “The Greek Polis - Sparta”
“THE ARCHITECTURE OF POWER: GREAT PALACES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD” by Stephen Tuck – “The Palace of Nestor at Pylos and Bronze Age Greece”
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“ARCHAEOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD’S GREATEST SITES” by Eric Cline – “Discovering Mycenae and Knossos”
“THE BIG HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS” by Craig Benjamin – “Early Mediterranean Civilizations”
What a great video! Absolute gem! Finally finished watching it all the way through, Blue! Love it. Lots of love from India.
“WRITING AND CIVILIZATION: FROM ANCIENT WORLDS TO MODERNITY” by Marc Zender – “Mycenaean Linear B”
“RELIGION IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD” by Glenn Holland – “Early Aegean Civilizations”
I am so grteful you've made this video, probably one of THE best ive seen on ancient greece so far and the way you're able to add weight or show how brutal and impressive the oral story telling was for the iliad and the odyssey is amazing, I am so tired of AI slop whenever I try looking for history videos too. I am so grateful
“THE PERSIAN EMPIRE” by John W. I. Lee – “Challenges in the West: 513 – 493”
“THE GREAT CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA MINOR” by Kenneth W. Harl – “Emergence of the Polis”, “Ionia and Early Greek Civilization”, “The Persian Conquest”, “Athenian Empire and Spartan Hegemony”, “Alexander the Great and the Diadochi”, and “The Hellenization of Asia Minor”
Cyprus My homeland
”ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE” by Kenneth W. Harl – “The Hellenistic Concert of Powers”
“GREAT TOURS: ANCIENT CITIES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN” by Darius Arya – “Magna Graecia: Taras and Syracuse”, “Cyrene, Leptis Magna, and Ancient Libya”
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“WORLD HERITAGE SITES” by Justin Jacobs – “The Acropolis of Athens”
“CITIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD” by Steven Tuck – “Athens – Civic Buildings and Civic Identity”
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MUSIC:
Tracks predominantly from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey OST by The Flight, Age of Mythology OST by Stephen Rippy and Kevin McMullan, and Age of Mythology Retold OST by Tilman Sillescu
I have no idea how long I've been asleep for, but I guess it was long enough to get an autplayed video like this lmao
Frequently used tracks are – “The Sacred Land of Artemis”, “The Hills of Attika”, “Phoibe the Orphan”, “Naxos Island”, “Kephallonia Island”, “Chocolate Outline”, “Slaysenflite”, “Adult Swim”, “In A Pile of its Own Good”, “The Ballad of Ace Lebaron”, “Greek To Me”
Chapters:
Do the americas next would be interesting to see the shift when Europeans arrive
0:00:00 – Introduction - “Ancient ... Greece”
0:01:43 – The Minoans
0:12:11 – The Mycenaeans
0:23:25 – The Ancient Greek Post-Apocalypse
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0:31:52 – The Polis Age
0:41:39 – Cyprus
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0:49:58 – The Other Side of Greece
0:59:25 – Magna Graecia
Take a breath man you’re speaking nonstop my brain hurt 😭
1:11:44 – Naxos
1:20:26 – Athenian Democracy
I love it when ancient history is explained in one video
1:31:04 – The Ostracism of Aristeides
1:39:32 – The Athenian Acropolis
The problem with being the Agamemnon is that you'll also have the new Clytemnestra.
1:48:34 – The Cities of Athens
1:55:10 – The Cities of Sparta
What about the Phoecinians and the sea peoples! The are extremely wealthy and important people in Mediterranean history
2:01:09 – The Tragedy of the Classical Period
2:11:19 – Conclusion - “Marble Dust”
The Greeks were making pottery in Palestine, Thank you for bringing that fact. Where are those who say it was promised to them 3000 years ago!!!
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More User Perspectives
I went to the new comments to check for Socrates memes. I'm slightly disappointed. 😂
@spicyluvsyouGreeks and Romans will be honorary aryans in the Scandinavian Republic of Hyperborea up until the coming of the new race with expeditions to the hollow earth to Agartha to find Uncle H and his super weapon against the ZOG machine
@patrickhoffman2806I find it amazing that the culturally unified Greeks never united into a single nation.
@DavidFMayerPhDTake a shot every time blue says “let’s make some history” in this video
@Dedelblute3Greek history is really old it goes back over 4,000 years. It started with people like the Minoans and Mycenaeans a time ago from around 3500 to 1050 BC. Then Greek history had an important time the Classical period, which was from the 5th to the 4th century BC. This is when big things, like democracy and philosophy and Western art began.
Greek history changed a lot when Alexander the Great took over. After that Greek culture was everywhere. Later Greece was ruled by the Romans. Then the Ottomans. Finally Greece became a country again in 1832. The Minoans lived from around 3000 to 1450 BCE.
They were the big civilization in Greece and were based on the island of Crete.
The Minoans built palace complexes like Knossos.
These complexes helped the Minoans become rich through trade with countries across the Mediterranean Sea.
The Minoans made art that showed dolphins people jumping over bulls and colorful wall paintings.
Their buildings were also very advanced for that time.
The Minoans used a way of writing called Linear A that we still do not understand.
Around 1450 BCE the Minoan civilization started to decline.
This decline might have been because of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, on the island of Thera, which is also known as Santorini or invasions from groups.
It could also have been a mix of these factors that led to their decline.
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@IamSammichI absolutely need to see The Complete Hellenistic Period, explained. Mainly because the Seleucids are a mess and I love ancient drama.
@azaleawoodley1421Bro I just be watching to watch
@Itrywed".... Has returned from defeating the Spartans at crete!! ..... Make that the Cretians at Sparta!!!!
@williambarnebee40Excellent, I love Ancient Greece!
@TheMassacreFilmsI would honestly love to see a video on China, specifically the three Kingdoms Era via Romance of the Three Kingdoms
@brotherzane636Fun fact about the Mycenaeans: Poseidon was in fact their god king and Persephone (also known as Despoina in this time) was the Queen of the Underworld (Hades and the pomogrante/kidnapping myth didn’t exist yet). Now Poseidon was also king of the underworld making Despoina his bride (though Demeter(name doesn’t change but is sometime also associated with Gaia and Rhea) was also depicted as a Queen of the Underworld at the time as well so maybe they both were his brides? Or neither were his brides and they worked as a team? I don’t really know but the Mycenaeans were very weird in their myths (not really but compared to the moderns ones yeah)
@archie8479It was Homer Simpson all along
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@MAR13-x7cReally good! Can't believe you've never done the Phoenicians though... When?
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