Peloponnesian War - Alcibiades - Real Faces - Ancient Greece

A small clip about an ancient Greek war fought between the Delian League, led by Athens, and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta. We also examine the life of Alcibiades, the Athenian general who served not two but three sides of a war.
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[@stayrospaparunas3062]

Ο Αλκιβιάδης ήταν όμορφος, αλλά ένας κακομαθημένος νέος, από ότι μας λέει ο Πλάτωνας, πάντα επιζητούσε την προσοχή των συμπολιτών του.. όταν μια μέρα δεν μιλούσαν για αυτόν, εκείνος έκοψε την ουρά του σκύλου του... ήταν συγγενής με τον Περικλή,ο Περικλής ήταν θείος του

[@ellalot]

I thoroughly enjoy your site. Seeing faces from the past come to life is amazing. It makes history relatable. Thank you.

[@arjivar]

This video is cooler than the history classes taught by my high school teacher back in 1986.

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

and much cooler than playing Atari😃

[@Ramoreira86]

I was born in 86

[@leticiagarcia9025]

Another great video. Thank you for sharing your work.

[@jobes4525]

Fantastic! Enthusiastic, knowledgeable, Visual. What a hell of a talented KZbinr you are, Panagiotis. Thank you for sharing your skills with us. Much appreciated 🙏❤️

[@fernalicious]

Can't get enough of these!

[@ascendingstar5673]

Another awsome video thanks for sharing your great work on these videos the choice of music is great to.

[@Iegacyfilm]

Wonderful video and beautiful presentation

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Many thanks

[@tammygilmer1228]

Love your channel...always very well done and interesting! 👍 🇨🇦

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Thank you very much!

[@tekannon7803]

Far back in time when men ruled lands that are mythical to us now, sheer determination and courage and superior war tactics by brave leaders were what carried empires forward. As in today's world, decisions are the building stones of our destinies building either castles or leaving one homeless. The ancient past shows us how teacherous it was to be unaware and how bravery and courage and cleverness were the life and death skills the leaders of those lost centuries ago needed to survive. Luck of course played a role, but it only seemed to work when one was the bravest of the brave. Luck never saved a fool and I think Alcibiades played a fool and lost his head for it.

[@lauragil4692]

One of your best videos. And all of them are good.

[@aliencat11]

Always amazed to see these people come to life.

[@virginiarizk2039]

Absolutely stunning ,bravo Panagioti 👏

[@BlissBlessHappiness]

Wonderful, please do more representations of the great philosophers! Pythagoras, Zeno (The older and younger), Empedocles, Plato, more accomplished Socrates, etc. Warm regards!

[@Nighthawk799]

Great video and great music too

[@juancarlosgonzalezflores4118]

El mejor canal amo la historia antigua y siempre quize conocer los rostros de esos grandes hombres ,gracias Panagiotis

[@barbaralucas1220]

I so love and appreciate your videos 😊❤️

[@clarisarakosart3496]

Another masterpiece! Looking forward to your next project!!!!! Maybe Hector, Paris and Aquiles ? 😊

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Maybe!

[@Zenithilos11]

Just found your channel. Thanks for doing this 👍

[@lilia0803]

Awesome as always 👍🤩

[@francesrude3007]

thanks for the history and maps also.

[@markbeck8384]

One of your most interesting presentations. Thank you. I had wondered what the young Alcibiades looked like.

[@lmc8833]

I read once that people are at their most attractive in one of three life stages . Alcibiades was described as being beautiful in all stages of his life

[@civengnet]

He was blond haired though.

[@rodneynatzel9669]

Please do King Henry II of France and his family, Duke & Cardinal de Guise along with Mary queen of Scots mother, Mary de Guise. Very fascinated in seeing their real faces. Thank you for all the work you are doing. Always wondered what the people being painted actually looked like. Fantastic job!

[@annereidy7981]

That was wonderful, more ancient Greek history please, I love it! Perhaps the reason for the Delian league?

[@marta9127]

ALCIBIADES! Alcibiades was always described as a very handsome individual. His beauty (especially in combination with his great charisma, many talents and strong will) was his blessing and curse at the same time. You've managed to capture the beauty and strenght of him. If he really looked like you portrayed him, then he was acctually one of the most handsome men ever. This visualisation helps me to "feel" the power that his contemporaries had to experience. Alcibiades was a very important figure not only for ancient world, but genarally in the history of Western Civilization. His personality was one of the most fascinating and his decisions had many consequences not only in social, political or military aspect of people's lives but in the history of human thought, literature and philosophy as well. "Frogs" by Aristophanes is one of the greatest examples, where one of the most important motiff fot writing the play was to persuade Athenians that they shouldn't be afraid to summon Alcibiades while the country's in great need and oppression. Dionysus words in the play show the ambivalent (though very strong) feelings that Athenians had for their banished general: "The city yearns for him, but hates him too, yet wants him back!" Thus alone shows how, even absent, Alcibiades ruled over the citizens' imagination and their desires! Aeschylus in the same play shows a rather intriguing opinion that even though the city shouldn't have risen a lion cub within her, she should just adapt and adjust to lion cub ways - suggesting that submitting to Alcibiades as a leader seemed to be the best option, even though a lion was dangerous and inpredictable... On the other hand we have Plato, who made Alcibiades one of the characters in his "Symposium". He portraits Alcibiades as a very complex figure with strong corporal desires, urge for fame, popularity... and yet very vulnerable inside - having this untamed yearning for knowledge and improvement. During the dialogue Alcibiades says many profound words about this division inside him: love for wisdom fights in him with more worldly desires. His speech shows not only different aspects of human love, flirting, the inner battle, but human weakneses that can go with great skills and opportunities... Plato's Alcibiades indulges his own wantings and yet is aware that he could have been a better person if he had enough strenght and currage. Alcibiades is shown in his failure with Socrates, because Plato uses his figure to save the memory of Socrates in the fellow Athenians. We know that Alcibiades alleged debauchery and selfish behaviour was used by Socrates' enemies as the argument for condemning philosopher and sentencing the death penalty... Alcibiades was supposed to prove the failure of Socrates as a good teacher and citizen... This however had profound impact on philosophy.

[@rrocketman]

Great comment. I understand he was handsome and an excellent orator.

[@kimphilby7999]

Alcibiades,as Themistocles,was destroyed by his own arrogance, greed and recklessness.Many great men in history have destroy their countries,and themselves,because of these characteristics.His appearance (great job Panagiotis) and the fact that he was very charming, explain the behaviour of Athenians to him,after his treason.

[@SirGeorge65]

When was Themistocles arrogant,greed and reckless?

[@Metanoeite]

I would ask the same question

[@kimphilby7999]

@@SirGeorge65 Always,and specially when he was bribed...

[@SirGeorge65]

@@kimphilby7999 Themistocles was never bribed really. If you are taking about the battle of Artemisium that’s another story. Themistocles was destroyed by the jealousy and the ungratefulness of his fellow citizens. It’s sure that as a general he made some mistakes,but even the greatest men do so.

[@aleksandarjovancic3952]

Very iteresting end very good 👋👋👋

[@Nighthawk799]

Socrates looks like a friend of mine...Valerio Massimo Manfredi, an archeologist and professor of classical studies. You can see him on line.

[@IlGattoGialloCucina]

Also a writer

[@Nighthawk799]

@@IlGattoGialloCucina gia'.

[@bc7138]

I've read his Alexander trilogy and the Talisman of Troy.

[@Charon839]

Socrates is fitting, he was always described as having the face of a sting ray.

[@hlcepeda]

"I think it was Alcibiades in the Peloponnesian War , ah, 415 B.C., he said , 'If Siracusa falls, all Sicily falls, and then Italy.' He knew, you see, that Syracuse was the jugular of the island, and old Alcibiades always went for the throat." (quote from the movie _Patton_ said by George C. Scott's character)

[@user-ru1ki]

Great video as usually. Very good work. Alcibiades is an extremely handsome man, I would even say very beautiful. Concerning Socrates as I've already said, he looks pretty Asian. Maybe he had Chinese blood because apparently people mingled even back then.

[@alex.p2609]

Alcibiades was so handsome 😻

[@marta9127]

ALCIBIADES! Alcibiades was always described as a very handsome individual. His beauty (especially in combination with his great charisma, many talents and strong will) was his blessing and curse at the same time. Video managed to capture the beauty and strenght of him. If he really looked like he was portrayed here, then he was acctually one of the most handsome men ever. This visualisation helps me to "feel" the power that his contemporaries had to experience. Alcibiades was a very important figure not only for ancient world, but genarally in the history of Western Civilization. His personality was one of the most fascinating and his decisions had many consequences not only in social, political or military aspect of people's lives but in the history of human thought, literature and philosophy as well. "Frogs" by Aristophanes is one of the greatest examples, where one of the most important motiff fot writing the play was to persuade Athenians that they shouldn't be afraid to summon Alcibiades while the country's in great need and oppression. Dionysus words in the play show the ambivalent (though very strong) feelings that Athenians had for their banished general: "The city yearns for him, but hates him too, yet wants him back!" Thus alone shows how, even absent, Alcibiades ruled over the citizens' imagination and their desires! Aeschylus in the same play shows a rather intriguing opinion that even though the city shouldn't have risen a lion cub within her, she should just adapt and adjust to lion cub ways - suggesting that submitting to Alcibiades as a leader seemed to be the best option, even though a lion was dangerous and inpredictable... On the other hand we have Plato, who made Alcibiades one of the characters in his "Symposium". He portraits Alcibiades as a very complex figure with strong corporal desires, urge for fame, popularity... and yet very vulnerable inside - having this untamed yearning for knowledge and improvement. During the dialogue Alcibiades says many profound words about this division inside him: love for wisdom fights in him with more worldly desires. His speech shows not only different aspects of human love, flirting, the inner battle, but human weakneses that can go with great skills and opportunities... Plato's Alcibiades indulges his own wantings and yet is aware that he could have been a better person if he had enough strenght and currage. Alcibiades is shown in his failure with Socrates, because Plato uses his figure to save the memory of Socrates in the fellow Athenians. We know that Alcibiades alleged debauchery and selfish behaviour was used by Socrates' enemies as the argument for condemning philosopher and sentencing the death penalty... Alcibiades was supposed to prove the failure of Socrates as a good teacher and citizen... This however had profound impact on philosophy.

[@Nighthawk799]

Dammit! So the guy I thought could advertise a toothpaste was Tissaferne! And Alcibiades is so handsome ! Ben Affleck could impersonate him! Well ... these men have made history and you have made an incredible job bringing them back to life!

[@NathanDudani]

Glad to see you somewhat fixed Socrates' nose

[@lagatita1623]

Cool. I just met a guy named Arquemedes( Archimedes) it's still being used.

[@Midlife_Manical_Mayhem]

the first guy, well, wasn't he just too handsome?!

[@MisterGoofy]

He was known to be extremely attractive

[@marta9127]

ALCIBIADES! Alcibiades was always described as a very handsome individual. His beauty (especially in combination with his great charisma, many talents and strong will) was his blessing and curse at the same time. Video managed to capture the beauty and strenght of him. If he really looked like he was portrayed here, then he was acctually one of the most handsome men ever. This visualisation helps me to "feel" the power that his contemporaries had to experience. Alcibiades was a very important figure not only for ancient world, but genarally in the history of Western Civilization. His personality was one of the most fascinating and his decisions had many consequences not only in social, political or military aspect of people's lives but in the history of human thought, literature and philosophy as well. "Frogs" by Aristophanes is one of the greatest examples, where one of the most important motiff fot writing the play was to persuade Athenians that they shouldn't be afraid to summon Alcibiades while the country's in great need and oppression. Dionysus words in the play show the ambivalent (though very strong) feelings that Athenians had for their banished general: "The city yearns for him, but hates him too, yet wants him back!" Thus alone shows how, even absent, Alcibiades ruled over the citizens' imagination and their desires! Aeschylus in the same play shows a rather intriguing opinion that even though the city shouldn't have risen a lion cub within her, she should just adapt and adjust to lion cub ways - suggesting that submitting to Alcibiades as a leader seemed to be the best option, even though a lion was dangerous and inpredictable... On the other hand we have Plato, who made Alcibiades one of the characters in his "Symposium". He portraits Alcibiades as a very complex figure with strong corporal desires, urge for fame, popularity... and yet very vulnerable inside - having this untamed yearning for knowledge and improvement. During the dialogue Alcibiades says many profound words about this division inside him: love for wisdom fights in him with more worldly desires. His speech shows not only different aspects of human love, flirting, the inner battle, but human weakneses that can go with great skills and opportunities... Plato's Alcibiades indulges his own wantings and yet is aware that he could have been a better person if he had enough strenght and currage. Alcibiades is shown in his failure with Socrates, because Plato uses his figure to save the memory of Socrates in the fellow Athenians. We know that Alcibiades alleged debauchery and selfish behaviour was used by Socrates' enemies as the argument for condemning philosopher and sentencing the death penalty... Alcibiades was supposed to prove the failure of Socrates as a good teacher and citizen... This however had profound impact on philosophy.

[@CarayMay]

I'm more of a Tissaphernes kind of gal

[@dijanaboskovic8113]

Can you do a Hurrem sultan...from Otomans era...🥰🥰

[@robertmyers9233]

Your work is very sharp can you do theban generals pelopiads and empanadas

[@tlingitmicmumbam2065]

Oh Zeus!Pelopidas and Epamenondas!!

[@jamesbain8167]

Alcibiades is someone whom I really enjoyed in digital “flesh”. He was such a trouble maker in his personal life.

[@adadelbosque8973]

😯 👏👏👏

[@himanshurajput3209]

Please upload some of Indian kings & mughal rulers as well

[@Gattopardi]

Unfortunately, we did not get a single bust of Alcibiades. This one on the video belonged to Philip 2. All the rest were made after his death, and so on. The only one that probably belongs to Alcibiades is a Roman copy on a red background if you look in Google search

[@adhitripras8945]

Skyrim music ❤️

[@adhitripras8945]

Do Charles II Of Spain

[@Perl_Kolesnikova1943]

Yes, he would be very interesting to see!!

[@LCMM2150]

Gee, Alcibiades was cute!

[@marta9127]

ALCIBIADES! Alcibiades was always described as a very handsome individual. His beauty (especially in combination with his great charisma, many talents and strong will) was his blessing and curse at the same time. Video managed to capture the beauty and strenght of him. If he really looked like he was portrayed here, then he was acctually one of the most handsome men ever. This visualisation helps me to "feel" the power that his contemporaries had to experience. Alcibiades was a very important figure not only for ancient world, but genarally in the history of Western Civilization. His personality was one of the most fascinating and his decisions had many consequences not only in social, political or military aspect of people's lives but in the history of human thought, literature and philosophy as well. "Frogs" by Aristophanes is one of the greatest examples, where one of the most important motiff fot writing the play was to persuade Athenians that they shouldn't be afraid to summon Alcibiades while the country's in great need and oppression. Dionysus words in the play show the ambivalent (though very strong) feelings that Athenians had for their banished general: "The city yearns for him, but hates him too, yet wants him back!" Thus alone shows how, even absent, Alcibiades ruled over the citizens' imagination and their desires! Aeschylus in the same play shows a rather intriguing opinion that even though the city shouldn't have risen a lion cub within her, she should just adapt and adjust to lion cub ways - suggesting that submitting to Alcibiades as a leader seemed to be the best option, even though a lion was dangerous and inpredictable... On the other hand we have Plato, who made Alcibiades one of the characters in his "Symposium". He portraits Alcibiades as a very complex figure with strong corporal desires, urge for fame, popularity... and yet very vulnerable inside - having this untamed yearning for knowledge and improvement. During the dialogue Alcibiades says many profound words about this division inside him: love for wisdom fights in him with more worldly desires. His speech shows not only different aspects of human love, flirting, the inner battle, but human weakneses that can go with great skills and opportunities... Plato's Alcibiades indulges his own wantings and yet is aware that he could have been a better person if he had enough strenght and currage. Alcibiades is shown in his failure with Socrates, because Plato uses his figure to save the memory of Socrates in the fellow Athenians. We know that Alcibiades alleged debauchery and selfish behaviour was used by Socrates' enemies as the argument for condemning philosopher and sentencing the death penalty... Alcibiades was supposed to prove the failure of Socrates as a good teacher and citizen... This however had profound impact on philosophy.

[@lindar7698]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️

[@killa4life3333]

Incredible how similar to modern Greek phenotypes some of these faces are. You don't really understand it seeing the whitewashed marble statues.

[@Marc-zi4vg]

hey looks its that guy from Linus Tech tips

[@petepodpolucha8978]

if they make a movie about this, Adam Driver should play the Persian guy

[@patrickjohnson1808]

Hey! ..you philosophic commentator, I don't want to be a Stoic, I want to be a Spartan, thanks to COVID-19, I think I am.

[@firewryst593]

Are you kostas brother

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Can you make hephthalite faces from their coins ?

[@dimakolisikas7039]

You can t admit that there were blond Greeks especially Alkiviades.

[@civengnet]

Yet, ancient Greeks were more blond than modern Greeks. The reason they did not keep the light colors is because dark colors always predominate blond ones. Same thing has happened throughout Europe see for example if modern Germans or French. are as blonds as their ancestors are depicted in paintings 300 years ago.

[@thebruffy1077]

Socrates nose!

[@et-nh9fj]

Bad nose job

[@marciodiniz8268]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@user-ws7us2on6g]

We want Sargon of Akkad, please

[@vincentbj84]

Socrate have a Disney nose

[@davidbruce5524]

shouldn't have messed with Sparta LOL

[@artboxfashion4042]

I think someone poured poison in Socrates ear.

[@tlingitmicmumbam2065]

No,you confused Socrates' death condemnation and execution with poison,with the murder of Amlet's father!!

[@tlingitmicmumbam2065]

H φυσιογνωμία του Τισσαφέρνη σε άλλη φυλή παραπέμπει,όχι στους Πέρσες εννοώ!

[@civengnet]

Μερικές χιλιάδες νοματαίοι με σχιστά μάτια και κίτρινο δέρμα, αναμιχθηκαν με πολλές χιλιάδες κατοίκους της ανατολικής μικράς Ασίας που δεν ήταν Έλληνες πριν περίπου 800 χρόνια. Οι σύγχρονοι Τούρκοι δεν μοιάζουν με τους αρχαίους προγόνους τους, μοιάζουν με τους κατοίκους των περιοχών που κατέκτησαν.

[@civengnet]

Alcibiades was blond though…

[@syllahk]

You truly annihilate time in your videos. Your Socrates was a revelation as was your Tissaphernes!

[@isaiasramosgarcia9771]

Alcibiades era muy guapo, Tisafernes tb, aunk + mayor. Socrates era viejo y feo

[@Ramoreira86]

Yea, Alcibiade is hot. And i'm a straight man

[@birdbrain9625]

If the Ancient Alien peeps saw Socrates they would say.. Yup told ya so 👽

[@dylanett9571]

Alcibiades was also known by his beauty but he looks average or maybe I'm not g.......

[@monnicamarie]

Alci was HAUTE

[@Anaris10]

Supposedly he was pursued by men and women.

[@ByzantiumNeon]

New DNA studies show that the Ancient Greeks were far more Indo-European (even more than modern Germans) meaning that they would have had much higher rates of blondism.

[@s..e.k...12o77]

If you make brown his eays ...it will be super. Not black... Excellent work.