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@VladTevezАй бұрын
I believe there is a spelling error on the thumbnail
@RazvanMihaeanuАй бұрын
Hefaistos is the Dacian (today Romanian) god "Covaci"... pronounced "Kovatsch/Kovač" (see Slavs too). The Greeks couldn't pronounce the Geto-Dacian ”ce, ci, ge, gi, ș, ț” sounds, hence the very long name Hephaestus/Hefaistos with the help of intermediary "s" (this was common trait of Greek language regarding Thracian/Geto-Dacian names). It's the same god of metallurgy known as Kaveh (Iranian myths), or Gobannus/Gofannon (Celtic/Welsh myths). The PIE particle "Cov/Kob/Gob...etc" means "bent/curved/hollowed/carved" (it's a reference to "beaten/bent iron"). For example: the Romanian word for "horseshoe" is "potcoava" ("pot" comes "a bate" - "to beat" in English,, but also ”pas” as "step” in English.. and "coava" is the same as "scoaba" ("gib" in English)... meaning curved/beaten/bent/clamped/U-shaped piece of bronze/iron/metal). Similar with Slavic ”podkova/potkova”. ”Potcovar” literally means ”blacksmith/ horseshoe maker”. See Gabija "fire" in Lithuanian myths. *edit- ”Hef” from Hefaistos is the same as the English (Germanic) ”hoof”. From that same Cov/Kob/Gob/Kov/Hof variations... See also the Polish, Czech... and Romanian ”copita” .. literally means ”hoof”.
@RazvanMihaeanuАй бұрын
Densuși from Hațeg (city from Dacian/now-Romanian region) = Dionysus from Hades (his first father, lord of the underworld, which is the rich-in-metals Hațeg region of Romania)
@DracopolАй бұрын
14:02 You spelled "bane" by mistake as "bane".
@gabor6259Ай бұрын
Happy 40th birthday, Luke, that cake looks awesome.
@infinitesimotelАй бұрын
I thought Apollo meant "without chicken"...
@yad-thaddagАй бұрын
I think this is a very plausible explanation.
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Haha
@DakotaFord592Ай бұрын
Omg!! This man is beyond stunning!! I want to put my face next to the arch of his foot!!
@pebblebrookbooks4852Ай бұрын
🤣
@y4lnuxАй бұрын
Hahahaha pollo 🐓
@juliosilva7361Ай бұрын
Astronaut, doctor, pizza deliver, plumber and now Latin teacher. This man is awesome!
@ubhelbrАй бұрын
you taught us how to say "on God" in Ancient Greek, now teach us how to say "no cap" in Latin
@christopherbartley6400Ай бұрын
Null cap? Nullum caput?
@TOBAPNW_Ай бұрын
The etymology is fuzzy with no cap. A translation of the meaning may be (excuse my poor grasp on Latin) Nōn mentior (I'm not lying) Or Nōn hyperbolē (I'm not exaggerating) A sillier translation based on the literal meaning of "no cap" is Nullus petasus/pīleus
@DakotaFord592Ай бұрын
Omg!! This man is beyond stunning!! I want to put my face next to the arch of his foot!!
@JCS1105Ай бұрын
Love that the thumbnail has Zeus from Age of Mythology old school PC game cover art
@BanaziirАй бұрын
Tiny correction: You said that Dionysos came to the Classical Greek Pantheon later, which is actually what historians and anthropologists USED to think until a few decades ago. Then we stumbled across "di-wo-nu-so" in Mycenean tablets, so now we know that Dionysus is actually potentially one of Greece's OLDEST gods actually. Perhaps even older than Hestia. He was sidelined hard by Hesiod and Homer though, which might indicate that he wasn't as important back in the day. The reason people thought this is because we don't really know what -(s)nusos means and can't assign it to a real greek word, so it must be a pre-Greek substrate, or maybe something from Thracian, Dacian or something Anatolian. There are some hints that it might mean something like "youth" or "son" or "boy" - so either "the Young Zeus" or "The son of Zeus". A second reason: He and his cult are all about crossing boundaries, whether it be the boundary between life and death (in the Zagreus-mysteries and the Anthesteria), city and wilderness, your own identity and another one (he's the god of masks and theatres), and especially of gender (he is a bottom, which is the worst thing a man could do in Ancient Greece and nonetheless seen as an authority; he is also portrayed as a cross-dressing boy that would empower cross-dressing women to overpower men - something really weird and paradoxical). Even his birth required Zeus, the great, masculine patriarch of the world, to basically sew the embryo into his thigh - the "allfather" had to go through a sort of "pregnancy" for Dionysos to be born. Also: His mother is mortal. That means he shouldn't even be a god! Half of those things - gender, emasculation, androgyny as a part of esotericism and mysticism - all belong to certain traits of other eastern cults that almost certainly influenced the Dionysian mysteries, such as the "Eunuch"-cults of Attis-Kybele or the cults of Osiris who also was probably fairly androgynous originally. So that is another reason for why people - including the Greeks - thought Dionysos was a foreign god that came from elsewhere (usually they named India as his home). His mythology also is always about something "intruding" and "immigrating"; even Dionysos himself is famously portrayed by the Homeric Hymns and Euripides (Bakkhai) as someone who has to fight for his acceptance as a deity, as he comes from elsewhere to Thebes, where his veneration is outlawed. So people used to think that this is another sign that the god originally came from outside. Nowadays though, we know that he is one of only three or four gods that we can with certainity say was already venerated in Mycenean times (which we know only about Zeus, Poseidon and "Enyalios" which is probably Ares). The fact that he is always portrayed as something foreign and strange is because, well, that's what he is the god of. He is the god of breaking the "natural" order or "social taboos". Dionysos represents repressed wants, desires, forces considered unnatural (necromancy) or socially unacceptable (barbarians like the Thracians, or scandalous female authority) but not necessarily malevolent, and, in small doses even beneficial for society (i.e. 'institutionalised lying' - aka. theatre or culturally acceptable excessiveness - aka. parties). Social rules that we kinda tend to take less serious when we're intoxicated. Stuff that has "no place" in the everyday life and in traditionalist rigid normative societies - hence the representation of all these things is portrayed as a cross-dressing foreigner that alienates male, traditionalist Theban elites like Euripides' Pentheus. Modern mythographers and anthropologists just took the mythology pretty literal and concluded that Dionysos was always portrayed as an intruding outsider because that might have been his actual history - as a foreign god that was accepted into the pantheon at a later date.
@luizfellipe3291Ай бұрын
Do we have Mycanean references to Hestia?
@abbasalchemistАй бұрын
This is spot on.
@BanaziirАй бұрын
@@luizfellipe3291 Not to my knowledge but that doesn't have to mean much. Maybe we do. It doesn't matter though. The point is that Dionysos is old. Older than Hestia? Maybe. Maybe not. But both of them - including Dionysos, and that's the point - are DEFINITELY older than the idea of the "Twelve Olympians", which is post-homeric. So the fact that we have 13 members of the "Twelve Olympians" has nothing to do with who came first or later. As for Dionysos' "age" compared to other gods: AFAIK, a lot of female goddesses in Mycenean times are just called "Potnia" (="Lady"). So "Lady of Animals", "Lady of Athens", "Lady of War", etc., which makes it hard to be sure. Maybe somewhere there is some Hestia-inscription. "Di-wo-nu-so" definitely existed in Mycenean times, which we can't say for a lot of gods with certainty. We know for sure though that out of the twelve, at the very least Aphrodite can't have been known yet, because she is a Cypriot adaptation of Semitic Astarte, who is derived from Mesopotamian Ishtar, and thus definitely a late addition. And unless Apollon is identical with the otherwise mysterious "Drimios" of Mycenean times, he is probably also a fairly new deity that wasn't known by that name at least in Mycenean times. So even if Hestia were older, it wouldn't matter.
@DesCoutinhoАй бұрын
Shri Aurobindo last century so not knew attributed Dionysus as the god of Nyssa in India a centre of Shiva worship. A gid of ecstacy not necessarily wine. Sivas followers are termed to this day bhakts and attract women and low castes non Brahmins who can go directly to God. One theory never seems to explain everything
@Sergio-resqaАй бұрын
Brilliant comment. One of the best I've read on KZbin. Do you write elsewhere?
@lunatickgeoАй бұрын
I was very happy that you included Hestia. As you said, in some accounts she gets replaced by Dionysus so I wasn't sure if she was going to be included.
@karthikkamathpАй бұрын
The Djū-pater has Indo European roots, as in Sanskrit, the translation would be Dyau-pitr (sky- father) Edit: I see you've covered it 😅
@Symphing12Ай бұрын
The undeclined form would be Dyauṣpitṛ, so the nominative singular would be Dyauṣpitā. Even closer to Jūpiter and Zeus Pater.
@LakeRunner-uf7gmАй бұрын
В славянской мифологии есть Бог "Стрибог", о котором очень мало известно, и есть популярная теория что это Dyews Ph2ter, в котором ph2ter развилось в "стри"(например дядя по отцу это "Стрый" как в латинском Patruus, что даёт основания считать что исконное слово для названия отца(которое вытеснило слово "отец" родственное латинскому Atta) тоже содержало элемент "Стр"), а dyews в заменило, возможно, иранское по происхождению слово "Бог", а Dyews в славянских языках изменило значение, и, например, в русском дало слово "диво" - wonder, miracle
@LakeRunner-uf7gmАй бұрын
В славянской мифологии есть Бог "Стрибог", о котором очень мало известно, и есть популярная теория что это Dyews Ph2ter, в котором ph2ter развилось в "стри"(например дядя по отцу это "Стрый" как в латинском Patruus, что даёт основания считать что исконное слово для названия отца(которое вытеснило слово "отец" родственное латинскому Atta) тоже содержало элемент "Стр"), а dyews в заменило, возможно, иранское по происхождению слово "Бог", а Dyews в славянских языках изменило значение, и, например, в русском дало слово "диво" - wonder, miracle
@sainiranjan5943Ай бұрын
Most other roots discussed here can be compared easily to their vedic counterparts as well in particular if we notice the tendency of vedic sanskrit to reduce PIE vowels to schwas eg Vesta compares to the root Ves (pronounced with a schwa in Sanskrit ) to reside , which as mentioned incidentally is cognate with Wesan in old Germanic which became the German sein, English was and so on. Nebula is cognate with Nebh in vedic Sanskrit with the same meaning cloud/ sky (schwa here) and the root dhe means to bear or the earth as in the word dhara cognate with Latin terra. Dhe is incidentally present in Dhegom Mater the PIE earth mother goddess and mate of the sky father. Ceres possibly has a cognate in Krs for agriculture and so on. Mens is another great example with menes in sanskrit meaning mind (both being schwas). The root word Plut means wealth and riches as well tying into Plouton
@mpmp9502Ай бұрын
So much information in a 20 minutes video! Very impressive!
@cTc10691Ай бұрын
Not Juno the 'beloved sisterwife' 😂💀
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Hahaha
@VladTevezАй бұрын
In Linear B, Poseidon appears more frequently than Zeus, and had qualities similar of Hades, as Lord of the Underworld. It is likely that he was the chief pre-Greek Pelasgian deity that was incorporated in Greek cult
@pawel198812Ай бұрын
I think it's more likely that a continental Indo-European diety merged with an existing Aegean divine figure. Poseidon is not only associated with the sea, but with water in general (ie lakes and rivers), as well as horses (cf the origins of Pegasus), and, as was mentioned in the video, earthquakes
@marciocorrea8531Ай бұрын
Atlantean god. Antediluvian period.
@yamiyomizukiАй бұрын
I keep hearing people say that but none of them ever cite an actual source.
@VladTevezАй бұрын
@@yamiyomizuki Dietrich, Bernard Clive (2004). The Origins of Greek Religion, p. 180-85,
@ronwilliams4184Ай бұрын
Much as I dislike youtube, suggesting your channel was one of it's successes. Brilliant expansion of my knowledge of words. Thanks.
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Many thanks
@MeeviousАй бұрын
What a useful spoken resource. I thought this might be your best video (if only it had singing), but 11:55 That'll do! Superb. I hope you'll make more lists like this some day - cities, heroes, philosophers, titans, mythological creatures - many of these things are very widely known, but only in translation.
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Thanks! More to come
@NarizCaraАй бұрын
I know a lot of people already said the same, but the AI pics look really cheap and do a real disservice for such a high quality and well-researched channel. Since google images is full of the stuff, the easiest way to avoid using them by accident is to filter the results to be from before 2020 or so, as there are so many amazing illustrations of gods created by real artists out there.
@krisrizakis9989Ай бұрын
Names/Pronunciations of ancient Roman and Greek cities would be interesting
@StereoSpace22 күн бұрын
As I understand it, D and TH often interchange as words are interpreted into different languages. A modern example is Netherlander and Nederlander. Others are W/V, and C/S/TS/SH.
@danmaertens787226 күн бұрын
This has been awesome, thank you. More of this sort of material would be great
@grwilson3770Ай бұрын
I finally know how to say these names correctly in Greek and Latin, thank you so much for doing this video. I would happily watch you pronouncing the Greek and Latin heroes, heroines and monsters too. One goddess I have never worked out how to say correctly is Hecate/Hekate. In English most seem to say something like 'hekety', but I've also heard 'hekahtay'. I have to say the Greek pronunciations of Aphrodite sound much more euphonic than the typical English way.
@MrRabiddoggАй бұрын
A few years back, one of the etymology podcasts I listen to mentioned that in Magna Gracia they worshipped a version of Poseidon called Poseidon Neptune that the Romans eventually adopted and subsequently dropped the Poseidon and kept the Neptune (he used the Latin/Greek pronunciations, not my English spelling versions)
@snowboy6890Ай бұрын
Yes, enim, recte. I would absolutely like to hear about (speaking of Vulcan) "The planets, space exploration, and all the fun etyomological and mythological connections there in".
@EdgarCastillo-c6jАй бұрын
13:44 thats why you looked familiar. I got recommended your Hellfire in Latin video and i was blown away at how good it sounded also because its my favorite song from the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Thanks very much! Yes, that’s me. Welcome!
@katerbillaАй бұрын
really, really interesting. thank you for this video. i hope there will be more.
@jmchezАй бұрын
I can't believe how mesmerized, this video had me.
@househistorianАй бұрын
Brilliant. I was always curious about how they were pronounced.
@22Tie22Ай бұрын
Some of those AI images are so tacky and bad 😂
@GiuvannuzzedduАй бұрын
Surprisingly entertaining, thank you
@MenelionFRАй бұрын
Yes, Luke, please do more! I was shocked several years ago when I learned that Athená's name at least in modern Greek is stressed on the last syllable.
@nicholasking4302Ай бұрын
In modern Greek Αθήνα is the city of Athens and Αθηνά is the goddess.
@DakotaFord592Ай бұрын
Omg!! This man is beyond stunning!! I want to put my face next to the arch of his foot!!
@AncientWildTV27 күн бұрын
great video! it’s really impressive how you broke down the pronunciation. but honestly, i feel like some of these names are still open to interpretation. like, why do some people insist on certain pronunciations over others? maybe it’s more about personal preference than strict accuracy. just a thought!
@luizalmeida5398Ай бұрын
I've read an article about a connection between Apollo and the Celtic god Belenos. φαλός means white, as bʰel means shiny. The autor attested that the first Apollo temple was built in Delphi as a gift from a Celtic chieftain. Now how the phonological changes happened from Belenos to Apollon is a hell of a problem. The best explanation is always "most likely it is a pre Greek inheritance", cause it ends there, no further questions
@neilfraser234916 күн бұрын
Great vid. Very informative
@user-fv6kd3us9uАй бұрын
Thank you for making this video! I would like to know more about the planets and their ties to mythology.
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Thanks for letting me know! So it will be
@jmchezАй бұрын
@@polyMATHY_Luke As Ceres was discovered by a Sicilian, it's only right that it was named after Sicily's patron goddess.
@RafaelEspadineАй бұрын
Lovely video! Thank you for that. Also lovely bust of the Belvedere Apollo you show at the end.
@vjpublisherАй бұрын
Yehey thanks for doing this! Very informative.
@lothariobazaroff3333Ай бұрын
If I'm hearing correctly, you're pronouncing Z in Zeus (1:09) as ZD. It's interesting, because in Polish we call him either Zeus or Dzeus.
@williammkyddeАй бұрын
I also expected DZ, as the initial consonant, the dzeta.
@simondeepАй бұрын
It’s fascinating no?-he did a collab in this topic sometime back, and this exact point came up. It was legit to the period/region iirc
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Here is a full explanation kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJq2eKt6i5h9f7Msi=cRlzHBfz3hLIHfv8
@williammkyddeАй бұрын
@@polyMATHY_Luke Thank you. Watching now.
@Xerxes2005Ай бұрын
Same in French.
@circlecАй бұрын
This is the best thing I’ve ever watched. 🤩
@Kosta198Ай бұрын
Nice video. Although i have to say, in modern day greek pronunciation zeus is not called "zefs" but "thias", written "Δίας"
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
That is indeed the name of Zeus in Modern Greek; but the Ancient Greek name Ζεύς may be pronounced in Modern Greek Pronunciation as well as Ancient Greek Pronunciation; I demonstrate both in this video.
@daniellogan-scott5968Ай бұрын
I know the Olympians were also done with the Metatron on his channel (great team-up), but I would like to see the dark pantheon, the Children of Nyx (is it Niks or Neeks?) so Nemesis, Eris, Hypnos, Thanatos, the Moirai, the Kyres, and all.
@mtclauraamaral2201Ай бұрын
Yes! Please talk further about the planets!
@jmetalgomezАй бұрын
Yes! Please do a video on the etymology of the planets/other cosmological objects.
@stormsscАй бұрын
I think a video about the Welsh mythological figures and their names would be nice. Those are wild.
@flipdosАй бұрын
Intersting how "πόσις" and "posse" both share the same PIE root
@fcernig33Ай бұрын
I include Hades, Persephone AND Dionysus in my list. I know it's not correct but to me they're all deities who deserve respect. I'm a Catholic guy who LOVES history and this is just fun for me, Luke!
@aniksamiurrahman6365Ай бұрын
Thanks for this awesome video.
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Thanks for the comment!
@aidenchoi200024 күн бұрын
Pluto meaning wealth makes me wonder if theres any connection with Spanish word "plata" which also means silver/money
@zfrankyАй бұрын
great video! more of this! thank you!
@allanrichardson1468Ай бұрын
Isaac Asimov wrote a non-fiction essay for Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine, later reprinted in some of his books of short essays, about the minor planet Ceres and the history of its discovery, followed by the discovery of the rest of the asteroids. Its title, using the English pronunciation, was of course “The World, Ceres.” He loved to make puns!
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Nice!
@KorhalKkАй бұрын
The *dju/dyeu is related to brilliance, its also the sky and dies because it means "to shine", thats why is related to day/daytime. The same root for Deva in Sanskrit.
@TalmidAndyАй бұрын
15:50 in modern Scots messages is used to refer to the things you go to the shop to buy. I cannot imagine a direct path from Greek to Scots, or possibly a Gaelic root, but the similarity stood out.
@talideonАй бұрын
The same usage is present in Irish English, as it happens.
@anna-katehowell9852Ай бұрын
This is making me want to play Age of Mythology
@cortlinuxАй бұрын
Me too
@lalalandathotmail1811Ай бұрын
Prostagma 4 life
@DakotaFord592Ай бұрын
Omg!! This man is beyond stunning!! I want to put my face next to the arch of his foot!!
@HandofOmegaАй бұрын
Awesome video, I've been wanting to hear these names in their original pronunciation for awhile now, thanks so much! I'd always wondered why Apollo and Dionysus had the same names in Greek and Latin, as though the Romans forgot to file off the serial numbers of their lifted Gods...😉 Maybe do another video on Greco-Roman heroes or monsters next?
@kevinholeman8123Ай бұрын
“And….there you go”. 😆
@eftychiakalochaireti4989Ай бұрын
Plz make more videos like this.. So nice...
@Akkordeondirigent25 күн бұрын
That's so great! I frequently talk about the lingustic connections of Zeus and Jupiter in several classes in middle- and highschool - and the students are always very much in awe about those facts. But one critique I have: It wasn't an Indo-European language, but an Indo-Germanic. It's just p.c. that it isn't called so anymore by some, scientific it would be correct.
@chriswald770024 күн бұрын
Thanks. I was actually seeking for information about the correct and original pronunciation. Can you do one about Cleopatra? Or other mythological characters and gods? There are so many of them. What puzzles me is that I always thought the Roman equivalent to Dionysos would be Bacchus or Liber. Jupiters other name Jove is also mentioning.
@talideonАй бұрын
In Irish mythology, you've Nechtan as the equivalent of Neptune, and the yes, they're etymologically related.
@raychumonАй бұрын
i was literally about to look up pronunciation guides for the gods so this comes at the perfect time. thank you!!! but if i may say so, please try to avoid using AI images in the future if you can. i would appreciate it as a longtime viewer of the channel and an artist myself. also, i would love a part 2 and/or that video on vulcan!
@aichujohnson8444Ай бұрын
Thank you so much! Do you have something similar for Biblical names? For instance, I has surprised to see that Noah was "Noe" in the Greek/Latin Bible. I am still not sure how it is declined. Would you happen to have any resources or references for these?
@angelosmanganiotis4433Ай бұрын
Poseidon/Ποσειδών may be etymologically related to “posis/πόσις=drink/draught» for which we have related Greek words “Ποτήρι=drinking glass”, “Ποταμός=River” and “Ποτό=drink”. So it means “water god”.
@GarfieldRexАй бұрын
Yes please! A video of classical names and celestial bodies please. Per Deus Pater!
@nurnu349Ай бұрын
Great video! Thank you? What about Hekate? I never know how to pronounce it, in Spanish it sounds,"EHkahteh".
@BrandonBoardman29 күн бұрын
Hecate's name is pronounced "hekátē" in Classical Attic and Koiné Greek, and "ekáti" in modern Greek.
@nurnu34928 күн бұрын
@BrandonBoardman oh, thank you! ☺️🙏🏻 That was very kind of you!
@jacobparry177Ай бұрын
A few Welsh cognates or equivalents of some of these names (will give a pronounciation guide at the end) : Duw (god) dydd (day) Iau - Jove (via Latin) Sews, Siws- Zeus The IE word that gave the Romans Vesta gave the Welsh the word Aros, which means 'to wait'. Neifion is the Welsh equivalent of Neptune. The two could be cognates, or Neifion could be a Welshification of Neptune. But Neifion looks like it could be the plural form of the word Nâf (Claf - injured person, Cleifion, plural). The meter/mater in Demeter is cognate with the Welsh word for Aunt, 'modryb'. The word which gave Latin Ceres gave Welsh the word Ceirch, oats. Gwener - Venus (note that Welsh retains the /w/ of Classical Latin V, and the name is derived from Veneris.) There's a Welsh word which comes from the same root as Latin Mēns, but I've forgotten what it is👀 Athens in Welsh is Athen. Apolon- Apollo Mawrth - Mars. Mercher - Mercury Welsh word for market (I.e. merchandise) - Marchnad Surprised how many names have ambiguous etymologies, so here are a few more Latin names that have Welsh versions: Iŵl /ju:l/ Julius Caesar or Cesar - Caesar Eudaf - Octavian Padarn - Paternus Tegid - Tacitus Aergol - Agricola Rhufain - Romanus Cystennin - Constantinus. Lladin - Latin Groeg - Greek (language), but there's also a poetic word for the Greek language- Omeraeg, I.e. Homeric Welsh has 7 vowel letters which represent, basically, 8 sounds: A E I O U W Y. The first 4 are pronounced exactly as in Latin, they have long and short versions (I represents /i/ and /j/). U /ɨ/ is sort of similar to the Y in the Latin pronounciation of Dionysus. W has the same pronounciation as the Classical Latin V, I.e. /u/ and /w/. Y can either be /ɨ/ or /ə/ Welsh consonants: B C Ch D Dd F Ff G Ng H J L Ll M N O P Ph R Rh S T Th B as in English Bat, never as in doubt or debt. C as In Cat, never science, cell. Ch as in Loch, or the Greek X, never as in church or mach. D as in do Dd as in the Th in This, Those F as in English Of (v) Ff as in English Off (F) G as in Good, guy, never as in General. Ng as in Sing H as in hot, never as in hour honest. J as in Jam or the g in general. L as in Label Ll as in Icelandic or the tl in Nahuatl. M as in My N as in No P as in Pet. Ph as in Physics R - rolled/trilled R, not as in the French, English, German or Spanish Rs. Rh - an aspirated R S as in Sit, never as in dogS, fuSion, shut. T as it Travel, never as in naTion Th as in Thin, thought
@jmchezАй бұрын
Many Years ago, when I first started teaching astronomy, an experienced professor needed to observe one lecture for evaluation. As it turned out, the lecture happened to be the moons of Jupiter. Instead of just teaching about the physical characteristics of the moons, I included a history of their names ( Discovered by Galileo but named by Johannes Kepler) and what the myths behind the names meant (Zeus was a seducer/rapist beyond belief. Lessons about abuse of power, hubris and all that). Turns out that the observing professor was Greek! He forgot about reviewing the astronomy and was delighted by the myth stories. He was so happy that there was someone else in the physics department that knew about that stuff.
@msinvincible2000Ай бұрын
Of course we want to hear more about the link between space and mythology
@michaelptremoglie8654Ай бұрын
Great video
@robertkovalcik7818Ай бұрын
I may be mistaken but I am pretty sure that the little statuette you were holding while talking about Eros is based on probably the most famous ancient statue of Apollo (Apollo Belvedere). I don't know where you've got it from but it seems a bit weird to me why someone would have combined it with the inscription omnia vincit amor, when they could have chosen from some of the many beautiful depictions of Eros himself. Eros Farnese or Eros type Centocelle come to mind.
@UGTLDGАй бұрын
Great topic! 15:00 Funny fact, the Greek word for volcano also derives from the Greek god of volcanoes, Hephaestus. It's called hephaesteio(n), literally meaning place (or forge) of Hephaestus! One of Alexander's generals was called Hephaestion (with an i instead of ei) meaning little (or younger) Hephaestus. Ancient Greeks never took names of gods, it was concidered a blesphemy. But they did take DERIVATIVES of god-names, like Athenagoras, Appolodorus, Demetrius, e.a.; that was ok!
@electronlibre4163Ай бұрын
that's crasy man, thank you !!!
@philliphartman2381Ай бұрын
Originally Venus's Greek equivalent was "Eos", so they had the same PIE root. Aphrodite later took Eos spot.
@jeffrey2326Ай бұрын
Hmmm I thought Eos was equivalent to Aurora
@philliphartman2381Ай бұрын
@@jeffrey2326 They all come from the same PIE root "Ausos" which easily morphs into Eos, Easter, Venus, Austro, and Aurora.
@ZarMakoupisGeORge21 күн бұрын
Eos was the greek goddess of the dawn or the personification of light of the dawn. The Latin equivalent would be Luci (Luci'na). That's how we get the names Lucifer (bringer of the dawn/morning star) and Εωσφόρος (Eosphoros: bringer of Eos)
@philliphartman238121 күн бұрын
@@ZarMakoupisGeORge That's what Eos came to mean later. Greek history is very long my friend. You're talking about Eos's representation in the 5th century B.C. That's not what she originally represented, which is why we have these goddess Eos, Venos, and Austro from Greek, Latin, and German which share the same root goddess Ausos. Over the millennia as new goddess were added they took on more specific roles. Eos lost many of her associations when Aphrodite was introduced from the Phoenicians after the bronze age collapse. In Latinium, Ausos split into two goddess, Venus for beauty and Aurora for light.
@daniellogan-scott5968Ай бұрын
As I understand it, based on the Linear B inscription, Athens was the name of the city and the goddess was "the Lady of Athens" which became later Athena. The etymology is believed to be pre-Greek and non-PIE, but the meaning is unknown. Her true name might have been something with the PIE Men prefix, like Minerva or her alias Mentor in The Odyssey. Or perhaps is was simply Sophia.
@nezperce2767Ай бұрын
The city gad different name in the beginning
@PhantomAngelofMusic28 күн бұрын
For curiousity's sake, let's say I'm a writer who has a character who would be *very* inclined to swear by the Underworld gods (Hades, Persephone, Hecate, and Thanatos specifically here, though anyone from the underworld would also be useful, too)... I'd very much love a video covering more pronunciations ^^ both, generally, and specific
@polyMATHY_Luke27 күн бұрын
I didn’t fully satisfy your question here, but you could use the accusative of the name: τὴν Ἑκάτην kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGO8qa2kfpx5Z7ssi=Qso2BKFEDhyP42zr
@snitsny18 күн бұрын
I once bumped into another Greek name (or maybe a nickname) for the goddes Aphrodite - Anadiomena (which means something like emerging out of water or out of sea-waves). Have you heard anything about it, by chance? Or could it be just an artistic fantasy of the writer in whose novel I found this?
@martinnyberg8174Ай бұрын
9:59 Is there an English word for the fourth quarter moon, the shrinking one? And of course we want the videos on planetary etymologies, an inexhaustible source of videos, I’m sure, especially if we also include surface features of the moons, minor planets, and planets. 😊
@anxofernandez3344Ай бұрын
I think I read in some book or magazine about mythology that the name Dyonisus had a cognate in other Indo-European languages like Hittite and maybe Persian, I'm not sure. Could it have been a deity the Greeks perhaps imported? I remember reading about Dyonisus or a similarly deity being worshipped before the classical period, maybe in the bronze age already. I think I also heard some historians and linguists talking about it on a radio show. It's been years since then and I don't quite remember the details. I used to read a lot about different mythologies
@VFellaАй бұрын
There is a two-season series on Netflix called "Romulus" where they speak something that, I think, is ancient Latin (I'm polyglot, but Latin is not one of my languages). They spell "Jupiter" something like "ces-piter". At least that's how it sounds to me. Note that my native languages are Spanish, German and Catalan, as a reference to how I understand what's said. I watched it with English subtitles, of course ;)
@therealinformalmusicАй бұрын
That “bain” (at 14:02) should be “bane; “bane” (from O.E. •bana•) is “ruin”, “enemy”, “destroyer” or “curse” but “bain” means “ready” or “willing” (from O.N. •beinn•) or even “bath” (from L. •baneum•).
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Yup, a typo
@DemetriosKongasАй бұрын
From the names of the goddesses, there are some interesting derivatives. You mentioned cereal, the equivalent in Greek is demetriaca. We can also mention venerial and aphrodisiac! And, of course, hermaphrodite, a compound of Hermes and Aphrodite, more poetic than the prosaic intersexual.
@thezaftigwendy26 күн бұрын
As an intersex person, I'd rather not use the "poetical". I'll stick to the prosaic word to describe my mixture of male and female characteristics. I don't want the fetishization.
@DemetriosKongas26 күн бұрын
@thezaftigwendy There are poetic and prosaic lives and people. I respect your choice.
@HadarRubin-e1w26 күн бұрын
The Hebrew pronunciation of these names is so much more similar to the Greek than English is. Moreover, it's more similar to the *ancient* pronunciations. It's not *that* surprising, but when I'm too tired I do have to stop and think-remember the weird stufff English does. Really enjoyed this! Your pronunciation is beautiful. (Edit to fix a typo.)
@HadarRubin-e1w26 күн бұрын
With Hades you can see the pronunciation emphasis (of the Roman-times Greek). A letter is added between the H sound and the D sound, to elongate the H - think of it as Haa-des or HAdes. This is so much fun!
@CzakaronekАй бұрын
+1 for the planets video
@KorhalKkАй бұрын
Cupere is probably related to Cuprum/Copper, and finally to Cyprus, the island of Venus, where the alchemists said copper could be found. Copper being the metal associated to Venus in Alchemy.
@kalina5823Ай бұрын
When you said that Deos and Theos aren't related, I was so shocked. Like, WHAT!!! I was so sure they were, even if I'm just an amateur, teenage linguist. Those are just so similar and mean the same thing... Also, I'm comparing these pronounciations to the ones in my native language(Polish) and ours are more similar to the OG ancient greek and Latin. I've already gotten used to Poseidon having an "ah" sound, like in English. We only change some things, like give the godesses "a" at the end(to indicate that they are all feminine, majority of feminine words end with a in Polish) and shift the stress around to fit our rules. I remember once, I was researching Cybele and I was so shocked when I found the English pronunciation. I had to check the original Greek, Latin and Phrygian, Lydian, Hettic(all of those that are listed on Wikipedia in both English and Polish, my research wasn't very deep) and NONE of them had the S sound that English has. In Polish, it's just written with a K. Although I've gotten used to it already.
@patricktilton5377Ай бұрын
When I took a few years of Greek language study in college, back in the late 1980s, I was taught that the 7 vowels were pronounced 'ah' as in "Bah!" [Alpha], 'eh' as in 'let', 'met', etc. [Epsilon], 'ey' as in 'Hey' [Eta], 'ee' [Iota], 'o' as in 'pot', 'tomtom', etc., almost like the word 'awe' [Omicron = 'little o'], 'oo' as in 'fool' [Upsilon], and 'oh' as in 'go' [Omega = 'big o', i.e. long-O]. The diphthong Alpha+Iota ['ai'] sounded like the English 1st Person Pronoun 'I' = 'eye' = 'ah' + 'ee'. Epsilon+Iota sounds like the the 'ei' in Princess Leia's name. You seem to pronounce Eta like the English 'a' in 'cat', which sounds odd to my ears, these several decades later. Oh, I've no doubt that modern Greek-speaking peoples pronounce certain Greek alphabetic letters differently now than, say, they were pronounced back in Classical times, just as Jews pronounce the 2nd letter of their alphabet more like a 'V' than a 'B' nowadays, which can be confused with their 6th letter 'Vav' i.e. 'Waw', which should be pronounced like a 'W' (a bilabial) rather than a 'V' (a labiodental), but pronunciations will change over the course of millennia.
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Right, so the pronunciation you were taught is a variant of Erasmian pronunciation very common in English speaking countries. It has nothing to do with the sound of the ancient language. To learn the ancient pronunciation, start here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZaQnqRsj9OWm7csi=tCAj0aehZ276Ehfz
@marciusbenigno12 күн бұрын
The T in MARTIANVS is pronounced as T, just like in TIBI? I thought it would sound like S in SOUND or the Ç or SS in Portuguese.
@BrandonBoardman10 күн бұрын
That's the Classical pronunciation where "ti" doesn't usually change to "tsi" or "si" before a vowel as in the Ecclesiastical or Portuguese pronunciations.
@ralfhtg1056Ай бұрын
Very interesting! Thx for this video. Zeus: in German we say "Tsois". I always thought, that Dionysos roman counterpart was Bacchus?
@Axemantitan27 күн бұрын
Did I miss it or did you cover the correct pronunciation of Uranus?
@DanielMWJАй бұрын
8:00 I didn't really need to know that the motion of the ocean was rocking the earth. 😂
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Haha
@JRJohnson1701Ай бұрын
Would Jupiter be Tíw Fæder in Old English?
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Absolutely
@colin-alexarobinson3542Ай бұрын
is there any explanation for the irregular declension of Zeus in greek?
@colin-alexarobinson3542Ай бұрын
Like obviously it is both old and commonly-used which are two common criteria for words with irregular forms, but is there any explanation explanation for why *these* forms specifically
@Hooga89Ай бұрын
@@colin-alexarobinson3542 It's not as irregular when you understand that the PIE root starts with dy-, e.g from *dyews. A dy-root is obviously very closely related to the declensions of "Dios", "Dii", "Dia". It really only seems irregular because the pronounciation of the nominative form(Zeus) changed over time.
@YewsАй бұрын
Side note: these are the deities the two pantheons share; many uniquely Greek and Roman ones are also attested, some of which were arguably even more prominent at different points in history.
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
Absolutely true. I was concentrating on the Twelve Olympians.
@oatmilk9545Ай бұрын
yes, I want more on planets and space!
@omograbiАй бұрын
There is another name for Apollo which is inscribed in Ovid's Metamorphosis: "Phoebus" when he want to mention the God as the sun himself.
@polyMATHY_LukeАй бұрын
True!
@NicolasMiariАй бұрын
Third declension Latin nouns with nominatives ending in -o where -on would be expected (given the other cases' forms) seems to be a pervassive pattern that's independent from being a Greek import or not, right?
@BrandonBoardmanАй бұрын
Yes.
@wampirek819918 күн бұрын
You could’ve also mentioned that Zeus was pronounced d͡zěu̯s in some regions of Greece which also included Athens. And tbh i like d͡zěu̯s more than zděu̯s - it just feels more organic and closer to the proto-indoeuropean Dyevas (it’s incredible how old is his name) It also sounds nicely with the declination of his name
@polyMATHY_Luke18 күн бұрын
No, Athens is not included in that list; I explain here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJq2eKt6i5h9f7Msi=SbZVql29BuXh5kLG Attic-Ionic has /zd/, as does Doric; this change from Proto-Greek /dz/ occurred sometime after Proto-Greek in the parent of Attic and Ionic and Doric. Some dialect must have preserved it as /dz/ to have brought this to the Etruscans, but otherwise it is not clearly attested in the major dialects of Classical Greece. I understand the preference for aesthetics, and empathize. That’s one of the reasons I worked on the Lucian Pronunciation project. But aesthetics here will not guide the reality of Classical Attic pronunciation which is well understood and well attested. Having gotten used to /zd/, I like it a lot. Aesthetics is mostly a question of familiarity, I’ve found.
@wampirek819918 күн бұрын
Thank you for your answer, well that’s what we were taught on the Classical Philology major of University of Warsaw, under Monika Mikuła author of handbooks “Ἕλληνές ἐσμεν πάντες” and “Ἑλληνιστὶ γινώσκεις”. It’s also in the “Greek Grammar” by Marian Auerbach and Marian Gollas. It’s the most common pronunciation in the Polish scientific literature. I’m not saying you’re wrong that’s just the way we’re taught. Pronunciation /zd/ was attributed to the Doric dialect Edit: Ok, i’ve started reading into it; turns out that there is a whole argument about it in the scientific community. Most English guides give pronunciation /zd/ as the correct one while in Poland most guides give /dz/ as the correct way. We just seem to stand in opposite schools of thought Edit: I even found a scholar that suggests that /dz/ and /zd/ is the same sound represented in the two different ways, similarly to Alexandria and Alexandrea situation
@SuperOZ1978Ай бұрын
The word for volcano (hephaestion) is connected to Hephaestus, in Greek as well. Right? Also, I had the impression that the 13th out of the... 12 was Hephaestos (being thrown by Hera, breaking his leg etc).
@AthanasiosJapanАй бұрын
Yes, according to myth Hephaistos was a blacksmith. Even in modern Greek, the word for volcano is hephaisteio(n), meaning the (working) place of Hephaistos.
@2besavedcom-7Ай бұрын
If you ever do another series and end up giving the pronunciation for Jove (by Jove!) I'm wondering if you could discuss the link between Iowé (as I assume it's pronounced) and Yahweh, the God of Israel. I'm assuming they're linked and Iowé is an assimilated deity?
@tomasrazelo3271Ай бұрын
Hades’ name Pluto from the Greek wealth means spiritual wealth. When we read the original myth of Persephone, she was in the garden with the other goddesses and when she admired the flower of the gods her direction changed from being outward towards Olympus to inwards and towards self-awareness and the ego self and that’s when Hades cracked open the land and brought her down to the underworld. Believe that this is the exact same story as the garden of Eden as we moved from spiritual beings to physical beings with the eagle self. So he is believed to be the God of the physical realm which is earth and the other gods are the gods of the heavens. This is why they live on Mount Olympus. The story of Persephone is about reincarnation and the Eleusinian Mysteries use the type of hallucinogen to mimic that where someone would experience this and then be reborn again. We believe that this is true because the name Persephone also means the bringer of death and therefore this daughter of a goddess turned inward and had an experience as a physical being and also experienced the ego self and therefore made us mortal and mortals die.
@smashingpapertigersАй бұрын
You referenced Cratylus so I’m sure you’re aware, but in 401c-e Socrates connects the name of Hestia to οὐσία and ἔστιν. Later Platonic tradition (eg Sallustius, “On the Gods in the World” VI.3-4) connected her to the sphere of the Earth in the Ptolemaic system for this reason. It’s rather interesting that there’s research connecting her name to German “sein”; I wonder if the same can be said for forms of to be in Greek itself (that the Socratic interpretation could be more than just a folk / esoteric etymology).
@erosmarchese6386Ай бұрын
17:58 Hello did someone summon me?
@erosthespyАй бұрын
You and me both lol
@BrandonBoardmanАй бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@jnatehАй бұрын
I have also seen Zeus as ΔΙΑΣ in modern Greek. Is this correct?
@mpmp9502Ай бұрын
I grew up in Greece and speak perfectly greek. I confirm that Zeus is Δίας in modern greek.
@mpmp9502Ай бұрын
Yes, Zeus is Δίας or ΔΙΑΣ in capital letters in modern greek.
@jnatehАй бұрын
@@mpmp9502Thank you!
@marciusbenigno12 күн бұрын
VULCANUS... The V and U sound close together in the same word... I heard you say something like UULKANUS... am I right?