The ENTIRE History of Greece (Documentary)

In the shadowed embrace of two towering cliffs, a small band of warriors chose to face impossible odds. Three hundred Spartans, led by the indomitable King Leonidas, stood against the might of Persia's vast army at the Battle of Thermopylae. In this craggy passage, every shield clash and battle cry echoed defiance and an unwavering commitment to their homeland. It was a dance of audacious bravery against overwhelming numbers. But what if I told you this stand of the few against the many was but a chapter in a saga much grander? A story of a land steeped in glory and tainted by conflict? Welcome to the turbulent history of Greece.
-- Contents of this video ----------------
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:18 - Chapter 1 Ancient Greece
00:22:12 - Chapter 2 Hellenistic Period
00:36:14 - Chapter 3 Roman Greece
00:45:15 - Chapter 4 Byzantine Greece
01:03:31 - Chapter 5 Ottoman Greece
01:09:35 - Chapter 6 Modern Greece and Independence
01:19:01 - Chapter 7 World Wars
01:29:04 - Chapter 8 Post-War Greece
-- Sources used ------------------------------
Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray. The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World. Oxford Paperbacks, 2001.
Clogg, Richard. A Concise History of Greece. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Doumanis, Nicholas. A History of Greece. Red Globe Press, 2010.
Koliopoulos, John S., and Thanos M. Veremis. Modern Greece: A History since 1821. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Osborne, Robin, and Timothy Charles William Blanning. Classical Greece, 500-323 BC. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Parker, Victor. A History of Greece, 1300 to 30 BC. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Shepard, Jonathan. The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Thomas, Carol G. Greece: A Short History of a Long Story, 7,000 BCE to the Present. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Vasiliev, Alexander A. History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453, Volume I. Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1964.
Vasiliev, Alexander A. History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453, Volume II. Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1964.

[@CivilizationsThroughTime]

Hello, everyone! Thanks for watching and welcome to the channel. We hope you enjoyed the video-we put a lot of effort into this. If anyone has suggestions on how we can improve our videos, please let us know. The sources are in the description for those who want to look more into the information presented:)

[@larrylesage9529]

Thanks great show!

[@SamDiMento]

Script is good. Narrator has a pleasing enough voice if not a little west coast-y but could someone ask him to pronounce "annals" properly? That's my small nit! Overall, amazing video.

[@allrequiredfields]

​@@SamDiMentoAnd the P is silent in Ptolomy 👍

[@patxiotsoa]

The narrator needs to work on pronunciation of words that, I assume, he's not familiar with. The frequency of mispronunciations becomes distracting.

[@xdx2653]

ancient greek history is the best ,the most interesting from any other history.the mythology also is outstanding.iam very proud that iam part of europe. much love to greeks from denmark,my beloved second homeland

[@highevan]

"Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit" ("Greece, although captured, took its savage conqueror captive") - Horace, Book II, epistle 1

[@highevan]

".. whether someone calls us Hellenes or Romans, that is what we are and we safeguard the succession of Alexander and that of those after him .." Manuel Chrysoloras [Exhortation on behalf of the Genus] «.. Ἕλληνας βούλοιτό τις λέγειν εἴτε Ῥωμαίους, ἡμεῖς ἐσμὲν ἐκεῖνοι καὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου δὲ καὶ τῶν μετ’ ἐκείνων ἡμεῖς σώζομεν διαδοχήν ..» Μανουήλ Χρυσολωράς [Παρακίνησις ὑπὲρ τοῦ Γένους]

[@ronakmalde5094]

This is so helpful, travelling through Greece and Turkey right now and this has given me so much more appreciation for the areas I'm visting!

[@328jm]

Beautifully explained, love the apt use of words

[@YT-gj6nq]

Amazing Documentary! Thanks.

[@itseugene2399]

very good video man keep it up!

[@peterthesneakybastar]

Greece is my favorite civilization ❤️

[@grantdevillez8612]

Very well done video, instant follow…can’t wait for more…The only critique I have is there were a lot of mispronunciations…like Ptolemy..the P is silent…Corinth, not Corninth….but other than that it’s a great first video…keep it up ;)

[@scbond]

You’re kidding, right?! It was riddled by mistakes and randomly selected images and videos with nothing to do with Greece at all.

[@sergiohenriquedefaria9624]

Great video

[@JohnLask]

The recently formed North Macedonia, a mixed Slavic and Albanian nation, has nothing to do with the Ancient Macedonians who were a Greek people. As such, Alexander the Great and anything accomplished by his empire and the Argead Dynasty is the cultural heritage of Greece. Also interesting to see that Hellenic culture, while incredibly influential for Millenia, was severely repressed during Ottoman times, as opposed to embraced and propagated during Roman and Eastern Roman times.

[@angelosdaresis1477]

".. do not forget Greece, Alexander ..It was for her sake that you launched your whole expedition, to add Asia to Greece .." Arrian [Anabasis of Alexander 4.11.7] «.. τῆς Ἑλλάδος μεμνῆσθαί σε ἀξιῶ, ὦ Αλέξανδρε ἧς ἕνεκα ὁ πᾶς στόλος σοι ἐγένετο, προσθεῖναι τὴν Ἀσίαν τῇ Ἑλλάδι ..» Ἀρριανός [Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 4.11.7]

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

ALEXANDER THE GREAT IS MACEDONIAN. before 25 centuries ALEXANDER TSAR ON MAKEDONIJA ! ! !

[@Xtreme-ij6cc]

@@tatjanavelkova5814 Alexander the great was ancient greek macedonian he spoke also greek not slavic like your country

[@vangelisskia214]

@@tatjanavelkova5814 "It should be noted that there is NO CONNECTION between the ancient Macedonians of the time of Alexander the Great who were related to other Greek [Hellenic] tribes, and the modern so called "Macedonians" of today [of the Former Yugoslav Rep..of north Macedonia]who are of Slavic origin and related to the Bulgarians" [David H Levinson, Anthropologist, Encyclopaedia of World Cultures, p. 239]

[@vangelisskia214]

@@tatjanavelkova5814 "Macedon was an Ancient GREEK polity. THE MACEDONIANS WERE A GREEK TRIBE. HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SCHOLARSHIP AGREE that Alexander the Great WAS GREEK ." Hornblower 2008, pp. 55-58; Errington 1990, pp. 3-4; Fine 1983, pp. 607-08; Hall 2000, p. 64; Hammond 2001, p. 11; Jones 2001, p. 21; Osborne 2004, p. 127; Hammond 1989, pp. 12-13; Hammond 1993, p. 97; Starr 1991, pp. 260, 367; Toynbee 1981, p. 67; Worthington 2008, pp. 8, 219; Cawkwell 1978, p. 22; Perlman 1973, p. 78; Hamilton 1974, Chapter 2: The Macedonian Homeland, p. 23; Bryant 1996, p. 306; O'Brien 1994, p. 25. wiki/Alexander_the_Great#cite_note-Macedonians-282

[@erreryhj]

Great effort. Would like a video on Egypt and Mesopotamia

[@CivilizationsThroughTime]

Thank you! I like the ideas, will try to cover them in the future😄

[@wardafournello]

Congratulations. Very good effort to cover in 1:38΄:05'' the Greek history.

[@mattdavis3741]

great script, interesting information. Neglectful video editing. Seeing elven script from lord of the rings was where it all started to crumble.

[@joshbrooks120]

I'll give you a shot. Liked subbed and a comment

[@emfuentes27]

Great video. If I can complain about something, it would be about the use of images of different times and locations (e.g. Roman, Renaissance, etc )

[@VortexDBD]

how does this channel only have 9 subs bruh

[@rachel183321]

16:55 wow i had no idea all three where each others student and teacher thats amazing

[@MKLDNGR]

Medieval Greek history is also interesting and nice. Most videos jump from 100 bc to 1800 ad ignoring the middle part.

[@vangelisskia214]

"The Greek language is one of only three, among those now spoken and written in the world, that can boast a continuous written tradition stretching back for more than three thousand years. The others are Chinese and Hebrew." Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021, Preface, pp. 13

[@guruswamyvishwanath4746]

Tamil outdates all 3 mentioned

[@vangelisskia214]

@@guruswamyvishwanath4746 Source?

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

@@vangelisskia214 Source ? ..... in Pirot .

[@Ptolemy336VV]

@@guruswamyvishwanath4746 Nonsense and you have zero proof. We ALL know that. It's typical Indian with lack of in-tel-lect. Like most. Tamil Tamil, and yet zero evidence, zero facts, zero proof. Meanwhile in reality Greek language is the OLDEST continuous living language on earth based on written evidence that dates atleast 3500 years till this very day. 2nd on earth is Chinese with 3250 years continuously till this day, and thirdly the Hebrews 3100 years, which died 1700 years but revived again

[@Ptolemy336VV]

@@vangelisskia214 Indians have no proof. And there is no proof in fact. The Greek lanugage is the oldest continuous living langauge on earth based on written evidence that dates atleast 3500 years till this very day. 2nd on earth is Chinese with 3250 years continuously till this day, and thirdly the Hebrews 3100 years, which died 1700 years but revived again

[@angelosdaresis1477]

"Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Persians, Chinese and Japanese could be cited as examples of ethnic continuity, since, despite massive cultural changes over the centuries, certain key identifying components-name, language, customs, religious community and territorial association-were broadly maintained and reproduced for millennia.“ Anthony D. Smith (1998). Nationalism and Modernism: A Critical Survey of Recent Theories of Nations and Nationalism. New York: Routledge.p. 191

[@slaperofallfish]

this has nothing to do with real life but can we just point out how historically accurate Assassins creed is? the amount of AC odyssey videos i saw in this and didn’t realize until the end is wild

[@konstantinosalbanakis4022]

Haven't seen the whole yet but it seems you omitted Peloponnesian war...very important chapter and probably the darkest page in ancient greek history

[@CivilizationsThroughTime]

Yes, we realized it should have been included a little too late. Sorry about that

[@konstantinosalbanakis4022]

Great work though! It seems you ve made intensive research🙂

[@CivilizationsThroughTime]

Thank you, appreciate it😀

[@ohtpus]

how does this channel only have 100 subs bruh

[@scbond]

Because the video is utter shit.

[@yvonne530]

Zacharias Papantoniou (Greek: Ζαχαρίας Παπαντωνίου) was a Greek writer. He was born in Karpenissi of Evrytania in February 1877 and died in Athens in 1940. He spent the first years of his life in Granitsa, where his father was a teacher. Apart from a writer, he was also a journalist. Many of the works of Zacharias Papantoniou, unfortunately, are censored because they tell the truth on Greek history. In that censored group is also the book, ''The King Otto''. Below we state a fragment from this book: ''The young Prince for first time come in Athens on January 25, 1833, he hardly heard anyone speak in Greek and so he asked: "Where are the Greeks in Athens?" His court looked at each other and answered: "There are no Greeks, but do not be troubled because this Albanian population will always be faithful to your monarchy." "Mother took me in her arms and we left. We didn't go far. On a whim of her own, she decided on the neighbouring island of Hydra, but also its rival, its irreconcilable opponent, Spetsai. It stood for the idea that our enemies could treat us no worse than our friends. At least in Spetsai we spoke Arvanitika, i.e. Albanian, our language. My mother, my father, I were, in fact, Greek without being so. Greeks in heart, in spirit, in faith, in ideals, of course, Greeks in sacrifice since we gave our lives for Greece, but not Greeks by blood. I am actually Arvanite, Albanian. Our race, from the earliest times it has existed, has had different names. Are we Pelasgians, Illyrians? Is our language directly derived from Sanskrit as scholars say? I only know that we came to the Balkans thousands of years ago and spread to colonies throughout Greece. Hydra is Albanian, Spetsai is Albanian." __________________________ Title: La Bouboulina (National Hero) Author: Michel, prince de Grèce Publisher: Ed. de la Seine, Paris, 2002

[@allrequiredfields]

Hey, excellent work. You've got my subscription - my one and only complaint is your pronunciation of certain words and names. There were a significant amount of words you mispronounced. I know that's a notable addition to your workload for these videos, but in all honesty, its jarring hearing words mispronounced, so it really is worth it to make sure you're pronouncing everything properly. Perhaps hire a proofreader? But again, this is good stuff, and my criticism is only meant as constructive criticism. Otherwise, fantastic work 👍

[@vangelisskia214]

"Throughout history, Greeks have created types of societies and political systems very different from one another. If they have continuously inhabited the same southeastern corner of Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, they have also, at different times, put down roots in many different places. Again and again, they have proved resourceful at reinventing themselves. They have fought against different enemies, traded with different partners around the world, worshipped different gods, even called themselves by different names. We call them 'Greeks', and their land 'Greece', in English today because the ancient Romans first encountered a local tribe of Greek speakers whom they called, in Latin, Graeci. In their own language in ancient times, these people were known as 'Hellenes' and their land as 'Hellas', as they have been known once again since the early nineteenth century. But they have also, at different times, been Achaiwoi (Achaeans) and Romaioi or Romioi (pronounced Romyi), meaning literally 'Romans'." Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021, Preface, pp. 13

[@scbond]

Can you imagine creating a 1 hour and 38 minute long video about the history of Greece, only to immediately misspell “Aegean” and then follow it up by showing a picture of Florence to introduce the Greek Archaic Period?! This is just a couple of blinding mistakes too. I even saw movie footage of a battle between with the fucking Royal Scottish Flag in it 😂

[@lucyfaire1980]

45:25 It's the other way around actually. The Roman Empire, often(and wrongly) called the "Byzantine" Empire. WE call them Byzantines. They didn't. We(i am from Greece) celled ourselves Roman even until ww1. Excellent video nonetheless.

[@adamhoffman401]

Good content, but the pronunciation throughout is rough....

[@jimneuburger3110]

So awkward shoving an extra E after BC

[@vangelisskia214]

The writing was overall good and accurate in most aspects, but you need to change the narrator asap. He dismantled Greek names, toponyms etc. while he obviously doesn't even have a clue what the Entente alliance was, since he cant pronounce it correctly!

[@TheScotian82]

or you could relax.

[@user-ug4ow1qq2h]

Perhaps the narrator is a neural network. At least it seems like it.

[@butchmcporksaw]

​@@TheScotian82 or the history Channel could have done their job

[@sergiohenriquedefaria9624]

That’s an absolutely unnecessary comment. Brilliant documentary

[@philiplahm2420]

Relax..hes romans😂

[@JohnSmith-en6ev]

Lord Brian....😢

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Lord, have mercy!

[@gadget133]

Can you change the narration??? I tried to watch and stick with it because by and large it was interesting. But some of the pronunciation used just frustrated me… “Pith-ee-on” and “pith-oh-nia” not “pie-thee-on”… and “a-wrist-o-fannies”… not “a-wristo-feens” And what is with “annals” being pronounced “ah-nulls”?

[@ChrisJensen-se9rj]

Thermopylae saw a lot more than 300 Spartans present. Just your introduction gets it wrong, so what doe that say for the rest of it?

[@CivilizationsThroughTime]

At the battle of Thermopylae, there were only 300 Spartans. There were soldiers from other cities, but from Sparta, only 300. The story of their heroism symbolizes the resistance against the Persians. Intros are usually made to be a bit more dramatic to get the viewers more interested. In any case, the data is not wrong.

[@ChrisJensen-se9rj]

WRONG. The 300 were chosen from the REST OF THE SPARTAN CONTINGENT. There were two criteria for the " honour". The first was that they all had born sons or daughters to carry on their " line". The second and most important was that they were all from " traditional" families that would not make a lot of " mourning" noise and undermine morale or go against traditional Spartiate values. Leonidas was determined not only to demonstrate Spartan valour, but also to provide enough of a distraction so that the remaining Greeks could get away and not only survive to fight another day, but spread the word amongst other Greeks the length and breadth of the city states about the reality of Spartan battlefield " practice". Don't believe that stupid movie " 300". It was great entertainment, but lousy history.

[@scbond]

@@CivilizationsThroughTimepurely a romanticised tale. It’s so ridiculously unrealistic that it’s obvious and it saddens me something so basic gets believed as fact.

[@GlobalSpaceInvestigation]

Slavo Bulgarian logic in North Macedonia: - What was Macedonia ? - An ancient Greek kingdom in northen Greece - How alexander the great identified himself? - Greek Macedonian - What language did he spoke ? - Greek Macedonian - Where his name originate from ? - Greece 🇬🇷 - What religion Macedonians had ? - Ancient Greek SO WHAT IS ALEXANDER? - A SLAV!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

MACEDONIANS 25 CENTURIES from FILIP KING ON MAKEDONIJA. germans make Blgaria before 140 years.

[@GlobalSpaceInvestigation]

👍 of course and still it's a Greek region, North renamed Macedonia its a Bulgarian country made 20 years ago, so we agree

[@zazazazizizi6276]

@@GlobalSpaceInvestigation AH AH AH A so-called greek region since 1913, when you stole OUR MACEDONIA with your german master and british money !!!!!! PS : do you have something more intelligent than " the greek kingdom of Macedonia"... Actually, your ancient greeks ancestor (that you are not anymore...) were much more intelligent then what are neo-constructed greeks today !!! Actually, where are ancient greeks ? They do not exist anymore. Today they are Micrasiate, Arvanite (Albanian-christian), Pontic, Yunan Greeks from Turkish coast (That more then 650 000 of them settled in 1923... Where ? In annexed macedonia since 1913...

[@Xtreme-ij6cc]

@@zazazazizizi6276 Macedonia is Greek and only Greek yor country has not any history you slav

[@Xtreme-ij6cc]

@@zazazazizizi6276 Ancient greeks are the modern greeks today learn hostory and stop jealous

[@vangelisskia214]

"With the collapse of the empire in the west, its eastern counterpart became, in reality, an entirely new and independent state, at once Greek by language and Roman in name: 'A Greek Roman empire'." Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021, pp. 212

[@ThomasGazis]

Byzantium was not Greek just by language but by culture, coustoms and morals as well!

[@akacaleb]

Definitely created with AI…

[@ariebrons7976]

The writing is good, but the narrator seems dyslexic. The Roman Empire didn't have a clear line of SUCCESSION No part of the Empire could secede, except through violence.

[@ThomasGazis]

Byzantium was not "Eastern Roman"! It was predominantly Greek! Somehow, it was a continuation of the Hellenistic realm!

[@Demosthenes84]

That's what it became. But they themselves considered themselves roman. All the way up unto the modern age they considered themselves roman. There was no united greek Greek state

[@peace_in_our_world1]

«.. Ἕλληνας βούλοιτό τις λέγειν εἴτε Ῥωμαίους, ἡμεῖς ἐσμὲν ἐκεῖνοι καὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου δὲ καὶ τῶν μετ’ ἐκείνων ἡμεῖς σώζομεν διαδοχήν ..» Μανουήλ Χρυσολωράς [Παρακίνησις ὑπὲρ τοῦ Γένους]

[@bonglord430]

You gotta work on your pronunciations. Not even the Greek words but English words like “idolatrous,” “abdicated,” and “iconography” among others. It’s pretty distracting.

[@arshqadri1236]

More of Alexander less of Greeks

[@davidscwimer1974]

Alexander was Greek 😂

[@rugerjones78]

Bce? Nah son it's BC

[@Radhaugo108]

AI Crap

[@nicoangel690]

[@guyincognito3199]

I can only assume these ridiculous mispronunciations are meant to drive engagement. Well done; enjoy my snide comment and my dislike.

[@Petercarmo93]

oh my GOD! does this narrator know how to pronounce ANYTHING???? JESUS CHRIST, learn a bit about what youre narrating before you butcher 85% of the names.

[@TooDuStrong]

The people in the Hellenic lands were much darker than the images you have in this video. At what point will we stop trying to interject people into other people's history?

[@zakkmiller8242]

There are plenty of dark depicted peoples in the artwork of these images. Seems like you went into this looking for offense lmao

[@peterthesneakybastar]

Anyone that believes an entire nation is solely one color and not a mix of colors has been completely racially brainwashed themselves. Even Africa has plenty of light skinned people. Pale skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes was never rare in Greece.

[@matiusbond6052]

@@zakkmiller8242 the 1st greeks were black

[@Xtreme-ij6cc]

@@matiusbond6052 xd in your dreams maybe

[@KONSTANTINOS.NIKOLAOU]

Greeks are the first whites dude

[@charliebrownie4158]

I know one faction that for me is an interesting facet to the Greeks are the fact that to the historians there the belief is that the stories of the gods and their past wasn't just stories that people could use as fanciful stories with interesting characters but that those gods were actual people. Speaking as a Jew One would think I wouldn't believe in mighty ones, which is what that term means. It's exactly what they were, Mighty. Just as I cannot prove they were anything but myth or to prove they were actual people other's cannot prove they were only myths. Ever since jr. high when Clash of the Titan came out I had to watch that movie 6 times in the theatres and compiles a quite lengthy report in Sociology class. My teacher was impressed.

[@Neanderthal33]

By Boule I wonder if he meant Boulé. Which is what the black Greek fraternity "Sigma Pi Phi" is called today. Founded in 1994 at University of Philadelphia. Advisors to the king. A fraternity to undermine and ultimately deceive, and destroy positive professional aspirations of blacks in society