The History of Ancient Corinth

Corinth was one of the great city-states of ancient Greece. It has been remembered chiefly as a place of great luxury, but also played an important roll in many wars. In this video, we take a look at the city's history from its mythical founding until its complete destruction by the Romans in 146 B.C.
Music:
"Lucid Dreaming with Ancient Lyre Music" by Michael Levy
"Ancient Lyre Music for Meditation" by Michael Levy
"Asteriai (Nymphs of the Stars)" by Michael Levy
"Ancient Lyre Music for Meditation" by Michael Levy

[@Jobe-13]

Hearing more about the other ancient Greek cities other than Athens and Sparta is a breath of fresh air.

[@jordansagar3836]

lol you said it man. I'm even guilty of it too. Read too much about that stuff, but I feel like the natural progression is you just keep trying to learn more and more until your all the way over in India trying to learn about dynasties from 800 b.c. lol

[@costenics_sw]

Yes of course , not only Sparta and Athens existed , Great city-states just like Corinth , Thebe , Macedonia , Iperus and Thessaly existed , Crete , islands (generally) Cyprus , Minor Asia and Thrace

[@HistorywithCy]

This was a great video...love your narration and how the music goes with it...it's quite soothing actually. Oh, and the content is great too!

[@kingsandthings]

Thanks alot! I appreciate it :)

[@HistorywithCy]

@Daan Schlüter Hey, what's up?

[@HistorywithCy]

@Daan Schlüter all good my friend, just moving along through the motions of life... I hope that all is well with you!

[@kingsandthings]

Don't know about you, but I'd be pretty bummed out to win that celery wreath :D

[@musiqueetmontagne]

Well 😊 😊 🕗 and a 8

[@silinusvers]

Great video, beautiful pictures and maps, thank you.

[@TheGreekCatholic]

I love being Corinthian

[@wardafournello]

From Wikipedia : Demaratus (Greek: Δημάρατος), frequently called Demaratus of Corinth, was the father of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth King of Rome, the grandfather or great-grandfather of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and last Roman king, and an ancestor of Lucius Junius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, the first consuls of the Roman Republic Demaratus was a Dorian nobleman and a member of the Corinthian house of the Bacchiadae. Facing charges of sedition, in 655 BC he fled to Italy, according to tradition settling in the Etruscan city of Tarquinii, where he married an Etruscan noblewoman. They had two sons, Lucius and Arruns. According to tradition, Demaratus introduced Greek culture to mainland Italy, and brought potters from Corinth; Greek potters worked at Tarquinii and its port, Gravisca. Pliny the Elder and Tacitus reported that Demaratus brought literacy to the Etruscans. Strabo reported that he became the ruler of Tarquinii, but this is not stated by other sources, and seems improbable given that his son, Lucius, as the son of a foreigner, had to migrate to Rome to obtain political power. According to Pausanias, Demaratus' son or grandson was the first foreigner to visit Olympia, and make a dedication there.

[@vacatiolibertas]

I had always knew of Corinth, but never I knew about Corinth. Thanks K+T

[@kingsandthings]

No problem, glad you found it informative! :)

[@MrShamrock2002]

I am Roman and Corinthian

[@MarcusAgrippa390]

I just don't understand why this channel has been so neglected by the algorithm...

[@Waaazuuuubp]

These videos are fascinating me even though i didn’t care for antique stuff like this in school :P

[@rafamalaman]

Save the Corinthians, the champions of the champions They'll be forever inside our hearts!

[@TiagoGomes-hg2gg]

😂😂😂 what a fuck ! You've been aprooved , soldier .

[@monsieur1936]

19th and 20th century parallels with ancient Greece Corinth: France (Place of Luxury) Athens: Britain (Rule the waves) Sparta: Germany (Militaristic) Ok I know it doesn't makes sense 😂

[@ΓιωργοςΦραγκιαδακης-μ1ζ]

Actually it makes perfects sense!! Both Corinth and France were always in the middle of the power struggle of Athens/Brittain and Sparta/Germany regarding Ancient Greece/Europe. You might add there Crete as Spain , the only true competitor of Britain/Athens over Naval affairs.

[@monsieur1936]

@@ΓιωργοςΦραγκιαδακης-μ1ζ good point

[@mrwaverider5537]

That's actually good to be honest.. and kind of makes sense 😂 👏

[@coleroberts6443]

There are a lot of names and places I wish you put captions in..

[@tiursiahaansiahaan6582]

Difficult for me to understand what are you explaining, better you put the text below .. thanks dear

[@sovi_an]

Do you by any chance have the sources you used to make this video? I would like to source this for a school research project, but first I want to make sure the information is accurate (I am also unsure of how to spell a few names mentioned in the video as well). Thank you, and this is a wonderful video!

[@kingsandthings]

I don't remember exactly what I used for this video, but for the most part they are based on wikipedia and the encyclopedia britannica. (and usually some other source that varies) Teachers might not be too happy about that, but at least wikipedia has links to a bunch of sources, and you should be able to find the correct names there as well.

[@sovi_an]

@@kingsandthings Okay, thank you!

[@athenassigil5820]

Excellent video! By the way, what is the painting in the thumbnail?

[@kingsandthings]

Thank you! The painting is called "Unconscious Rivals", and was made by Lawrence Alma-Tadema in 1893.

[@athenassigil5820]

@@kingsandthings Thank you, kind sir!

[@markhackett2449]

Thanks. Excellant documentary video. Only improvement would be for narrator to slow down speech, is so fast i a native English speaker it spoken so quickly so words slur enunciation and some words are lost. Even the subtitles are incorrect as for rushed enunciation.

[@gregorflopinski9016]

I always thought of corinth as a coastal polis

[@calintow]

Man thank you very much for your video. May you be blessed. But just to let you know that the you speak it is very hard for people to understand your speaking. Please speak more clear and rare so as people could understand your speaking. Thanking you very much again and may God bless you.

[@lowfatsugar624]

what's the artwork used in the thumbnail?

[@charleswalker1185]

I understood that Ariadne and Theseus founded it...and that it was harmonius to witches...Ariadne being one...

[@merylinemulupi8746]

can't hear anything

[@tammyefarmer-holloman9443]

The narrator speaks too fast. I can barely understand what he’s saying….sigh!!!

[@tongma1773]

I just wish you would speak a little bit slower.

[@El.savedbyJesus]

You should be able to change the speed of the video.

[@paulgeorge1144]

You speak too quickly.

[@arktzen]

you need captions since your way of speaking is hard to understand.

[@syrenaxhaferi7278]

these people are insane....do they ever stop fighting?

[@Not-Ap]

They did not see themselves as one people or perhaps even ethnicty. They like modern europeans saw themselves as people belonging cultures of the city states they were born into which were effectively mini nationalist states. These states had rivalries and histories sometimes going back over a thousand years. People would pass stories of things like the Greek version of WW2 or the 100 years war and so people hated each other for centuries but had did recognize that they had some commonality.

[@vanmars5718]

​@@Not-Ap They do consider themselves one ethnicity, and a had a word for that (genos). Thus they had specific temples, oracles, festivals etc that were called Panhellenic and we have many texts from the Greeks to know how they struggled between being the same ethnicity but having to fight each other over competition. It was around the 4th century BC, after the devastating Peloponnesian war that many philosophers argued that it's about time to found a Panhellenic leader to unite all Greeks, and in this period many different rulers emerged as supposed candidates. Isocrates of Athens argued that Philip of Macedon is the one man yo be the Panhellenic leader and many see the following political development of Philip's Macedonia as part of this project, which eventually resulted in the League of Corinth, the unification of all Greece under Macedonian hegemony. Yes, of course the long political and cultural individuality of eat Greek city state never really behaved as one single country even if they considered themselves same nation. They all developed independently thus it could take centuries for them stop remembering this political individuality. I think that really came to be after the Christianization of the Greeks and especially during the period of the Byzantine empire.

[@gapavds6393]

ancient Corinth = Spain

[@wankawanka3053]

Ancient athens=Britain

[@TheGreekCatholic]

Corinthian what is ur occupation?

[@johnbooth1110]

Pausanias also wrote Korinthos was a Phoenician ship building settlement .