The Successors of Alexander the Great - Real Faces - Diadochi -The Hellenistic World

We go back in time to the beginning of the Hellenistic Era examining the Diadochi, the rival generals, relatives, and friends of Alexander the Great who fought for control over his empire after his death, including a more accurate and optimized face re-creation of Alexander the Great.
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[@elr.4780]

Alexander the Great did create one of the largest empires in history. After his death his empire was divided among his Generals. His Generals should have realized their kingdoms would be STRONGER if they Maintained strong ALLIANCES with each other.They all fought together! Why turn and fight against each other? A waste of time, armies. They did not know years later the individual kingdoms would be conquered by the Romans. Had they maintained thelr kingdoms and alliances through their successors the outcome of Alexanders empire, the hellenistic world may have been different. Good video, Well done! Enjoyed it!

[@kingspore5000]

Without wars between Diadochi It would be boring. At the end, Greek culture maintained and survived on lands conquered by Alexander for hundreds of years even when Romans conquered eastern lands, soo it's not such a big loss after all

[@elr.4780]

@@kingspore5000 Who the hell cares about boring?? They ended up under the YOKE of the Roman Empire. Had they not wasted time Fighting each other and remained allies with strong alliences and their successors did the same the hellenistic world may have been quite different. It was a big loss they lost their individual kingdoms.The U.S. have strong alliances with Great Britain, France, and other European Countries. We do not consider it boring. The U.S. would rather be boring and AT PEACE as oppose to Wars.

[@pitsinokaki]

We Greeks have a bad tendency to fight each other. I don't want to stereotype and obviously this was not the main factor in that case, far from it. But I do think we have difficulties uniting, in general.

[@jonathancummings6400]

@@pitsinokaki It's that same strong, individualistic, independent, competitive spirit that generated the amazing number of gifted, unique individuals, who's names are still legendary today among the educated. Sadly the same thing that makes unity difficult also makes your people shine in a unique way amongst all the human tribes. Even this fact was described by great Greek thinkers, one's greatest strengths also can be weaknesses.

Spoiler alert: If you divide your kingdom to a group of people (sons, generals, etc) they'll always fight between them. It's a natural trait in humans, the greed.

[@HiDesert004]

Thanks so much for this! I've been fascinated by Alexander and the Diadochi for years. Imagine fighting with Alexander for 12 years, then another 40 years of fighting each other until they were killed off all but Ptolemy. And their descendants fought each other for centuries until the Romans conquered the Hellenic world.

[@ethanfrank670]

Yes it's so fascinating and it ending in a old man battle between the surviving diadochi makes it more epic

[@kingspore5000]

Aaaah Diadochi Wars, the original Game of Thrones. Wish to see a series about this

[@davidmelton7268]

The transitions from the original works of art to your photorealistic versions are nothing short of magical! Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to create these videos!

[@helioselexandros]

I have studied alexander and his conquests for over 5 yrs now. Seeing him and his generals is making me a little emotional. Reading about them i trying to understand their personalities and wonder what they would be like. Seeing them along with their great king is giving me chills. 😢 thank you this is breathtaking great work

[@kennetth1389]

That was one of your best videos to date. Helluva lot of work, and the results show it.

[@birdbrain9625]

The music is Superb 👍 strong with a lot of emotion to it 💪🧔

[@azigar]

Thank you very much you Make History Great Again!! For all of us!! Your works are well thought out, portrayed and presented

[@Phx_Fabri]

Bro! Good video! This is pure gold, is a class of history for new generations be able to learn more about our ancestors. Respects and regards from Argentina!

[@jobes4525]

Love this! I forget to breathe because I get that engrossed in this awesome, engaging display of Pana - genius! ❤️🙏

[@Elena-zb2or]

Your dedication to detail never ceases to amaze me, Alexander was the greatest commander in history a tremendous strategist and his tactics were unsurpassed he was a military genius despite always been outnumbered, he took considerable risks always leading the charge. He changed the course of history. Panagiotis I always look forward to your next segment.

[@Rastelle7]

Your work is amazing! I find myself watching all your videos today. History is my passion and you have made my imagination come to life!! Thank you for sharing your talent with us!

[@mamorshu2882]

Wow! What’s a great work ! Thank you for sharing 🥰

[@annjohnson6193]

Amazing and wonderful as usual!

[@alisonridout]

My eyes are two different colours also. This was fantastic. Thank you

[@user-ru1ki]

Holy cow Panagiotis !! That was absolutely outstanding !! Bravo 👏👏👏

[@anselmdanker9519]

Thank you for bringing the Successors to life.

[@a_random_guy_with_a_HUGE_name_]

Wowww. You are the KZbin most magnificent. Well done. Go on👍👍👍👍👍

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Thank you so much 😀

[@francesrude3007]

I think this is so cool what you can do. the history also.I am 78 yrs old and ancient history, i have always liked to study. thank you.

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Very interesting and worthwhile video.

[@Sulimaaren]

Brilliant work!

[@mrsmucha]

Cool music. Nice history lesson.

[@jamesbain8167]

Another great episode!

[@pitsinokaki]

Super interesting! Ευχαριστώ πολύ!

[@YeS1711]

This is incredible!

[@servioster]

Fascinating!

[@ShaShirin]

This is awesome! Efharisto poli!

[@jeremybrown3151]

Excellent wok as always. Maybe you could try Queen Boudicca of the Iceni?

[@kimphilby7999]

An excellent job! Splendid!

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Thank you very much!

[@alexandrospapadopoulos1474]

Εύγε! Bravo, another masterpiece but of course there are more Diadochoi waiting to look alive..

[@stilo398]

Daniel 7:6 Next, as I watched, another beast appeared. It was like a leopard, and on its back it had four wings like those of a bird.

[@simonettapolenghi1404]

Really fantastic, pure emotion!

[@catherinefowler8798]

Good job as always Panagiotis. Please keep up the good work. More videos please. Maybe one day you can show us how you do the faces.

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Thank you 🤗

[@catherinefowler8798]

@@panagiotisconstantinou Your welcome.😊

[@emoniant780]

Amazing!!

[@BradBrassman]

Fabulous!

[@kotemura9090]

Wonderful!

[@Valgef]

Nice! 👍

[@vaskar1061]

Great job! Lycimachus looks like many modern Thessalians!!!

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Really? Very interesting

[@vaskar1061]

@@panagiotisconstantinou Many people in Thessaly have cyrcle face.

[@oscarjuliano]

Love this channel so bad!!

[@cesarsoriapena5793]

Un trabajo que habiendo revisado las fuentes históricas, se destaca por la particularidad de los detalles. Así tuvo que haber sido el rostro de Alejandro el Grande. Felicitaciones desde Bolivia. Congratulations from Bolivia.

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Ty mate! 🙂

[@gothicwestern]

FASCINATING 👏

[@batootcat]

It is amazing these guys look like my neighbors...

[@phulanadethal]

Wow I think the Greek sculptures are much easier to transform into these images, for such is the clarity and details of what those men looked like in real life

[@rochelleb973]

Awesome

[@mutsuzawa]

Please include the titles of all this great epic music.

[@warlock3310]

Браво! Блестяще

[@jonathancummings6400]

I think Seleucus I Nicator had the best opportunity to recreate Alexander's Empire, Unfortunately for him, he had to fight Ptolemy I and Chandragupta Maurya, who had a gigantic army.

[@ashtonbarwick6696]

And his successor Antiochus had to face rome

[@wankawanka3053]

Ummmmm he had made peace with both of them he only needed to take macedon and the rest of greece

[@jonathancummings6400]

@@wankawanka3053 Well, he didn't conquer either of them, the territory of which would have been necessary to fully restore Alexander's territorial control. He got bogged down and defeated by them both. It took his strength down a bit, then he couldn't fully take Asia Minor, then Macedon and Greece.

[@pedroh2671]

Seleucus was on his way to seize greece (his motherland) to be part of his realm, but he was cowardly murdered and betrayed by Ptolemy Keraunos. I remember reading that Seleucus was mading a trip to his old homeland "Dura Europus", and he wasn't with his massive army...he was alone to remember his homeland. Later that idiot Ptolemy Keraunus army was killed and his army crushed by the celts, in the so called Celtic Invasion of Greece.

[@jonathancummings6400]

@Rajnasya Really? THAT'S INCREDIBLE!!! I'm a big fan of Chandragupta Maurya! He's one of the GREAT MEN of history! He overthrew a very powerful realm, the Nanda Empire was stronger than the celebrated Persian Empire, so strong, Alexander's army refused to fight it, performed mutiny, and forced Alexander to retreat. In relatively short order, Chandragupta rose, tore it down, replaced it with his own state, so powerful, Seleucus himself could not defeat it. Thus, he was the strongest ruler of the most powerful realm in the world at the time. His grandson Asoka definitely was, in his time say, around 250 B.C., before China became reunited and then later strengthened by the Han Dynasty, and well before the Romans controlled the entire Mediterranean region, the Mauryan realm was the greatest, most powerful state in THE ENTIRE WORLD!!! It would be awesome to be a descendant of such a powerful, capable man. Thank you for making me less ignorant regarding that a Mauryan still lives in India.

[@womobewo]

Cool. Can hardly wait for your next one?

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Working on it!

[@dewrock2622]

I believe I've asked you before if you could do the medici dynasty. It will be beautiful to see them all come to life...

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

I'll do it for sure mate, no worries

[@betsyr4724]

It’s interesting how similar they look to each other

[@michellebyrom6551]

They would have come from the same gene pool, without being close relatives. Its fascinating to see the subtle differences in individuals within the same groupings.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

For a Greek they don't look similar to each other. It's easier for us to spot diffences when we look at something we're used to see. They all look like typical Greeks. I remember I went to China in the 90ies and my friends got me into the dorms for foreign students illegally by giving me the student ID of a French guy. I'm a blonde woman with green eyes, that guy hard dark brown eyes and brown hair. None of the Chinese staff ever realized that I wasn't the guy on the picture.

[@zhaw4821]

I'm Greek. I worked in the restaurant business for many years in the USA. I could recognize Greek customers walking in at first glance.

[@hashimirasama]

Can we get to see the face of *Mithridates* of Pontus? I'd love to see the face of Mithridates of Pontus... the man who terrified Rome ( at least as much as Hannibal).

[@stsk1061]

That's until they sent in my man Sulla.

[@kingfedrick4698]

I think Philip really is Ptolemy's real father. Him and Alexander look alot alike

[@American-drone]

Diadochoi is the Western 三國志(Romance of the three kingdoms, China).

[@whatever1506]

The third one looks so Mediterranean, we have alot of people in Egypt just look like him even his lips color and the forth look like Mark Zackerberg with brown eyes lol !

[@tsukiyomi4133]

hi sir can u do face reconstruction of tocharian mummies and early indo european steppe people plse

[@sinaibilbao]

🔥

[@elr.4780]

One of Alexanders Generals Ptolemy was ruler of Egypt and founded the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt from which Cleopatra was one of his descendants.

[@jobes4525]

Wasn't Cleopatra the last of the Ptolemys?

[@pitsinokaki]

@@jobes4525 Yes!

[@wankawanka3053]

@@jobes4525 there where a lot of cleopatras

[@petercroves8562]

Seleucus 1st was the only one of the original seven successors to remain faithful to his wife& came closest to ruling and uniting the Empire of his former master, but he was Killed.

[@nostromoau]

Have you ever thought about doing a video on the characters described in the 'Rois Maudits' series?

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Hi! I wasn't aware of the tv series but I'll definitely look into it as I love historical series.

[@irakleios]

Histories of ages past Unenlightened shadows cast Down through all eternity The crying of humanity Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man

[@user-ri1ti6go7s]

Yet another example of war.. What is it good for?! As the song says. Not good for anything but we don't learn merely keep doing it even when it's been successful not warring with others but cooperating. Ah well... We come in peace but shoot nto kill... Star trekking across the universe song. But we gotta have high hopes high hopes for better peaceful futures if we all sing together with care and Co operate what a beautiful sound it would be😊

[@lagatita1623]

Cool video Alexabder looks a lot less dominantvthannidvpictured. Who this is he was poisoned? Or what you think killed him?

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

It could be many things, they didn't have medicine, hospitals or good doctors back then. It could have been pneumonia, as he used to do cold showers each day, or maybe got poisoned by his generals, as his rule was becoming too authoritarian, a big mistake as a Macedonian king was really "first among equals" and had to take advice from his nobles.

[@thegermaniccoenus2525]

Can you do the third generation of Hellenistic Diadochi? I.E. Antigonus II Gonatas, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Antiochus II Theos and Ptolemy II Philadelphos.

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

I will definitely do another part of that era.

[@thegermaniccoenus2525]

@@panagiotisconstantinou I have some graphic novel project concerning these 4 characters. So your reconstruction of these faces would really help me when it comes to my project.

[@AchtungEnglander]

How accurate are the statues? Were they sculptured at the time or some years later based on descriptions passed down?

[@historicahellenistica2762]

Most of these statues are Roman copies of originals dating from the Hellenistic period.

[@dinos9607]

Just like Western European monarchs were having their portraits being drawn every 5-10 years or so of their lives, these ancient Greek aristocrats were also having their faces if not occasionally full body being drawn (we know ancient painters were doing portraits but all are lost). Very often they were sculpted in stone, usually as a bust. You need to remember that even middle-class people could afford a clay-based portrait, though it would be mostly the rich people who were interested in doing so rather than the average guy (for average people this would be seen often as vanity - but again people did it for their dead, to remember them). As such later sculptures would usually, not always, but usually, have enough material to work upon. Of course not just them but even the original artists who worked in front of these historical personalities, were embellishing their features so for all th realistic features of Hellenistic artwork you need to treat these as "photoshop" quality.

[@AchtungEnglander]

@@dinos9607 thank you, very informative

[@user-ue6yc9kr8i]

Ptolemy is zuckenberg’s great grandfather.

[@tekannon7803]

Alexander the Great died at 32 years of age and it certainly sounds a bit young even for those times. Reports say he was poisoned; we'll never know. But can anyone imagine someone in our time from 20 years old to 32 years old running the world's most powerful army and winning every battle, then dying in palace intrigue from an unkown illness. What our history tells us is certainly only what the successors of Alexander wished to pass down to us in a lot of ways for a lot of things they made sure would never be known.

[@danbfm]

the work is amazing but I feel in every instance the nose is getting smaller than the original statue

[@mosesolsonmd4063]

Where's Eumenes, Alexander's father, Demetrius' father, Perticus, and Cassander?

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

And Pyrrhus

[@Onezy05]

Everybodys nose back then be 💪💪💪

[@frankg8120]

What about Cassander? Is there no definitive image if him that survived?

[@wankawanka3053]

I don't think so

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

Pyrrhus of Epirus

[@richardpapalapadous8177]

Ptolemy Was Alexander's Half Brother. Not Many Know This.

[@atreast.4331]

Everybody MUST study dimitrios poliorkitis biography as well as eumenis kardianos

[@chibble3591]

I really wonder what historical figures looked like. Were they ugly or attractive, fit or unfit? Could I beat them in a fight?

[@petercroves8562]

Not all of the Original Successors-you left out-Antigonus 1st the one eye[the father of Demetrius 1st the besieger ]& Cassander&King Pyrrhus 1st of Epirus[307-302BC&297-272BC].-the 40 years was only round one.

[@kostas---]

It would be interesting to also take modern ppl and make statues out of them

[@al018078]

Seleucus I Nicator is the best of them all, tje only one who has nearly rivaled Alexander. Glory to him

[@temercastle7193]

Oh my God Alexander the Great looks like a lot of Christians in Mosul and Aleppo.

[@aftastosk6016]

Κάτι υπάρχει πολύ λάθος στον Σέλευκο... αντιθέτως πολύ επιτυχημένοι ο Δημήτριος και ο Πτολεμαίος!

[@dimakolisikas7039]

Watching the sculptures in Pella Vergina etc the remains of the dead soldiers who were found in Egyptian desert and the mixedkalash of Pakistan the tribe of Pomaci in Thrace it is obvious that the ancient macedonian looked like in great percent to modern NATIVE Macedonians. That means great percent of light hair blue and green eyes

[@MassimoCinquini7]

Alexander Bowie III

[@lisas7046]

The first one has mismatched eyes!! 👀👀

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

He had Heterochromia iridis

[@lisas7046]

@@panagiotisconstantinou Thank you!! I should’ve asked if that was intentional. I appreciate the clarification!

[@martagasper5880]

@@lisas7046 So do I..I thought he did but wasn't sure. He had other neuro genetic disorders, sometimes it goes hand in hand..striking looking though

[@lisas7046]

@@martagasper5880 Striking, indeed! 😊

[@gegxalas108]

alexander said : kratiston....which means the strongest.....

[@hanayehudit910]

The successores?? = the murderers of a great king

[@petercroves8562]

Fun fact-Demetrius died a drank!-But what a Life!

[@blackcat.19]

Alexander was Illyrian!

[@33awesam]

History says...All these pretty boys were humbled in India.

[@dasrite]

No it doesn't, it says Seleucus was humbled and that Alexander despite winning some early victories turned back at his army's demand upon hearing about the empires and massive armies further east (which they never encountered as they turned back). Nobody defeated Alexander in battle and though the Indians came the closest they never actually beat him, he just turned back. And Seleucus' humbling must be taken with context that it happened in the middle of the wars of the Diadochi where Seleucus had far bigger problems than Chandragupta Maurya and his demands for a relatively small amount of land, the Daidochi threatened Babylon itself, so there was a prioritization process and Seleucus never committed seriously to battle the Mauryans, he was far more focused on battling the Daidochi and so at the first sign that this was gonna be a real war he folded right away rather amicably btw to focus instead on maintaining his empire to the west

[@patrickjohnson1808]

Beware the falsifying pen of the scribes Jeremiah 8:8-9. Daniel chapter 7-8...symbolic dream visions of Alexander and the Diadochi is nothing but vaticinium ex eventu ?

[@user-ke5hu7yi3g]

Ζωντάνεψε τον Βουλγαροκτόνο να γίνει χαμός!!!

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Σιγουρα! Εδω φρικαρουν για τις αποχρωσεις μαλλιων και δερματος. Σκεφτου τι θα γινει αν βαλω το Βουλγαροκτονο

[@pitsinokaki]

@@panagiotisconstantinou Είναι υπέροχη η δουλειά σας, ανακάλυψα τα βίντεό σας μόλις τώρα και ξετρελάθηκα! Ο Βουλγαροκτόνος θα ήταν τέλειος, αλλά ό,τι και να ανεβάσετε θα έχει σίγουρα πολύ ενδιαφέρον.

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

@@pitsinokaki ευχαριστώ 🙂

[@OneTrueVikingbard]

0:09 “created one of the largest empires in history Temujin the Great Khan: *laughs in throat singing*

[@martagasper5880]

"one" of the largest empires, not the largest

[@bbc8212]

Conquering dustbawl nations doesn't count

[@SafeAndEffectiveTheySaid]

In the end, Alexandre conquered nothing, for me he only lost his soul, despite a good reputation as a conquer, he gained nothing more, all the gold, land, the treasures, everything was lost, he did not have the opportunity to enjoy life, all the knew in his relative short life was fighting and hardiness. I wonder if he had enough time and wisdom to realized this?

[@dasrite]

He conquered immortality, to this day and all generations that came before everyone stands in awe of his name and legend

[@stsk1061]

Fighting and conquering is what he enjoyed. That's what he lived for.

[@patrickjohnson1808]

Diadochi..The four rats.. there should have been five... where's Perdiccas ?

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

There's no statue of him yet,😐

[@patrickjohnson1808]

@@panagiotisconstantinou ok

[@patrickjohnson1808]

@Devilyckos Con that's what they are, historical person's indeed. But as always in the hermeneutics of history there must be a fusion of horizons for understanding to take place (Hans Georg Gadamer, Philosophical hermeneutics ), in layman words, the cultural and historical gap of the world of the Diadochi and our modern world must bridged for cross-cultural and cross- historical understand to take place, so then if I use the sobriquet "rat"to characterize the boigraphics of the Diadochi, then I'm definitely in order to do so and I do so from a hermeneutical perspective (if you know what I mean). A detailed and thorough knowledge of their diplomatics, wars, domestic infightings ECT , combined with the underpinning hermeneutical understanding of the events definitely Justifies my contemporary contextualization of and characterization of those historical figures as rats.

[@patrickjohnson1808]

@Devilyckos Con Rat, informal meaning..a betrayer, double-crosser, a person of duplicitous (deceitful) behavior. This description aptly fits the international and domestic politics of the Diadochi between themselves, (from a modern standpoint).

[@patrickjohnson1808]

@Devilyckos Con My friend, I totally agree with you. Panagiotis did a portrait on Alexander the Great, go back to it and read my comment where I stated that I believe, based on the literary evidence at hand, that he died from quartan fever. Quartan fever is a form of Malaria caused by the bite of the female anopheles mosquito.

[@Protato666]

They look much more northern Balkan in look than Greek

[@zazazazizizi6276]

Because they were Macedonians, and not Greek. Different people. Thanks to have noticed it. Wish you a good day.

[@soso4169]

@@zazazazizizi6276 Macedonians ARE Greeks. They belong to the Doric tribe, same as the Spartans. So do the people in Epirus. If you visit these places, even Sparta, which is south, you will see people looking like that. In general, the inhabitants of the Greek mainland are more fair than those living in the islands.

[@Peterkonto]

@@zazazazizizi6276 ..If thats the case they look Bulgarian because thats what Northern SLAVIC Macedonias are BULGARIANS..

[@zazazazizizi6276]

@Johnd D Don't hide behind you stupid argumentation : you speak Bulgarian, so you are bulgar. 1): Bulgarian people talk a kind of slavo-macedonian or a slavo-thracian because when Bulgar people arrived in macedonia, we were already talking a kind of slavic linguage and bulgar people then called that linguage Bulgarian linguage.... The truth will shine again and you must accept the fact : Antic Macedonian are not at all greek...

[@pitsinokaki]

@@zazazazizizi6276 Nope, ancient Greeks were very clear on the fact that they considered Macedonians fellow Greeks, a part of the Doric tribe, to be precise. Same as Spartans, or the people who settled in Doris.

[@phulanadethal]

Wow I think the Greek sculptures are much easier to transform into these images, for such is the clarity and details of what those men looked like in real life